Overview
Provide direct technical support and advice on mainstreaming gender in programme design, management, monitoring, and evaluation. Lead the implementation of Oxfam’s long term gender justice strategy relevant to the Syrian context.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical support and advice on mainstreaming gender in programmes.
- Lead the implementation of the gender justice strategy.
- Lead strategic thinking and planning on gender justice interventions.
- Provide technical support to thematic leads on gender justice issues.
- Coordinate and work closely with the Protection Advisor.
- Lead on proposal development for gender specific interventions.
- Map potential women’s rights partners and assess their gender capacity.
- Build and nurture partnerships with WROs and WLOs.
- Conduct assessment, selection, and capacity building of potential partners.
- Provide strategic gender analysis for programming and advocacy.
- Ensure gender analysis are carried out systematically.
- Work with the Advocacy team to develop policy positions on gender issues.
- Lead the articulation of gender specific advocacy/influencing aspects.
- Represent Oxfam in Gender related clusters and coordination structures.
- Liaise and coordinate with local authorities.
- Capacity building of partner organisations on gender in emergencies and gender justice.
- Build the capacity of Oxfam staff on integrating gender justice aspects.
- Matrix manage and work with gender officers.
- Encourage inter team collaboration and learning.
- Ensure systems are in place to monitor, document, and measure impact of gender interventions.
- Ensure systematic and documented review and learning on successes and challenges.
- Accountable for the achievement of outcome level impact on gender programming.
Required Experience
- At least 5 to 8 years’ relevant experience in a similar role which entails managing gender/women empowerment portfolio or projects
- Significant expertise and knowledge of gender issues in the Middle East and particularly in Syria.
- Demonstrated practical experience in gender analysis, needs assessment and mainstreaming gender into public health and/or livelihoods programmes in humanitarian and/or development settings in the Middle East or Syria.
- Highly developed strategic thinking and planning skills.
- Evidence of capacity to develop capacity building plans and deliver customised high-quality training to local and national NGOs.
- Wide experience in designing various gender program types and including both theoretical knowledge and practical implementation.
- Proven significant experience in matrix or direct management of teams and on the job, hands on, capacity building.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Experience in coordination and representation in thematic fora, clusters and other coordination spaces in aid architecture.
- Experience in gender programming in other countries outside the Middle East (Desirable).
- Work experience in a WRO or a WLO (Desirable).
Qualifications
• Advanced level in international development or gender related degree or relevant work experience.
