Gender Justice Specialist (SRHR)
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Oxfam International
Hybrid- Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: 5-10 years
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: Hybrid
- Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
- Remuneration: CAD 71,937.83 CAD-CAD 93,410.60 CAD / yearly
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 24/04/2026
- Location: Canada
Oxfam Canada is an affiliate of the international Oxfam Confederation networked in over 85 countries as part of a global movement for change. Our mission is to build lasting solutions to poverty and injustice with a focus on improving the lives and promoting the rights of women and girls. We work directly with communities, partners and women's rights organizations to challenge the systems that perpetuate inequality and keep people poor.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES: (This is not an exhaustive list of duties to be performed)
- Lead and support knowledge-sharing and learning
- Collaborate with other specialists in developing and implementing a cross-unit feminist knowledge-sharing and learning agenda.
- Produce compelling publications, including briefs, editorials and reports, with a judicious mix of facts, analysis, and stories based on the learnings emerging from the SRHR project portfolio that meet Oxfam editorial, quality and brand standards.
- Contribute to healthy portfolio development including strategy development, and writing and reviewing concept notes and proposals, with a particular focus on ensuring strong WR/GJ SRHR integration.
- Provide analysis and content, as well as scopes and seize opportunities to demonstrate Oxfam's value-added and consistent messaging with external audiences, such as governments, the private sector, the public, the media, and the aid community, through publications, media, and events.
- Provide thematic expertise and support OCA's engagement in relevant internal and external policy spaces and initiatives.
- Participate in relevant Oxfam institutional and working groups, ensuring positive contributions to One Oxfam vision and goals.
- Engage in organizational processes including team and departmental meetings, and cross-organizational working groups and committees as assigned.
- During project start-up periods or brief staffing gaps, the Specialist may be asked to support urgent project requirements typically fulfilled by Program Officers.
- Other duties as required.
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & COMPETENCIES:
- Post-graduate degree in a related field (political science, international development, women's studies).
- A minimum of five years’ work experience in international development and/or women’s rights and gender equality; at least 3 years of related overseas work experience required.
- Strong analytical understanding and demonstrated experience/knowledge in women's rights and feminist programming, policy and influencing required.
- Advanced knowledge and experience leading and/or supporting knowledge and learning initiatives on sexual and reproductive health and rights required, including work on stigmatized or contested issues both domestically in Canada and overseas. The combined work experience in these areas should be at least 3 years.
- Demonstrated capacity to manage multi-country research projects, working with a variety of institutional stakeholders.
- Strong listening, facilitating, and communication skills, as well as familiarity with participatory adult learning methodologies, consistent with the convening and connecting responsibilities of the position.
- Demonstrated commitment to global justice, gender equality and social change.
- Fluency in English is required
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