JOB DETAILS

LOCATION: Global South preferred (Any location where Oxfam has an office and is able to establish a contract of employment)

CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed Term – 1 Year

INTERNAL JOB GRADE: C2. National position                                                                 

DEPARTMENT and TEAM Economic Justice and Gender Justice

SALARY:  In line with Oxfam values & according to location.

HOURS (FTE) 40 hours/week

FLEXIBLE WORKING

We believe flexible working is key to building the Secretariat of the future so we’re open to discussing flexible arrangements which might work for you. This role would work particularly well as a partially home-based role.

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organization.

DEPARTMENT PURPOSE: The project and advocacy manager will work in close coordination with the country programme team and the project partner. They will be responsible for managing the project, providing leadership and effective coordination, as well as offering specific technical expertise to guide the project’s implementation. The project aims to: support the labour market access and employment of young people; support self-employment and micro and small enterprises; and promote the creation of solid foundations that can sustain long-term socio-economic growth. This will enable the public and private sectors to jointly promote the labour inclusion of vulnerable groups, with a particular focus on supporting GBV survivors and women at risk.

TEAM PURPOSE: Support self-employment and micro and small enterprises and promote the creation of solid foundations that can sustain long-term socio-economic growth. This will enable the public and private sectors to jointly promote the labour inclusion of vulnerable groups, with a particular focus on supporting GBV survivors and women at risk.

JOB PURPOSE: To lead and manage a gender and economic justice-focused project, particularly supporting GBV survivors and women at risk, in collaboration with key consortium partners. This includes ensuring proper implementation of activities, managing strategic evidenced-based advocacy, public campaigning, and conducting MEAL activities to achieve project objectives effectively.

ROLE REPORTS TO

Line management: Economic Justice Program Manager

Matrix management: Gender Justice Program Manager or Advocacy, Influencing and Media Manager

ROLES REPORTING TO THIS POST

NA

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY

yes

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (Technical, Leadership, People and Resource management)

1. Project Management – 55%

• Collaborate with the Lead applicant WRO and co-applicant AWO for effective implementation of project activities.
• Manage the strategic evidenced-based advocacy and public campaigning under outcome 2.
• Support in conducting MEAL activities and coordinate steering committee meetings.
• Oversee technical reporting and monitor project progress, ensuring safe programming, risk management, and mitigation.
• Provide timely information for donor and internal reports, ensuring standards and requirements are met.

2. Capacity Development (20%)

• Coordinate closely with partners to deliver project activities.
• Ensure the capacity development component is effectively delivered to partners based on their needs.

3. Advocacy and Stakeholder Engagement (25%)

• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders including partner organizations, relevant ministries, government counterparts, and donors.
• Represent Oxfam and the project at meetings and events.
• Lead the advocacy efforts, ensuring alignment with the project’s objectives and Oxfam’s strategic goals.
• Identify opportunities for public campaigning and influence to advance the project’s aims in gender and economic justice.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Most importantly, every individual at Oxfam International Secretariat needs to be able to:

• Live our values of INCLUSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, EMPOWERMENT, COURAGE, SOLIDARITY and EQUALITY (read more about these here)
• Ensure you commit to our ORGANIZATIONAL ATTRIBUTES (including adhering to the Code of Conduct):

1. Be committed to our feminist principles, and to applying them in your day-to-day behaviour and your work. Be ready to keep learning, with accountability to those who experience oppression as a result of their identities, such as their gender, race/ethnicity, disability, class.

2. Be committed to undertaking Oxfam’s safeguarding training and adhering to relevant policies, to ensure all people who come into Oxfam are as safe as possible.

EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & COMPETENCIES

ESSENTIAL

• Proven experience in program management of national/regional programs in international NGOs.
• Proven experience in designing and implementing advocacy strategies and campaigns on gender justice and women’s rights.
• Excellent knowledge of budgeting and report writing
• Experience in donor relationship development and all aspects of donor reporting.
• Sensitivity to cultural differences and the ability to work in a wide variety of cultural contexts.
• Committed to Oxfam principles.
• Proven influencing and negotiating skills with internal and external audiences.
• Languages: excellent English and Arabic spoken and written.

Key Attributes:

• Ability to demonstrate sensitivity to cultural differences and gender issues, as well as the commitment to equal opportunities.
• Ability to demonstrate an openness and willingness to learn about the application of gender/gender mainstreaming, women’s rights, and diversity for all aspects of development work.
• Commitment to Oxfam’s safeguarding policies to ensure all people who come into contact with Oxfam are as safe as possible.

Organizational Values:

• Accountability – Our purpose-driven, results-focused approach means we take responsibility for our actions and hold ourselves accountable. We believe that others should also be held accountable for their actions.
• Empowerment – Our approach means that everyone involved with Oxfam, from our staff and supporters to people living in poverty, should feel they can make change happen.

Desirable

• Technical knowledge in Women Economic Empowerment and Protection.
• Basic knowledge of MEAL and ability to understand and analyse basic gender data.

Competencies

Description

Decisiveness

Comfortable making transparent decisions and adapting decision-making modes to context and needs.

Influencing

Engages diverse stakeholders to increase organizational impact, creates influence opportunities where none exist.

Relationship Building

Builds relationships within and outside the organization for increased impact.

Mutual Accountability

Explains decisions based on organizational values, ready to be held accountable, and holds others accountable.

Agility, Complexity, and Ambiguity

Anticipates changes, comfortable with lack of clarity, and manages diverse and unpredictable interactions.

Systems Thinking

Views problems as parts of an overall system, focuses on cyclical cause and effect, manages unintended consequences.

Strategic Thinking and Judgment

Uses judgment, weighing risk against imperative to act, makes decisions consistent with organizational strategies and values.

Self-Awareness

Develops self-awareness around strengths and weaknesses, moderates behaviors, and channels impulses for good purposes.