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  • Project Administrator

    Project Administrator

    We are looking to make a number of key strategic hires to cope with increasing demand andcreate a strong foundation for future planned growth.
    This opportunity will be challenging, rewarding and offer the fantastic possibility to become part of a leading organisation in a rapidly expanding marketplace.
    The Role
    This is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly expanding and well-respected Executive Search firm, operating in the for-purpose sector.
    The main purpose of the role is to work closely with the Researchers and Consultants, supporting them in the administration across a range of assignments at any one time. One example might be undertaking the administration for the executive search of a Country Director, Afghanistan with CARE International.
    Oxford HR operates in four main regions with a team focused on each of these: Asia and MENA, Africa, Europe and the UK. The Project Administrator will ideally be based in one of the Oxford HR offices in Oxford, Amsterdam or Nairobi, supporting the team across the different regions.
    The Project Administrator will carry out overall administration of each assignment efficiently and accurately so that information is readily accessible to the lead Consultants and Researchers. S/he will also research information on organisations and ensure that database is up-to-date and readily accessible by Consultants and Researchers.
    This is a tight-knit, collaborative team and while each post-holder will have specific work areas assigned to them, from time to time they will have to cover each other’s work. This offers the opportunity to gain insight the entire recruitment process, from start to finish, and to learn from
    experienced consultants.
    Person Specification

    Account Management
    Fast and accurate administrative skills and experience
    Facility with the suite of Microsoft Office tools and the ability to learn to use new software
    Knowledge of databases, data and communicating the salient points of complex information
    Demonstrable interest and broad knowledge of current affairs and geopolitical issues.

    Skills and Abilities

    Excellent written and oral English language communication skills with keen attention to detail and the confidence to liaise with senior candidates and clients
    Calm under pressure, with a good understanding of cultural diversity
    Exemplary organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise and manage conflicting deadlines and work in a fast-paced environment
    Excellent project management skills with a ‘completer – finisher’ attitude
    Ability to work within a small, close-knit team and respond quickly and efficiently to requests for support
    Additional language skills (desirable)

    Personal Style and Behaviour

    Collaborative and inclusive working style, able to reach collegiate decisions
    Able to foresee and mitigate problems – proactive approach to problem solving
    Keen eye for detail, consistency and quality
    Self-motivated and driven to succeed
    Empathy with the vision and values of the business and those of our clients
    A positive, supportive attitude towards colleagues, candidates and clients

    Apply via :

    oxfordhr.co.uk

  • Director of Alliance Programme

    Director of Alliance Programme

    The Role
    We are a global Secretariat, and we are currently wanting to diversify our Leadership Team to more broadly reflect geographic and cultural diversity. The Secretariat is currently around 30 FTE staff, based around the world, working in a completely virtual way. The team has three clusters of work: Finance & Corporate Resources: Alliance Programme: Fundraising & Communications and is led by a CEO. The cluster Directors and the CEO form the Leadership team of the Alliance Secretariat. We are therefore seeking candidates based in India, Kenya, South Africa, or the Middle East. The candidate must be able to work in English and, ideally at least one of our other working languages namely Arabic, French or Spanish.
    The Director of Alliance Programme will manage a diverse team of individuals, located across the globe. Rather than a ‘top down’ leader, the post holder will need to be more of an enabler’ and critical friend to a team of professionals with a range of experiences. While the Alliance Programme Team covers a range of specialisms, the post holder will encourage an agile approach, helping them to shift their focus as and when needed. While the team is small, they are the engine of our Alliance Programme.
    The Alliance Programme portfolio covers our member engagement work, knowledge management and practice exchange, research, programme monitoring, evaluation and learning, and advocacy. The postholder is a key member of the Secretariat Leadership Team and has collective responsibility for the leadership and delivery of the whole Secretariat.
     
