Gender Justice is at the heart of FEMNET’s and Oxfam’s work. This means enabling women to claim their social, economic and political rights; supporting the development of civil society, and the improvement of accountable, democratic governance; and supporting the improved resilience of those with vulnerable livelihoods due to climate change, insecurity and other risks.
Advancing gender justice will impact more poor and marginalized women. Women will claim and advance their rights through the engagement and leadership of women and their organizations; and violence against women is significantly less socially acceptable and prevalent. Oxfam seeks to work with partners, such as FEMNET to provide core support to women’s rights organisations to strengthen organizational capacity and sustainability of new or growing movements. This is through supporting alliance-building, including with civil society organizations; skills-building in advocacy and campaigning; risk analysis, transformative leadership and monitoring of complex change.
The overall objective of the ‘Feminist Movement Building Programme’ will be to contribute to FEMNET and Oxfam’ s Strategic plans which seek to realise gender equality and women’s empowerment in Africa through mobilising women’s rights organisations across the content to carry out joint advocacy and lobbying to influence gender related policies at the regional and country levels.
The Role
The Feminist Movement Building Programme Coordinator will be responsible for delivering a strategic and organisationally critical dual role constituting of two aligned and mutually beneficial components. 50% of this role is intended to support the design and delivery of high-quality standalone and mainstreamed gender justice programmes across the Horn, East and Central Africa (HECA) region; with 50% being responsible for the coordination of a new strategic partnership with FEMNET as part of a 4-year, EU-funded movement building partnership. Both parts of this role will require close working with gender-justice colleagues in target countries, in the HECA Regional Platform – and with gender justice allies and programme colleagues across Oxfam globally.
The position is accountable to HECA Head of Programmes with matrix management line to Oxfam’s Senior Gender Lead. (S)he will work closely with FEMNET’s Strengthening the African Women’s Movement Regional Project Manager on the day-to-day strategic partnership and coordination of the project’s safe and effective implementation
Closing date: 26 July, 2019.
Please note: Only complete applications will be reviewed, and only candidates who have been selected for interview will be contacted. This is a regional position, women living with disability and young women are encouraged to apply.
We offer
This role will give you an opportunity to make a difference in Oxfam and FEMNET to act as key contributor, to work with a group of passionate people that are specialists in their fields etc, training and development, offers fair pay and competitive benefits package.
Our values and commitment to safeguarding
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 committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. 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.
The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation. All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks.
We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.
How to apply
For further details on the role, please upload your up to date CV and a covering letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.
About us
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 land rights, climate change and discrimination against women. And we won’t stop until every person on the planet can enjoy life free from poverty.
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