JOB DESCRIPTION
Head of Acquisition,
Oxfam India, New Delhi
1. POSITION VACANT: Head of Acquisition, Oxfam India, New Delhi
2. BACKGROUND:
Oxfam commemorates
65 years in India in 2016. Oxfam
Great Britain came
to India for providing full scale humanitarian response during the Bihar famine of 1951 and has since supported civil
society organizations, across the length and breadth of the country.
Oxfam India is part of a global confederation of 17 Oxfams and came into being in 2008,
integrating the operations of six separate Oxfam affiliates, working separately in the
country. The Oxfams are rights-based organizations that
fight poverty and injustice by linking grassroots programming (through partner
NGOs), to local, national and global advocacy and policy-making.
Oxfam India works in
the area of removing poverty and aims to be a role model in linking- up four
critical themes and areas of work: