Deadline: 02 December, 2020
Location: Taraba, Nigeria
Oxfam is seeking to fill the position of Gender and Livelihood Officer.
Oxfam is one of the humanitarian agencies responding to needs of vulnerable people in Nigeria’s northeast, where the activities of Boko Haram insurgents have rendered many people homeless.
Responsibilities
- Provide advice and support to the project manager and the technical officers working within the respective field offices in the implementation of the key gender components across the PROSELL project
- Provide technical support to the project team to ensure gender mainstreaming in all activities in line with the project’s gender strategy
- Provide specialist advice on gender-sensitive planning and mainstreaming to all project officers and other staff
- Support, coach, mentor, and advise partners’ technical staff to implement and mainstream gender into project activities
- Liaise with project partners and other stakeholders in the project location to facilitate and enhance contribution towards the implementation of the gender equality agenda
- Support advocacy activities on gender matters to key stakeholders in collaboration with partners and other interest groups that are relevant to the PROSELL project
- Improve networking and coordination with key stakeholders to ensure the promotion of gender equality in the project locations and across the state
- Represent PROSELL project in gender-related meetings and consultations that are relevant and would add value to project implementation
- Assist in the development of case studies, best practices, and key learning on gender mainstreaming and integration into PROSELL project
- Aid in data collection, compiling lessons learnt, establishing indicators to support knowledge sharing
- Support in updating and sharing with staff recent developments and knowledge tools in the areas of interventions
- Analyse and ensure interventions are gender-sensitive and factor in issues of inclusion of normally socially excluded groups
- Provide regular brief updates on the development of gender-related issues in the project areas
- Ensure regular and comprehensive monitoring for reporting on the gender-related indicators in the project areas in consultation with the project manager and in line with donor requirements
- Perform other work-related outputs as requested by the project manager
- Coordinate the livelihood component of project development activities for the PROSELL project
- Organise and support livelihood project activities through partner staff involved in the implementation of project activities
- Organise and lead key project development activities to ensure quality planning and implementation are carried out within the framework of the project
- Ensure effective engagement and relationship management with project partners, community leaders and groups, government institutions and other relevant, strategic/key sectoral actors for effective and sustainable delivery of the gender and livelihood component of the project delivery
- Assist the project manager in recruiting and managing private consultants for specific short-term assignments related to livelihood, including facilitating the development of their workplans, monitor their fieldwork, and organise debriefing sessions with consultants
- Maintain effective communication on the progress of the project and ensure project learning in relation to gender and livelihood is documented for communication with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders in consultation with the project manager
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Gender Studies, Law, Political Science, Social Sciences, Project Management, or a related field
- Three years, minimum, of experience in handling gender-related projects in northern Nigeria
- Comprehensive understanding of international, regional, and national legal frameworks and policies related to advancing gender equality and promoting women’s rights
- Ability to generate and communicate gender-related information for a variety of audiences to enhance understanding of gender integration and mainstreaming goals of the PROSELL project
- Experienced in generating new ideas and approaches, researches, and best practices
- Experience in supporting development programmes, specifically, livelihood-related interventions
- Able to formulate written information clearly and persuasively
- Good reporting and writing skills
- Excellent computer skills
- Fluency in written and spoken English and Hausa
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