Job Description

ABOUT US

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty. This means that 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.

We are an international confederation of 21 organisations (affiliates) plus the Oxfam International Secretariat, all working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries. All our work is led by our core values: Empowerment, Accountability, Inclusiveness, Courage, Solidarity and Equality.

Oxfam Novib “Country” is looking for a Gender Equality Disability & Social Inclusion Advisor

Duty station: Hargeisa with frequently travel to field

Type of appointment: Fixed term

Contract duration: 12 months with possibility of renewal

Work schedule: Full-time (40 hours per week)

Reports to: Humanitarian and Resilience Program Manager

Start date: As soon as possible

Deadline for applications: 28 August 2024

CONTEXT

OXFAM is a global movement of people who are fighting inequality to end poverty and injustice. Across regions, from the local to the global, we work with people to bring change that lasts. Our work is grounded in the commitment to the universality of human rights. Driven by diversity and founding our asks in evidence and experience, we take sides against poverty and injustice everywhere. Feminist approaches guide all our analysis, action, and interaction.

Oxfam has been working in Southcentral regions of Somalia, Puntland, and Somaliland since the 1970s. Oxfam played a foundational role in supporting civil society development and has been called by many current and past partners “the mother of Somali civil society”. Support for women’s rights, women’s advocates, and gender equality has been a steady component of the program and many leading advocates for women’s rights, gender equality, and women’s issues were once partners or trainees of Oxfam. There are numerous examples of unique programming across youth and education, gender and emergency relief, resilience, WASH, and livelihoods. Over the years, the Oxfam has produced an impressive range of policy briefings, reports and working papers that have drawn attention to issues, sparked discussions and influenced policies.

Our 10-year country strategy (2020 to 2030) works towards a just economy, economic development, inclusive governance, gender justice and responding to climate and fragility with conflict sensitive humanitarian response whilst strengthening resilience. Building on our existing program strengths and approaches, Oxfam will expand thematically as well as geographically. Core to our feminist approach are partnerships, influencing, innovation and ensuring programs are of high quality, safe for all and integrating the Humanitarian, Development and Peace nexus.

JOB PURPOSE:

The Gender Equality Disability and Social Inclusion Advisor will use their in-depth contextual understanding, technical and practical expertise, and relationship building skills to define and deliver SomReP’s strategic ambition for advancing gender equality disability and social inclusion in Somalia/Somaliland. The GEDSI Advisor will lead the mainstreaming of gender programming, including technical design, implementation and measurement of high-quality programs that advance gender equality and inclusion, and ensure that girls and boys, women and men can equitably access, participate, benefit from and act as decision makers in our projects and program. The role supports national advocacy to advance gender equality and inclusion.

The role provides leadership to ensure SomReP’s work is grounded on intersectional gender and power analysis and supports design and implementation of gender transformative MEAL systems to demonstrate impact. The role will work closely with the programs Economic Development Advisor, Community Based Disaster Risk Management Advisor, programs implementation colleagues, partners including women’s/girls rights and gender equality advocacy focused organizations. The position will lead in assessment processes, awareness of women/youth frameworks and policy, design of interventions, training and technical backstopping in gender-sensitive approaches, and facilitation for advocacy empowerment forums mobilized through the program.  The position holder will support member agencies, government and marginalized groups to identify barriers for women and youth to participate in civic and economic life.  She/he will mobilize women and youth networks for advocacy, providing training, as well as coordinating joint action amongst civil society actors, private sector and government to catalyze changes of enabling conditions. 

The position holder will lead in the development of gender-empowering training modules to integrate within the framework of individual and group capacity development efforts. She/he will lead the consortium in government and NGO coordination and policy development forums and processes. The GEDSI Advisor will coordinate joint action amongst member agencies to promote integration, harmonization of technical approaches and efficient use of donor resources.  She/he will support in proposal development process: draft and review technical content, as well as identify partnerships with government, academic and private sector and develop concepts and ways of working with these partners.  She/he will ensure women’s economic advancement, access to opportunities, services and resources and agency, including decision-making ability in households and markets, manageable paid and unpaid workloads, and well-being are prioritized in all projects.

