Country: Jordan, Lebanon
Closing date: 06 Sep 2016
The Role
Oxfam is committed to tackling gender discrimination in all its forms and promoting women’s rights. The crux of this exciting role is to provide thought leadership on gender justice and advocacy on gender in the region, building networks and alliances and ensuring Oxfam can recognise and address gender inequality to ensure that women are able to participate in public life, taking into account the different impacts of conflict on women and men across all our programme areas in the Middle East and North Africa.
The Gender & Advocacy Manager will work as part of a dynamic and exciting team. They will be directly responsible for managing three staff in the Gender and Influencing team of the Regional Gender Justice Programme (RGJP). In addition, they will be responsible for ensuring that the RGJP develops and implements sound gender and influencing work through project management and knowledge brokering, ensuring that our work is aligned to GJ work implemented by Oxfam’s country offices in Middle East and North Africa as well as to Oxfam’s GJ MENA Strategy.
To be successful in this role you will have:
Proven expertise on gender mainstreaming and gender justice, including development and/or humanitarian programmes; experience of building alliances, networking around gender issues and delivering impactful advocacy on women’s rights; solid knowledge and understanding of global frameworks such as CEDAW and UNCSR 1325 and how to operationalise these for women in the Middle East experience in the MENA region; experience in managing people and key relationships and strong leadership skills.
About the MECIS Region
The Middle East and Commonwealth of Independent States (MECIS) region implements and manages programmes in Yemen, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Russia, Tajikistan, Armenia, and Georgia.
Programmes within the MECIS region reflect Oxfam’s approach to work across the globe. We support self-reliance, not dependency, and to complement our work on the ground we strive to secure lasting change through our campaigning.
We also put women at the heart of all we do. The majority of people living in poverty are women and girls, and so this focus helps us to achieve our mission to overcome poverty and suffering.
Useful Information
Qualified Oxfam staff seeking secondment opportunities are encouraged to apply.
This is a fixed-term contract until 31 March 2017. Further continuation of the role is dependent on resourcing needs and funding.
We are flexible regarding the location of the role, either Beirut or Amman.
Benefits: Oxfam offers staff a comprehensive benefits package including annual leave entitlements, sick pay provision, medical cover plus opportunities for learning and development.
This role is open to both national and non nationals. Successful candidates who will be required to relocate internationally to take up the role will be provided with a competitive international relocation package.
Due to the urgency of this role, we will be reviewing CVs and interviewing candidate in advance of the closing date. For this reason, interested candidates are asked to submit their application as soon as possible.
How to apply:
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