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We are one of the world’s leading peacebuilding organisations, with nearly 30 years of experience laying the foundations for peace. We work with local people in over 25 countries around the world to help them build peace, and we advise governments, organisations and companies on how to support peace. We focus on issues that influence peace, inclu...
Reporting to the Director of Advocacy & Communications, the Senior Advocacy Officer will play a leading role in delivering International Alert’s ambitions to grow its influence capability under its Organisational Strategy and new internal Resilience Plan. This position will focus on providing support to Alert’s country teams spanning, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. It will also play a leading role in supporting and driving the delivery of Alert’s multi-year Organisational Influencing Priorities, which include both country and thematic issues. Increasing influencing impact at the national level and linking local project related work to more structural drivers of conflict has been identified as a key priority by country teams and this role will play a part in meeting that demand. To that end, this position will provide high quality advice to teams related to advocacy strategy, design, budgeting and monitoring and evaluation. It will identify and engineer opportunities to advance country program influencing priorities and buildout the organisations advocacy skills set through training and accompaniment. Fluency in both English and French is a requirement of the position.
Duties and Responsibilities
PERSON SPECIFICATION ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS
Talents At Alert, we have introduced Talent Management to our business model as we believe talented people are crucial to the success of our work. We believe all individuals are talented and success comes in matching the right talents to the right roles. At Alert, we have introduced Talent Management to our business model as we believe talented people are crucial to the success of our work. We believe all individuals are talented and success comes in matching the right talents to the right roles. For this role, the skills, qualifications and experience listed below are important, but we believe that to be great in this job you are likely, to have a talent for looking at the bigger picture, understanding and finding solutions to complex problems as well as communicating in a convincing manner adapting to different audiences.
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS
At least 4 years’ experience working in mid-level policy and advocacy related positions Oral and written fluency in French and English Demonstrated high quality written and oral communications skills Experience working in a developing or conflict-affected country including collaboration with programme teams Degree level education in international relations, development, defence studies or allied fields Significant experience in leading the development of advocacy strategies, policy documents and publications Experience in supporting and guiding others in the development of advocacy strategies, policy positions and policy products Strong analytical capabilities and an ability to identify and manage risk Experience building networks and relationships and representing policy positions on behalf of an organisation to external actors Demonstrated networks and relationships with, and experience engaging, bilateral and multilateral donor institutions and national governments Ability to translate complex concepts into policy insights and recommendations tailored to different advocacy targets Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work across diverse teams Solution orientated, self-starter who is capable of working independently, with more limited supervision
DESIRABLE REQUIREMENTS
Specialist knowledge of peacebuilding through either professional experience or academic study or both Experience delivering training to others Experience in programme / project design, monitoring and evaluation Experience in developing or contributing to fundraising proposa
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