Advocacy Manager (Somalia)

Region East Africa & Yemen, Norwegian Refugee Council

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The Advocacy Manager provides overall leadership, management and strategic direction to NRC’s policy and advocacy work for Somalia. The role is responsible for identifying factors driving Somalia’s humanitarian crisis for public and private advocacy, produce advocacy materials for policy, research, analysis and guidance for the NRC global network for internal and public purposes, strengthening the incorporation of advocacy into all aspects of NRC’s activities in-country and guiding NRC’s advocacy messaging to promote an improved protection and humanitarian response environment in Somalia. The role envisages working closely with the NRC Somalia team.

Application deadline: 30.10.2020

Employer: Norwegian Refugee Council

Town/city: Mogadishu

Title: Advocacy Manager

Full-time/part-time: Full-time

Employment type: Contract

Percentage of full-time: 100

Webcruiter ID: 4301129533

Positions: 1

Duties and responsibilities

• Identify and analyse key drivers of Somalia humanitarian crisis to help inform a strategy geared at improving the humanitarian situation
• Actively engage with NRC’s programmes teams to understand operational challenges and ensure all advocacy products are grounded in NRC’s operational experience
• Ensure the provision of high-quality analysis on the humanitarian situation pertaining to displacement-affected communities, contributing to improved NRC programmatic response and informing internal and external advocacy products
• Prepare high-quality briefings, letters and other written materials for internal and external use, ensuring strong evidence-base in messaging and following agreed sign-off procedures
• Lead NRC Somalia media and communications work to highlight humanitarian needs by developing products for social and traditional media and acting as a spokesperson as required
• Ensure that relevant NRC Country Offices and departments (Field Operations, External Relations, Partnership & Policy) are informed and briefed on factors driving the crisis, NRC’s programmatic response and steps that should be taken to address emergency needs
• Engage actively with other humanitarian and advocacy organisations involved in the response, including through in-country coordination mechanisms and by way of information sharing and the development of joint strategies or products
• Support programme staff in incorporating and integrating advocacy into all aspects of NRC’s programme activities, strategy and budgeting
• Revise and update the NRC Country Office advocacy strategy as necessary and draft and deliver necessary reporting documents, including Advocacy Key Messages, the country factsheet and other items as required
• Seek fundraising opportunities for advocacy and contribute to the development of quality proposals, ensuring inclusion of research and/or advocacy activities on specific humanitarian and protection issues affecting displacement-affected populations where appropriate

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Qualifications

Generic professional competencies for this position:

• Post-graduate degree in relevant and related field
• Minimum 5 years of relevant Manager/Adviser experience within the humanitarian field
• Experience working in complex and volatile contexts
• Professional knowledge about protection principles and advocacy, and the use of media for public advocacy
• Highly-developed research and analysis skills
• Strong verbal and written communications and influencing skills