Oxfam In Africa – JUST ECONOMIES Program Support Advisor
- Senegal - Dakar
- 5 days ago
- New
Mandate duration: 12 months Start date: As soon as possible
This is a 12-month regional mandate for Oxfam in Africa based in Senegal - Dakar.
The mandate is under the Equality in Action Volunteer Cooperation Program (VCP), which takes place in 12 countries and 3 regions over an eight-year period (2020-2028). The VCP aims to increase the involvement of local partners in developing countries in inclusive, innovative, and sustainable development initiatives that will advance gender equality. Oxfam's role is to support these organizations, working with the most vulnerable and marginalized people, to claim and exercise their rights. Oxfam places the rights of women, girls, and vulnerable and marginalized people at the heart of everything we do.
Here's what your daily life will look like:
The JUST ECONOMIES (JE) program supports advocacy for the sustainable exploitation of natural resources to uphold community rights to Free Prior and Informed Consent; distribute revenues towards inclusive agricultural; educational and health outcomes and to ensure environmental preservation. These are the JE program’s investments through targeted community trainings; mentorships, knowledge generation and use of key policy moments to influence citizen demands for a sustainable and accountable natural resource sector and a Just Energy Transition (JET).
In close collaboration with Oxfam and Just Economies team members in the region of intervention, the advisor will be responsible to:
• Provide administrative program support to the Just Economies pillar in Oxfam in Africa on project conception, planning, monitoring and implementation of relevant projects on food systems, natural resource and fiscal justice.
• Support the Program Partnership team to build and maintain an up-to-date record of program partnership assessments and partnership information useful for program decisions.
• Contribute to track project report and donor requirements and support with quarterly and annual reporting to donors.
• Contribute to Just Economy pillar communications and visibility interface with Oxfam intranet and social media platforms working closely with Oxfam in Africa media team
• Collaborate with Funding Leads and support with Just Economies Oxfam Partnership Agreement (OPA) development processes.
For this mandate you must:
• Be a Canadian citizen or have permanent resident status in Canada;
• Have university or master’s degree in Administration, Project Management, Economics, Development Studies, or a related field;
• Possess 2-3 years of experience in a similar position;
• Acquire practical experience in analyzing and interpretating Statistic Data with softwares like SPSS or Stata.
• Be fluent in English, spoken and written (required), and have intermediate level in French.
• Master the Microsoft Office suite.
What we offer:
• Monthly allowance for living expenses.
20% increase in living allowance for an accompanying child (maximum of 2 children).
1,500$ CAN per year/per child for schooling.
• Monthly amount for rent;
• Round trip flight with 2 checked luggages;
Round trip flight for accompanying child(ren).
• 200$ CAD for additional luggage;
• Advantageous medical insurance for you and the accompanying child(ren);
• A volunteer support program during your mandate and up to two months after your return to Canada;
• 20 days of vacation and other holidays;
• Access to various training courses (E-Learning, etc.);
• A rewarding experience with a well-known and recognized organization.
Oxfam has a zero-tolerance policy against any behavior that violates its code of conduct, including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, as well as lack of integrity, corruption and fraud.
We thank all applicants for their interest, only those selected will be contacted. We accept applications on an ongoing basis. It is possible that this posting ends before the posted date. Please do not wait until the deadline to apply. If you are interested in the mandate, please send your application (CV and cover letter in the working language of the country: French, English or Spanish) by clicking on the button above.