    Main Responsibilities
    A. Leading management of the programmatic work through relationships with members

    Working with members to help them understand a more focused approach in terms of activities and thematic focus.
    Building upon our national advocacy work, to develop regional initiatives and take advantage of global opportunities, building on our advocacy capacity and helping key members to become confident ambassadors.
    Achieving scale by engaging a wider network of organisations and individuals in our practice exchange, research and campaigning; enabling strategic use of resources to achieve the greatest impact across the whole portfolio of work.
    Collecting and evaluating the pipeline of ideas and issues constantly emerging, assessing and making recommendations against the conceptual framework and strategy.
    Adjudicating between members and the Secretariat where competing ideas and proposals require prioritisation of resources
    Preparing and recommending proposals for new members
    Supporting members in emergency response and to consider the Alliance’s role in strengthening local response, recovery and resilience in humanitarian contexts
    Being responsible for any onward granting from the Secretariat to members
    Building in strong accountability and reporting mechanisms as well as project and grant management across the membership and the team
    Embedding perspectives of children and those with lived experience into our work is crucial and where relevant and appropriate, supporting self-advocacy
    Ensuring due diligence is conducted and maintained with all members
    Upholding the highest standards of safeguarding approaches across all areas of work

    B. Managing the Alliance Programme Team

    This role leads two sub-teams: Membership Engagement and Alliance Programme Advisors. The Membership Engagement Team is responsible for bringing in new members to the Alliance, coordinating the member journey, member communications, supporting our community learning platform and our knowledge sharing series ‘How We Care’. They are also responsible for engaging a wider network of local practitioners and those with lived experience to participate in aspects of the Alliance work. This role will support that work and seek to grow the Alliance in both scale and scope.

    The Alliance Programme Advisors are responsible for moderating and supporting our members in documenting their models of practice, undertaking research, taking forward advocacy at national, regional and international levels and campaigns. In addition, this sub-team is responsible for monitoring, evaluation and learning, supporting children’s participation and providing both functional and thematic guidance.

    Key to this will be:
    Managing the Alliance Programme Team of 11 people across different cultures, countries and time zones, with direct line management responsibility for 6 staff
    • Carefully allocating workload and priorities, and facilitating cross team working and sharing of knowledge and experience
    • Supporting, enabling and developing individual team members
    • Building the effectiveness and satisfaction of the whole team, and fostering the desired culture
    • Forging strong relationships between the Alliance Programme Team as a whole and individually with other teams in the Secretariat
    • Brokering relationships and conflicts with other stakeholders as necessary
    • Assessing, adding and overseeing the management of consultants who add capacity to the team
    • Delivering reliable, open, transparent internal communications up, down and across the team and wider organisation.

    C. Co-Leading the Secretariat
    Working with colleagues in the Leadership Team to:

    Translate the vision and strategy for all members and stakeholders
    Grow and develop the wider network of internal and external partners
    Manage the work and approach of the Secretariat ensuring effective use of resources to deliver the best results, and monitoring performance of the whole Alliance

    As part of the Leadership Team this role takes collective responsibility in:

    Weaving and coordinating across the Alliance to achieve the impact we want
    Drafting and planning implementation of global strategy
    Designing and embedding a results framework
    Driving financial sustainability and integrity
    Enabling strategic use of resources to achieve the greatest impact across the whole portfolio of work
    Building systems, processes and capacity across the Alliance to enable delivery
    Providing information, analysis and data for the Board to effectively lead the Alliance
    Developing and role-modelling the desired culture and ways of working
    Acting as ‘confident’ diplomat, being able to negotiate with members who are passionate about the work they are doing and their involvement in the network
    Working with members to help them understand a more focused approach in terms of activities and thematic focus
    Facilitating and coordinating cross Alliance working and delivery

    Person Specification
    Knowledge

    Post graduate degree level of education or equivalent professional qualification within a relevant discipline
    Expert knowledge related to child rights and the care and protection of children across a range of different contexts
    Strong experience of supporting research, advocacy, campaigns & policy development
    Prior work on children’s participation or those with lived experience
    Experience of working for a local civil society organisation, preferably in a resource constrained or politically restrictive environment
    Experience of working in a multicultural setting, in more than one language (ideally Arabic, French or Spanish), demonstrating understanding of working internationally – a high level of fluency in English is essential
    Budget and financial management experience
    Knowledge management experience, ideally digital, facilitating shared learning and practice exchange, using both online and face to face techniques
    Experience of planning and running multilingual network meetings (online and face to face, ranging from webinars to small conferences)
    Experience of managing remote teams
    Expert knowledge of safeguarding initiatives and practical application across a range of approaches

