Regional Advocacy Advisor - Region Horn of Africa

Nairobi

Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
Location: Nairobi
Grade: Mid/Senior level - Mid/Senior - Internationally recruited position
Occupational Groups:
- Communication and Public Information
- Emergency Aid and Response
- Protection / Human Rights
Closing Date: Closed

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.

The Norwegian Refugee Council has approximately 5000 committed and competent employees involved in projects across four continents. In addition, NRC runs one of the world’s largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 650 professionals, ready to be deployed on 72 hours notice when a crisis occurs

NRC’s Horn of Africa & Yemen operation comprises of large-scale multi-country humanitarian and early recovery interventions spread across nine countries (Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, South Sudan, Eritrea and Yemen), and most recently Uganda and Tanzania. NRC’s overall strategy in the region is to ensure a greater number of vulnerable people in hard to reach areas get access to humanitarian assistance, become resilient to future disasters and find durable solution. The Regional Office is based in Nairobi and works with country programmes to ensure standardization of programmatic and operational approaches, promote multi country programming and ensuring quality and coordination.

The Regional Advocacy Advisor has the overall responsibility of developing an advocacy strategy.

Job description

Generic responsibilities
Responsible for adherence to relevant NRC policies, guidance and procedures
Develop access, protection and advocacy strategy and ensure that objectives from NRC Global Advocacy Strategy are reflected
Responsible for monitoring and analysis of the humanitarian situation, access and protection concerns in the region, emerging trends and displacement patterns
Develop, manage and undertake specific research activities with the aim to provide contextual analysis and provide briefings
Accountable for drafting protection policy and advocacy products such as bi-weekly briefing notes, position papers, talking points, key messages, quarterly trend reports and ad-hoc reports as relevant.
Training to Country Offices on protection, advocacy and conflict sensitive approaches
Support to countries in the planning and implementation of programme/policy advocacy activities and the production of relevant material
Establish and strengthen strategic protection and advocacy networks and alliances
Specific responsibilities
Build capacity of key staff in access, protection and advocacy skills and practices;
Coordinate the effective communication of NRC East Africa and Yemen key protection and access messaging
Ensure consistency of strategy and messaging across countries in the region
Design a result –based protection and advocacy strategy
Publish reports and/or articles on key access and protection concerns – either as NRC or as part of an alliance

Qualifications

Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
Documented experience with research and the production of written materials based on the research (i.e. reports, briefing notes, position papers, talking points and key messages)
Documented experience with protection, access and conflict sensitive approaches
Documented/proven results related to other key elements of the position’s responsibilities
Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
Fluency in English, both written and verbal

Education level

College / University, Bachelor's degree

Personal qualities

Handling insecure environments
Planning and delivering results
Working with people
Analysing
Communicating with impact and respect
Coping with change

We offer

Duty station: Nairobi with 20% travel
Contract period: 24 Months with possibility of extension
Salary/benefits: According to NRC’s general directions, The candidate will observe NRC’s code of conduct and working hours for the NRC Office in Nairobi.
Approved health certificate will be requested before contract start
NRC may be required to verify the identity of its partners and to check that its partners have not been involved in illegal activities. NRC reserves the right to use electronic screening tools for this purpose.
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This vacancy is now closed.