Overview
The P3 Advocacy and Communication Specialist is accountable for coordinating, implementing, monitoring and evaluating advocacy and communication strategies to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people.
Key Responsibilities
- Advocacy strategy development
- Advocacy strategy implementation
- Communication strategy development and implementation
- Digital communications
- Media relations
- Advocacy and communication M&E
- Project and budget management
- Advocacy and communication capacity building
- Stakeholder engagement
- Partnerships and Resource Mobilization
- Others
Required Experience
- At least five (5) years of progressively responsible and relevant professional work experience in advocacy/ campaigning and communications is required.
- Experience in leading the development and implementation of advocacy strategies, with clear theories of change, with specific, measurable and timebound objectives and performance indicators.
- A track record of achieving or contributing to tangible policy change.
- Proven experience in deploying a range of advocacy and communication tactics based on a clear theory of change.
- Experience in building and maintaining a network of stakeholders, and in working with coalitions.
- Experienced and current in digital and social media content and audience trends as well as in managing online platforms and channels.
- Experience in media relations.
- Strong communicator with emphasis on being able to present complex policy ideas in succinct, engaging ways through campaign narratives and creative tactics.
- Demonstrated experience in design and management of projects, including budget management and monitoring and evaluation of results.
- Knowledge of children’s rights, public policy, international development and humanitarian issues.
Qualifications
An Advanced University degree in Public Policy, Political Science, International Relations, International Development, Public Administration, Economics, Communication or other relevant fields.
