Gender Advisor

The post is to be based in Yangon and opened to Myanmar Nationals but advertised globally.

ü  Are you a passionate gender justice champion? Do you believe that equality between men and women is a condition to achieve a more fair and prosperous Myanmar?

ü  Are you looking forward to working for a global organisation that has its roots in the communities and works for local partners and women`s groups?

ü  Are you a Myanmar native with the desire to contribute to the development of your country and well being of both women and men?

This position is for you! As you embrace the challenges of this position, you will benefit from the support of the leadership team as well as experts gender advisors from our regional of global office, and will have the privilege to work with many like minded team members.

The role:                                               The purpose of the Gender Adviser position is to ensure the effective promotion of gender equality and non-discrimination on the basis of gender across all Oxfam programmes. This will be done by working with all Oxfam teams, our partners, networks and beneficiaries and other stakeholders by facilitating coordinating, training and advocating on women’s rights and gender issues.

Level:                                                    National, C2

Employment term:                             Fixed-Term (1Year) – Flexibility in working hours

Report to:                                             Country Director

Staff reporting to this post:             None

What we offer:                                    Respectful and empowered working environment,Life insurance, Medical+ dental + optical benefits,Competitive salary and Career advancement opportunities,Generous leave entitlement

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Identify and analyze gender issues across all programmes and developing strategies for gender equality programming in both developmental and the humanitarian programmes and build the capacity of Oxfam and partner staff to do the above.
• Provide technical support on gender issues to all programmes and partners, contextualise and make complex technical information accessible and useable by non-specialists.
• Actively develop networks and partnerships with internal and external actors (including CBO, NGO, INGO, UN, Gender Equality Network etc.) as well as representation and coordination at national and to some extent regional/ state level.
• Facilitating and supporting the integration of gender perspectives in the overall strategic planning, needs assessments and programming of various sectors.
• Support the country leadership and management team’s advocacy activities with Government and donors on gender equality and women’s rights
• Ensuring quality inclusion of these issues in all proposals, identifying how to build evidence of change for shared learning.
• Supporting the collection and analysis of sex- and age-disaggregated data and work with the Programme Quality Team in assisting sectoral teams in setting up or adapting existing monitoring systems to monitor the progress in gender mainstreaming
• Providing on-going mentoring to the gender specific positions and convene a gender group for cross learning and sharing, capacity building and joint activities such as exchange visits and programmes

SKILLS AND COMPETENCE:

• Higher education in social sciences, women and gender studies, or related humanities field with a focus on gender equality and women`s rights/empowerment.
• Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible experience in women-specific and gender issues, gender planning, gender analysis, gender mainstreaming and promotion of gender equality at national and regional levels, including in the critical area of conflict recovery;
• Knowledge and expertise relating to integrating gender equality considerations into humanitarian, recovery, return, resettlement policies and programs.
• Knowledge of and working experience of protection issues
• Experience in working with government, donors, and civil society.
• Experience in capacity assessment, identifying issues and planning capacity building processes.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate complex information to a wide range of audiences.
• Ability to travel extensively including to remote area.
• Proven track record on working with policy makers and legislatures.

Closing date:                                      16th July 2014, 5:00 PM

How to apply:                                     Please state applied position in email subject line and send to

Human Resources Department through myanmarhr@oxfam.org.uk

(OR)

Oxfam office, Lanmadaw Plaza, Tower A- #02-01, #02-02, Tower B- #02-01, Corner of Lanmadaw Street and Mahabandula Road, Latha Township 11131, Yangon, Myanmar.

Phone: +95 (0)1 378794 to 96 and 379 936

Detail and complete job profile is available upon request.

We regret that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.