Advocacy Manager Afghanistan Kabul

Contract

This is a Professional contract, Grade 9 (NRC) contract. More about Professional contract, Grade 9 (NRC) contracts.

NRC Afghanistan is looking for advocacy manager to provide overall leadership, management and strategic attention to NRC’s policy and advocacy work in Afghanistan. This is an influential and senior role in the Afghanistan country programme and is critical to positioning NRC as a leading agency in Afghanistan with the media, policymakers, and governments, as well as working with the NGO and humanitarian community to maximize the impact of NRC’s advocacy to bring about positive change for the people of Afghanistan

Afghanistan faces a looming humanitarian catastrophe with half its population in need of humanitarian assistance and one-third acutely food insecure as the country faces the fallout of decades of conflict, an ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, drought, and an economy in freefall following the Taliban’s rapid return to power. Displacement trends are shifting across the country, including ongoing and secondary displacement, protracted displacement, and returns. Afghans are also likely to continue seeking protection and asylum in neighboring countries. Amidst this crisis, humanitarian organizations face significant operational constraints that limit our ability to scale-up to respond to ongoing and worsening needs.

HEAT Training is mandatory to join the role

Role and responsibilities

• Develop and implement country-specific advocacy strategy, aligned to overall country strategy
• Ensure advocacy coherence and reinforce effective synergies between programmes and advocacy by working closely with programme staff to integrate advocacy into programme planning and implementation.
• Ensure systematic training on advocacy and communication and build capacity of technical staff
• Provide high quality protection analysis on key humanitarian and displacement trends and prepare evidenced-based policy briefing papers, policy position statements and other public-facing advocacy products when strategic and relevant
• Advise on media lines and media strategy, ensuring potential risks associated with NRC’s positions are assessed and sign-off procedures are adhered to
• Represent NRC to key stakeholders, strengthen strategic advocacy networks and identify opportunities to advocate NRC’s position
• Ensure the provision of up to date analysis on the humanitarian situation pertaining to displacement-affected populations, contributing to improved NRC programmatic response and informing internal and external advocacy products.
• Oversee and direct the delivery of high-quality communications outputs to support identified programme-led advocacy goals and objectives.
• Support programme staff in incorporating and integrating advocacy into all aspects of NRC’s programme activities, strategy and budgeting.
• 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
• Revise and update the NRC Country Office advocacy strategy as necessary and draft and deliver necessary reporting documents, including Advocacy Key Messages.

Competencies

• Post-graduate with minimum 5 years of relevant Manager/Adviser experience within the humanitarian field
• Professional knowledge about protection principles and advocacy, and the use of media for public advocacy
• Strong managerial and interpersonal skills
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal
• Solid understanding of policy processes relating to forced displacement, migration and humanitarian response framework
• Documented/proven results related to the position’s responsibilities, particularly in analysis, drafting of messages, coordination and networking
• Understanding of regional refugee and internal displacement relevant to the Afghanistan context

We are also looking for people who share our values:

• To be dedicated in what we do;
• To be innovative with our solutions;
• To act as one unified and inclusive team;
• To be accountable to the donors that make our work possible; the people we exist to serve; and to each other… the members of our NRC family.

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