Internal/External Job Vacancy
Job title: Gender Programme Manager
Background
Oxfam Ethiopia is part of the global family of Oxfam International; operating in the country since 1974. It has been implementing development and humanitarian programs in various parts of the country to address the immediate and strategic needs of people living in poverty.
The current country strategy (2015 – 2020) envisages “an Ethiopia free of poverty; where empowered women and other citizens influence and benefit from pro-poor and gender-sensitive systemic changes that reduce their poverty and vulnerability and; an increase their socio-economic wellbeing”. In 2016-17, the organization consolidated its efforts to meet the needs of the most vulnerable and has reached more than 1.2 million people across Ethiopia with life-saving humanitarian assistance and longer-term resilience, livelihoods, and gender-based programs. Oxfam currently implements programmes directly and through partners across eight regions and one city administration including Amhara, Oromia, Tigray, Somali, Afar, Dire Dawa, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region (SNNPR) and Gambella.
The programmes in the Somali, Dire Dawa, East Harerge, Gedeo, and Gambella regions are dominantly humanitarian; drought, conflict and flood preparedness, response and recovery, and supporting refugees from South Sudan respectively though Oxfam is increasing its resilience-based programming throughout. The longer-term resilience-development programmes cover sustainable livelihoods, gender and climate change work. More specifically Oxfam in Ethiopia focuses on rural economic development working all through the value chain cycle, promoting viable local and export markets while building the resilience of the local population to respond and adapt to the re-current natural and man-made disasters. Gender programming is at the centre of our work, always taking into consideration local gender dynamics and prioritizing the most vulnerable population.
Shaping a stronger Oxfam for people living in poverty.
About Oxfam
Oxfam is a global movement of people who won’t live with the injustice of poverty. Together we save and rebuild lives in disasters. We help people build better lives for themselves. We speak out on the big issues that keep people poor, like inequality, discrimination against women and climate change. And we won’t stop until every person on the planet can live without poverty.
Oxfam GB is a member of the international confederation Oxfam.
OUR TEAM
The Programmes Team will ensure that the programs make the proper shift, with the quality needed to ensure a proper achievement of the Ethiopia Oxfam Strategy. Oxfam seeks to contribute at scale to ensure that vulnerable women and girls, men and boys of Ethiopia will be better able to claim all of their rights, now and in the future by pursuing programmes designed to respond to goals for saving lives and sustainable food which are mutually reinforcing programmatic change goals. As part of the Programmes Team, the whole team on the sector of gender will ensure that Goal 1 and 2 of the OCS is achieved with quality and timely manner. This team will work very closely with the Humanitarian and long-term development programmes (Resilience and Livelihood) team ensuring the link between the long term and emergency situations.
Ensures that the promotion of women’s rights is at the heart of all Oxfam in Ethiopia’s program work.
Job Purpose
The Gender Programme Manager is expected to lead the standalone gender projects as well as set and provide overall guidance to all programme and support functions to ensure that gender is mainstreamed and well-integrated into the country’s operation. The manager works across the different programme and support functions. S/he provides technical support to the humanitarian teams (WASH, EFSVL and Protection) ensuring our intervention is guided by Oxfam's Minimum Standards on Gender in Emergencies, including through safe programming, strong gender analysis and awareness across our humanitarian teams and partners, and meaningful participation of women in the community groups that help us design and evaluate our actions. The manager also technically provide support to the long-term development programme to ensure that gender is well integrated into the project design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. The position also provides thought leadership and effective coordination in policy influencing initiatives were relevant while participating in resource mobilization in line with Oxfam Ethiopia country strategy. In addition, the position contributes to the growth and development of the women’s rights and gender justice program in Ethiopia.
Oxfam’s stand-alone gender programmes will focus on women and girls in Ethiopia have their voices heard and contribute to the policy-shaping, decision-making mechanisms and peace-building processes at all levels in an enabling and equitable environment free from violence. Oxfam will support spaces for women to participate in decision-making, not only in shaping the humanitarian aid agenda but also on issues affecting them at the community, district and national levels. For this to happen, Oxfam will facilitate the change in beliefs and assumptions about accepted gendered roles as well as raise awareness amongst women and men. Alternative spaces of participation will be supported through community mobilization, community committees, and women groups. Oxfam will ensure that advocacy efforts carry the voices of women at the grassroots level, contributing to a more responsive, peace-building process at the local level but also informing the larger, national-level peace-building initiatives.
Core Details
Location: | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
Our package: Internal Grade: | As per Oxfam Ethiopia salary scale C1 National |
Contract type: | Fixed-term (2 years) |
Hours of work: | 37.5 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: | Programme Director |
Staff reporting to this post: | 5 Direct (Senior Gender Project Officer (4), SRHR Project Manager; Matrix management (1) Humanitarian Gender Project Officer (Gambella) |
The annual budget for the post: | Please mention the annual budget for this post |
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DBS checks (for roles based in the UK): | Please specify the level of DBS check. If not, please type N/A. |
Screening checks: | All successful candidates will be screened through Refinitiv World-Check One to comply with counter-terrorism and financial sanctions regulations. |
DIMENSIONS:
The following responsibilities are not exhaustive. They aim to provide a clear sense of the nature and scope of jobs at this grade:
Key Responsibilities
1. Programme Strategy, Planning, and Monitoring
2. Funding
3. Active participation in the regional and global forum
4. People development and management
Other
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Skills, Experience, and Knowledge
Essential
1. Program development and funding
2. Operational leadership
3. Cross-cutting
Desirable
Key Attributes
Organisational Values
Note to candidates: Shortlisted candidates will be assessed on our organisational values and attributes at the interview stage. The successful candidate(s) will be expected to adhere to our code of conduct. We encourage candidates to read and understand our code of conduct here.
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks