JOB DESCRIPTION
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Background and Description
Within the framework of "Women in politics, public administration and civil society" project (hereinafter "the WIP2.0 Project"), the core strategy focuses on women's empowerment and participation in decision-making as the key to a more inclusive society. To maintain and expand a critical mass of female leaders as local change makers, the WIP2.0 Project will mobilize the civil society organizations at the grassroots level to support the policy and practice change to enable women empowerment and participation in decision-making.
The Project will apply the participatory approach to:
- Bring the learning and expertise from the civil society actors to promote local solutions for addressing the harmful practices contributing to gender discrimination at community levels - Via local initiatives and campaigns on gender equality and women empowerment;
- Build a consolidated movement of civil society for addressing the institutional challenges and deeply rooted barriers toward a more inclusive and equal society;
- Build the capacity of civil society organizations (CSOs) on gender equality related work;
- Expand further the network of female leaders as the local change makers.
Activities engage a participatory approach and design collective solutions to address pressing issues of gender inequality and social exclusion in the society. The Project targets and engages the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups of society, focusing on women with disabilities, women from minority groups, and poor women – via direct engagement of CSOs representing these social groups, as well as ensuring their participation in the regional dialogue events.
Activities target all civil society actors - registered CSOs, activist groups, local initiatives, professional unions and media.
DESCRIPTION OF THE ASSIGNMENT
The Objective of the Assignment
To provide expert support in the areas of ethnic minority and gender equality to OxYGen in its main strategic focus under the WIP 2.0 Project in relation to gender equality, women rights and women empowerment in Armenia through strengthening the role of civil society. The assignment will focus on the topic of “Ethnic minorities: Recognizing, Empowering, and Including Ethnic Minority Women” (Promoting Equality and Inclusion, addressing challenges).
RESPONSIBILITIES
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Requested services
- Facilitate 2 policy dialogue events (one in online and one in offline formats) on “Ethnic minorities: Recognizing, Empowering, and Including Ethnic Minority Women (Promoting Equality and Inclusion, addressing challenges) with the focus on women’s representation from ethnic minorities in socio-cultural and political fields, women’s involvement in local government, identification of gaps in the legislation and their impact on gender equality, language inaccessibility, the role of CSOs in the process of empowering women, etc. The policy dialogues will host local women and ethnic minority organizations, activists, Women Taskforce members, representatives of marginalized women groups, Local Self Governments (LSGs) and key decision-makers from national and local levels, and experts to collect the evidence on the local challenges and amplify the local solutions. The 2 dialogue events will be held during the period 25 September-25 October 2023;
- Facilitate 2 Women Taskforce meetings in online format on the topic of "Ethnic minorities: Recognizing, Empowering, and Including Ethnic Minority Women (Promoting Equality and Inclusion, addressing challenges) to collect evidence on the local challenges, recommendations, and solutions, and present the outcomes of dialogue events and recommendations for validation. Parallel with policy dialogue events: 25 September-25 October 2023.
- Develop 1 policy brief on policies and practices based on the dialogue events highlighting the problems and analyzing the gaps in the field from the perspective of gender equality. The policy brief should also contain comments analyzing existing issues, recommendations and challenges. The policy brief will be bilingual and delivered by November 5, 2023;
- Facilitate 1 national-level advocacy meeting on "Ethnic minorities: Recognizing, Empowering, and Including Ethnic Minority Women (Promoting Equality and Inclusion, addressing challenges), to present the collected recommendations, gaps, challenges, and collect further recommendations during the meeting. The meeting will be held by November 10, 2023. After the meeting prepare 1 bilingual communique with finetuned recommendations and implementation roadmap;
- Provide other technical advice to the Programme Manager and Project team in identifying stakeholders and in drafting Project documents as necessary.
Deliverables
- 2 short communiques/ minutes on Women TF meetings (in Armenian and English);
- 1 policy brief: (in Armenian and English);
- 1 advocacy meeting communique (in Armenian and English);
- Materials used during the events.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
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- Familiarity with the specific challenges and dynamics related to ethnic or national minorities in Armenia or similar contexts;
- Demonstrated experience in conducting policy analysis, advocacy, and research on ethnic-minority and gender-related issues, with the ability to analyze policy issues and provide evidence-based recommendations;
- In-depth knowledge of gender equality principles and practices, including a strong understanding of gender-based discrimination and inequalities;
- Sensitivity to cultural and diversity issues, particularly as they relate to ethnic or national minority groups;
- Expertise in facilitating policy dialogues, meetings, and workshops.
APPLICATION PROCEDURES
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Applications (including CV, narrative and financial offers with detailed budget of the Assignment) can be submitted by email to:
recruitments@oxygenfund.am by CC-ing to:
kmkhitaryan@oxygenfund.am
Please clearly mention in your application letter that you learned of this job opportunity through Career Center and mention the URL of its website - www.careercenter.am, Thanks.