{"id":9,"date":"2023-06-30T15:30:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T14:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/oxfam\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2026-04-14T11:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:43:06","slug":"role-description","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/oxfam\/role-description\/","title":{"rendered":"Role Description"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Role Context <\/strong><\/h3>\n

The world is entering a period of profound turmoil. Systems that once felt stable are under strain. humanitarian and international development systems stress-tested like never before. Global needs rising faster than the capacity to meet them. Long\u2011standing norms challenged. Tightening resources to address human suffering. Displacement, hunger, deepening inequality and poverty becoming defining features of our era. The challenge is immense, and growing.<\/p>\n

Troubled times require hope. At Oxfam, we offer a simple but powerful idea: by confronting the injustices and inequalities that make poverty persist, a radically better world – where everyone has the power to thrive, not just survive – is<\/u> possible.<\/p>\n

This is why the next Chair of Oxfam GB matters.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Their brief is to help deliver lasting, systemic change by creating the conditions in which bold decisions, courageous accountability, and unified mission\u2011led leadership flourish. The Chair will join a committed collective: working with the Board, the executive leadership team, colleagues across Oxfam GB and the wider Confederation, and partners whose expertise is central to our impact.<\/p>\n

While Oxfam GB sits inside a genuinely global platform, what makes this distinctive is not just scale, but complexity. This complexity demands strategic choices that firmly foreground the impact we want to have in the world.<\/p>\n

Our 10-year direction is clear-eyed about the world we are in: climate breakdown, conflict and cost-of-living pressures are reversing progress. The same old approaches simply won\u2019t work. We are sharply focused on where we can make the most radical difference:<\/p>\n

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  • Tackling extreme vulnerability in the toughest places and challenging the inequalities that drive poverty.<\/li>\n
  • Investing in equal partnerships with communities and organisations that hold the deepest knowledge of their own realities.<\/li>\n
  • Shifting power, resources and decision-making power to partners in the Global South \u2014 not as a slogan, but as a practical re-wiring of who leads.<\/li>\n
  • Building solidarity at scale: mobilising people to raise funds, back partners, and speak out for change together.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    How we work is a mandatory requirement. We remain committed to being safe, feminist, and anti-racist. To learning and continuously improving as we do so. That work is incomplete and ongoing. It demands vigilance, transparency, and willingness to evolve.<\/p>\n

    We are making this appointment in a period of heightened volatility, public scrutiny, and high-profile leadership change. That context matters, and we will address it head on. It also makes this a defining moment: an opportunity for a new Chair to work with others to rebuild confidence, strengthen the organisation, and help accelerate delivery of our mission.<\/p>\n

    Role Description<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    This is a serious, exciting and demanding governance leadership role. At a time when the UK needs credible, values-led institutions that can operate under pressure and still deliver results, we have work to do and the determination to improve.<\/p>\n

    We are looking for a Chair who can help us do three things at once:<\/p>\n

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    1. Steer the organisation through a harsher external climate. Where humanitarian needs are rising, but funding is shrinking and polarisation is growing, our Chair will help focus us on sharper choices, stronger coalitions, and better communication. Finding pragmatic trade-offs without losing moral clarity is vital.<\/li>\n
    2. Hold a high bar on trust, safety, and accountability. Not just through policies and statements, but through a culture, of high-quality decision-making, accountability, and follow-through, in which people\u2019s safety and wellbeing is treated as mission-critical.<\/li>\n
    3. Back locally led impact properly, making sure power shifts and partnership equality are real across budgets, risk appetite, performance measures, and public voice. Facilitating the conditions for partners to decide what will have the best impact is of paramount importance.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      This Chair role is an opportunity for someone who can help a talented organisation look beyond the immediate headwinds and build the conditions for the next decade of impact. It is a chance for a senior leader who brings courage, curiosity, energy, and rigour to build impact in the world alongside the communities and partners who live the realities we exist to change. Someone who has navigated complexity and scrutiny, whether across government, business, or civil society, and can deploy their skills, experience, and values to a global movement with real reach and a mission that is more urgent than ever.<\/p>\n

      Above all, this is a role for someone who understands that enduring change is built collectively: through partnership, resilience, disciplined governance, and unwavering commitment to the mission.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/oxfam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/oxfam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/oxfam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/oxfam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/oxfam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/oxfam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/oxfam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/oxfam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}