    Skills
    Strategic leader

    Strategic thinker with a record of promoting new ways of working and delivering culture, process and behaviour change
    Excellent planning and organisational skills
    Experience of planning and running multilingual network meetings (online and face to face, ranging from webinars to small conferences)
    Experience of managing remote teams

    Interpersonal skills

    Builds and strengthens relationships
    Engenders trust
    Listens first to understand
    Strong influencing and communication skills
    Facilitator
    Finds common ground
    Flexible
    Enabler
    Strong coaching and mentoring skills– acting as a critical friend

    Intellectual skills

    Creative
    Propositional
    Future focused
    Curious

    Behaviours

    Diplomatic, but challenging of behaviours that are unhelpful
    Supportive
    Assertive yet respectful
    Collaborative and facilitative, seeking engagement and genuine convergence
    Willing to do a range of tasks from simple, basic to complex and high level
    Consistently seeking to improve how we do things to achieve better
    Embracing change and innovation
    Demonstrating intercultural competence and sensitivity
    Authentic

    Apply via :

    oxfordhr.co.uk

  • Director of Alliance Programme

    Director of Alliance Programme

    The Role

    We are a global Secretariat, and we are currently wanting to diversify our Leadership Team to more broadly reflect geographic and cultural diversity. The Secretariat is currently around 30 FTE staff, based around the world, working in a completely virtual way. The team has three clusters of work: Finance & Corporate Resources: Alliance Programme: Fundraising & Communications and is led by a CEO. The cluster Directors and the CEO form the Leadership team of the Alliance Secretariat. We are therefore seeking candidates based in India, Kenya, South Africa, or the Middle East. The candidate must be able to work in English and, ideally at least one of our other working languages namely Arabic, French or Spanish.

    The Director of Alliance Programme will manage a diverse team of individuals, located across the globe. Rather than a ‘top down’ leader, the post holder will need to be more of an enabler’ and critical friend to a team of professionals with a range of experiences. While the Alliance Programme Team covers a range of specialisms, the post holder will encourage an agile approach, helping them to shift their focus as and when needed. While the team is small, they are the engine of our Alliance Programme.

    The Alliance Programme portfolio covers our member engagement work, knowledge management and practice exchange, research, programme monitoring, evaluation and learning, and advocacy. The postholder is a key member of the Secretariat Leadership Team and has collective responsibility for the leadership and delivery of the whole Secretariat.

     

    Main Responsibilities

    A. Leading management of the programmatic work through relationships with members

    Working with members to help them understand a more focused approach in terms of activities and thematic focus.
    Building upon our national advocacy work, to develop regional initiatives and take advantage of global opportunities, building on our advocacy capacity and helping key members to become confident ambassadors.
    Achieving scale by engaging a wider network of organisations and individuals in our practice exchange, research and campaigning; enabling strategic use of resources to achieve the greatest impact across the whole portfolio of work.
    Collecting and evaluating the pipeline of ideas and issues constantly emerging, assessing and making recommendations against the conceptual framework and strategy.
    Adjudicating between members and the Secretariat where competing ideas and proposals require prioritisation of resources
    Preparing and recommending proposals for new members
    Supporting members in emergency response and to consider the Alliance’s role in strengthening local response, recovery and resilience in humanitarian contexts
    Being responsible for any onward granting from the Secretariat to members
    Building in strong accountability and reporting mechanisms as well as project and grant management across the membership and the team
    Embedding perspectives of children and those with lived experience into our work is crucial and where relevant and appropriate, supporting self-advocacy
    Ensuring due diligence is conducted and maintained with all members
    Upholding the highest standards of safeguarding approaches across all areas of work

    B. Managing the Alliance Programme Team

    This role leads two sub-teams: Membership Engagement and Alliance Programme Advisors. The Membership Engagement Team is responsible for bringing in new members to the Alliance, coordinating the member journey, member communications, supporting our community learning platform and our knowledge sharing series ‘How We Care’. They are also responsible for engaging a wider network of local practitioners and those with lived experience to participate in aspects of the Alliance work. This role will support that work and seek to grow the Alliance in both scale and scope.

