Campaigner Community Land Rights

Oxfam is a world-wide development organization that mobilizes the power of people against poverty.

Oxfam is working with others to build alliances around land rights issues, and to promote the improvement of land governance in developing countries. In order to take this work forward with its allies the campaigns team of Oxfam Novib is searching for a:

Campaigner Community Land Rights
32 hours per week
Contract period: one year 
The Hague

Job purpose
The campaigner Community Land Rights will have a coordination role within an international consortium of organisations on the development and implementation of a joint campaign strategy around community land rights issues.

Main tasks:

• Leading the development of a joint global campaign strategy together with a small international consortium of organizations and networks working on community land rights;
• Coordinating the process, planning and communications with and for the consortium;
• Supporting alliance building initiatives.

About you:

• You have experience in leading the development of joint campaign strategies;
• You have experience in coordination campaigning networks;
• You have experience in supporting work to build international campaigning alliances around development issues;
• You have a broad understanding of campaigning tactics, including lobbying, working with the media, alliance building, communications and popular mobilization;

Qualifications:

• A relevant qualification at HBO ( Higher Vocation Education);
• Minimum of 3 years relevant working experience;
• Leadership skills and the capacity to motivate others.You are a team player;
• Fluency in written and oral English, Spanish and/or French is a plus;
• Experience in working on land rights or related economic justice or governance issues is a plus.

We offer

A competitive, fair and comprehensive pay and benefits package that is justifiable to our donors. The Campaign Coordinator is a scale 8 position within the Oxfam Novib salary structure. The gross month salary is in the range of
EU 2.381,- to EU 3.662,- on the basis of 36 hours. You will be based at the Oxfam Novib office in The Hague, The Netherlands.

Application procedure

Are you interested? Please email your application letter and CV, using the vacancy reference number 5-261 to jobs@oxfamnovib.nl, to the attention of Hans van Steen, HR Advisor. Your application must be received by us by
August 25, 2014 at the latest. For questions on this position you can contact Duncan Pruett (duncan.pruett@oxfamnovib.nl)

Applicants must be Nationals of a European Union member State or have a valid work permit for the European Union