Oxfam America, Inc. seeks Director, Inclusive Value Chains in Boston, MA.

Company Description Oxfam is a global organization that fights inequality to end poverty and injustice. We offer lifesaving support in times of crisis and advocate for economic justice , gender equality , and climate action . We demand equal rights and equal treatment so that everyone can thrive, not just survive. The future is equal.     ·      Job Description Overview Evaluation Type: Evaluating the Sustainability of past Disaster Risk Reduction interventions Geographical coverage: Pacific islands (Solomon Islands and Vanuatu), Asia (Philippines) Evaluation Timeline: June 2025 – March 2026    BACKGROUND  Oxfam is committed, over the next decade, to a just and sustainable future.

As Oxfam is driving by this mission, it works to enhance humanitarian action for which Oxfam helps people and communities develop core competencies to strengthen their resilience, continues to reorient the humanitarian system towards local leadership, and expands opportunities for those impacted by protracted conflict and recurring crises to lead on sustainable solutions. As populations around the world are heavily impacted by multi-dimensional inequalities, which make people more vulnerable to natural disasters, Oxfam fights those inequalities in a conscious way by promoting just economies, gender and climate justice, and accountable governance.

 Oxfam America implemented a disaster risk reduction program in Asia and the Pacific whose main outcomes were: DRR Capacity Development : By the end of the project, the vulnerable communities Asia-Pacific and Oxfam’s local humanitarian partners are able to carry out disaster risk reduction activities (from preparedness to response) to save lives and livelihoods in the event of disasters. Communities’ Asset Protection : By the end of the project, the vulnerable communities in the Asia-Pacific region have access to diversified livelihoods and external resources.

DRR Knowledge and Learning : By the end of the project, Oxfam, local partners, communities, national actors, and others have generated and shared, both internally and externally, their knowledge of disaster preparedness and anticipatory action gained through the project.  The first grant (2014-2017) funded community disaster preparedness projects in the Melanesia sub-region of the Pacific benefiting 44 communities at risk of disasters in the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.

Then, in a second grant (2017-2020), the program evolved to strengthen community preparedness, rapid response, and recovery in the Solomon Islands (9 Communities), Vanuatu (110 Communities), and the Philippines (13) benefiting a total of 132 communities, under the name of Asia Pacific Local Innovation for Transformation (APLIFT). However, since October 2020, partners in the Pacific and in the Philippines are not implementing APLIFT program anymore.   Given the longevity of between 3 to 6 years of DRR projects in those three locations which have ended since September 2020, Oxfam along with their local partners want to explore the sustainability of our efforts to see whether the strategies we implemented are still making a difference in people’s lives and whether community system and resources can sustain themselves without any external support,  5 years after closing the projects which ended in September 2020.

PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THE EVALUATION As community-based disaster preparedness and response activities were completed in September 2020, Oxfam together with their local partners would like to  explore the sustainability of disaster preparedness and response capacities by conducting an evaluation.  This evaluation will help Oxfam and its partner organizations assess the long-term impacts of DRR interventions and identify the factors that influence the sustainability of past projects in the three different geographical locations.

While previous evaluations of these projects highlighted significant st