Avis de recrutement : Save the Children recrute un.e Responsable de la défense des intérêts, des campagnes, de la communication et des médias à Sri Lanka.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Role Dimensions: (e.g., complexity, relationships, communication with stakeholders)

  • Strategic oversight, technical expertise, management of key direct reports with focus on advocacy and policy interventions.
  • Work within Development and Humanitarian context and child rights programming.
  • Represent country office externally, external networking, 360º engagement with all teams in country office and, regional and global team.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY

Strategy and Planning

  • Lead ACCM functions to deliver country strategic plan while also design, develop, and execute the country ACCM strategy.
  • Strengthen Save the Children Sri Lanka’s representation and positioning for influencing and public mobilization.
  • Facilitate child and youth engagement to create space for them and amplify their voice publicly and also in policy discourse at sub-national, national, regional and global level.

Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns

  • Lead strategic advocacy and policy voice for Save the Children Sri Lanka, working closely with program and humanitarian teams.
  • Provide leadership to ACCM team to drive impactful campaigns for programmatic integration and policy linkages through active engagement of the supporters and stakeholders including public.
  • Ensure cascade of monitoring and measurement mechanisms for advocacy and campaign with strong integration of evaluation and learning mechanisms and tools.
  • Support Country Office advocacy risk assessments for the activities and objectives encompassing both development and humanitarian advocacy.

Media and Communications

  • Provide leadership for strengthening SCI branding in the domestic and international market to support campaign as well as diversify and mobilize resources.
  • Lead on relationship building with the media and other key stakeholders critical for our branding.
  • Manage media engagement strategy, including proactive and reactive, especially in line with advocacy and campaign priorities.

People Management

  • Ensures appropriate ACCM structure across the CO ensuring appropriate gender and diversity.
  • Makes sure that all staff understand their responsibilities and have clearly defined performance objectives including plans and activities to develop their professional capacities.
  • Encourage a team culture of learning, creativity, and innovation.

Country Office Leadership and Representation

  • Represent ACCM during SMT meetings, regional and global meetings.
  • Represent Save the Children at appropriate country-level working groups.
  • Support the Country Director, Director PDQ and other relevant Country Office staff in high-level humanitarian advocacy work towards relevant authorities, Humanitarian Country Teams, key UN actors and Agencies, Donors and other NGOs, as well as media, if necessary.
  • Ensure coordination of advocacy messages and activities between the field offices, Country Office and the regional and international levels.

Child Safeguarding Responsibility

  • Uphold and adhere to child safeguarding principles and procedures as well as Code of Conduct at personal and professional level to create a child-safe workplace.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Master’s Degree, preferably in public policy/ Social Sciences/Public relations from a reputed University.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

  • Minimum seven (07) years’ senior managerial experience in a similar role in a large I/NGO, UN or corporate entity.
  • Deep understanding of socio-economic-cultural-environmental-governance-policy landscape, preferably for both development and humanitarian context.
  • Proven experience in developing advocacy strategies and leading evidence-based policy development, influence and wins.
  • Demonstrated experience in leading public advocacy and campaign design with keen understanding of brand, planning and development of multi-channel communications for diverse audience (internal/external).
  • Ability to build and maintain relationship with government and other key stakeholders.
  • Strong interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills.
  • Excellent ability to analyze, interpret and present complex data for diverse stakeholders.
  • Agility to manage own team and engage with teams at regional and global level.
  • Excellence in written and spoken communication skills in English. Proficiency in Sinhala/Tamil (written and spoken), will be preferred but not mandatory, incudes demonstrated ability to respond to media professionally.

Application process

Closing date : 23 May 2023