Program Officer

Internal/External Posting Notice

Title: Program Officer

Department: International Programs

Status: Full-time, 7 months term, unionized

Location: Ottawa, ON Canada

Immediate Supervisor: Manager, International Programs

**Salary**: $67,966 - $89,439

Level: Band 2

Application Deadline**: December 13, 2024**

**Join Our Team & Discover Rewarding Opportunities**

Oxfam Canada is an affiliate of the international Oxfam Confederation networked in over 85 countries as part of a global movement for change. Our mission is to build lasting solutions to poverty and injustice with a focus on improving the lives and promoting the rights of women and girls. We work directly with communities, partners and women's rights organizations to challenge the systems that perpetuate inequality and keep people poor. Together we seek to influence those in power to ensure that women trapped in poverty have a say in the critical decisions that affect them, their families and entire communities. That’s why we believe that ending global poverty begins with women’s rights.

Oxfam Canada offers a generous compensation and benefits program, but more than that, we offer the opportunity to be a part of our global movement for change. If you advocate for gender equality, are passionate about women’s rights, and share our values of Equality, Empowerment, Solidarity, Inclusiveness, Accountability, and Courage - we want you on our team

**S**COPE OF POSITION**:
Reporting to the Manager, International Programs, the Program Officer (PO) has a dual mandate. They:

- Monitor compliance and quality and ensures effective reporting for a select portfolio of women’s rights projects supported by Oxfam Canada; and,
- Support Oxfam Canada’s strategic focus on women’s rights and gender justice by ensuring program quality, and capturing and sharing learning in these areas in the implementation of the assigned project(s).

Under the direction of the Manager, International Programs Manager, International Programs, the PO supports country staff, International NGO partners, and the Manager, to maintain effective operational and reporting relationships with Head Office in Ottawa, funders and other stakeholders. The PO may also engage with a range of stakeholders within Oxfam and externally to promote Oxfam programs, advance good practices and disseminate learnings.

Successful completion of this mandate requires the PO to negotiate and maintain effective working relations with a range of stakeholders, including: in country staff, Head Office colleagues in all departments, as well as partners and allies, funders, governments and agencies.

**MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES**: (This is not an exhaustive list of duties to be performed)

**1. Project Implementation Support**
- Monitor the implementation of assigned project(s), providing timely and quality support to and liaising with country teams and international partner staff directly managing projects (support can include capacity strengthening through training on topics such as donor compliance);
- Ensure timely submission of narrative and financial reports in accordance with contractual requirements (including report analysis, synthesizing of information and editing);
- Collaborate with OCA staff engaged in the project on deliverables and coordinate the final product
- Ensure accurate project budgeting, and close monitoring of spending (including developing annual budgets and periodic reforecasts, with input from country teams and OCA staff, and monitoring for donor compliance and fraud risk);
- Monitor contractual agreements with international stakeholders, partners and consultants (including reporting, liaison and accountability functions);
- Advise on appropriate project management documents and tools (logic models, performance measurement frameworks, budgets);
- Support country staff and international partner staff in the documentation and dissemination of program experiences and lessons learned, in keeping with Oxfam and donor guidelines and standards;
- Monitor, both remotely and in-person, partner agreements, work plans, reports and performance for compliance with program contracts; and,
- Maintain a current understanding of development issues, in relation to gender equality and women’s rights, and including Canadian government policies and programs) related to the designated project portfolio.

**2. New Business Development**
- Conduct background research;
- Review and provide quality control support to country teams and program development unit for unsolicited proposals or proposals developed in response to calls for proposals;
- Advise on results-based management documents and tools (logic models, performance measurement frameworks, work breakdown structures, budgets); and,
- Participate in the negotiation of contribution/grant agreements and facilitate project inception processes (PIPs).

**3. Institutional Engagement and Representation**
- Engage in organizational processes including tea