Advocacy and Communications Coordinator Cameroon Maroua
Maroua
- Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
- Location: Maroua
- Grade: Mid level - Mid level
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Occupational Groups:
- Legal - Broad
- Political Affairs
- Communication and Public Information
- Managerial positions
- Closing Date: Closed
The Advocacy and Communications Coordinator will play a lead role in coordinating the Country Office advocacy and communications initiatives, plans and activities.
Generic responsibilities
- Identify and Coordinate NRC’s advocacy response to prioritized areas including protection-related issues;
- Develop/update and implement country-specific advocacy strategy, aligned to overall country strategy;
- Develop/update and implement communication and media strategies and action plans ;
- Ensure advocacy coherence and reinforce effective synergies between programmes and advocacy to develop products and initiatives with a NRC-evidence base;
- Ensure systematic advocacy training on advocacy and communication and build capacity of core competence staff.
Specific responsibilities
- Support the provision of high quality analysis on the humanitarian situation in Cameroon, 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;
- Ensure that relevant Country Office staffs are informed and briefed on prioritized advocacy issues;
- Actively network with peers from other likeminded organizations involved in the response, and lead on development of joint field-based advocacy towards target audiences;
- Coordinate the preparation of 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;
- Draft and deliver necessary reporting documents related to the advocacy, communication & media strategy/strategies, including Advocacy and media Key Messages;
- Participate in relevant fundraising opportunities for advocacy and contribute to the development of quality proposals, ensuring inclusion of advocacy activities on specific humanitarian and protection issues affecting displacement-affected where appropriate;
- Produce strong communications and media products, including press releases, media updates, photos, videos and social media posts;
- Develop and maintain a media network with international and local journalists and advise on media engagement ;
- Liaise and coordinate with Regional Advocacy, media and communication department and if necessary with global representation offices on talking points, tweets, press releases etc. geared for international audiences;
- Build a database of high-quality activity photos for NRC archives.
Generic professional competencies
- Post-graduate in a related field such as Human Rights, Mass Communication, Protection, Social Works among others;
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience within the humanitarian field;
- Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts;
- Skilled in photography and video production;
- Experienced in writing Press Releases and media Talking points;
- Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities;
- Fluency in English and French, both written and verbal.
Context/specific skills, knowledge and experience:
- Solid understanding of international legal and policy processes relating to displacement;
- Documented/proven results related to the position’s responsibilities, particularly in analysis, drafting of messages, coordination and networking;
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal;
- Knowledge of the Central and West African region.
We Offer
Beginning: July 2021
Fix term Contract of 12 months
Duty Station: Maroua with 40% of field travel
Salary and benefits; Grade 7 step 1 NRC Cameroon salary Grid
This vacancy is now closed.
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