The GEDSI Advisor will support technical review of project and program reports to donors: review member’s reports to ensure alignment with project/program objectives and consortium’s technical approaches, as well as follow-up with members to improve future reporting.  The position holder will support the M & E Unit in the design of M&E tools review of findings and lead programmatic revision of interventions to strengthen technical approaches.  Support planning and facilitation for support office and donor field visits.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Gender Equality Disability and Social Inclusion sensitive technical approaches developed and trained to agencies, government and other stakeholders Working with SOMREP

• Support proposal development by ensure GEDSI mainstreaming in all proposals. Additionally, the GEDSI advisor will technically lead Gender standalone proposal development in collaboration with consortia partners.
• Train and work with government institutions at local level and national level and ensure GEDSI is mainstreamed across all programs.
• Technical focal point for gender & climate vulnerability assessment (GCVCA): develop Manuals; train stakeholders and provide technical backstopping and support field-level processes.
• Technical focal for gender equality & social inclusion (GEDSI): develop manuals, train stakeholders and provide technical backstopping and support for GESI action plans and field-level processes.
•     The GEDSI advisor will ensure GEDSI models/manuals are harmonized across implementing SOMREP partners. 
•  Compliance focal point for protection against sexual exploitation & abuse (PSEA), policy alignment at consortium and member levels, training to field level staff, and support to case management.
•  Mentor cohort of women interns in GEDSI, GCVCA, and CVA approaches.
•   Support the implementing partners in conducting feasibility studies; gender market assessment and gender analysis in relation with but not limited to value chain analysis of selected climate smart agricultural commodities that women and youth can successfully engage in for enhancing sustainability and resilience of their livelihoods;

2. Effective and efficient GEDSI technical approaches monitored for the consortium. 

•    Link with member, regional and global gender, advocacy and safeguarding specialists to mobilize technical best-practice to mainstream through the consortium.
•    With support from available gender advisors(@ National and international), The GEDSI advisor will support effective and harmonize approaches towards implementation of gender justice, voice  and representation in different fora. 
•   Support women economic development by leading rural women and youth to get organized to achieve gender sensitive programming.  
•   Draft sector graduation pathway strategies for Women’s Economic Empowerment Approach in agriculture, pastoral, MSMEs and VSLA.
•   Draft sector graduation pathway strategies for gender Empowerment & social inclusion (GEDSI) and community voice & action (CVA);
•    Develop activity packages with minimum operational guidelines and budgeting conventions to guide proposal design.
•   Support assessments to determine impact of GEDSI across SomReP projects.

3. Women and youth advocacy forums supported to champion enabling conditions for civic and youth participation

•    Establish women forums in the rural areas of SomRep implementation and enable them link and respond to climate change, resilience and women’s needs on the ground. 
•    Develop and maintain a registry of advocacy groups, barriers and campaign information;
•    Support members to facilitate advocacy groups to undertake assessments and campaign planning processes.
•    Develop community engagement facilitative tools to support advocacy assessment, planning and implementation.
•    Proactively identify and develop partnerships with advocacy supporting entities (e.g. Chamber of Commerce, Women’s Associations, STEAM profession associations, etc.)

4.  Lead technical representation of consortium’s gender and youth sensitive at local, regional, national and international forums
•    Participate in local, regional and global forums to share learning.
•    Develop registry of GBV service providers in target locations and support partners to establish effective referral mechanisms.
•    Support SomRep team in working with private entities in Promoting Women Empowerment and Youth Principles and through different public-private and collaboration arrangements to ensure that the target have access to gender       responsive financial services and agricultural value chain and market development services;

5.  Capacity building and partnership Build partnerships and technical capacities of government, civil society actors, and private sector collaborators important to building resilience

•    Train private sector in PSEA awareness:
•     Train Women in the private sector on Economic growth, expansion into profitable market and linkage with existing financial institutions.

Train government institutions working with SOMREP on GEDSI approaches to ensure inclusive service provision and programming in Government institutions.

6.  Knowledge and learning Lead in the identification of best-practice and challenges, develop knowledge products, research and disseminate findings to various stakeholders

• Lead the development of Term of References (ToR), participation in vetting process and support technical consultants to deliver task.
• Lead the design of research topics in the areas of gender and advocacy.
• Lead in the preparation of study findings, communication materials and uploading of content.
• Support the Capturing GEDSI case studies and success stories during program implementation.

Experiences and Qualifications

Competencies / Attributes:
•    Must have outstanding oral and written English communications and relationship building and strong networking skills ;
•    Somali language proficiency preferred 
•    Must be willing to perform other duties as required

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in gender and development studies, economics, or other social sciences or related degree. A degree in agricultural science: livestock sector and/or natural resource management and climate adaptation in arid environments. A master’s degree in a livelihoods or social enterprise is highly desirable.
• A minimum of five years of technical experience in a mid-level operational/technical/coordination support capacity working on food security and livelihood programming in the Horn of Africa; preferably with Somalia experience.
• At minimum of five years’ experience in an advisory role in an NGO or public interest
• Experience of working in a consortium, cluster, coalition or partnership settings is highly
• Experience in project management required
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and demonstrated ability to establish effective working relations with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong focus on innovation and learning, and proven ability to facilitate learning amongst a varied group of actors.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English is critical; proficiency in Somali is
• Strong proven experience and technical capacity in monitoring, evaluation and measuring of impact of livelihood and/or resilience programming in a urban or peri-urban setting.

Skills Required

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