Consultancy Services Partnership Learning Review (Short assignment) (INT9709)

Partnership Learning Review (Consultancy Services)

Ukraine Response – short term.

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

In March 2022, Oxfam launched its response to the influx of refugees and other people forced to flee from Ukraine in Romania, Moldova and Poland. A Programme Management Unit (PMU) was established to provide leadership, oversee, support and provide technical assistance to the response in the affected countries. Oxfam is supporting a partner-led humanitarian response for the assistance and protection of refugees and other vulnerable people from Ukraine and the communities, organisations and authorities that are hosting and supporting them in neighbouring countries.

Oxfam’s Ukraine Response is based on a principled and values-based approach to partnership and local humanitarian leadership (LHL). This is built on the foundational assumption that locally led responses are more appropriate, more effective and more sustainable. Learning has been built on from other programmes globally, where Oxfam has been working with partners for many years and has built up a relationship of trust and understanding which facilitates joint planning, response and advocacy. However, the Ukraine Response has been operating in a very different context, having had to very quickly set up partnerships at the beginning of the crisis and form relationships while responding in a rapidly changing external arena.

Oxfam considers the Ukraine Response as a learning response. Due to flexibility of funding and timeframes, the response is able to be more innovative in its ways of working and put into practise some of the ways of working and changes that enable good partnership. This has been a journey for both Oxfam as an organisation and for many of the local and national organisations in the affected countries.

The Ukraine Response is commissioning a learning review to gather and consolidate learning since the beginning of the response, on main partnership themes. The review will document and consolidate lessons learned, highlighting key challenges, achievements and changes made over the course of the year in our approach for response and organisational learning.

How to apply:

Please see the full set of tender documents here, including a full Terms of Reference with more information on the review. Deadline for applications is 12 July 1700 CET.

Timing:

The review will take place in August and September 2023, and include travel to Poland, Ukraine and potentially Romania and/or Moldova.

What we are looking for:

Consultant/consultancy team specification:

Oxfam is looking for an experienced consultant or consultancy team to carry out this review.

The team should have the following:

• Demonstrable experience of carrying out learning reviews of this type.
• A strong understanding of global LHL and partnership issues and the challenges faced by local and national organisations within the humanitarian system.
• An understanding of the context of the Ukraine Response.
• Significant experience of working in humanitarian contexts in/with partner-led responses.
• Demonstrable experience of ensuring that learning processes are carried out in an inclusive way that is transparent and provides different points of input and feedback to different audiences, while also providing some spaces for collective thinking.
• Experience of carrying out reviews in an intersectionally feminist way, being aware of power dynamics and blockers to participation, and taking steps to mitigate these challenges.
• A strong commitment to ensuring that gender and inclusion are central to the methodology and the learning. Strong written English is essential.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills. An ability to condense large amounts of information into key messages.
• Experience with creating visually stimulating reports and communications to publishable quality.

National consultants and teams are encouraged to apply.

The selection of the successful party will be carried out in line with Oxfam’s procurement processes, including a group that will carry out a formal review of the EOIs against the selection criteria and interviews for shortlisted applicants.

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.

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.