New Partnerships Advisor (2605)
Location: Oxfam House – Oxford
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Hours: 36 hours per week
Salary: £36,826 FTE
Job Family: Fundraising
Job Type: Full time / Permanent
Division: Engagement
Grade: C
Job Type: Open ended
Closing Date: 30 June 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.
- Do you have experience in building partnerships with donors such as Multilateral Development Banks, Gulf donors or climate funds?
- Do you have strong relationship management and networking skills, including influencing and negotiation at senior levels?
- Do you have experience developing business cases and identifying new funding opportunities?
- Does new funding modalities like innovative finance and blended finance interests you?
- If the answer is yes, then we would like to hear from you.
The Role:
Oxfam GB is looking for a New Partnerships Advisor to support the identification, development, and management of new and diverse institutional donor partnerships. The role focuses on engaging non-traditional donors such as Multilateral Development Banks, Gulf donors, and climate funds, as well as innovative financing mechanisms.
You will play a key role in implementing business development strategies, building strategic relationships, strengthening Oxfam’s global positioning, and identifying high-value funding opportunities. The role involves close collaboration with programme, technical, and influencing teams across the Oxfam confederation to ensure a strong and coherent value proposition to donors.
What we are looking for:
We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam's mission to end poverty and is personally aligned to our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability and inclusion in all you do.
An ideal candidate for the role will also be / have:
- Strong experience in donor account management, particularly with non-traditional funding partners such as Multilateral Development Banks, Gulf donors, climate funds, and innovative financing mechanisms
- Excellent interpersonal, networking, and negotiation skills with the ability to influence and build relationships at senior levels
- Proven experience in building and maintaining partnerships and securing outcomes through successful negotiations
- Ability to initiate donor engagement, identify opportunities, and represent organisational priorities effectively
- Strong analytical skills, including experience developing business cases in development, humanitarian, or social enterprise contexts
- Experience working across teams and influencing without direct line management authority
- Knowledge of emerging donor trends and ability to translate insights into strategic opportunities
- Desirable:
- Experience with innovative funding models such as impact investing, blended finance, or public-private partnerships
- Familiarity with Gulf donors, World Bank processes, or climate financing mechanisms
- Additional language skills (e.g. Arabic or French)
We offer:
We offer a competitive salary and a range of additional benefits to staff including flexible working options, generous pension scheme, annual leave, additional leave allowances, company sick pay, life assurance and a range of other benefits.
From the day you join Oxfam we invite you to stretch and learn in your role. Our wide range of Learning & Development opportunities includes in-house courses, e-learning modules, on-the job learning opportunities, coaching and mentoring, and much more.
You can read more about all Oxfam has to offer here.
Flexfam:
We believe flexible working is key to building the Oxfam of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you. We think this role would work particularly well as hybrid role with partial home-based working, in line with Oxfam GB’s flexible working approach.
How to apply:
As part of your online application, please upload your up to date CV and Cover Letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.
Our values and commitment to safeguarding
Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.
The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.
We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.
About us
Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.
Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries.
A thriving diverse Oxfam:
It’s people power that brings about change. To play our part as a global organisation working to overcome poverty and inequality, we need equality, diversity and inclusion across our community of staff, partners and volunteers. Together, we’re committed to becoming a more diverse workforce, better able to tackle the global challenges that face our world today.
To do that:
- We need to dismantle the unequal power structures that exist everywhere, this including Oxfam and the wider development and charity sectors.
- We need an inclusive Oxfam where everyone can bring who they are to our work and feels celebrated for the differences they bring.
- We want and need everyone, and that means we need you.
Apply at:
https://applytrack.onefixmedia.co.uk/4e31303030303056356c7358