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Policy Advisor Land Rights

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Oxfam Novib is a world-wide development organization that mobilizes the power of people against poverty.
Policy Advisor Land Rights
32 hours per week
Contract period: one year
The Hague
The main objective is to contribute to Oxfam's advocacy on land rights, aiming to maximise Oxfam's influence on local-to-global public policies on the governance of land and their implementation, with the aim to contribute to increasing poor people's access to land.
Main tasks:
  • Implements advocacy strategies to advocate for agreed policy propositions towards global policy-makers and decision-makers, by means of letters, conversations, debates and the media.
  • Participates in relevant Oxfam teams, including the GROW Land Advocacy team, and with other relevant teams (such as those working on the Post 2015 framework and the UN World Committee on Food Security).
  • Initiates, co-ordinates and/or takes part in meetings and negotiations with allies to bring about jointly the desired policy changes
  • Supports policy advisors of the field offices on relevant advocacy initiatives and works with them to achieve advocacy results at the local and international levels (linking local to global).
You have
  • A university level education in a relevant discipline and over 3 years of work experience in the field of development cooperation preferably with an international agency;
  • Demonstrated analytical and strategic skills
  • Strong influencing and convincing skills and a track record of achieving advocacy results
  • Strong knowledge of poverty and development and in particular economic justice, food security and land rights
  • Good knowledge of the NGO and UN system (especially Rome-based agencies and UN General Assembly is an asset);
  • Knowledge of the Oxfam confederation will be considered an asset.
  • Accustomed to working in complex political settings
  • Excellent communication skills;
  • Strong networking skills;
  • Willingness to travel abroad;
  • Fluent English skills
We offer
A competitive, fair and comprehensive pay and benefits package that is justifiable to our donors. The Policy Advisor is a scale 10 position within the Oxfam Novib salary structure. The gross month salary is in the range of EU 2942,- to EU 4528,- on the basis of 36 hours.
Application procedure
Are you interested? Please email your application letter and CV, using the vacancy reference number 5-256 to jobs@oxfamnovib.nl, to the attention of Hans van Steen, HR Advisor. Your application must be received by us by June 10, 2014 at the latest. For questions on this position you can contact Sasja Bokkerink, 070 - 3421628.
Applicants must be Nationals of a European Union member State or have a valid work permit for the European Union.

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