Advocacy Specialist

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How can you make a difference?

Goal Area 1 of UNICEF’s Strategic Plan is to ensure every child survives and thrives. Immunization, vaccines and broader health advocacy are critical to this pursuit of this goal.   This is an opportunity to support UNICEF HQ’s Immunization Advocacy Team with the implementation of its global immunization advocacy strategy that aims to ensure that every child everywhere can access life-saving vaccines.

Duties include:

Strategy:

In coordination with key UNICEF colleagues in headquarters, regions, and counties, the HPV & Girls Health Immunization Advocacy Specialist will be responsible for the following:

• Develop & implement a global advocacy strategy for HPV & Girls Health
• Review and update strategy as needed to ensure it has a clear theory of change, is underpinned by a relevant workplan, and has broad buy-in from across the organization.
• Support effective monitoring and evaluation of the strategy, ensuring it is delivering clear results for every child.
• Provide advocacy support to countries and regions so they can develop relevant advocacy strategies nationally and regionally.
• Work with relevant teams in HQ, countries and regions to define advocacy goals, targets, tactics, and messages.
• Ensure that country- and region-specific strategies and plans are consistent with (and contribute to) UNICEF’s Global Immunization Advocacy Strategy + UNICEF’s programme strategies for Immunization & Gender.
• Coordinate with, and align a number of internal teams, including in UNICEF’s programme group, to ensure the advocacy strategies are understood and endorsed by key internal stakeholders.
• Manage relations with external partners and stakeholders involved in HPV and girls’ health.
• Represent UNICEF in inter-agency and partner discussions on HPV and girls’ health advocacy and communications.
• Identify opportunities for national and regional influencing on HPV & Girls Health.
• Guide and support countries in their advocacy and comms workplans.
• Support development of content strategies for multimedia production in countries.
• Act as internal focal point on HPV and girls’ health advocacy for countries and regions.
• Monitor, track and evaluate progress by countries and regions against their strategies.
• Intervene and help troubleshoot when progress towards advocacy outcomes in countries is hampered.

Capacity Building:

• Build the advocacy capacity of key staff in a number of priority UNICEF countries and regions for HPV and girls health, in coordination with UNICEF’s advocacy capacity building team.
• Coordinate and deliver capacity building workshops in countries, in collaboration with the advocacy capacity building team – this will include occasional travel to country and regional offices (2-3 times per year).
• Coach and support advocacy and communications specialists in countries and help them progress their advocacy strategies – this may include travel to regional and country offices. (1-2 times per year).

Knowledge & Grant management:

• Maintain an up-to-date internal SharePoint site with all key resources and documents, and that countries, regions and HQ teams can access and use.
• Help host regular webinars to disseminate information and share internal updates with the relevant teams.
• Work with countries and regions to identify and collect case studies showing impact of HPV and girls health advocacy on the ground.
• Work alongside the Immunization Advocacy Manager, and other colleagues across UNICEF who manage relations with private and public donors, to provide regular updates on key metrics and indicators for grant reporting.

o qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• Education: An advanced university degree is required in one of the following fields: International Relations, Political Science, International Development, Public Policy, Public Administration, Economics, Communication or related fields.
•  A first level university degree with an additional two years of experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience:

• At least five (5) years of progressively responsible and relevant professional work experience in advocacy/ campaigning is required, with at least two years at the international level. Experience in humanitarian and complex setting is desired.
• Experience in leading the development and implementation of advocacy strategies, with clear theories of change, specific, measurable and timebound objectives, and performance indicators.
• A track record of achieving or contributing to tangible policy change.
• Proven experience in deploying a range of advocacy tactics based on a clear theory of change.
• Experience in building and maintaining a network of advocacy stakeholders, and in working with advocacy coalitions.
• Strong communicator with emphasis on being able to present complex policy ideas in succinct, engaging ways through campaign narratives and creative tactics.
• Demonstrated experience in design and management of projects, including budget management and monitoring and evaluation of results.
• Knowledge of international development, humanitarian issues and children’s rights.
• Experience in training and capacity building.
• Experience working in a developing and emergency environment is an asset.

Education:

• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

Source: https://jobs.unicef.org/en-us/job/570626/advocacy-specialist-girls-health-hpv-p3-temporary-appointment-division-of-global-communication-and-advocacy-unicef-nyhq-post-128095

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