JOB TITLE: Advocacy and Communication Officer

TEAM/PROGRAMME: Advocacy, Campaign, Communication and Media (ACCM) LOCATION: Ogoja, Cross River
GRADE: 4
POST TYPE: National

CONTRACT LENGTH: 12 months

CHILD SAFEGUARDING: Level 3:
• The post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
• As part of these responsibilities the post holder will support the establishment of child safeguarding systems, promote a culture of keeping children safe, and ensure that potential harm to children (by our own staff and/or as a result of how we do our work) is identified and addressed on an ongoing basis.
• The post holder should report and respond to interventions as determined by position-related responsibilities identified in the Safeguarding Policy.
ROLE PURPOSE AND DESCRIPTION:
• Save the Children with Global Partnership for Education (GPE) fund is to implement education, protection, and WASH interventions to address the needs of refugees and host communities in 5 refugees hosting states in Nigeria. This therefore require high level advocacy and communication at the state, local government, and community levels.
• The Job holder will support the Education and Child Protection teams to develop high quality and visually appealing communication materials needed to amplify the advocacy and campaigns of the implementation of the GPE refugee project.
• The job holder will be required to support the project team to gather contents in form of videos, photos and success stories as needed.
• The job holder is responsible to lead advocacy and campaign related engagements at both state, local government, and community levels.
• S/he will work with the project team to conduct safe back to school campaign to ensure refugee and host community children are enrolled in school.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Programme Manager,
Staff reporting to this post: None.
Direct:
Indirect: Advocacy and communication assistants
Role Dimensions: Matrix reporting to the Field Manager Ogoja and Advocacy Manager (Learn)
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Advocacy, Campaign, Communication and Media project activities.
• Have good understanding of the ACCM strategy, Country Strategic Plan (CSP) and have ability to implement.
• Liaise with Advocacy, Campaign and Policy Manager LEARN breakthrough on advocacy and policy related engagements.
• Support all advocacy and campaign related engagements and the implementation of ACCM Strategy including mainstreaming of SCI Girl education campaign and Generation Hope campaign into programme implementations.
• Support the Media and Communications team to produce engaging, child-friendly digital media products for social media platforms and digital media.
• Work with Media and Comms team to ensure all IEC and visibility materials for the project are in line with donor and SCI branding guidelines.
• Support in writing case studies or reports, with infographics and layout formatting to SCI brand standards.
• Build and maintain strategic partnership/relationships with stakeholders , partners and media outlets to amplify the impact of education projects.
• Perform other duties and tasks as determined by the Line Manager, ACCM CO team.
People Management and Leadership:
• Have regular meetings with appropriate authorities at state, local government, and community levels to update them on the progress of programmes.
• engage relevant authorities in the planning and implementation of programmes through consultation and joint visits.
• Collaboration with other team members to plan and carry out feedback meetings with authorities and beneficiaries.
• Coordinate the planning and implementation of observation key global moments.
Communication and Representation:
• Act as SC’s representative at local and states levels and work with local authorities, partners as required, mainly in events relating to the project.
• With support from ACCM at CO, design and execute advocacy campaigns that raise awareness on key education issues and communicate public policy and advocacy messages when appropriate to institutions, government, international, national and local organizations as required.
• Support the coordinate and provide updates and reports to CO on the activities of Advocacy and Communication in the Field Office.
• Develop and maintain a professional network with government, community, religious leaders, Media partners and CSOs.
• Responsible for dissemination of important information and messages related to the project.
• Contribute to weekly and monthly advocacy meetings to keep the entire ACCM family informed of the status of implementation.
• Support internal and external communication with project/field specific inputs that feed into regional and donor reports.
Safeguarding
• Ensure that project delivery complies to the highest safeguarding standards in line with Save the Children’s policy
• Work with the project safeguarding officer to ensure that all community mobilization and advocacy activities, have a safeguarding risk assessment and mitigation measures in place
• Adhere to the Do no Harm principles in engagement wit stakeholders and across the entire steps within the Programme Management Cycle.

Others:
• Other ad hoc tasks as requested by line manager, Field Manager, ACCM Director or Learn Breakthrough lead.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
• Holds the team accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
• Creates a favorable environment within the team to lead, enable and maintain our culture of child safeguarding.
Ambition:
• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same.
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a country and global scale.
Collaboration:
• builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters.
• values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength.
• approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
• willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
• Honest, encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence.
• Displays consistent excellent judgement.

EXPERIENCE, QUALIFICATION AND SKILLS
• Education Level: Bachelor’s Degree in related discipline or relevant qualification
• Minimum of three years of work experience in Advocacy and communication with solid understanding of refugee and or humanitarian response.
• Fluency in spoken English Language and Pidgin English is an advantage.
• Ability to review documents, briefs, interpret information and synthesize information and present it in a creative and simple manner.
• Strong computer skills required, especially the ability to work comfortably in the MS office package.
• Ability to work in partnership with government, community, media, and partners.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work successfully in a team environment.
• Good knowledge of international donor and SCI brand and visibility policies and guidelines desired.
• Comply with the requirements of Save the Children’s commitment to protecting children in accordance with the Safeguarding Policy.

Administrative & General Skills:
• The post holder will possess a high degree of analytical skill, political insight, ability to facilitate change, influence, and communicate key education, protection, and WASH advocacy messages effectively and convincingly to a diverse audience at local and state levels.
Desirable:
• Experience in advocacy techniques and influencing tactics.
• Prior work experience in advocacy and communication with good knowledge of media engagement.
• Knowledge of the policies, functions, structures, and decision-making processes.
• Demonstrated skills in photography, simple video editing and storytelling.