KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (Technical, Leadership, People and Resource management)

Key Responsibilities:

Research and Analysis

• Conduct in-depth research to understand the barriers and enablers for local women’s leadership in humanitarian decision-making in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and Palestine. This should be done at the country level and involve multiple stakeholders and a desk review.
• Develop high-quality, evidence-based research paper for publication, and reports that highlight the importance of local women’s participation in leadership roles within the humanitarian sector.
• Provide actionable recommendations for integrating more local women into decision-making roles in the humanitarian response, ensuring their voices are heard at every level of crisis management.

Facilitation and Capacity Building

• Lead and facilitate workshops and dialogues focused on empowering local women to take up leadership positions in humanitarian response and decision-making processes at country level, in OPT, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon and at regional level
• Ensure that these facilitation processes are participatory, inclusive, and designed to build local women’s confidence and skills in leading humanitarian efforts.

Advocacy and Policy Influence

• Lead advocacy campaigns and initiatives that promote the inclusion of local women in leadership and decision-making roles in humanitarian action.
• External engagement with Donors, think tanks, and all other stakeholders
• Work closely with Oxfam's regional teams and partners to ensure the integration of gender equality and women’s leadership into Oxfam’s regional humanitarian strategies.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with key regional and international stakeholders, including UN agencies, government officials, local organizations, and other humanitarian actors, to influence policy changes that increase local women’s participation in decision-making.
• Engage with multiple stakeholders within Oxfam and Externally to coordinate and lead a lobby tour at capitol level, based on the evidence gathered at country level on women’s leadership in humanitarian response.

Regional Event Coordination

• Coordinate and facilitate a regional event focused on amplifying local women’s leadership in humanitarian contexts, providing a platform for local women leaders to share experiences and strategies.
• Ensure the event is designed to foster collaboration, learning, and is a safe space
• Oversee the event logistics, ensuring that it aligns with Oxfam’s mission to elevate local women’s voices and contribute to sustainable, gender-sensitive humanitarian leadership.

Monitoring, Reporting, and Documentation

• Track and monitor progress on initiatives aimed at increasing women’s participation in decision-making within humanitarian contexts.
• Prepare comprehensive reports for donors, partners, and internal stakeholders on the outcomes and impact of research, advocacy, and capacity-building activities.
• Document key lessons learned, success stories, and challenges related to local women’s leadership in humanitarian response and share findings within Oxfam and the wider humanitarian community.
• Support qualitative and quantitative Monitoring and Evaluation efforts for the regional project.