Advocacy Manager NGO Jobs – Norwegian Refugee Council
Organisation: Norwegian Refugee Council
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Job Grade: 9
About US:
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water, sanitation and hygiene sectors.
Job Summary: The Advocacy Manager provides overall leadership, management and strategic direction to NRC’s policy and advocacy work in Uganda. S/he is responsible for identifying priority protection concerns for advocacy, strengthening the incorporation of advocacy into all aspects of NRC’s activities and guiding NRC’s advocacy messaging to promote an improved protection and humanitarian response environment in Uganda.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Advocacy activities related to urban refugees and protection programming
- Develop messages and products related to outcomes of community based protection analysis
- Ensure the provision of high quality analysis on the humanitarian situation pertaining to displacement-affected, contributing to improved NRC programmatic response and informing internal and external advocacy products
- Support programme staff in incorporating and integrating advocacy into all aspects of NRC’s programme activities, strategy and budgeting
- Actively network with other organizations involved in the response, and lead on development of joint field-based advocacy and positions towards target audiences
- 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
- Identify and coordinate NRC’s advocacy response to prioritized protection issues both within the country and internationally
- Develop and implement country-specific advocacy strategy, aligned to overall country strategy
- Line management, including development of staff if applicable
- 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
- Liaise with other NRC Country, Regional and Global Representation Offices to coordinate the strategic delivery of advocacy messaging and to maximize impact
- 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
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal applicant must hold a University degree 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
- Solid understanding of international legal and policy processes relating to displacement
- Fluency in English, both written and verbal
- Handling insecure environments
- Strategic thinking
- Empowering and building trust
- Working with people
- Initiate action and change
- Analyzing
Travel: 25% within Uganda
How to Apply:
All candidates are strongly encouraged to apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 20th December 2019