The Advocacy, Communications, and Campaigns Team is responsible for guiding Oxfam in Ethiopia’s external relations including public awareness, research, visibility, and campaigning. We work closely with Oxfam’s programs to conduct evidence-based advocacy aimed at ending inequality and injustice, while supporting the rights and voices of the populations we serve. The team develops policy positions, facilitates networking and coalition building, supports internal and external capacity strengthening, and disseminates key learning.  We aim to support activities that will achieve change at scale at all levels. Raising the voices of the communities we work with is critical to influencing a sustainable shift in local, national, regional, and global policies and practices

JOB PURPOSE:

The Senior Gender and Protection Officer is responsible for leading the design, planning, implementation and management of gender and protection programs across all operation areas of Oxfam Gambella Response program.

This Senior Gender and Protection officer position will work under the technical supervision of the Gender Program Manager at the CO level and Line management of Area Program Manager to implement the gender and protection program within the Gambella Refugee response with regular field visits in all refugee camps and host community sites where Oxfam operates.POST HOLDER REPORTS TORefugee Response Program Manager under the technical supervision of Gender Program Manager JOBS REPORTING TO THIS POST BUDGET RESPONSIBILITYNo

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1.     Technical Support

• Actively engage in implementation of UHHCR, UNICEF, GAC, OSF and ECHO projects throughout the project cycle.

• Support program team in providing technical inputs in project planning, mainstreaming gender, and protection through strategy design

• Support the Program Manager in advocacy strategy development, campaigning and developing the influencing paper 

• Actively participate on concept note preparation, proposals development from gender lenses and make sure protection and gender specific indicators, tools and methodologies are in place during the onset of each project

• Lead programmatic assessments including gender and protection analysis to ensure continuous improvement mainstreaming of finding on programme strategy and designing.

• Enhance the capacity of, WASH, Promoting Refugee and Local Led Organizations within the Gambella Refugee Response, and protection partner towards mainstreaming Gender, protection and safeguarding.

• Carry out regular focus group discussions and individual interviews ensuring that issues of women, men, girls, boys, and people with special needs are identified and analysed

• Work closely with program and MEAL team to ensure gender, protection and other cross cutting issues are properly assessed and integrated to Oxfam Gambella programming for timely response.

• Ensures gender sensitive approach is prioritized in programming and integrated into protection assessments and activities.

• Make sure Oxfam Gambella Refugee response programs systematically identifies needs, priorities, safety and dignity of women, men, boys and girls through periodic tracking and documentation of progresses. 

• Ensure Gender and protection integration in humanitarian Programming and conduct periodic safety audit in multi-sectoral humanitarian actors' response in the refugee camps.

• Provide ongoing feedback to Programme manager on progress, lesson learnt, achievements and gaps, issues, and problems.

• Work with WASH team on Gender and Protection to document success stories women participating in the beneficiary of safe WaSH and self-protection.

• Ensure that issues of SGBV and Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) are explored in sensitive ways and that services and follow-up are provided in keeping with Oxfam guidelines.

• Represent and highlight the work being done in gender-transformation and women’s social and political empowerment under the Program in relevant internal and external forums. 

• Establish and maintain active relationships with Humanitarian Organizations on gender equality and women’s issues to strengthen key alliances and partnerships, enhance collaboration, share and influence agenda and priority setting.

• Provide support to other sectors as needed to deliver the program and mainstreaming activities

• Represent the organization at national and regional gender and protection coordination related meetings, workshops, and events as and when delegated by the Programme Manager

• Integrate gender and protection into MEAL plans to develop a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework and gender and protection specific indicators for the program.

• Oversee the implementation of all Protection and gender integration, including programme quality and budget management across all donors.

• Undertake regular on-site visits to monitor the quality of activity implementation and provide technical advice to field staff as necessary.

• Support donor reporting, stakeholders, and other internal reporting requirements by providing accurate and timely input on gender and protection activities.

