Overview
The Advocacy and Media Manager will support leadership, management, and strategic direction for NRC’s advocacy and communications work in South Sudan, leading or coordinating the delivery of the advocacy strategy and media plans. The role ensures that NRC’s operational evidence, protection analysis, and humanitarian positioning effectively influence policy, funding, public discourse, and decision-makers.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify and coordinate NRC’s advocacy response to prioritised issues.
- Develop and implement an impactful advocacy and communications strategy.
- Develop CO media plan and lines, ensuring risk analyses are made.
- Ensure systematic training on advocacy and communication.
- Develop high quality analysis and prepare evidenced-based policy briefing papers.
- Represent NRC to key stakeholders and in main fora.
- Liaise with other NRC Offices to coordinate the strategic delivery of advocacy messaging.
- Ensure coherence between NRC South Sudan’s advocacy and programmatic priorities.
- Strategically and ethically raise issues and voices of displaced people.
- Increase accountability of NRC South Sudan through providing regular and consistent information publicly.
- Contribute to Country Office and Area Office analyses with a policy lens.
- Coordinate and monitor implementation and impact of NRC South Sudan advocacy and media plans.
- Prepare high quality briefings, reports, press statements, letters, and other communications materials.
- Gather and analyse primary data, evidence, testimony, and visual stock.
- Focus capacity development and transfer of responsibilities to South Sudanese advocates.
- Support coordination fora on specific advocacy plans, objectives, or products.
- Support as an on-record, public spokesperson on agreed talking points.
- Support with off-record information provision to trusted persons.
- Support facilitation and/or accompaniment of external media personnel visits.
- Support resource mobilisation efforts, brand recognition, and project visibility requirements.
- Support the crisis management team with crisis communications capacity.
- Support the HAS management and area management teams with communications input.
Required Experience
- Minimum five years of relevant experience within the humanitarian field or international media/organisations.
- Relevant experience in advocacy, communications, media, or humanitarian policy.
- Experience working in complex and insecure contexts, preferably in South Sudan or the Horn of Africa.
- Strong understanding of humanitarian coordination architecture and donor environments.
- Proven experience engaging media and managing sensitive external communications.
- Experience producing high-level advocacy products and policy analysis.
- Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
- Documented professional experience of working in or with international media.
- Strong managerial and interpersonal skills.
- Minimum 5 years of experience from a senior level project implementation position in a humanitarian/recovery context.
- Experience with providing emergency and/or protracted-crisis Shelter assistance in rural and urban contexts.
- Experience undertaking projects through cash and vouchers.
- Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile.
- Knowledge of international legal and policy processes and instruments relating to displacement, protection, peace/conflict, and humanitarian action.
- Aptitude to think creatively and boldly, to engage (potentially hostile) protection and access advocacy targets.
- Experience with humanitarian protection programmes and humanitarian policy and advocacy.
Qualifications
• Post-graduate
