Gender Officer

 Roles and Responsibilities

• Work with the humanitarian feild teams to ensure access of women at risk to Oxfam’s response, recovery and rehabilitation work.
• Work within the PHP and EFSVL teams as a team member to better understand the gender concerns from a programmatic perspective, taking into account the needs of men, women, girls and boys.
•  Work alongside the programme teams to familiarise Oxfam’s principles and approaches to gender equality to achieve gender minimum standards, taking into consideration the local context and appropriate response.
• Build the capacity of women within the community to facilitate their participation and leadership role in emergency management.
•  Mentoring and coaching Oxfam programme teams and partner staff in gender and safe programming.
•  Lead in integrating gender into MEAL processes in operation area; setting of specific indicator for process monitoring and follow up that, advising team in getting gender specific information through spot monitoring and Post Distribution Monitoring ( PDM) process, initiate innovative documentation process to capture learning and changes, support team to get sex and gender disaggregating data.
• Maintain relationship with partners and allies among the women’s organizations, both to support them in communicating to the rest of the organization policy or other emerging issues, and to promote their participation in coordination systems at the local level
•  Act as a focal point/representative on Gender in Nepal Response by Oxfam in operation area for enhancing sharing, linking and learning process with field teams, relevant technical/thematic issues, as well as coordination with external concerned people and authority.

Skills and Competencies

• Demonstrated experience working on gender  issues in humanitarian and early recovery contexts.
• Proven experience of successful capacity-building of field staff and partners.
•  Proven skill in collecting critical information and analyse information in 1s Phase of emergency.
• Strong communication skills, Good levels of spoken and written English. Complete fluency in Nepali
•  Genuine 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 across different geographical locations, including providing remote support to field teams/partners when required.
• High level of adaptability and initiative.
• Willing to travel to remote field areas for regular support to programme teams.

This is a great opportunity for a dedicated and dynamic professional. If you believe you are the candidate we are looking for, please submit your application and CV including a day time contact by applying online at recruitment_nepal@oxfam.org.uk or G.P.O. Box 2500. Closing date: 2 August 2015.  Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organization. “Oxfam encourages women and people of ethnic minorities to apply.”