Overview
Provide strategic leadership for Oxfam’s work in Wales, guiding influencing and communications agendas to deliver meaningful, lasting change. Lead a team to shape policy development, strengthen risk management, and ensure an impactful voice.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership for Oxfam’s work in Wales.
- Guide influencing and communications agenda.
- Lead a team to shape policy development.
- Strengthen approach to risk management.
- Ensure voice is impactful, credible and grounded in community experiences.
- Build and sustain high-value partnerships across Wales.
- Develop strategic alliances with civil society networks, public bodies, private sector organisations and the media.
- Position Oxfam Cymru as a trusted, collaborative and solutions-focused actor.
- Drive forward progressive policy.
- Amplify voices of people facing poverty and inequality.
- Champion Oxfam’s mission across the Welsh context.
Required Experience
- Proven leadership skills with strong people-centred management expertise.
- Experience of operating in complex, multi-disciplinary teams.
- Proven influencing and advocacy skills.
- Understanding of Welsh political and economic structures as relevant to Oxfam’s work, including non-government organisations and the voluntary sector.
- Strong understanding of international poverty issues and how these relate to a UK and Welsh context.
- Knowledge of UK and devolved social and economic policy as it impacts on poverty and social exclusion in Wales and the UK.
- Ability to think innovatively and operate strategically, developing and delivering divisional and corporate strategies and policies in a devolved context.
- Strong conceptual and analytical skills.
- Financial management expertise and diligence in accounting for and maximising resource use.
