Project Advisor (Gender) at Oxfam Nigeria

Oxfam is an international confederation of 17 independent aid and development organisations networked together to fight poverty and injustice around the world. Working with partners and local communities in more than 90 countries, the mission of Oxfam is a just world without poverty. With a conviction that people are well capable of building a life devoid of poverty on their own once given the chance to do so, Oxfam works with partners on projects in developing countries, lobbies companies and governments to take into account the interests of the poorest people and campaigns to ensure men and women are involved in decisions on issues that affect their lives. In Nigeria, Oxfam’s focus areas are Economic Justice/Livelihoods, Humanitarian Programming, Gender Justice / Female Leadership and Good Governance, adopting a rights-based approach. The overarching goal is to enable people exercise their rights and manage their own lives.

Oxfam in Nigeria with funding support from Global Affairs Canada (GAC) is implementing a five year Livelihoods and Nutrition Empowerment (LINE) project in Bauchi State. The project is aimed at improving the livelihoods for 10.000 poor and vulnerable households through increased farm productivity, enhanced market access, better nutrition and a more enabling environment for business development in 6 LGAs in Bauchi state.

We are recruiting to fill the vacant position for the LINE Project:

Job Title: Project Advisor (Gender)

Location: Bauchi

Main Tasks

• Provide advice and support to the Project Manager and the Technical Advisors working within the respective field offices in the Implementation of the key gender components across the LINE Project.
• Develop a comprehensive Gender Strategy for the LINE project and provide technical support to the project team to ensure gender mainstreaming in all activities in line with the strategy.
• Provide specialist advice on gender sensitive planning and mainstreaming to all Project advisors – Market based Agricultural Livelihoods, Nutrition Services, Private sector and Rural Financial Services and other staff.
• Support, coach, mentor and advice 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 LINE project
• Networking and coordination with key stakeholders to ensure the promotion of gender equality in the project locations and across the state.
• Represent LINE 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 LINE project including generating success stories related to project and project developments as they relate to gender equality issues to feed into the linking and learning objectives of Oxfam.
• Provide assistance in data collection, compiling lessons learned, establishing indicators to support knowledge sharing. Support in updating and sharing with staff recent developments and knowledge tools in the areas of interventions.
• Analyze 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 supervisor.
  

Education and Relevant Experience

• Bachelor Degree in Gender studies, Law, Political Sciences, Social Sciences or related fields with minimum of three years relevant experience of working in Northern Nigeria in gender related projects.
• 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 LINE project
• Experienced in generating new ideas and approaches, researches best practices and proposes new, more effective ways of promoting gender equality in patriarchal communities and especially in Northern Nigeria
• Contributes to results through primary research and analysis
• Maintains an established network within the gender community for general information sharing and to remain up-to-date in new developments
• Able to formulate written information clearly and persuasively
• Establishing effective client relationships
• Possesses a proactive, problem solving and result oriented attitude.
• Good reporting and writing skills.
• Excellent computer skills and office software packages.
• Fluency in written and spoken English and Hausa language.

Application Closing Date
2nd June, 2016

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's and Motivational Letter in English to: [email protected]

Note: Applications sent to the enquiry e-mail will be disqualified