Partnerships & Grants Lead

**Posted**:
21/10/2025

**Closing Date**:
09/11/2025

**Salary**:
$114,801.48 - $114,801.48

**Job Type**:
Permanent - Full Time

**Location**:
Melbourne

**Job Category**:
Administration,Operations,Other
- Melbourne
- Ongoing
- 35 Hours per week

**About Us**

At Oxfam Australia, we believe all lives are equal and no-one should live in poverty. We are a member of Oxfam International, a global confederation working with partners and local communities in 87 countries.

Would you like to join this global movement of people working together to eliminate the inequalities that keep people in poverty?

We are currently seeking an enthusiastic and committed person to fill the role of Partnerships and Grants Lead.

**Why you will love working at Oxfam**

As part of Partnerships and Grants team, you will use your skills, qualifications, lived experience and initiative to tackle inequality and fight poverty. Yes, you read that right, lived experience and initiative, because it is not all about key selection criteria.

**The Role**

The Partnerships and Grants Lead play a pivotal role in strengthening Oxfam Australia’s international program portfolio through strategic partnership management, business development, and robust grant oversight. The role balances strategic leadership with hands-on coordination to ensure that Oxfam’s partnerships are impactful, equitable, and compliant
with donor and organisational expectations.

Working closely with partner country teams, donors, and internal stakeholders, the position ensures Oxfam Australia’s investments deliver maximum impact, meet program management and quality standards, and adhere to legal, contractual, and ethical obligations. The role is also responsible for strengthening partner and staff capacity in program management systems, donor compliance, and safeguarding, while ensuring these standards are consistently applied across Oxfam’s portfolio.

The Partnerships and Grants Lead will manage a designated portfolio of countries and programs, as determined by the Head of Partnerships and Grants. This portfolio may evolve in line with funding shifts and organisational priorities.

**Desired Skills and Experience**:
**A little about you (the key selection criteria)**

To be successful in this role you will have:
Proven experience in international development and/or humanitarian programs, ideally in rights-based and feminist contexts (could delete this last phrase if needed).

Demonstrated success in managing strategic partnerships and complex donor grants (financial oversight and compliance)

Experience in program design, policy integration (gender, safeguarding, inclusion), MEAL frameworks, and adaptive management.

Experience leading or contributing to business development and resource
mobilisation.

**We can offer you**

A base salary of $114,801.48 plus superannuation, superior leave benefits and access to a generous not-for-profit salary packaging program **(up to $18,450 of your salary tax-free)**.**

The opportunity to use your talents and expertise to make a positive impact around the world.

We value flexibility and seek to support our people to work in ways that meet their work/life commitments and support their wellbeing.

Cultural leave

Superannuation matching

Our culture is shaped by our values, which reinforce what we care about and how we do things, not just what we do. Our core values of Equality, Empowerment, Solidarity, Inclusiveness, Accountability and Courage drive everything we do at Oxfam.
- Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work, including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct. We are committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. 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. Therefore, our people are required to comply with the One Oxfam Child Safeguarding and Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse policies and sign the Oxfam Australia Child Safeguarding and One Oxfam Employee Codes of Conduct._

**How to Apply**
- your CV.
- your response to the selection criteria outlined in the advertisement.

Applications close on 9 November 2025.

**Australian work visas**

**Additional information**:
At Oxfam Australia, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable culture where everyone's rights are recognised and respected. Guided by feminist principles and core values, we embrace different perspectives and work to eliminate systemic inequities that perpetuate discrimination. We centre and amplify the voices of people with lived experience and work in solidarity to build a future where no one is left behind.

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is reflected in our actions, Oxfam Australia:

- Supports employee-led committees
- Promotes consultat