Advocacy Officer – Care Connect Project (INT10451)

for Oxfam Pilipinas

Philippine Nationals Only

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

About Oxfam Pilipinas

We seek lasting change. We at Oxfam Pilipinas dream and work for a future where Filipinos are free from poverty. For more than 30 years, serving in a country where close to 27 million now live in poverty, we have relied on the power of people to carry out programs designed to achieve our shared vision. Central to our strategy is working with partners to transform the unequal power relations, structures, norms, and values that cause poverty and inequality, including gender-based violence and injustice. 

We strive to apply a feminist lens to all our analyses and actions. We seek to save lives, provide access to services, and reduce the impact of disasters, particularly on the most vulnerable and disadvantaged. We belong to the larger Oxfam family of 21 organizations networked with partners and grassroots communities in more than 90 countries. We are part of a global movement for genuine change, seeking to rid the world of the scourge of poverty, with gender justice at the core of what we do.

Job Purpose

To support the delivery of the 4-year Care Connect: Action for care workers in the Philippines Project under the Gender Justice (GJ) Portfolio of Oxfam Pilipinas based on agreed deliverables with donors and partners; to lead the development and implementation of the Care Connect Project’s research, advocacy and communications strategy, ensuring alignment with Oxfam Pilipinas’ influencing strategy. 

The objective of the Care Connect: Action for care workers in the Philippines Project is to contribute to the promotion of dignity and respect for paid and unpaid care workers, particularly women and girls in the Philippines. The project strives to contribute to the empowerment of these women and girls to exercise agency and decision-making, enabling them to lead fulfilling lives and participate equally in economic, social, cultural, and political spheres. 

Dimensions

• Work patterns will not be overly defined and will require self-motivation and judgement from the post holder. The role is variable, but with well-defined targets and/or minimum standards, and is both proactive and reactive.
• Oversight of assigned project tasks, which will include active engagements with partners, ensuring project delivery, and project-related communications.
• Diverse and context analysis of thematic agenda of projects, requiring field experience, and understanding of development work, particularly on the assigned Project.
• Problems encountered are likely to be highly diverse and complex, requiring comprehensive analysis and would need to collaborative to resolve issues or problems collectively.
• Impact and influence will cut across Oxfam’s resilience and gender justice portfolio – including humanitarian concerns, with active engagement with diverse partners from civil society, private sector, academe, and government; and working different Oxfam units/teams.
• Works in collaboration with different functional teams from the Gender Justice and Resilience Portfolio, Policy, Advocacy and Communications, ), Humanitarian Response, and Partnership Support and Operations (PSO) units.

What we are looking for: SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, ATTRIBUTES AND VALUES:

Essential

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject such as journalism, development communications, gender studies, or related discipline, with a strong emphasis on managing advocacy and influencing projects or campaigns.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in policy advocacy and campaigning, with proven capacity in building external relationships while ensuring gender justice is at the heart of campaign work.
• Well-developed understanding of development and humanitarian issues, specifically gender justice, including the promotion of the rights of paid and unpaid care workers.
• Proven capacity for quality research and policy analysis and a demonstrated track record of producing high quality evidence-based policy papers.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a highly developed ability to work in multicultural settings and with community groups of varying backgrounds, developed capacity for tact, diplomacy, and negotiation.
• Proven experience in lobbying and playing key representational roles.
• Proven experience overseeing monitoring and evaluation processes around campaign objectives that include evaluating progress toward incorporating gender justice in priorities and activities.
• Demonstrated capacity to work collaboratively in partnership with experience of working with a wide variety of partners.
• High level of influencing skills with proven ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Well-developed analytical and strategic planning skills with the ability to influence the wider country programme strategy.
• Demonstrated experience of integrating gender and diversity issues into influencing work
• Excellent communication skills with fluency in written and spoken English and Filipino
• Good people management skills with a good understanding of team development.

Desirable

• Knowledge in Do-No-Harm principles and conflict sensitivity.
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge on gender and development, women’s economic empowerment, paid and unpaid care work.
• Proficiency in designing, facilitating and documenting meetings.
• Proficiency in People Soft tools for project management; and
• Experience in basic capacity development initiatives across partner organizations.

Key Attributes

• • Ability to demonstrate collective leadership, program management, sensitivity to cultural differences and gender issues, as well as the commitment to equal opportunities.

  • Ability to demonstrate an openness and willingness to learn about the application of gender/gender mainstreaming and diversity for all aspects of development work.

  • Commitment to Oxfam’s safeguarding policies to ensure all people who come into contact with Oxfam are as safe as possible.

Organizational Values:

• Equality –  We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly and to have the same rights and opportunities.
  
• Empowerment – We acknowledge and seek to expand people’s agency over their lives and the decisions that impact them.
  
• Solidarity –  We join hands, support, and collaborate in working towards a just and sustainable world.
  
• Inclusiveness – We are open to everyone and embrace diversity. We believe everyone has a contribution to make, regardless of visible and invisible differences.
  
• 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
  
• Courage – We speak truth to power and act with conviction on the justice of our causes

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The Project Advocacy Officer will closely collaborate with the Gender Justice Portfolio Manager, and Care Connect-related posts in carrying out the following responsibilities:

Project Management:

• Leads the development and management of the over-all Care Connect Project’s advocacy, influencing and communications strategy.
• Coordinates the research components of the Care Connect Project to ensure effective implementation, including directly managing related commissions.
• Monitors paid and unpaid care work related trends and campaigns, policy initiatives at the local and national level and research within the Philippines and provides regular updates and written briefings for consumption of both internal and partner organization, in support of the promotion of dignity and respect for paid and unpaid care workers, particularly women and girls in the Philippines.
• Monitors the progress and support the performance evaluation of the Project’s advocacy and communications strategy.
• Leads the change story gathering of the Project and develop related KPs out of stories gathered.
• Supports the Gender Justice Portfolio Manager and the Project Coordinator in producing narrative reports, and collaborate with relevant partners, colleagues, technical advisors, program quality, and business development functions to ensure timely submission of high-quality reporting that complies with organizational and donor requirements.
• Supports Portfolio Manager and Project Coordinator in disseminating information on project progress and learnings and addressing challenges affecting relevant/assigned projects.
• Ensures administrative and logistics procedures are followed in all relevant activities of the program and project in close collaboration with relevant units/staff. logistics and admin officers
• Works and collaborates effectively with other key policy, advocacy, campaigns, and research units relevant to the Care Connect Project.

Other

• Required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and values as well as the promotion of gender justice and women’s rights
• Understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety and staff health and wellbeing principles
• Contribute positively to other cross-functional teams as appointed
• Perform priority organizational tasks related to his/her competencies, as may be assigned from time to time.
• Actively participates and support the implementation and tracking of the Gender Justice Portfolio workplan and ToC relative to the Care Connect Project

Contract Length: Fixed Term (June 15, 2024 – April 2028)

Your commitment to Oxfam

• Required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and values as well as the promotion of gender justice and women’s rights
• Understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety and staff health and wellbeing principles

Our values and commitment to safeguarding

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

Note: All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks.