Summary
Date Posted: Monday, April 10, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

To work with authors and commissioning managers across Oxfam and its partners to develop and shape publications. Project manage papers in support of Oxfam’s advocacy, campaigning, and programmatic work, working with freelancers and providing editorial oversight to ensure high quality content which aligns with our values. Manage digital publishing processes to ensure broad dissemination and discoverability.

DIMENSIONS OF THE ROLE
• Make a significant and strategic contribution to the development of publications which increase
• the impact and influence of Oxfam's policy and practice and that of its partners
• Work with authors and commissioning teams to ensure inclusive and intersectional language and
• to improve the quality, accessibility and impact of publications and their findings Job profile template version 1 – 17.03.20
• Works independently to make decisions on content and to identify solutions to communications
• challenges, willing to work ‘hands on’ and to trouble-shoot.
• Strong team-working and interpersonal skills including working well with others from different
• cultures and contexts.
• Ensures all content and the way in which we work aligns with our values and with a decolonial,
• safe, anti-racist, intersectional feminist and partner led approach.
• Decisions have major impact on Oxfam’s public image.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Project manage the writing and development of Oxfam policy papers, campaign reports, programme resources and other papers, including agreed support products, within budget and to an agreed schedule
• Provide support, advice and training to other Oxfam teams on publishing processes
• Manage the flow of work and ongoing contracts with freelance editors, designers, and the translations team
• Manage production tasks, including design and formatting, allocating document identifiers,
• generating metadata and PDFs, and uploading papers to Oxfam’s digital repository
• Contribute to innovations which improve publication accessibility and reach and which remove
• barriers in the editorial workflow
• Manage project costs related to publishing and oversee recharging where necessary

PERSON SPECIFICATION
Most importantly, every individual at Oxfam GB needs to be able to:
• Live our values of INCLUSION, ACCOUNTABILITY and EMPOWERMENT (read more about these here).
• Ensure you commit to our ORGANISATIONAL ATTRIBUTES (including adhering to the Code of Conduct):
• Be committed to our feminist principles, and to applying them in your day-to-day behaviour and your work. Be ready to keep learning, with
• accountability to those who experience oppression as a result of their identities, such as their
• gender, race/ethnicity, disability, class, or LGBTQIA identity."
• Be committed to undertaking Oxfam’s safeguarding training and adhering to relevant policies, to ensure all people who come into Oxfam are as safe as possible.

Experience, Knowledge & Competencies
Essential
For this role, we have selected three of the most relevant feminist leadership practices which we will
use for assessment purposes (which you can read more about here):
• Self-Awareness
• Mutual accountability
• Strategic Thinking and Judgment

In addition, an ideal candidate will also have:
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• Excellent project management skills and the proven ability to work effectively under pressure and
• with constrained deadlines and budgets.
• Excellent communications skills and the ability to work with a range of stakeholders from different
• countries and contexts across a large and complex organisation and to manage risk and sensitive
• issues with care.
• Strong editorial skills, including copy-editing and proofreading.
• Proven ability to assess the writing (content and quality) of others.
• Good understanding, commitment to and ideally experience with embedding and continuously
• learning to embed a decolonial, safe, anti-racist, intersectional feminist and partner led approach
• in your work.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Desirable
• Experience with light graphic design, infographics and data visualization.
• Experience of structural editing and re-writing.
• Ability to work in Oxfam GB’s other official languages (French, Arabic or Spanish) and/or in other
• world languages.
• Good working knowledge and understanding of international policy issues including humanitarian
• issues, inequality, conflict, and human rights.
• Lived experiences with intersecting systems of oppression, with knowledge and experience of
• how power and privilege play out in the countries we work with, including the UK.
• Safer recruitment: All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks (which can include counterterrorism, safeguarding and criminal records checks). You can find out what this means here.


Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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