Annual Salary and Benefits: According to national salary scale
Internal Job Grade: D1
Contract type: Fixed term (12 months)
Reporting to: Gender Justice Programme Manager
Staff reporting to this post: None
Locations: Amman Office – Jordan
Annual Budget: TBC
Shaping a stronger Oxfam for people living in poverty.
Team Purpose
To achieve Oxfam vision for Gender Justice in Jordan: women and girls, in all their diversities, are
able to realize their life choices in all spheres and enjoy their rights freely and without fear in peaceful
and equal societies
Job Purpose
The Senior Gender Justice Officer will manage the project “Towards a strengthened protection
system in Jordan, specifically focusing on Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) for the most
vulnerable women and girls” in Jordan (80%), in partnership with Sisterhood is Global InstituteJordan
(SIGI). The postholder will also support Gender Justice Programme Manager in partners’
identification and coordination, programme development and project management (20%).
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Project management - 80%
• Responsible for coordinating partnership with SIGI.
• Project cycle management:
monitoring of planning and implementation with partner on bi-monthly/quarterly basis (or
to be adjusted according to needs),
1 monitoring of budget forecasting and spending with partner on bi-monthly basis (or to be
adjusted according to needs),
2. development of internal and donor reports
• Quality control over project implementation, from a GBV protection perspective:
1. coordinate with Oxfam in Jordan’s relevant colleagues in protection issues for updates
and needs,
2.keep the partner up to date of developments under the SGBV Sub-working group and
promote their participation whenever relevant,
3. ensure the consistency of communications, advocacy and actions for a survivor-centred
and quality case management approach (eg. by supporting the partner in developing
tools for quality assessment under the project’s MEAL),
4.proactively seek opportunities to liaise and establish synergies with other GBV protection
projects and to inform other initiatives under Oxfam in Jordan’s Gender Justice
programming.
• Update internal information systems at project level (e.g. OPAL).
• In cooperation with MEAL and Communication, develop case studies.
Partners Identification and coordination - 10%
• Support Oxfam Gender Justice Programme Manager in identification and assessment of new
partners
• Lead regular reviews of partner assessments in cooperation with Project Managers and other
Oxfam departments
• Keep partners log sheet to record information about partner relationship
• Coordinate with other project frameworks (e.g. PAI) to ensure alignment with partner
assessments’ outcomes
• Provide support to other Oxfam departments (e.g. Policy and Comms, MEAL) when planning
activities with partners, such as national and international advocacy events, donor visits, ad hoc
capacity building opportunities
• Familiarize partners with Oxfam partnerships principles and guidelines
Support GJ Team on Programme development - 10%
• Support project developers and funding team in working with partners during development of
project proposals.
• Provide input and support to development of new project proposals.
• When required represent Oxfam in relevant coordination groups and communities of practise
• Maintain contacts and relations with key external stakeholders involved in gender justice work
Technical Skills, Experience & Knowledge
Essential:
• Minimum five years of experience in an NGO and/or protection agency setting, including
three years in project cycle management
• Experience in working with partners
• Fluency in Arabic and English is a must (written and verbal).
• Deep knowledge of Jordan civil society landscape
• Committed to Oxfam values, including promotion of gender equality
• Experience in gender and/or protection programming in Jordan
Desirable:
• Degree or relevant practical experience in relevant discipline
• Good knowledge of relevant standards on GBV prevention/response and protection issues
in humanitarian contexts;
• Good understanding of gender issues in the development and consolidation of a national
(social) protection system;
• Proven analytical and strategy development skills.
• Understanding of monitoring processes, learning, adaptation and evaluation;
• Proven skills on drafting and preparing reports
Key Behavioural Competencies
Competencies
We have the ability to engage with diverse stakeholders in a way that leads to increased impact
for the organization. We spot opportunities to influence effectively and where there are no
opportunities we have the ability to create them in a respectful and impactful manner.
We put ‘we’ before ‘me’ and place an emphasis on the power of the collective, nurture the team
and play to the strengths of each individual. We are not concerned with hierarchical power, and
we engage with, trust and value the knowledge and expertise of others across all levels of the
organization.
We understand the importance of building relationship, within and outside the organization. We
have the ability to engage with traditional and non-traditional stakeholders in ways that lead to
increased impact for the organisation.
We are good listeners who can see where deeper levels of thoughts and tacit assumptions
differ. Our messages to others are clear, and consider different preferences.
We can explain our decisions and how we have taken them based on our organizational values.
We are ready to be held to account for what we do and how we behave, as we are also holding
others to account in a consistent manner.
- Agility, Complexity,and Ambiguity
We scan the environment, anticipate changes, are comfortable with lack of clarity and deal with
a large number of elements interacting in diverse and unpredictable ways.
We view problems as parts of an overall system and in their relation to the whole system, rather
than reacting to a specific part, outcome or event in isolation. We focus on cyclical rather than
linear cause and effect. By consistently practicing systems thinking we are aware of and
manage well unintended consequences of organisational decisions and actions.
We are able to develop a high degree of self-awareness around our own strengths and
weaknesses and our impact on others. Our self-awareness enables us to moderate and selfregulate
our behaviors to control and channel our impulses for good purposes.
We all work to effectively empower and enable others to deliver the organizations goals through
creating conditions of success. We passionately invest in others by developing their careers,
not only their skills for the job. We provide freedom; demonstrate belief and trust provide
appropriate support. We give more freedom and demonstrate belief and trust, underpinned with
appropriate support.
