OXFAM
DUE: 03 MAR 2023
Climate Resilience Intern (National) (INT9372)
Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.
Oxfam is a global movement of people who are fighting inequality to end poverty and injustice. We are working across regions in about 70 countries, with thousands of partners, and allies, supporting communities to build better lives for themselves, grow resilience and protect lives and livelihoods also in times of crisis.
Because we want lasting solutions, we fight the inequalities that keep people locked in poverty and injustice, we tackle not the symptoms but the systems, and we campaign for genuine, durable change. The specific areas of work for Oxfam in Southern Africa include: Just Economies (JE); Gender Justice (GJ), Climate Justice (CJ) and Humanitarian Response.
Background
Oxfam SAF is currently implementing two Climate Change adaptation and resilience related projects under the Just Economies Thematic Area in Zimbabwe. One of the projects is the Climate Adaptation for Rural Livelihoods in Zimbabwe being implemented with financial support from SIDA over the period September 2022 to August 2025. The project promotes adaptation and resilience building measures that integrate food-climate-natural resources-biodiversity management for the direct benefit of 20,000 targeted households in four districts of Buhera, Bulilima, Gutu and Mberengwa. The project’s development objective is Enhanced and scaled-up nexus adaptation measures contributing to resilient food security, gender justice, and environmentally sustainable rural livelihoods. The objective will be achieved through three interrelated outcomes:
Increased knowledge and adoption of gendered climate-smart agricultural solutions and innovations integrated with Natural Resources Management (NRM), biodiversity protection for resilience at the household and landscape level in targeted areas:
Increased Women and Youth economic empowerment and more equitable access and control over household and community resources:
Enhanced hydro-meteorological products generation dissemination and application.
Oxfam seeks to engage a Climate Resilience and Gender Justice Intern/Fellow to provide overall support towards implementation of the project. The Intern will report to the Project Manager (PM) and shall be working closely with the other Project Management Unit (PMU) staff members.
Please see the attached job description for the full responsibilities that the Climate Resilience Intern will undertake and the required skills and competencies.
Job Type: Fixed Term, 1 year
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TO APPLY
As part of your online application, please upload your up to date CV and a covering letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.
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About us
Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.
Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries.
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It’s people power that brings about change. To play our part as a global organisation working to overcome poverty and inequality, we need equality, diversity and inclusion across our community of staff, partners and volunteers. Together, we’re committed to becoming a more diverse workforce, better able to tackle the global challenges that face our world today.
To do that:
We need to dismantle the unequal power structures that exist everywhere, this including Oxfam and the wider development and charity sectors.
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