Back GENDER JUSTICE AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS STRATEGIST

JOB DETAILS

LOCATION: Nairobi, with regular national and occasional international travel**

CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed Term (2 years)

INTERNAL JOB GRADE: C2

DEPARTMENT and TEAM: Programmes

SALARY: According to Oxfam in Kenya Salary Scale

HOURS (FTE): 35

FLEXIBLE WORKING

We believe flexible working is key to building the Oxfam GB of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you.

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

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

DEPARTMENT PURPOSE: We work with Women’s rights organizations as partners and allies to address gender inequalities and ensure that women gain power over their lives to participate in and contribute to public life.

TEAM PURPOSE: Gender justice and women’s rights is at the heart of what we do. We work with Women’s rights organization to push for the achievement of full equality between women and men in all spheres of life. We do influencing work to cause improvement in legislation and policy area but also to a large extent, we work towards transforming gender and power relations, structures, norms and values which are critical in ending poverty and challenging inequality. We believe that women taking control and collective action are the most important drivers of sustained change and a key driver to ending poverty not only for women and girl but everyone

JOB PURPOSE: The Gender Justice and Women’s Rights Strategist will lead in the design of Gender Justice and Women’s Rights programme and implementation - piloting innovative programme approaches, building partnerships, coalitions and networks and supporting partners to develop organisational capacity building to deliver high quality women’s rights programmes. The Strategist will lead in supporting the integration of gender justice and inclusion across all programme thematic areas.

A key area of work will be to fundraise for the programme and to generate and manage knowledge resources through linkages with knowledge hubs and other institutions.

S/he will link with Oxfam campaigns, policy influencing and advocacy teams. As required by the programme design, the post holder will manage contracted programme or project staff.

ROLE REPORTS TO

Director programmes

ROLES REPORTING TO THIS POST

As per requirements of this programme

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY

EUR 7,7 million

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

Programme design, implementation, and resourcing 35%

· Provides thought leadership on the thematic area, staying up to date with the latest thinking, undertaking, and commissioning research and analysis and spending time to develop a comprehensive understanding of the theme how it contributes to poverty and Inequality in the country.

· Plays a leadership role in ensuring that gender justice and women’s rights are promoted and implemented in the country program, that gender analysis is applied to all programming in Kenya.

· Deliver an integrated Gender Justice and Women’s Rights programme with impact that contributes to the principle of one program by seeking synergy with the other thematic areas.

· Participates in the budget process by designing and effectively managing the Gender Justice and Women’s Rights programme budget.

· Working closely with the MEAL team to ensure adoption of feminist monitoring, evaluation, learning and accountability (MEAL) system and processes are in place.

Resource Mobilization and Contract Management 20%

· Working closely with the Funding team, and Oxfam colleagues to fundraise for the Gender Justice and Women’s Rights Programme through engaging donors and writing fundable proposals.

· Work with funding team to produce high quality report and on time.

· Ensure programmes in their portfolio are implemented in line with stipulated and agreed donor guidelines and requirements.

· Assesses and advises the country team on risks emerging from the programme.

Partnership and coalition building, networking, and support 20%

· Develop a comprehensive understanding of Oxfam’s feminist partnership approach, including working with coalitions and networks.

· Broker relationship and identify key partnerships with civil society organizations, the private sector, and governments to enhance Oxfam’s work under the Gender Justice and Women’s Rights Programme.

· Provide technical support to program partners for delivery of high-quality programming.

Research, knowledge generation, campaigns and policy influencing 15%

· Support the development of a joint advocacy strategy and plan with allies and implement Oxfam’s role in the plan.

· In partnership with Communication and Campaigns teams develop appropriate influencing materials.

· Develop policy briefs and publications for learning, influencing and advocacy.

· Share regular updates and publicize Gender Justice and Women’s rights programme.

· Ensure research and learning is disseminated and implemented for maximum impact.

Human resource management 10%

· Manage staff and consultants as required, in accordance with Oxfam policy and procedures.

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, or LGBTQIA identity."

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.

SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & COMPETENCIES

ESSENTIAL

· Self-Awareness

· Vision Setting

· Influencing

• Professional/Technical qualifications – Postgraduate in Gender and Development studies, Women studies, Development Studies, or related field.
• At least 5 years’ experience in a similar programme role.

· A strong understanding of gender justice and women’s rights, development, and humanitarian issues and the political and economic context

· Progressive experience in designing and implementing development and humanitarian projects

• Strong fundraising skills with good knowledge of and experience with donor funding environment **
• Proven management experience at a strategic level
• Strong project management skills, managing contracts, ensuring programme delivery, and overseeing programme and contract finances.
• Experience in developing and influencing public policies
• Exemplary skills in establishing and managing partnerships to advance gender justice and women’s rights
• Ability to engage and influence both corporate, government and civil society organizations as appropriate on the ongoing Gender justice and Women’s rights work .
• Ability to build a people’s movement around the program theme and inspire followership
• Proven analytical and conceptual thinking and research**

Desirable

· Team player, self-motivated, ability to work with little supervision and to support and motivate others by providing inspiration and leadership.

SAFER RECRUITMENT: Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and adults. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us. Offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks.