Senior Advisor, Child Rights, Advocacy and Campaigns MENAEE

Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Child Rights Advocacy & Campaigns Advisor (MENAEE) to join our global team.

Team and Job Purpose

Team purpose

To drive local to global influencing efforts by establishing a cohesive and relevant advocacy campaign child rights governance and child participation agenda aligned with our global strategy thereby driving impact at scale. By leveraging evidence and analysis and promoting a culture of learning we ensure a child rights approach is embedded in all our initiatives while partnering with country offices to prepare scale-up and execute effective operational humanitarian advocacy efforts. Our team co-owns the delivery of advocacy campaigning and mobilization strategies and leads child participation approaches across all programs to empower children and amplify their voices in decision-making processes.

Role purpose

To strategically support child rights governance advocacycampaigning and child participationinitiatives that champion the rights of children globally ensuring their protection survival and development. Thisbusiness partnerrole will help drivestrategiccountry office efforts and sharing of best practices to influence and collaborate with key stakeholders including governments international bodies and civil society organisations to create a powerful unified voice advocating for childrens role will directly co lead the regional influencing strategy in senior child rights advocacy and campaign advisor will also ensure alignment with Save the Childrens values and commitment to diversity equity and inclusion reflecting the organisations dedication to fostering an inclusive culture.

• Job Title: Senior Child Rights Advocacy & Campaigns Advisor (MENAEE)

• Reports To: Director Child Rights Advocacy and Campaign

• Work Pattern: Hybrid/Remote with flexible working options available

• Contract Length: Permanent

• Grade: P4

• Location: Any approved Save the Children International office location in the Middle East North Africa & Eastern Europe (MENAEE) Region.

• For a full list of locations that Save the Children International can hire in please visit: SCI Careers

• Time Zone (that the role holder must be available to work in): MENAEE time zones

• Right to Work: The successful candidate must possess the unrestricted right to work in their current or preferred location for the duration of employment.

• Language Requirements: English Arabic (highly desirable)

• International Travel Requirements: up to 40%

Principal Accountabilities

• Provide strategic and specialised context specific technical Support to Country Office ACCM teams ensuring high standards in child rights governance advocacy campaign and child participation work.

• Bring innovative solutions thought leadership and fresh perspectives to child rights governance advocacy campaigning and child participation work to ensure we achieve our ambition.

• Provide short term targeted CO gap filling where necessary.

• Provide coaching and training to CO ACCM teams on child rights governance advocacy campaign and child participation approaches.

• Bring together CO ACCM teams across offices where there are multi country synergies between strategies and delivery approaches and where mutual learning is possible.

• Represent and Support COs on global TWGs/APWGs where necessary and useful.

• Offer advice and direct technical support and expertise to COs on proposal writing and donor engagement as well as risk and crisis management.

• Drive the local to global approach by connecting CO work with regional opportunities advocacy offices and our global influencing agenda.

• Support COs with national and local level child rights governance advocacy campaign and child participation planning and delivery as well as support with global influencing activities.

• Conduct regular reviews of the progress of out working and engage in external platforms to find opportunities for collaboration and learning from best practices.

• Promote a rights-based approach across our programs advocacy and campaigns. Balancing Save the Childrens own advocacy and campaign objectives with an organisational commitment to both supporting locally-led civil society to demand child rights; and to influencing the State/private sector to better deliver on commitments to children.

• Bring together CO ACCM teams across offices where there are multi country synergies between strategies and delivery approaches and where mutual learning is possible

• Support COs with national and local level advocacy and campaign planning and delivery as well as support with global influencing activities.

• Promote a culture of diversity equity and inclusion within all programmes ensuring all interventions are accessible and effective for all community members regardless of background or identity.

• Strategic Business Partnering (MENAEE):Provide strategic advocacy and influencing leadership within the MENAEE Business Partners Groupas well as co leading and coordinatingcoherent regional influencing across Advocacy Communications Media NBD and Gulf teams contributing to key regional forums to align country regional and global agendas.

