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  • Posted: Jan 19, 2021
    Deadline: Jan 29, 2021
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    The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent, humanitarian, non-profit, non-governmental organisation. We provide assistance, protection and durable solutions to refugees and internally displaced persons worldwide. What is NRC? NRC promotes and protects the rights of refugees and people who have been displaced within their own country. We take ...
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    Advocacy Manager

    Job Identification: 440
    Location: Maiduguri, Borno

    Job Description

    • The Advocacy Manager provides overall leadership, management and strategic direction to NRC’s policy and advocacy work in Nigeria.
    • S/he is responsible for identifying priority protection concerns for advocacy, strengthening the incorporation of advocacy into all aspects of NRC’s activities and guiding NRC’s advocacy messaging to promote an improved in collaboration with the Protection coordinator protection and humanitarian response environment in Nigeria.

    Generic Responsibilities (max 10) 

    • Identify and coordinate NRC’s advocacy response to prioritised issues both within the country and internationally 
    • Develop and implement country-specific advocacy strategy, aligned to overall country strategy and support the development of the advocacy part of program strategies. 
    • Ensure advocacy coherence and reinforce effective synergies between programmes and advocacy by working closely with programme staff to integrate advocacy into programme planning and implementation.
    • Line management, including development of staff if applicable 
    • Ensure systematic training on advocacy and communication and build capacity of technical staff 
    • Provide high-quality analysis on key humanitarian and displacement trends and prepare evidenced-based policy briefing papers, policy position statements and other public-facing advocacy products when strategic and relevant
    • Liaise with other NRC Country, Regional and Global Representation Offices to coordinate the strategic delivery of advocacy messaging and to maximise impact
    • Advise on media lines and media strategy, ensuring potential risks associated with NRC’s positions are assessed and sign-off procedures are adhered to
    • Represent NRC to key stakeholders, strengthen strategic advocacy networks and identify opportunities to advocate NRC’s position

    Specific Responsibilities:

    • Keep Advocacy strategy for NRC Nigeria updated.
    • Active participation in INGO advocacy working group
    • Support the CCs advocacy work with stakeholders
    • Continuously identify and follow-up opportunities for influencing based on NRC Nigeria’s advocacy priorities, both in-country and internationally through NRC’s Representation Offices; 
    • Ensure the provision of high-quality analysis on the humanitarian situation pertaining to displacement-affected population, 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 NRC Country Offices and departments (Field Operations, External Relations, Partnership & Policy) are informed and briefed on response situation and priority advocacy issues
    • Actively network with other organisations involved in the response, and lead on development of joint field-based advocacy and positions towards target audiences
    • Prepare high-quality key messages, briefings, letters and other written materials for internal and external use, ensuring strong evidence-base in messaging and following agreed sign-off procedures
    • Revise and update the NRC Country Office advocacy strategy as necessary 
    • Draft and deliver necessary reporting documents
    • Seek fundraising opportunities for advocacy and contribute to the development of quality proposals, ensuring inclusion of research and/or advocacy activities on specific humanitarian and protection issues affecting displacement-affected where appropriate

    Critical Interfaces:
    By interfaces, NRC means processes and projects that are interlinked with other departments/units or persons. Relevant interfaces for this position are:

    • Training and capacity building of staff: PDMs and CMG in-country 
    • Strategy development: Country Director and Regional Advocacy Manager. 
    • Development of advocacy products: Regional Advocacy Manager, Country Director, Protection Manager, Head of Programme, and Policy and Partnership (Policy and Advocacy Section) and External Relations Department when relevant. 
    • Information sharing with/ briefing of NRC Global (NRC Geneva, NRC Europe, Washington DC, London, Addis Ababa)on response situation and priority advocacy issues: Regional Advocacy  Manager

    Competencies:
    Competencies are important in order for the employee and the organisation to deliver desired results. They are relevant for all staff and are divided into the following three categories:

    Professional Competencies
    Generic professional competencies for this position: 

    • Post-graduate with minimum 5 years of relevant Manager/ Adviser experience within the humanitarian field
    • Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
    • Professional knowledge about protection principles and advocacy, and the use of media for public advocacy
    • Strong managerial and interpersonal skills
    • Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
    • Good leadership skills/profile 
    • Fluency in English, both written and verbal 

    Context/Specific skills, knowledge and experience: (examples)
    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 (English)
    • Knowledge of the Lake Chad region
    • Representation experience

    Behavioural Competencies (max 6):
    These are personal qualities that influence how successful people are in their job. NRC’s Competency Framework states 12 behavioural competencies, the following are essential for this position:

    • Handling insecure environments
    • Strategic thinking
    • Empowering and building trust
    • Working with people
    • Initiate action and change
    • Analysing 

    Performance Management:
    The employee will be accountable for the responsibilities and the competencies, in accordance with the NRC Performance Management Manual. The following documents will be used for performance reviews: 

    • The Job Description
    • The Work and Development Plan
    • The Mid-term/End-of-trial Period Performance Review Template
    • The End-term Performance Review Template
    • The NRC Competency Framework

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) on ekum.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com to apply

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