Save the Children International is hiring Director of Advocacy, Campaigns, Communications & Media 2022 in Dhaka

Save the Children International is hiring Director of Advocacy, Campaigns, Communications & Media 2022 in Dhaka

Key Responsibilities

Strategy and planning

• Lead ACCM functions to deliver SCIBD country strategic plan while also design, develop, and execute the country ACCM strategy
• Strengthen SCIBD representation and positioning for policy influence and public mobilization.
• Facilitate child and youth engagement to create space for them and amplify their voice for SCIBD priorities as well as in policy discourse at sub-national, national, regional and global level.

Advocacy and Campaigns

• Analyse and critique relevant policies to inform advocacy agenda, strategies and actions
• Provide strategic leadership on country advocacy actions encompassing both sector and cross-sectoral advocacy level in alignment with CSP 2022-24
• Provide leadership to ACCM team to drive impactful campaigns for programmatic integration and policy linkages through active engagement of the supporters and stakeholders including general public
• Drive fundraising efforts and produce concept notes to secure sufficient and sustained funding to maintain and expand country’s advocacy and campaign activities
• Lead on developing monitoring and measurement mechanisms for advocacy and campaign with strong integration of evaluation and learning mechanisms and tools.
• Support the Country Office to update and monitor advocacy risk assessments for the activities and objectives encompassing both development and humanitarian advocacy including refugee advocacy

Media and Communications

• Provide leadership for strengthening SCI branding in the domestic and international market t 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 regular SMT meetings
• Represent Save the Children at appropriate country-level working groups.
• Support the Country Director 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

Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organisation for children. We work in around 120 countries. Our vision is to live in a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation.