Yemen: Gender and Protection Advisor

Organization: Oxfam GB
Country: Yemen
Closing date: 19 Aug 2013
Gender and Protection Advisor
LOCATION: Sana’a, Yemen
CONTRACT: Fixed term
SALARY: £21,341 – £30,406 net per annum
Closing date for applications 19 August 2013
OXFAM PURPOSE: To work with others to find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering
TEAM PURPOSE: People in deepest poverty in Yemen are able to exercise their rights to be healthy and secure and these are respected, sustained and upheld. To act with poor people as a force for change in addressing the causes of poverty, suffering, and injustice, and alleviating their symptoms.
JOB PURPOSE: To support the Yemen team to ensure Minimum Standards on Gender and Protection are met so that the different needs of men, women, boys, and girls affected by crisis can be met.
REPORTING LINES: Post holder reports to: Head of Technical Department Staff reporting to this post: Protection Project Manager (temporarily)
Dimensions
• Required to develop long term vision and strategic planning to achieve significant impact from programmes.
• Leadership of specific programme unit (Protection). Set and lead the delivery of specified programme unit and/or team objectives.
• Produce, assimilate, analyse and use programme information from varied and diverse sources to provide in-depth analysis in the specific programme unit or policy area.
• Plan and implement programme plans and ensure proper reporting and accountability to multilateral and bilateral donors.
• Strong technical understanding and leadership.
Key Responsibilities
• Mentoring and coaching programme teams in gender and safe programming.
• Mentoring and coaching national gender advisor.
• Scoping out the integration of specific gender and protection activities in the humanitarian and resilience programme.
• Building the team’s capacity to implement protection and gender minimum standards.
• Providing strategic gender and protection analysis for programming and advocacy for the country and regional Response Strategies.
• Support country teams to ensure MEAL processes are engendered and include protection to ensure learning is captured.
• Supporting the organisation to learn how resilience programming can address gender power imbalances and transformative change.
• Representation of Oxfam in country level Cluster and other coordination meetings as required
Skills and Competence
• Substantial and demonstrable experience working on gender and protection issues in humanitarian and early recovery contexts.
• Proven experience of successful capacity-building of field staff and partners.
• Technical expertise in gender and protection in humanitarian and early recovery contexts.
• Good understanding of gender issues in WASH and EFSL – with a particular emphasis on Cash Transfers, Social Safety Nets, DRR and CFW.
• Excellent communication skills, Good levels of spoken and written English.
• Good understanding of protection issues as related to conflict including IHL and key protection standards such as Sphere Protection Principles and ICRC Protection Standards.
• Commitment to a rights-based approach, gender equality and protection.
• Proven analytical and strategy development skills. Understanding of monitoring processes, learning, adaptation and evaluation.
• Ability to work in multi-cultural team.
• Willingness to work in insecure environments and a high level of adaptability and initiative.
• Good levels of spoken and written Arabic are not essential but desirable.
Experience working in conservative and/or Muslim countries desirable.
How to apply:
To find out more and apply please visit our www.oxfam.org.uk/careers and quote ref: INT6453