Head of Festivals and Events

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.

Do you have experience in leading festival stewarding and high-profile fundraising events?

Do you have hands on experience of planning and delivery of complex projects?

Are you able to lead from the front in a fast-paced work environment with a diverse and varied workload?

If the answer is yes, then would like to hear from you.

The Role:

Oxfam GB is looking for a Head of Festivals and Events to lead a dedicated team of staff and volunteers to create, develop and manage our Festivals and Events programme including a large festival stewarding operation and a fundraising events programme including the London Marathon.

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 the values of empowerment, accountability, and inclusion in all you do and our feminist principles.

An ideal candidate for the role will also have:

• Experience of festivals and high-profile events for income generation.
• Commercial experience in negotiating major contracts.
• Project management skills for event planning and delivery.
• Effective communication and relationship building skills.
• Experience of managing performance of others.

We offer:

This role will give you an opportunity to make a difference by contributing to Oxfam’s direct engagement with people at festivals and events across the country who want to make a difference to poverty and inequality. You will act as key contributor to raising income and attracting new supporters. You will get to work with a group of passionate people that are specialists in their respective fields of festival stewarding, face to face engagement and fundraising events. We offer training and development, excellent pay and competitive benefits package.

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 applying, the job applicant confirms their 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.

How to apply:

As part of your online application, please upload your up-to-date CV and a covering letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.

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.