    The Alliance Programme Advisors are responsible for moderating and supporting our members in documenting their models of practice, undertaking research, taking forward advocacy at national, regional and international levels and campaigns. In addition, this sub-team is responsible for monitoring, evaluation and learning, supporting children’s participation and providing both functional and thematic guidance.

    Key to this will be:
    Managing the Alliance Programme Team of 11 people across different cultures, countries and time zones, with direct line management responsibility for 6 staff
    • Carefully allocating workload and priorities, and facilitating cross team working and sharing of knowledge and experience
    • Supporting, enabling and developing individual team members
    • Building the effectiveness and satisfaction of the whole team, and fostering the desired culture
    • Forging strong relationships between the Alliance Programme Team as a whole and individually with other teams in the Secretariat
    • Brokering relationships and conflicts with other stakeholders as necessary
    • Assessing, adding and overseeing the management of consultants who add capacity to the team
    • Delivering reliable, open, transparent internal communications up, down and across the team and wider organisation.

    C. Co-Leading the Secretariat
    Working with colleagues in the Leadership Team to:

    Translate the vision and strategy for all members and stakeholders
    Grow and develop the wider network of internal and external partners
    Manage the work and approach of the Secretariat ensuring effective use of resources to deliver the best results, and monitoring performance of the whole Alliance

    As part of the Leadership Team this role takes collective responsibility in:

    Weaving and coordinating across the Alliance to achieve the impact we want
    Drafting and planning implementation of global strategy
    Designing and embedding a results framework
    Driving financial sustainability and integrity
    Enabling strategic use of resources to achieve the greatest impact across the whole portfolio of work
    Building systems, processes and capacity across the Alliance to enable delivery
    Providing information, analysis and data for the Board to effectively lead the Alliance
    Developing and role-modelling the desired culture and ways of working
    Acting as ‘confident’ diplomat, being able to negotiate with members who are passionate about the work they are doing and their involvement in the network
    Working with members to help them understand a more focused approach in terms of activities and thematic focus
    Facilitating and coordinating cross Alliance working and delivery

    Person Specification

    Knowledge

    Post graduate degree level of education or equivalent professional qualification within a relevant discipline
    Expert knowledge related to child rights and the care and protection of children across a range of different contexts
    Strong experience of supporting research, advocacy, campaigns & policy development
    Prior work on children’s participation or those with lived experience
    Experience of working for a local civil society organisation, preferably in a resource constrained or politically restrictive environment
    Experience of working in a multicultural setting, in more than one language (ideally Arabic, French or Spanish), demonstrating understanding of working internationally – a high level of fluency in English is essential
    Budget and financial management experience
    Knowledge management experience, ideally digital, facilitating shared learning and practice exchange, using both online and face to face techniques
    Experience of planning and running multilingual network meetings (online and face to face, ranging from webinars to small conferences)
    Experience of managing remote teams
    Expert knowledge of safeguarding initiatives and practical application across a range of approaches

    Skills

    Strategic leader

    Strategic thinker with a record of promoting new ways of working and delivering culture, process and behaviour change
    Excellent planning and organisational skills
    Experience of planning and running multilingual network meetings (online and face to face, ranging from webinars to small conferences)
    Experience of managing remote teams

    Interpersonal skills

    Builds and strengthens relationships
    Engenders trust
    Listens first to understand
    Strong influencing and communication skills
    Facilitator
    Finds common ground
    Flexible
    Enabler
    Strong coaching and mentoring skills– acting as a critical friend

    Intellectual skills

    Creative
    Propositional
    Future focused
    Curious

    Behaviours

    Diplomatic, but challenging of behaviours that are unhelpful
    Supportive
    Assertive yet respectful
    Collaborative and facilitative, seeking engagement and genuine convergence
    Willing to do a range of tasks from simple, basic to complex and high level
    Consistently seeking to improve how we do things to achieve better
    Embracing change and innovation
    Demonstrating intercultural competence and sensitivity
    Authentic

