Advocacy & Campaign Manager Location: [Africa] [Chad] Town/City: Ndjamena Category: Advocacy Job Type: Fixed term, Full-time Purpose of position: To provide leadership in Advocacy and coordinate design and implementation of campaigns at the local and National levels for Word Vision Chad. Facilitate external engagements with different stakeholders and build capacity of key development partners to mainstream campaign interventions and ensure linkages with World Vision Chads strategic Objectives. Keys responsabilities: Advocacy Co-ordination/Integration-Internal Ensure that advocacy is implemented effectively as a ministry area and is integrated across other ministry areas including Ministry Quality, Humanitarian & Emergency Affairs (HEA) and Gender. Support ADPs in development and implementation of Programme-policy initiatives such as CVA integration. Co-ordinate advocacy initiatives on strategic issues that affect multiple ADPs and the NO.ie ITAW Campaigns, and CVA Develop and implement a comprehensive advocacy integration skills development plan for all
staff and partners including youths and children. Advocacy Implementation Plan and strategic leadership Develop and implement a national Advocacy and External Engagement Implementation Plan, a framework for advocacy initiatives that contributes to achieving targets in the overarching NO Strategy. Provide strategic leadership and coordination in situations requiring urgent advocacy action within the NO ;such as the ITAW Campaigns, CVA and humanitarian advocacy Provide policy direction to the NO including models and messages for evidence based policy influencing at multi level Develop and facilitate Children and Youth Network development and engagement plan. Maintain current understanding of the political and policy context Lead National Efforts at influencing government at local and national level to implement the relevant SDGs related to CWB outcomes and the IT takes a World to end violence against children campaign. Capacity enhancement and advocacy support to ADPs Model best advocacy practice in the NO through Advocacy knowledge management and best practice. Promote the effective and meaningful participation of WV in functioning and vibrant national networks in the area of advocacy & campaigning for children in the country Oversee the replication of emerging advocacy good practices across ADPs and at national level Represent WV Chad in national and international high level events related to global, regional and national advocacy and campaign themes.
Public Co-ordination External Develop and maintain an external engagement framework to ensure that WV is recognized as strategic partner for government, UN agencies and civil society organizations Provide support to the ND in directly engaging senior government officials including parliamentarians, policymakers, the UN agencies and Civil Society Organizations in Chad in critical issues including the post MDG processes and community Resilience building in Chad Support National Director and leadership team in engaging external individuals /institutions towards the development and implementation of child well being strategic relationships Leading & supporting others Provide empowering and influential leadership to PR, CVA and CHN Advisors in the following manner: Review and provide valuable feedback in their various strategies, performance objectives,work plans and key reports (annual program report, child wellbeing report, national advocacy annual report, newsletters) Provide hands -on support in key advocacy moments and programmatic for CP, Campaign and Gender capacity development processes at various levels Resolve team difficulties Promote innovation and organizational learning Facilitate team work Engage and motivate staff Promote reflective practice
Facilitate action learning and reflection Resource mobilization Work collaboratively with the RAM unit to support programs and WV partnership in mobilizing human and financial resources for advocacy and campaign purposes Assemble data for the purposes of resource acquisition, donor engagement National advocacy annual report production. Ensure that an effective and operational national advocacy data collection mechanism is in place Leads periodic review (every six month) of advocacy data from the local and national including CVA Data Share recommendations and conclusions for national, regional and global audiences Use programme data to enhance advocacy work Provide leadership for the campaign strategy Lead the development and implementation of World Vision Chads campaigns starting with but not limited to It takes a World to End Violence Against Children Review NO Strategies and policies and ensuring that campaign issues are embedded and work closely with technical teams to ensure alignment with NO strategy
Ensure that WV Chads campaign contribute to the achievement of the National Office\s Strategic Objectives Coordinate and ensure synergy in all campaigns in the national office (WASH, Education, economic development and livelihood). In liaison with Advocacy Manager mobilize supporters and develop policy statements and undertake appropriate advocacy tactics that will contribute to the realization of WV Chads Strategic objectives Support DME and ADP Managers to design and monitor outputs and evaluate outcomes of campaigns Proactively enhance learning, innovation and knowledge management around campaigns Produce knowledge management materials including child-led advocacy or community change projects, campaign fundraising and WV Mali image branding Identify and build networks of children from the AP to National levels for the purposes of amplifying their voice on issues that affect their wellbeing. Capacity Building Build capacity of all technical leads to undertake policy analysis and develop policy products for their respective sectors Build capacity of children, other vulnerable groups, Community Based Organizations, local government agencies and other service providers to implement campaign and advocacy interventions.
Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) Qualifications: Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience Masters degree in development studies, social sciences, social Sciences, or related field. At least, three (3) years of relevant professional experience including development and implementation of Child protection, advocacy or campaign strategies, within the country Proven experience to facilitate networks and institutional learning Excellent training and coaching delivery skills Experience of working with local, international and social media for campaigning and advocacy purposes Management of organizational relations to with other organizations through networking and alliances. Representational experience at national and international level. Strong competencies to plan, prioritize, and ability to deliver to tight deadlines and budgets Strong negotiation, facilitating and influencing skills; demonstrated skills to present in public Excellent writing and editing skills fluent in English, and in French Travel requirements this position entails a minimum of 30% travel both within and outside the NO.