Oxfam

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

Do you have a Master’sdegree in Gender Studies, Development Studies, Social Sciences or related discipline?

Do you have 5 years of relevant experience in gender justice programming, feminist programme design, women’s rights, and partner-led implementation.?

Do you have proven experience in multi-country or regional systems, partner coordination, technical advisory roles, and programme integration?

If the answer is yes, then we would like to hear from you.

The Role:

Oxfam is looking for Gender Justice Technical & Partnerships Coordinator

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical Support to Gender Justice Programming (25%)

The role provides high-level technical leadership to partners and programme teams, ensuring that gender-transformative and feminist approaches are effectively designed, integrated, and delivered.

• Provide technical support across gender justice, women’s rights, feminist leadership, gender-based inequality, social norms transformation, and rights-based programming
• Strengthen application of feminist and rights-based methodologies across programme implementation.
• Provide guidance on gender analysis, intersectionality, and structural inequality.
• Ensure gender justice is effectively integrated across broader thematic areas including climate and economic justice, humanitarian action, and governance

Partner Engagement, Relationship Management & Localisation (20%)

The role serves as the primary operational and technical interface with partners on gender justice.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with partner organisations, women-led movements, and civil society actors.
• Support partners in programme implementation, technical design, problem-solving, learning, and strategic adaptation
• Facilitate communication and alignment between partners and Oxfam systems.
• Strengthen partner capacity in feminist programming, safeguarding, accountability, and compliance.

Programme Delivery, Restricted Project Support & Technical Coordination (15%)

The role contributes directly to effective programme implementation and project management.

• Support implementation of restricted projects and thematic portfolios.
• Ensure gender justice components are technically strong and strategically delivered.
• Track programme progress, deliverables, and implementation quality.
• Ensure project delivery aligns with donor commitments, technical standards, feminist principles, and organisational priorities

Evidence Generation, Feminist Analysis, Learning & Knowledge Development (15%)

The role strengthens the integration of feminist analysis and evidence into programme and influencing systems.

• Contribute to research. learning agendas, outcome documentation, gender analysis, and feminist evidence generation
• Support robust feminist analytical frameworks that inform programming and policy.
• Ensure programme evidence is systematically captured and applied.
• Strengthen learning loops between implementation, influencing, and strategic planning.

Donor Reporting, Compliance & Accountability Support (10%)

The role strengthens donor confidence and programme integrity.

• Support preparation of donor reports, updates, and technical documentation.
• Ensure gender-related outcomes, evidence, and strategic insights are clearly reflected.
• Support compliance with donor requirements, Oxfam standards, Safeguarding frameworks
• Strengthen quality of technical reporting across restricted portfoilos

Integration Across Thematic Areas, Influencing & Strategic Positioning (10%)

The role ensures gender justice is fully integrated across Oxfam’s broader programme and influencing architecture.

• Work closely with thematic teams to strengthen gender integration across all programming.
• Promote cross-thematic collaboration and coherence.
• Ensure feminist analysis informs Climate justice, Economic justice, Humanitarian action, and Governance
• Support translation of programme insights into advocacy priorities, policy recommendations, and strategic positioning
• Strengthen Oxfam’s broader regional gender justice influence.

Internal Coordination, Knowledge Sharing & Cross-Cluster Learning (5%)

The role strengthens organisational coherence and technical consistency.

• Share knowledge, technical learning, and innovation across countries and teams.
• Support internal coordination on gender justice priorities.
• Strengthen methodological consistency and programme coherence.
• Support wider organisational capacity strengthening.

What we are looking for:

We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam’s mission to end poverty and is personally aligned to our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability and inclusion in all you do.

An ideal candidate for the role will also be / have:

Essential

• Master’sdegree in Gender Studies, Development Studies, Social Sciences or related discipline.
• 5 years of relevant experience in gender justice programming, feminist programme design, women’s rights, and partner-led implementation.
• Strong technical expertise and ability to integrate programme design with influencing and policy work.
• Proven experience in multi-country or regional systems, partner coordination, technical advisory roles, and programme integration.
• Strong communication, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to build strong, credible relationships with internal and external individuals and organisations
• A high level of self-awareness, personal energy, stamina and flexibility.
• Proven experience as a team worker and demonstrably cooperative with members of other teams
• Commitment to Oxfam’s safeguarding policies to ensure all people who come into contact with Oxfam are as safe as possible.