    Apply via :

    oxfordhr.co.uk

  • Regional Director, East Africa

    Regional Director, East Africa

    Unique opportunity to be at the heart of International Development with one of the worlds leading Executive Search firms
    The Regional Director will manage the establishment of the office, be responsible for business development across the region, building and maintaining strong relationships with clients. You will lead on executive search and the implementation of Oxford HR’s Africa strategy with a specific focus on advancing diversity in leadership across the region and the continent.
    We are seeking a highly credible individual with a proven track record in senior leadership in International Development. Understanding of HR and Executive Search, professional recruitment & selection experience will be an asset.
    Oxford HR is a global specialist’ executive search firm working primarily with ‘for purpose’ organisations, to help recruit and develop their leaders. We work with national, multilateral and bilateral donors, international NGOs, MDB’s, private foundations, the public sector and with individual non-profits to source and appoint exceptional leaders to deliver their mission on the ground.
    Eligibility: You must be a Kenyan nationality or have the existing right to work in Kenya. Oxford HR will not be seeking work permits. Applications from women are strongly encouraged.
    Person Specification

    Substantial experience in senior leadership roles in the International Development space (e.g. country or regional director) OR senior HR credentials OR Executive Search professional.
    Executive search experience or considerable recruitment & selection experience – as HR or hiring manager.
    Proven track record of business development in a relevant practice area.
    Excellent knowledge of International Development landscape and key issues.
    Experience working internationally.
    Entrepreneurial, with experience running a business or consultancy.
    Strong client management skills.
    Experienced in operational delivery: security, internal HR management, managing budgets & finances, policies & procedures, operational risk.
    Excellent networks in international development in East Africa and globally; networks in the public and private sectors would be advantageous.
    Excellent cross-cultural and distance communications skills.
    Strong people management skills, including coaching, mentoring and performance management.
    Well developed written and verbal communication skills.
    Excellent influencing, negotiating, relationship building and networking skills.
    IT literacy.

  • Regional Director, East Africa

    Regional Director, East Africa

    Unique opportunity to be at the heart of International Development with one of the worlds leading Executive Search firms
    The Regional Director will manage the establishment of the office, be responsible for business development across the region, building and maintaining strong relationships with clients. You will lead on executive search and the implementation of Oxford HR’s Africa strategy with a specific focus on advancing diversity in leadership across the region and the continent.
    We are seeking a highly credible individual with a proven track record in senior leadership in International Development. Understanding of HR and Executive Search, professional recruitment & selection experience will be an asset.
    Oxford HR is a global specialist’ executive search firm working primarily with ‘for purpose’ organisations, to help recruit and develop their leaders. We work with national, multilateral and bilateral donors, international NGOs, MDB’s, private foundations, the public sector and with individual non-profits to source and appoint exceptional leaders to deliver their mission on the ground.
    Eligibility: You must be a Kenyan nationality or have the existing right to work in Kenya. Oxford HR will not be seeking work permits. Applications from women are strongly encouraged.
    Person Specification

    Substantial experience in senior leadership roles in the International Development space (e.g. country or regional director) OR senior HR credentials OR Executive Search professional.
    Executive search experience or considerable recruitment & selection experience – as HR or hiring manager.
    Proven track record of business development in a relevant practice area.
    Excellent knowledge of International Development landscape and key issues.
    Experience working internationally.
    Entrepreneurial, with experience running a business or consultancy.
    Strong client management skills.
    Experienced in operational delivery: security, internal HR management, managing budgets & finances, policies & procedures, operational risk.
    Excellent networks in international development in East Africa and globally; networks in the public and private sectors would be advantageous.
    Excellent cross-cultural and distance communications skills.
    Strong people management skills, including coaching, mentoring and performance management.
    Well developed written and verbal communication skills.
    Excellent influencing, negotiating, relationship building and networking skills.
    IT literacy.