Job Opportunity:Gender Justice Technical & Partnerships Coordinator (INT11701)

JOB PURPOSE

The Gender Justice Technical and Partnerships Coordinator provides advanced technical support, strategic coordination, and partner-facing leadership to strengthen Oxfam’s gender-transformative programming across the Southern Africa (SAF) Cluster.

The role is responsible for ensuring that feminist principles, gender justice frameworks, and rights-based approaches are consistently embedded across programme design, implementation, partner engagement, evidence generation, and influencing systems. Working closely with partner organisations, country teams, and the Gender Justice Programme Manager, the position ensures that gender justice programming is technically robust, strategically coherent, locally grounded, and aligned with Oxfam’s broader regional strategy and systems-change ambitions.

As the primary technical interface with partners on gender justice, the role strengthens partner capacity, programme quality, donor compliance, and integration of gender justice across thematic portfolios including climate and economic justice, humanitarian action, governance, and resilience programming. It also plays a critical function in ensuring that programme implementation, feminist analysis, evidence generation, and advocacy are effectively linked, allowing partner and community insights to shape regional policy, advocacy, and strategic positioning.

Operating without direct line management responsibility, the role requires strong technical expertise,, systems thinking, political awareness, and professional autonomy within a complex multi-country, partner-led environment. Through this function, Oxfam strengthens its capacity to deliver transformative feminist programming while advancing broader justice, inclusion, and structural equality outcomes across Southern Africa.

The role requires a high level of technical expertise, analytical capability, and the ability to operate with autonomy in a complex, multi-country, partner-led environment.

Essential Qualifications   

• Master’s degree in Gender Studies, Development Studies, Social Sciences or related discipline.
• Five (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.

Organisational Values: 

• Accountability – Our purpose-driven, results-focused approach means we take responsibility for our actions and hold ourselves accountable. We believe that others should also be held accountable for their actions.
• Empowerment – Our approach means that everyone involved with Oxfam, from our staff and supporters to people living in poverty, should feel they can make change happen.
• Inclusiveness – We are open to everyone and embrace diversity. We believe everyone has a contribution to make, regardless of visible and invisible differences

 The closing date is Thursday, 06th July 2026.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Oxfam is an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation.

If your qualifications meet the requirements, and believe in Oxfam values- please apply by visiting our website at: https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk/jobs/vacancy/gender-justice-technical--partnerships-coordinator-int11701/24868/description/