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Oxfam is seeking the services of a consultant to develop a regional policy brief for the Asia Feminist Coalition on social protection in Asia titled "Financing Gender-Transformative Social Protection in Asia: Who Pays, Who Benefits, and How Do We Build Fiscal Justice?"

Across Asia, governments increasingly recognize the importance of social protection. However, social protection systems remain chronically underfunded, fragmented, and unable to respond adequately to the realities of women’s lives, particularly those of informal workers, unpaid caregivers, migrants, Indigenous peoples, and other marginalized communities.

This brief seeks to shift the conversation from what social protection covers to how it is financed. Fiscal policy determines whether governments have the resources and political commitment to build universal, rights-based, and gender-transformative social protection systems. Through a feminist political economy lens, the brief will examine how taxation, public expenditure, borrowing, debt management, and budgeting shape who contributes to public revenues, how resources are allocated, and ultimately who benefits from social protection.

BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT

Across much of Asia, fiscal systems continue to rely heavily on regressive consumption taxes while public revenues remain insufficient due to weak progressive taxation, generous tax incentives, illicit financial flows, and corporate tax avoidance. At the same time, rising public debt and fiscal consolidation measures have constrained investments in health, education, care services, and social protection. These policy choices disproportionately affect women, who absorb the consequences through increased unpaid care responsibilities, insecure informal employment, and reduced access to essential public services.

SCOPE OF WORK

The consultant will be responsible for researching, drafting, and finalizing a 20-page regional policy brief that analyses how fiscal policy shapes social protection financing in Asia and proposes feminist solutions for creating fiscal space to finance universal and gender-transformative social protection systems.

Essential Criteria

SCOPE OF WORK:

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Background/Programme Information:
The Women’s Integrated Sexual Health (WISH)-Dividend programme is FCDO’s flagship sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) investment in Africa, with three components: WISH2, Policy and Systems (P&S), and Evidence and Learning.

The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Lead will oversee and drive MEL across P&S, including strengthening MEL strategies, tools, and processes; overseeing progress against the programme’s logframe; supporting Country Leads to collect, quality assure, and report evidence and data; and implement the problem-driven iterative adaptation process, particularly “pause and reflect” learning sessions across countries. The MEL Lead will also serve as the key liaison with the WISH Dividend Evidence and Learning supplier to ensure alignment across the wider programme. The role reports to the Team Leader and provides oversight of any MEL-related consultants or country-level data collection inputs, as required.

Key Experience and Skills

The WPS Programme Coordinator - Palestine is responsible for the overall coordination, implementation and delivery of the WPS Programme in Palestine. The role provides strategic and technical leadership for country-level programme implementation, ensuring effective planning, partnership management, programme quality, monitoring, reporting, budget oversight and stakeholder engagement. 

Working under the supervision of the WPS Regional Programme Manager, the Coordinator ensures that programme implementation aligns with the regional WPS strategy, the programme’s Theory of Change, donor commitments and War Child’s policies and procedures. The coordinator serves as one of the primary country focal points for the WPS Programme and represents the programme with relevant national & international stakeholders, including relevant ministries and coalitions.

Your profile

Knowledge and experience:
Core Competencies
•      Excellent coordination and organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
•      Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills, with demonstrated ability to build trust and maintain productive partnerships.
•      Excellent facilitation, negotiation, mediation, and representation skills, including experience engaging with government institutions, UN agencies, donors and civil society.
•      Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including high-quality report writing and presentation skills.
•      Strong leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to work independently while fostering collaboration across diverse stakeholders.
•      Demonstrated commitment to gender equality, women’s rights, safeguarding, localisation and humanitarian principles.
•      Ability to work effectively within a matrix management structure and collaborate across multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.
•      High level of integrity, professionalism and accountability.

Education and Experience
•      Master’s degree in Gender Studies, International Development, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Political Science, Social Sciences, or another relevant field. A Bachelor’s degree combined with substantial relevant experience may be considered.
•      At least 5–7 years of progressively responsible experience managing gender, women’s rights, peacebuilding, governance, protection or related programmes in humanitarian and/or development settings.
•      Demonstrated experience working with national NGOs, women’s rights organisations and government counterparts.
•      Strong understanding of conflict-sensitive programming and gender-transformative approaches.
•      Experience working with institutional donors and managing donor-funded programmes.
•      Experience working on gender equality and women’s rights in Palestine is essential.
•      Fluency in Arabic and professional proficiency in English, both written and spoken.

Technical Competencies
•      Strong knowledge of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, including the UN Security Council WPS resolutions, National Action Plans, and gender-transformative programming approaches.
•      Demonstrated understanding of partnership-based programming, localisation, feminist leadership principles, and working with women’s rights organisations (WROs) and civil society organisations (CSOs).
•      Proven experience in programme planning, implementation, monitoring, budgeting, reporting and adaptive programme management.
•      Strong understanding of results-based management, MEAL approaches and donor compliance requirements.
•      Experience managing partnerships, and multi-stakeholder coordination processes.
•      Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities in complex and rapidly changing contexts.

Bodhi Global Analysis is a woman-led international development research consultancy established in London in 2017, with subsidiaries in Nairobi (2018), Singapore (2023), Dar es Salaam (2025), and The Hague (2026). We specialise in formative and evaluative research through participatory approaches, serving UN agencies, bilateral donors, INGOs, and regional organisations across fragile and conflict-affected contexts.

About the Role

We are recruiting a senior researcher and team leader to head our Gender, Inclusion and Protection team. This expands the remit of our existing Gender and Inclusion team to reflect growing client demand for work on gender-based violence, protection risk analysis and survivor-centred programming. We are looking for a specialist with genuine technical depth in these areas, not a generalist gender adviser.

Qualifications and Experience

Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) is the leading think tank in the United States applying quantitative and qualitative analysis of public policy through a gendered lens, and conducts and communicates research to inspire public dialogue, shape policy, and improve the lives and opportunities of women of diverse backgrounds, circumstances, and experiences. 

The Chief Financial and Operating Officer (CFOO) at IWPR will provide strategic leadership, management, planning and enhancement of IWPR’s internal financial and organizational systems and infrastructure allowing IWPR to fulfill our mission and scale our impact. This CFOO is a part of the Executive Leadership team and will oversee and direct the operations and administration of the organization with direct oversight and day-to-day engagement in Finance, People and Culture, IT, administration, and compliance. The CFOO will have a strong day-to-day leadership presence and serve as a steward of IWPR’s values, supporting high performance, staff morale, and have an unfailing dedication to producing high quality, rigorous research on the economic security of girls, women and families.

The ideal candidate is highly adaptable, strategic and operate with a strong equity lens, ensuring that this is reflected in the organization’s lived values and culture. They will have a strong “roll-up-your-sleeves” attitude, understand that difficult decisions will have to be made from time-to-time, and have experience in designing and optimizing business and operations processes and systems. They will have experience managing teams through organizational growth and change and possess a deep understanding of motivating, mobilizing and supporting staff, as well as evaluating systems and policies to increase effectiveness. The CFOO will have strong analytical capabilities, including the ability to think critically and to propose and implement change successfully.

Desired Qualifications