Overview
The Advocacy Manager will be rapidly deployed to support response teams in developing and implementing a humanitarian-response advocacy work-stream. The role acts as the global lead on humanitarian-response advocacy, managing all advocacy initiatives and representing the organisation externally.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead on the rapid development and implementation of a short-term humanitarian advocacy strategy (3 to 6 months).
- Manage all advocacy initiatives in close coordination with relevant teams and stakeholders.
- Support the Country Director / Team Leader in high-level advocacy.
- Ensure all advocacy messages, documents and strategies are evidence-based and authorised.
- Work with communications and media colleagues to ensure advocacy messaging is integrated.
- Work with members to develop and implement advocacy workplans.
- Lead drafting or support the production of advocacy messaging and policy briefs.
- Work closely with programmes and MEAL teams to generate evidence on the impact of the crisis on children.
- Carry out advocacy capacity-building with Country Office staff, as needed.
- Support or lead the development of an advocacy risk assessment.
- Provide information and analysis to the HAWG and other interested parties.
- Represent Save the Children at appropriate country-level working groups and forums.
Required Experience
- Prior experience working in an emergency response contexts or fragile states
- Significant prior experience working in advocacy on humanitarian issues, child rights, human rights, or development issues, preferably in emergency response contexts or fragile states
- Experience of influencing and advocacy work including lobbying, policy development and information provision in humanitarian issues at national, regional and/or international level
- Excellent skills in advocating towards government officials, humanitarian actors and UN agencies in developing countries
- Experience of and strong skills in developing and implementing humanitarian advocacy strategies
- Good attention to detail
- Extensive knowledge of child rights and international humanitarian law
- Understanding of UN and donor operations at country level and humanitarian response-planning cycles
- High-level analytical and strategic thinking skills and strong research skills
- Cultural awareness and ability to build relationships quickly with a wide variety of people
- Patience, adaptability, flexibility, and ability to improvise and remain responsive and to communicate clearly and effectively under pressure
- Excellent planning, management and coordination skills, with the ability to organise a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities
- Strong communication (written and spoken), and interpersonal skills in English, with experience in managing multicultural teams
- Strong leadership skills with an ability to seek people’s views while also taking responsibility to determine the most appropriate course of action and to act decisively
- Experience in working with other NGOs and coordinating inter-agency advocacy activities, strategies and products
