Gender Justice Coordinator
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Oxfam International
- Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: 0-5 years
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: No
- Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
- Remuneration: Not Disclosed
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 20/05/2025
- Location: South Sudan
Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.
That means we tackle the inequality that keeps people poor. Together we save, protect and rebuild lives. When disaster strikes, we help people build better lives for themselves, and for others. We take on issues like saving lives, governance and peace building, education, land rights and discrimination against women. And we won’t stop until every person on the planet can enjoy life free from poverty.
The Gender Justice Coordinator will lead on the broad areas outlined below
Gender strategy development and implementation
- Ensure integration of the research and context -based gender strategy into the public health, livelihoods, Governance and HR strategies,
- Support Oxfam South Sudan programme staff in working towards increasing women’s access to and control of resources and the promoting and strengthening the decision –making power of women and poor men in the community.
- Support Oxfam partners to develop and implement their gender strategies
Gender monitoring
- Lead on developing, piloting and rolling out gender monitoring tool across the South Sudan programme (including partners).
- Ensure that through close collaboration with the RGA, this tool will contribute to wider Oxfam global learning.
Staff capacity building
- Build capacity of staff to carry out gender sensitive programming
- Target trainings at basic and advanced skills through pre-training assessments
- Share relevant information and tools with programme teams
Partner Capacity Building
- Build capacity of partner staff to carry out gender sensitive programming
- Target trainings at basic and advanced skills through pre-training assessments
- Share relevant information and tools with Oxfam partners
Networking, Coordination and Advocacy
- Actively engage with other agencies i.e. UN, INGO and NNGOs to promote gender agenda while using strong contextual understanding to advocate for gender related issues.
- Work with women groups, CBOs and local authorities in programme areas to enhance understanding of gender and gender issues.
Reporting
- Produce monthly and quarterly reports, which collate and summarise both programme information and wider gender interest-points.
- Review Oxfam South Sudan assessment reports and activity reports to ensure gender issues are considered.
- Produce gender assessments for the Oxfam work areas
- Work closely with MEAL team for incorporating gender indicators in annual, bi-annual and quarterly reports
To take on other appropriate programme activities as agreed by manager.
An ideal candidate for the role will also be / have:
- Advanced level in international development / gender related degree
- At least 3 – 5 years’ experience in a similar role
- Practical experience in gender analysis, needs assessment and mainstreaming gender into public health, emergency and / or livelihoods programmes.
- Evidence of capacity to support / coach and mentor others.
- Ability to effectively demonstrate previous experience of successful advocacy based on programmatic reality and field-based evidence
- Representation & interpersonal communication skills – capacity to work effectively with others, interpersonal awareness, able to influence others
- Excellent written & spoken English; Excellent communication skills. Capacity to explain complex issues in simple & relevant terms
- Computer literate.
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