Desirable

• Portuguese language capability
• Southern Africa regional experience
• Experience with restricted donor programming
• Knowledge of policy influencing systems
• Commitment to Oxfam’s overall aims and policies and experience of promoting gender equity and diversity and the interests of marginalized people in all aspects of Oxfam’s work
• Ability and willingness to travel regularly, at times at short notice, locally and regionally.

CORE DIMENSIONS

• Advanced technical specialist and partner-facing role
• Primary gender justice technical focal point across multiple countries
• Significant responsibility for programme quality, partner support, and thematic integration
• Supports programme delivery, evidence generation, and influencing systems
• Functions without direct line management but with strong coordination and influence responsibilities
• Requires feminist expertise, systems thinking, and political judgement
• Operates across complex, partner-led, and multi-sector environments

• Provide technical support across gender justice, women’s rights, feminist leadership, gender-based inequality, social norms transformation, and rights-based programming
• Strengthen application of feminist and rights-based methodologies across programme implementation.
• Provide guidance on gender analysis, intersectionality, and structural inequality.
• Ensure gender justice is effectively integrated across broader thematic areas including climate and economic justice, humanitarian action, and governance
• Build and maintain strong relationships with partner organisations, women-led movements, and civil society actors.
• Support partners in programme implementation, technical design, problem-solving, learning, and strategic adaptation
• Facilitate communication and alignment between partners and Oxfam systems.
• Strengthen partner capacity in feminist programming, safeguarding, accountability, and compliance.
• Support implementation of restricted projects and thematic portfolios.
• Ensure gender justice components are technically strong and strategically delivered.
• Track programme progress, deliverables, and implementation quality.
• Ensure project delivery aligns with donor commitments, technical standards, feminist principles, and organisational priorities
• Contribute to research. learning agendas, outcome documentation, gender analysis, and feminist evidence generation
• Support robust feminist analytical frameworks that inform programming and policy.
• Ensure programme evidence is systematically captured and applied.
• Strengthen learning loops between implementation, influencing, and strategic planning.
• Support preparation of donor reports, updates, and technical documentation.
• Ensure gender-related outcomes, evidence, and strategic insights are clearly reflected.
• Support compliance with donor requirements, Oxfam standards, Safeguarding frameworks
• Strengthen quality of technical reporting across restricted portfoilos
• Work closely with thematic teams to strengthen gender integration across all programming.
• Promote cross-thematic collaboration and coherence.
• Ensure feminist analysis informs Climate justice, Economic justice, Humanitarian action, and Governance
• Support translation of programme insights into advocacy priorities, policy recommendations, and strategic positioning
• Strengthen Oxfam’s broader regional gender justice influence.
• Share knowledge, technical learning, and innovation across countries and teams.
• Support internal coordination on gender justice priorities.
• Strengthen methodological consistency and programme coherence.
• Support wider organisational capacity strengthening.

• Strong technical expertise and ability to integrate programme design with influencing and policy work.
• Strong communication, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to build strong, credible relationships with internal and external individuals and organisations
• A high level of self-awareness, personal energy, stamina and flexibility.
• Proven experience as a team worker and demonstrably cooperative with members of other teams
• Commitment to Oxfam’s safeguarding policies to ensure all people who come into contact with Oxfam are as safe as possible.
• Portuguese language capability
• Southern Africa regional experience
• Experience with restricted donor programming
• Knowledge of policy influencing systems
• Commitment to Oxfam’s overall aims and policies and experience of promoting gender equity and diversity and the interests of marginalized people in all aspects of Oxfam’s work
• Ability and willingness to travel regularly, at times at short notice, locally and regionally.

• Master’sdegree in Gender Studies, Development Studies, Social Sciences or related discipline.
• 5 years of relevant experience in gender justice programming, feminist programme design, women’s rights, and partner-led implementation.
• Proven experience in multi-country or regional systems, partner coordination, technical advisory roles, and programme integration.