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

The Role:

Oxfam {Syria/} is looking for GENDER OFFICER 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Programme Support and Gender Mainstreaming
•Support the integration of gender equality and women's rights across WASH, FES and other programme interventions, ensuring gender-responsive planning, implementation and monitoring.
•Work closely with programme teams, implementing partners, the Gender Team Leader/Advisor and Area Programme Manager to implement gender mainstreaming activities and targeted gender interventions.
•Support the design and implementation of interventions that address harmful gender norms and promote gender-transformative programming.
•Facilitate discussions and awareness activities with staff, partners and communities to strengthen understanding of gender issues and response capacities.
2. Gender Assessment and Analysis
•Conduct gender and vulnerability assessments and contribute to multisector needs assessments, ensuring gender considerations are integrated throughout programme design.
•Identify and assess the needs of vulnerable groups, particularly women and girls at risk, and recommend appropriate interventions.
•Support the development and implementation of programme gender action plans based on assessment findings and contextual analysis.
3. Monitoring, Learning and Reporting
•Work with MEAL teams to ensure gender-responsive indicators, Sex and Age Disaggregated Data (SADD), and gender-sensitive monitoring systems are in place.
•Monitor programme implementation through field visits, collect feedback from communities and partners, and recommend improvements to strengthen programme quality.
•Review partner reports and technical documentation to ensure compliance with Oxfam gender standards and quality requirements.
•Collect, analyse and report gender-related information, including GBV data, lessons learned, success stories, case studies and inputs for SitReps and donor reporting.
•Contribute to gender analyses, research, evidence generation and programme learning to inform programme design, advocacy and policy.
4. Partnership Coordination and Capacity Strengthening
•Maintain regular communication with implementing partners and provide day-to-day technical accompaniment on gender mainstreaming and gender justice.
•Organise partnership meetings, technical discussions, workshops and learning events, and follow up on agreed actions and commitments.
•Deliver training, coaching and induction for staff and partners on gender equality, safeguarding, inclusive programming and Oxfam gender standards.
•Support partners to implement capacity strengthening plans and apply gender tools, guidance and good practices across programme implementation.
•Monitor partner performance, review progress against agreed plans and indicators, and support continuous improvement.
5. Coordination and Representation
•Coordinate with local authorities, women's rights organisations, UN agencies and other humanitarian actors to strengthen collaboration and advance gender equality initiatives.
•Support the mapping and engagement of women's rights organisations and other strategic partners at hub level.

Represent the Gender Team in operational meetings with partners and external stakeholders when delegated, and escalate strategic, operational or partnership risks to the Gender Team Leader.

What we are looking for:

We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam's mission to end poverty and is personally aligned to our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability and inclusion in all you do.

An ideal candidate for the role will also be / have:

 ESSENTIAL:
•Self-Awareness
•System thinking
•Agility, Complexity, and Ambiguity
•Relationship Building
•Enabling

In addition:
• Bachelor’s degree preferably in Gender or development studies, social science, or related discipline) combined with 3 years minimum experience in Gender, GBV, protection and social work.
• Or Diploma degree preferably in Gender or development studies, social science, or related discipline) combined with 5 years minimum experience in Gender, GBV, protection and social work.
• Experience working with IDPs, and other vulnerable populations (refugees-returnees) with INGOs/INGOs
• Ability to communicate in English, write reports in English and consolidate the reports into formal English documentation, including translation of documents into either Arabic or English
• Experience and understanding of and experience of working in the humanitarian or development sector.
• Experience working with an international organization (such as INGOs, UN agencies or the like).
• Experience in Training local actors in the region on gender equality,
• Demonstrating understanding and sensitivity to poverty, gender, and diversity issues

Demonstrated willingness and eagerness to work within organizational and operational procedures and ability to apply and implement.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with stakeholders, Donors, beneficiaries and targeted groups.
• Commitment to a rights-based approach, gender equality and protection
• Ability to work in a multi-cultural team.
• Willingness to work in insecure environments and a high level of adaptability and initiative.
• Willingness and fitness to travel and stay in the field for sustained periods of time.
• Proficient in the use of MS office applications
Desirable
• Team-working skills.
• Flexibility under pressure and in response to changing needs.
• Attention to detail and excellent numeracy.
• Good communication skills
• Good leadership skills

We offer:

We offer a competitive salary and a range of additional benefits to staff including flexible working options, generous pension scheme, annual leave, additional leave allowances, company sick pay, life assurance and a range of other benefits. 

From the day you join Oxfam we invite you to stretch and learn in your role. Our wide range of Learning & Development opportunities includes in-house courses, e-learning modules, on-the job learning opportunities, coaching and mentoring, and much more. 

You can read more about all Oxfam has to offer here.

How to apply:

As part of your online application, please upload your up to date CV and Cover Letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.  

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. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.  In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

About us

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.

Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries. 

A thriving diverse Oxfam:

It’s people power that brings about change. To play our part as a global organisation working to overcome poverty and inequality, we need equality, diversity and inclusion across our community of staff, partners and volunteers. Together, we’re committed to becoming a more diverse workforce, better able to tackle the global challenges that face our world today.

To do that:

• We need to dismantle the unequal power structures that exist everywhere, this including Oxfam and the wider development and charity sectors.
• We need an inclusive Oxfam where everyone can bring who they are to our work and feels celebrated for the differences they bring.
• We want and need everyone, and that means we need you.