• Develop protocols and guidelines for gender and protection activities and mainstreaming and train/coach staff to understand and implement, including strong integration and cooperation with the WASH and EFSL team.

• Carryout implementation review, experience sharing, consultation events, prepare case stories, document best practices specific to gender and protection activities for learning and knowledge management

• Prepares gender and protection updates for Oxfam situation reports.

2.     Capacity building

• Participate in the staff recruitment process, facilitate induction to newly recruited staff, support capacity building, and performance appraisal

• Work with the national gender and protection team to identify capacity gaps/needs of beneficiaries and partners and develop appropriate strategies and training tools to address them.

• Organize trainings plans across all proposals to improve the capacity of staff, partners, and person of concerns.

3.     Networking and Influencing

• Work closely with Oxfam partners and stakeholders RRS UNHCR, UNICEF, HI and other partners) to make sure coordinated planning, implementation and monitoring of projects/programs across Gambella and refugee camps.

• Represent Oxfam within relevant technical cluster and coordination mechanisms (Protection cluster, Camp and zonal sectoral coordination meetings, review sessions, etc.

• Work closely with protection partners in Gambella to ensure proper referral mechanisms are in place and advocate for inclusion of gender and protection issues into their programming

• Actively participate in Regional and National level gender and protection working groups and provide technical and coordination support to implement joint activities and events.

• Establish and maintain good working relations with UN Agencies, RRS, NGOs and INGOs.

4.     Management

• Work closely with the Refugee Response Program Manager, Country Gender Program Manager and protection focal persons to ensure the successful implementation of the gender and protection activities in line with the objectives laid out in the donor approved proposals

• Assist in program quality and project strengthening activities, e.g., field visits, data collection, project quality meetings, focus group discussions, interviews, and observations to obtain information about protection challenges, threats and needs faced by displacement-affected populations

5.     Oxfam General

• Actively participate in Performance Management including objective setting, performance review, upward feedback, and personal development plans.

• Ensure the implementation of Oxfam’s operational policies, procedures, and guidelines, especially gender equity, in all aspects of Oxfam’s work.

• Be a member of Oxfam’s team; participating in appropriate staff meetings, planning sessions and on-going liaising as needed.

• Undertake additional responsibilities related to respective functions 

• Required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and values as well as the promotion of gender justice and women's rights 

• Understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety, and staff health and wellbeing principles.

Job Requirements

Experience, Knowledge & Competencies:

Essential

• Bachelor (BA) or MA Degree from a recognized university in Gender Studies, Sociology, political science or any other related areas that can bring added value to the job.

• Relevant experience of 5-7 years for BA holders (having work experience in Humanitarian context mainly in the region will be an asset) preferably in an international NGO out of which 2 years should be at the level of senior or middle project management.

• Experience in gender and protection analysis, research, policy engagement and developing policy briefs

• Good networking, alliance building, and multi-stakeholder engagement skills

• Proven ability to work independently whilst knowing when to refer for advice.

• Proven skill in collecting and analyzing information using participatory research and assessment methodologies with gender lens

• Strong communication skills with good levels of spoken and written, Afargna, Amharic &English.

• Good understanding of advocacy, gender, protection, safeguarding and IDP issues including some basic human rights, IDP rights and land and housing rights and related issues. Committed to a rights-based approach

• Good understanding on existing gender biases during emergency responses both at workplace and program/project interventions and willingness to act accordingly for reducing them in collaboration with gender and humanitarian team

• With High level of adaptability and initiative demonstrated by having the (a) ability to work in multi-cultural team across different geographical locations; (b) willingness to travel to remote field areas for regular support to programme teams/partners/ communities, (c) willingness to work in insecure environments as needed; and (c) provide remote support to field teams/partners when required.

• Proven experience of using a wide array of capacity-building methodologies.

• Competent in the use of computers and Microsoft applications, especially spreadsheets (Excel), word processing (Word), and PowerPoint.

• Competent in the use of email packages

How to Apply

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