Gender Consultant

Summary: The consultant will provide direct technical support to the Gender Justice Hub (GJH), working closely with staff to assess capacity gaps and implement a tailored capacity building plan alongside an assessment of the GJH’s responsiveness to the countries it serves and recommendations for enhancing its impact. In addition, the consultant will provide tailored support for the Syrian Voice and Accountability (Voice) project, training partner and service provider staff and conducting a gender audit of partner organisations.   Background: Oxfam Oxfam has been working in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for over five decades and over the past four decades promoting gender equality and supporting women’s right to participate and be represented in governance and decision-making structures and processes.  We are committed to putting women’s rights at the heart of everything we do.   This focus is complementary to other areas of Oxfam’s work on women’s rights and to the broader goal of Oxfam to contribute to a world without poverty. Oxfam is committed to supporting women, men and children, living in poverty, to claim their rights to sustainable livelihoods, to basic social services, to life and security, to be heard, and to an identity. Gender Justice Hub The Gender Justice Hub was established in 2009 to promote gender equality in the Middle East. Our aim is that women, in particular poor women, can realize and voice their rights, enjoy a life free from violence with mechanisms for social and legal protection, and become equal contributors in the development of their respective communities, hence breaking the cycle of violence, and exclusion.  We are implementing programmes across the Middle East on women’s leadership and political participation, access to justice, and ending violence against women.    Syrian Voice and Accountability (Voice) The Syrian Voice and Accountability (Voice) project sits within GJH. It is a 2-year project implemented in Jordan and Lebanon and funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency and the Norwegian Embassy. It aims to improve: access to quality information and services for Syrian refugees; ability of community facilitators and community groups to voice and address the needs and entitlements of Syrian refugees; level of responsiveness of national, regional and international duty bearers to the needs of Syrian refugees; and leadership capacity of Syrian women to constructively engage in development and political processes.   The project’s goal is: People affected by the Syria crisis have enhanced capacity to engage and influence increasingly responsive duty bearers and participate in decision making processes in order to have improved access to the services needed to live lives with dignity.   Objectives: For the Gender Justice Hub (GJH) To assess the capacity gaps of Oxfam staff To build Oxfam staff capacity To conduct an assessment and develop recommendations for strengthening the Gender Justice Hub and its responsiveness to the countries it serves   For Syrian Voice and Accountability (Voice)   To assess the capacity gaps of partner staff To build partner staff capacity To improve understanding of gender among service providers To conduct a gender audit of the two partner organisations and develop recommendations   Outputs: -       Assess the capacity gaps of both partner and project staff -       Develop a tailored capacity building action plan for developing Oxfam and partner staff skills and capacity, which includes recommendations for ways of working and systematic staff training plans (building on Oxfam’s existing gender material) -       Implement the capacity building action plan through workshops, mentoring, training and the development of reference guides (with some support from Oxfam Gender Advisors) -       Provide a 3-day gender training for interested service providers related to the Voice project -       Conduct a gender audit of the Voice partner organisations including recommendations -       Conduct an assessment of the Gender Justice Hub and develop recommendations for strengthening its responsiveness to the countries it serves