Advocacy, Information and Communications Manager

Advocacy

• Lead the finalization and implementation of a short-term advocacy strategy, which includes national, regional, and local elements; and short-and longer-term objectives, using tools and guidance from various internal advocacy counterparts.
• Manage all advocacy initiatives in close coordination with the emergency response Team Leader/Deputy Team Leader, HQ advocacy staff, and other business units.
• Draft and support the production of advocacy messaging and materials to be used at national, regional and local levels.
• Collaborate with advocacy and program colleagues to ensure core messaging is consistent within the response, and opportunities are explored to promote these strategies.
• Ensure that all advocacy messages, documents, and strategies are evidence-based, of high quality, authorized at the response level (by Team Leader/Deputy Team Leader) and regional level, as needed.
• Provide regular analysis of how children have been affected and the national and regional response and policy framework, as well as other factors such as coordination, security, and current and future challenges that have an impact on children and their access to emergency assistance.
• Define key advocacy opportunities and targets at national, regional and local levels. Lead, mobilize and coordinate national, regional and local advocacy colleagues to influence these, as appropriate.
• Ensure SC emergency response strategies and situation reports have clear advocacy objectives and strategies, and indicators for assessing the impact of SC advocacy work.
• Support or lead the development of an advocacy risk assessment, as required.

Information and Communications:

• Lead information and communication flows between emergency response and a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• Produce accurate, clear and consistent information and communication outputs relating to emergency situations and Save the Children's emergency response – including key messages, Q&A's, brochures and factsheets.
• Liaise with HQ communications and media colleagues where appropriate, including but not limited to key message development, and ensure this is shared fully across the response.
• Ensure that results from case study collection are fed back into response team & planning.
• Undertake photography commissions to a high standard, to accompany compelling case studies.
• Facilitate photograph and film commissions/freelancers, and produce/deliver creative assets in their absence. Liaise closely with HQ photography/film team and the emergency communications team to ensure coordination of commissions are managed appropriately on the ground and assets are shared quickly and stored.
• Ensure that multimedia commissions are fundraising-appropriate for key member markets, and speaks to Save the Children's brand.
• Social media: lead innovative communications from the field, using platforms such as periscope to reach wider audiences and directly engage supporters in our work.
• Ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the Sphere Charter and Red Cross Code of Conduct.

Media:

• Facilitate media activities such as requests for quotes or interviews (ensuring spokespeople are adequately briefed) or journalists visits to programs. Identify opportunities within our response activities or the external environment for media activities.
• Ensure core messaging is consistent with advocacy strategies within the response and opportunities are explored to promote these strategies.

Capacity Building:

• Identify advocacy and information/communications learning and training opportunities for Save the Children staff and partners and work as a mentor and role model for less experienced staff.
• Build the capacity of emergency response staff through delivering training of advocacy, communications or information management and skills (including media training), mentoring staff throughout a response and recruiting/inducting new resources as required.
• Train and capacity build other response team members as spokespeople, as needed.

General Duties:

• Deliver results in line with the terms of reference agreed in advance to do this in a way which maintains the reputation of the Save the Children Hurricane Harvey Emergency Response Team.
• Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
• To perform such other responsibilities as agreed with your line management.