Deadline: 30 November, 2020

Location: Harare, Zimbabwe

The World Vision International is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Advocacy Coordinator.

The mission of the organisation includes working with the poor, people who are oppressed and promoting human transformation.

Responsibilities

• Assist in developing policy briefs for advocacy work in World Vision Zimbabwe (WVZ) operational areas on issues of birth registration, gender and ending violence against children
• Participate in policy platforms/forums that are in WVZ’s line of work particularly on issues relating to children
• Assist and participate in formulating WVZ policies and frameworks
• Act as the organisation’s representative in all relevant national level coordination and cluster forums in support of World Vision’s advocacy agenda
• Provide support in the coordination and implementation of all WVZ advocacy, child protection and gender programmes
• Develop disability inclusion advocacy programmes to scale up interventions and policies to ensure programmes are disability friendly
• Facilitate the design, planning and implementation of World Vision advocacy campaigns
• Support area programmes in implementing and rolling out citizen voice and action
• Facilitate training and raise the awareness of the WV programming models into the CP system in collaboration with the CP unit
• Consolidate pre and post workshop reports
• Enhance monitoring of the ‘It takes a world to end violence against children’ campaign
• Coordinate participation and representation of organisation in specific national advocacy initiatives in conjunction with relevant partners
• Attend coalition and other child focused networks
• Participate in advocacy related WebEx and join the advocacy and child protection community of practice

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Law, International Relations, Politics, Social Sciences, Development Studies, Communications, Economics, or a related field
• Three years, minimum, of experience in international development in leadership role
• Demonstrate an understanding of advocacy, gender, child protection and policy issues
• Knowledge of gender mainstreaming, policy formulation, communication and child protection dynamics added advantage
• Experience in project management and the development and production of a wide array of communication materials such as publications, video segments, web, and other media
• English proficiency
• Thorough knowledge of development work
• High level computer knowledge including Microsoft Office packages
• Good interpersonal communication skills
• Qualified female applicants encouraged to apply

To apply and for more information, click here.

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