Gender Officer

**Note**:
**Oxfam doesn't charge any fees for recruitment and doesn't have any relationship with recruitment agencies in and outside of Yemen**
**ملحوظة**

**منظمة أوكسفام لا تفرض أي رسوم على التوظيف وليس لها اي علاقة مع وكالات التوظيف في اليمن وخارجها**

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

Oxfam is a global community that believes poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s rights 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.

**_ The Role:_**:
The Gender Officer will primarily provide technical assistance and capacity building for the response team to ensure the delivery of humanitarian assistance with strong gender mainstreaming. The post will ensure compliance to Oxfam’s GiE Minimum Standards, feminist approach, and relevant sector (inter-agency) standards.

Support the mainstreaming of gender in emergency in Oxfam's Marib Program under the supervision of Program Manager as line manager and Gender Justice Program Manager as a matrix manager.

**DIMENSIONS OF THE ROLE**
- Ability to think critically and raise issues in a timely and effective manner.
- Ability to communicate clearly as well as in eliciting clear communicating from other.
- High organized and able to adhere to work plans and schedules and self
- starting.
- Ability to facilitates the inclusion of gender aspects into all aspects of programme planning.
- Ability to facilitates programme specific research, knowledge sharing, and partnership as agreed through gender lines.

**Oxfam Yemen is looking for**
- Ability to think critically and raise issues in a timely and effective manner.
- Ability to communicate clearly as well as in eliciting clear communicating from other.
- High organized and able to adhere to work plans and schedules and self
- starting.
- Ability to facilitates the inclusion of gender aspects into all aspects of programme planning.
- Ability to facilitates programme specific research, knowledge sharing, and partnership as agreed through gender lines.

**_ What we are looking for: _**:
**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Reports to and support Program Manager on gender leadership programmatic, technical, and operational as well as ensuring gender-sensitive workplace.
- Coordinate and directly work with technical teams (WASH, EFSVL and Protection) in the operation areas to provide technical support on gender mainstreaming and guidance in delivering response programmes in line with Gender in Emergency (GiE) Minimum Standards, feminist approaches, and other Oxfam relevant policies; conduct or follow-up activities that specifically address gender issues in the different technical programmes.
- Ensure that gender is integrated into MEAL processes; setting of specific indicators for process monitoring and follow-up; advising team in getting gender-specific information through spot monitoring, Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM) and other MEAL processes.
- Contribute to reporting (e.g., situation report, donor report, project reports, etc.)
- Proactively contribute to the creation and implementation of gender-targeted actions, and ensure that projects are implemented, and budget utilized as applicable.
- Coordinate, seek technical guidance, share programmatic and strategic feedback and work with the Country Gender Justice Manager as well.
- As a focal point/representative of Oxfam on Gender in operation areas for sharing, linking, networking, lobbying, and learning with field teams, as well as Coordination, negotiation, and representation with government authorities, women rights organizations (WROs) civil society organizations, and appropriate regional clusters /sub-clusters and inter-agency coordination groups (e.g., GBV sub-cluster,) as applicable.
- Provide timely, including written feedback about gender incidents, issues, and aid-related community conflicts to the line and matrix managers an active member of Oxfam’s humanitarian response team; participate in appropriate staff meetings and planning sessions.
- Other tasks as necessary in agreement with reporting manager.

**Essential**
- University graduate in the field of gender, social sciences, development studies, community development, humanitarian, and other related fields.
- At least 2 years of experience in working on gender issues in humanitarian and development organizations.
- At least two-years relevant field experience working directly on gender in an emergency.
- Demonstrated understanding of concepts, principles, and approaches on human rights and women’s rights, gender equality, feminism, humanitarianism, and international development.
- ability to influence others to increase their knowledge and ski