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Gender Specialist-
EVAWG through Edutainment
(Gender Justice)
Closing date: - Midnight (12:00hrs), 05-Feb-2020
Vacancy reference: - INT6271
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Shaping a stronger Oxfam for people living in poverty.
Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.
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Gender Justice programme is one of Oxfam Pakistan’s integral programme pillars for its new country strategy, besides the two other on Economic Justice & Governance and the Climate Justice and Resilience.
Oxfam understands gender justice as the full equality and equity between women and men in all spheres of life (public and private), resulting in women jointly, and on an equal basis with men, defining and shaping the policies, structures and decisions that affect their lives and society as a whole. We believe that transforming gender and power relations, and the structures, norms and values that underpin them, is critical to ending poverty and challenging inequality.
We further believe that women taking control and taking collective action are the most important drivers of sustained improvements in women's rights and are a powerful force to end poverty not only for women and girls, but for others too.
The pursuit of gender justice in Pakistan involves enabling girls and women to enjoy equal access to economic resources, political participation, enabling and decent work/job environment and opportunities and a campaign for putting an end to violence against women and girls, and smashing the patriarchy.
As a partner to the government of Pakistan and other actors, we see our work under this pillar as a contribution to Pakistan’s progress towards SDG 5 (Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls).
Oxfam in Pakistan aspires to build on its current gender justice work and expand the scope of programming while focusing on following strategic priorities:
Contributing, convening, supporting and the consolidation and strengthening of women rights' organizations
Addressing harassment, exploitation, harmful social / traditional norms, and violence, including in online spaces
Supporting women’s entrepreneurship, start-ups and cooperatives
Advancing women’s political participation and leadership
Youth empowerment
The position will provide technical Gender support (hand on) for the implementation of Oxfam’s Ending Violence Against Women & Girls (EVAWG) through Edutainment project in Karachi, which focuses to actively engage with college and university students through Art and Edutainment to bring about a positive impactful, lasting and meaningful change in young people’s attitudes and behaviour towards VAWG.
The project will work on combating violence against women and girls through building an alternate discourse and narrative on addressing the widely accepted and harmful social norms that too often justify VAWG to ones that promote gender equality and non-violence. The project incorporates a participatory approach that encourages interactive dialogue through creative theatre performance at 20 selected universities and colleges of Karachi bringing about a positive behavioural change in support of norms that strengthen women and girls to make informed life decisions and choices and lead a life free from oppression and violence.
The position in advertisement will be based in Karachi involving extensive travel to other cities (including but not limited to Islamabad, Lahore and Balochistan) of Pakistan. The position is expected to provide technical backstopping and content expertise on the scripts, messages, and radio programs developed under the project with the perspective of gender empowerment inclusion. The position will lead the implementation of Anti-Harassment at work place policy along with establishing complaint redressal mechanisms at 20 colleges and universities. The specialist will work closely with Gender Justice Program Manager to achieve results on gender equality and women’s empowerment in support of global priorities on gender equality and women’s empowerment agenda of Oxfam Country Office Pakistan.
The position will represent and ensure effective implementation of EVAWG through Edutainment project, while contributing to overall Gender Justice program and country strategy through working in partnership with local stakeholders and Government bodies. Gender Specialist will work closely with other members of the team including but not limited to Gender Justice Program Manager, Project Coordinator, Project Officer, Finance Officer, MEAL Coordinator, Funding department and Communication Officer in Oxfam in Pakistan for the effective implementation of the project.
The project titled EVAW through Edutainment work on combating violence against women and girls through building an alternate discourse and narrative on addressing the widely accepted and harmful social norms that too often justify VAWG to ones that promote gender equality and non-violence. The project incorporates a participatory approach that encourages interactive dialogue through creative theatre performance at 20 selected universities and colleges of Karachi bringing about a positive behavioural change in support of norms that strengthen women and girls to make informed life decisions and choices and lead a life free from oppression and violence.