• Strategic External Engagement & Partnerships:Maintain and strengthen strategic relationships with key regional partners to advance advocacy priorities drive coordinated action and identify opportunities for joint influence and resource mobilisation.

Experience and Skills

Essential

• Offer advice and direct technical support and expertise to COs on proposal writing and donor engagement as well as risk and crisis management.

• Drive the local to global approach by connecting CO work with regional opportunities advocacy offices and our global influencing agenda.

• Support COs with national and local level child rights governance advocacy campaign and child participation planning and delivery as well as support with global influencing activities.

• Conduct regular reviews of the progress of out working and engage in external platforms to find opportunities for collaboration and learning from best practices.

• Promote a rights-based approach across our programs advocacy and campaigns. Balancing Save the Childrens own advocacy and campaign objectives with an organisational commitment to both supporting locally-led civil society to demand child rights; and to influencing the State/private sector to better deliver on commitments to children.

• Bring together CO ACCM teams across offices where there are multi country synergies between strategies and delivery approaches and where mutual learning is possible

• Support COs with national and local level advocacy and campaign planning and delivery as well as support with global influencing activities.

• Promote a culture of diversity equity and inclusion within all programmes ensuring all interventions are accessible and effective for all community members regardless of background or identity.

• Strategic Business Partnering (MENAEE): Provide strategic advocacy and influencing leadership within the MENAEE Business Partners Group as well as co leading and coordinating coherent regional influencing across Advocacy Communications Media NBD and Gulf teams contributing to key regional forums to align country regional and global agendas.

• Strategic External Engagement & Partnerships: Maintain and strengthen strategic relationships with key regional partners to advance advocacy priorities drive coordinated action and identify opportunities for joint influence and resource mobilisation.

Education and Qualifications

Essential

Education: Degree in Public Policy Campaigning International Relations Human Rights Law Social Sciences or a related field.

Save the Childrenis the worlds leading organisation for children employing save childrens lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their our work in 116 countries we put the most deprived and marginalised children first.

We know that great people make a great organisation and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition creativity and integrity are highly valued.

The work here is challenging but is also immensely rewarding. At Save the Children you will be in good company working with talented like-minded individuals who are determined to ensure that all children survive learn and are protected. Your contribution will help ensure childrens voices are heard at the highest levels and that we achieve our global strategy Ambition for Children 2030 and reach every last child.

Diversity Equity and Inclusion and Equal Opportunities

DEI is core to our vision values and global strategy. Save the Children is committed to creating a truly diverse equitable and inclusive organisation and one which will support us in our vision to ensure every child attains the right to survival protection development and participation.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of gender sexual orientation race colour ethnic origin nationality disability marital or civil partnership status gender reassignment pregnancy and maternity caring or parental responsibilities age or beliefs and religion. We are committed to diversifying our staff to better represent the communities we serve and actively welcome underrepresented groups to apply.

Reasonable adjustments will be made should any candidate invited to interview require this.

Application Information

Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application. A full copy of the role profile can be found herevia the job listing. It is recommended that you save a copy of the role profile as it will no longer be available after the advert closes.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the job advert may be closed earlier than advertised subject to the volume of suitable applicants. Please submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Candidates who are successfully shortlisted should expect to hear from us within 2 weeks of the advert deadline.

Our recruitment process:

Application review by our recruiting team based on your CV and cover letter

Two-stage competency-based interviews with the hiring team

Some recruitmentmay include an additional assessment or case study stage or a third stage interview

If successful you will receive a conditional offer of employment followed by your contract subject to passing background checks

We need to keep children and adults safe so our selection process includes rigorous background checks and reflects our commitment to the protection of children and adults from employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our Code of Conduct and all policies and procedures relating to Anti-harassment Health and Safety Safeguarding and DEI and Equal Opportunities.