Policy Advisor, Natural Resource Justice

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🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $75k - $85k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Oxfam America

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1942

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Charity • Non-profit • Social Impact

Oxfam America is a global organization dedicated to fighting inequality to end poverty and injustice. It operates with a mission to create an equal future where nobody lives in poverty. Oxfam offers lifesaving support during crises and advocates for economic justice, gender equality, and climate action. It addresses various global emergencies and issues, including humanitarian responses, women's rights, and corporate accountability. As a non-profit, Oxfam America engages in research, policy advocacy, and grassroots organizing to maximize its impact on social change across more than 80 countries.

📋 Description

• Develop and implement advocacy strategies to influence U.S. government, companies, investors, international financial institutions and others engaged in the extractive industries. • Provide strategy and technical accompaniment to regional and country offices in support of policy and campaign ambitions on extractive industries. • Coordinate internally within the Oxfam confederation to support country-led advocacy and link program work with broader influencing work. • Undertake policy and political analysis to strengthen Oxfam’s understanding of and ability to influence extractive industries sector. • Monitor developments on inequality, human rights violations, and corruption related to extractive industries to identify leverage and influencing opportunities. • Support research efforts with the goal of increasing program influence and impact. • Analyze and synthesize MEL data to feed into quarterly reviews, annual strategy reviews, annual impact reflections, external evaluations, program review, tracking of outputs/outcomes, and foundation grant reports. • Support fundraising initiatives and donor engagement, including drafting donor reports and learning and impact products. • Partner in representing Oxfam externally at relevant conferences, events and meetings. • Provide program backstopping and logistical support as needed.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in political science, government, international affairs, or a development related discipline or equivalent combination of education, experience, and training. • Minimum 3 - 5 years of relevant and progressive experience in policy, advocacy and campaigns. • Expertise in global, regional and national trends regarding extractive industries, human rights, transparency and inequality issues. • Demonstrated experience writing and executing advocacy plans with measurable milestones. • Familiarity with U.S. government foreign policy and practice. • Strong project management skills. • Experience with monitoring, learning and evaluation. • Ability to communicate effectively, including strong writing and public speaking skills. • Ability to work cooperatively, in a fast-paced environment, and in a cross-cultural setting with a number of long-distance working relationships. • Commitment to equal opportunity and a promotion of gender equity in all aspects of Oxfam’s work. • A positive attitude and eagerness to work in a collaborative team environment. • Ability to communicate in French and/or Spanish.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Paid time off • Remote work options