Location:
Karachi, Pakistan (60% field travel)
Our package:
TBD
Internal Grade:
C-2
Division
Programme
Job Family:
Programme
Contract type:
Fixed Term
Hours of work:
37.5 hours per week. This is a full-time role; however, Oxfam offers various flexible arrangements which candidates can discuss with the Recruiting Manager at interview stage
This role reports to:
Program Manager Gender Justice/EYW
Staff reporting to this post:
Matrix Management of Project Coordinator EVAWED project
Annual budget for the post:
No Direct Budget Responsibility (supports PM in the management and particularly monitoring of Project budget)
Key relationships/interactions:
Gender Justice team, Economic Justice & Governance and Climate Justice & Resilience Pillars, Funding, Quality, Finance, Media & Communications and EA and PAs
Screening checks:
All successful candidates will be screened through Refinitiv World-Check One to comply with counter terrorism and financial sanctions regulations.
DBS checks (for roles based in the UK):
It is a requirement in the UK for a new DBS check at enhanced level for every new member of staff who works directly with, or has regular contact with, children or vulnerable adults in the UK (consistent with DBS guidance and relevant law).
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· Provide support to Program Manager GJ/EYW to promote the vision, mission, and strategic goals of Oxfam Pakistan Programme, especially Gender Justice Programme.
· Using a rights-based approach to work, support PM to develop and implement gender responsive projects and develop concepts/proposals, strategies, approaches, operational plans and budgets of the gender justice program.
· Produce, assimilate, analyse and use programme information from varied and diverse sources to provide in-depth analysis and appropriate recommendations related to Gender Justice programming, advocacy, policy, OGB/Partner accountability and Partnerships.
· Supported by the Programme Manager, coordinate the formulation, organisation and delivery of high-level lobbying and campaigning as part of the Gender Justice program.
· Ensure programme quality by developing systems for sharing learning from campaign and programmes through reviews, process documentation and impact assessment as per programme advocacy strategy.
· Work with Partners and stakeholders to advocate/strengthen/develop national/provincial/district level policies, procedures, relevant to women’s development and rights.
· Provide technical input in the development and finalization of script for interactive theatres in 20 universities.
· Participate in all 60-theatre performance and hold interactive sessions with students while providing them valuable information on gender issues in general and referral mechanism in specific.
· Based on the Q&A sessions in universities develop FAQs and train Universities staff and management to roll this out further in the universities on their own.
· Develop online and offline knowledge directory on pro-women legislations in Sindh and their referral mechanism and develop their IEC material
· Provide the core content and guide partner agencies to design messaging for wall murals, social media, radio messages etc. on gender empowerment
· Using the Workplace Anti -Harassment bill as guidance, facilitate development of an effective complaint redressal mechanism in 20 universities through conducting stakeholder workshops with faculty and students
· Guide development of communication material for information dissemination on Workplace Anti-Harassment bill
· Effectively coordinate with Government departments like Sindh Commission on the Status of Women, Ombudsperson, Women Development Department to ensure their buy-in and more conducive service provision to project beneficiaries.
· Support development and execution of a gender sensitization training package for capacity building of theatre company staff and selected students and faculty members of Universities/Colleges.
· Conduct Gender awareness sessions in communities adjacent to those colleges and universities.
· Gender sensitization training of the staff of Darulaman, protection centre, police, medico legal staff and lawyer in selected District of Sindh and Punjab.
In addition to the above outlined project-related tasks, Gender Specialist will provide technical support to core organizational processes such as:
· Ongoing development of the Gender Program Strategy
· Development of resource material on gender, including mainstreaming tools in humanitarian and long term development programs
· Guide Oxfam programs in undertaking gender audits
· Support Oxfam’s Gender Justice team in contextualization and localisation of Oxfam Feminist Principles
· Play a lead role in bringing in innovation, best practices and learning from the project back to Oxfam’s Gender Justice program
Your commitment to Oxfam
· 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
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