Advocacy Advisor Multi Country (Nairobi Based)
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The Advocacy Advisor will shape NRC’s advocacy and communications strategy in Somalia and Kenya, influencing policy and public positioning. The role includes leading advocacy products, coordinating communications teams, representing NRC in key forums, and strengthening the capacity of staff and partners.
- Senior role focused on advocacy and communications strategy
- Supports NRC programmes in Somalia and Kenya
- Involves policy engagement, public positioning, and team leadership
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The Advocacy Advisor will shape NRC’s advocacy and communications strategy in Somalia and Kenya, influencing policy and public positioning. The role includes leading advocacy products, coordinating communications teams, representing NRC in key forums, and strengthening the capacity of staff and partners.
- Senior role focused on advocacy and communications strategy
- Supports NRC programmes in Somalia and Kenya
- Involves policy engagement, public positioning, and team leadership
- Full-time working hours from 8 to 5
- Applicant location: Kenya
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Language Requirement:
English
Work Type:
Full Time
Working Hours:
8 to 5
Applicant Location:
Kenya
Job descriptions & requirements
The Advocacy Advisor plays a pivotal role in shaping NRC’s policy influence and public positioning in Somalia and Kenya, two of the most complex humanitarian contexts globally. Operating at a senior level, the role leads the design and implementation of advocacy and communications strategies, ensuring coherence with country programme priorities and global standards. It provides expert analysis, develops evidence based advocacy products, and represents NRC in key fora, while also building the capacity of staff and partners to amplify the voices of displaced communities. By bridging operational realities with policy engagement, the Advocacy Advisor ensures NRC’s responses are not only impactful on the ground but also contribute to systemic change at national, regional, and international levels.
General Responsibilities:
Identify and coordinate NRC’s advocacy response to prioritised issues both within the country and internationally
Develop and implement an impactful advocacy and communications strategy, aligned with the overall country strategy.
Develop CO media plan and lines, ensuring risk analyses are made regarding public positions or statements and sign-off procedures are adhered to
Line management of communications teams, including development of staff if applicable, budget planning and execution, and other administration
Ensure systematic training on advocacy and communication to develop capacity of all relevant staff (within and beyond the advocacy and media department) and ensure compliance with NRC policies, e.g. informed consent, data protection, social media standards
Specific responsibilities:
Strategically and ethically raise issues and voices of displaced people in Somalia and Kenya to the attention of decision-makers, duty-bearers, and the public, through both traditional and innovative means
Increase accountability of NRC Somalia and Kenya through providing regular and consistent information publicly, about the situations we are responding to and the state of our response (or contributions to coordinated responses)
Contribute to Country Office and Area Office problem, protection, and programme analyses and ‘systems thinking’ with a policy lens and a public interest lens, and subsequently promote that relevant policy, advocacy, and communications elements are integrated when designing responses and strategies
Coordinate and monitor implementation and impact of NRC Somalia, Kenya, etc. advocacy and media plans and strategies
Prepare high quality briefings, reports, press statements, letters, and other communications materials (including visual, digital, and social media) for internal coordination and external use
What you will bring:
Generic professional competencies:
Post-graduate with minimum five years of relevant experience within the humanitarian field or international media/organisations
Must have humanitarian advocacy experience and policy management from different contexts.
Relevant experience in advocacy, communications, media, or humanitarian policy
Experience working in complex and insecure contexts, preferably in the Horn of Africa
Strong understanding of humanitarian coordination architecture and donor environments
Proven experience engaging media and managing sensitive external communications
Experience producing high-level advocacy products and policy analysis.
Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
High levels of flexibility and creativity
Documented professional experience of working in or with international media
Strong managerial and interpersonal skills
Fluency in English with strong verbal and written communications skills
Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience:
Knowledge of international legal and policy processes and instruments relating to displacement, protection, peace/conflict, and humanitarian action
Cogent communication skills, both written and verbal
Aptitude to think creatively and boldly, to engage (potentially hostile) protection and access advocacy targets
The Advocacy Advisor plays a pivotal role in shaping NRC’s policy influence and public positioning in Somalia and Kenya, two of the most complex humanitarian contexts globally. Operating at a senior level, the role leads the design and implementation of advocacy and communications strategies, ensuring coherence with country programme priorities and global standards. It provides expert analysis, develops evidence based advocacy products, and represents NRC in key fora, while also building the capacity of staff and partners to amplify the voices of displaced communities. By bridging operational realities with policy engagement, the Advocacy Advisor ensures NRC’s responses are not only impactful on the ground but also contribute to systemic change at national, regional, and international levels.
General Responsibilities:
Identify and coordinate NRC’s advocacy response to prioritised issues both within the country and internationally
Develop and implement an impactful advocacy and communications strategy, aligned with the overall country strategy.
Develop CO media plan and lines, ensuring risk analyses are made regarding public positions or statements and sign-off procedures are adhered to
Line management of communications teams, including development of staff if applicable, budget planning and execution, and other administration
Ensure systematic training on advocacy and communication to develop capacity of all relevant staff (within and beyond the advocacy and media department) and ensure compliance with NRC policies, e.g. informed consent, data protection, social media standards
Specific responsibilities:
Strategically and ethically raise issues and voices of displaced people in Somalia and Kenya to the attention of decision-makers, duty-bearers, and the public, through both traditional and innovative means
Increase accountability of NRC Somalia and Kenya through providing regular and consistent information publicly, about the situations we are responding to and the state of our response (or contributions to coordinated responses)
Contribute to Country Office and Area Office problem, protection, and programme analyses and ‘systems thinking’ with a policy lens and a public interest lens, and subsequently promote that relevant policy, advocacy, and communications elements are integrated when designing responses and strategies
Coordinate and monitor implementation and impact of NRC Somalia, Kenya, etc. advocacy and media plans and strategies
Prepare high quality briefings, reports, press statements, letters, and other communications materials (including visual, digital, and social media) for internal coordination and external use
What you will bring:
Generic professional competencies:
Post-graduate with minimum five years of relevant experience within the humanitarian field or international media/organisations
Must have humanitarian advocacy experience and policy management from different contexts.
Relevant experience in advocacy, communications, media, or humanitarian policy
Experience working in complex and insecure contexts, preferably in the Horn of Africa
Strong understanding of humanitarian coordination architecture and donor environments
Proven experience engaging media and managing sensitive external communications
Experience producing high-level advocacy products and policy analysis.
Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
High levels of flexibility and creativity
Documented professional experience of working in or with international media
Strong managerial and interpersonal skills
Fluency in English with strong verbal and written communications skills
Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience:
Knowledge of international legal and policy processes and instruments relating to displacement, protection, peace/conflict, and humanitarian action
Cogent communication skills, both written and verbal
Aptitude to think creatively and boldly, to engage (potentially hostile) protection and access advocacy targets
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