Overview
The Advocacy Manager supports leadership, management, and strategic direction for NRC’s advocacy and communications work in Mozambique, focusing on humanitarian diplomacy and principled humanitarian action.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify and coordinate NRC’s advocacy response to prioritized issues.
- Develop and implement an impactful advocacy and communications strategy.
- Line management of advocacy and media team.
- Ensure systematic training on advocacy and communication.
- Develop high quality analysis and prepare evidenced-based policy briefing papers.
- Represent NRC to key stakeholders and strengthen strategic advocacy networks.
- Liaise with other NRC offices to coordinate strategic delivery of advocacy messaging.
- Ensure coherence between advocacy and programmatic priorities.
- Develop strategy and action plan for humanitarian diplomacy in Mozambique.
- Support coordination fora on specific advocacy plans.
- Contribute to Country Office and Area Office analyses with a policy lens.
- Prepare high quality briefings, reports, press statements, letters, and other communications materials.
- Gather and analyse primary data, evidence, testimony, and visual stock.
- Support facilitation and/or accompaniment of external media personnel visits.
- Support HSS management and area management teams with communications input.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5 years of experience from working as an Advocacy Adviser/Manager in a humanitarian/development context.
- Professional experience and knowledge of forced migration law and policy.
- Communications management, including internal communications and communicating with communities.
- Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.
- Experiencing planning and overseeing communications and media planning.
- Good knowledge of the Mozambique context.
- Experience from work on Humanitarian Diplomacy an advantage.
- Experience with humanitarian protection programmes and humanitarian policy and advocacy.
Qualifications
• Bachelor degree in Political Sciences, Journalism, Law, or any other relevant field.
