Deadline: 25 March, 2021

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Save the Children International (SCI) is seeking to fill the role of Regional Advocacy and Campaigns Manager.

The organisation works to ensure children around the world get health care, food and shelter as well as learning and child protection services.

Responsibilities

• Support efficient and effective implementation of advocacy and campaigns plans in East and Southern Africa
• Track and support the development and implementation of campaign strategies that will engage the public to influence governments and other institutional policies and practice
• Provide support to Save the Children country offices in the development and implementation of their campaign and popular mobilisation plans
• Build the capacity of all staff and partners involved in national and regional advocacy
• Support and feed the global lobby and advocacy activities and ensure collaboration with the global lead on lobby and advocacy, the Dutch advocacy lead and the CSO mutual capacity support on lobby and advocacy, as well as with the communication lead
• Collaborate with communities, community-based organisations and civil society organisations in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Mali, South Sudan and Uganda from 2021–2025

Requirements

• Bachelor or master’s degree in a related field
• Seven years, minimum, of experience in advocacy leadership at a senior level 
• Practical experience of building networks and engaging with coalitions
• Experience of campaigning for/with children with understanding and experience of how to connect children’s issues with public opinion and actions
• Experience in handling public campaign for a corporate or an NGO, with a proven record in successfully leading the development and implementation of successful advocacy and campaign strategies to achieve policy and normative change
• Highly developed analytical writing skills and ability to analyse complex data, summarise and communicate them in ways that are accessible to a range of audiences from different cultural backgrounds
• Excellent training, facilitation, and team-building skills
• Knowledge of the regional institutions and the way they function
• Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mindsets
• Fluency in written and spoken English (essential)
• Skills in other languages will be a plus
• A high level of computer literacy

To apply and for more information, click here.

Photo source: Save the Children