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Advocacy and Media Manager South Sudan Juba
Organization Norwegian Refugee CouncilLocation South SudanType FULL TIMEPosted 19 May 2026Deadline 2 Jun 2026
Advocacy/Communications
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**Background:**
The humanitarian situation in South Sudan in 2026 remains one of the most severe and complex crisis driven by conflict, economic collapse, climate shocks, disease outbreaks, mass displacement, and shrinking humanitarian funding. An estimated 10 million people will experience critical needs in 2026.
The conflict in neighbouring Sudan continues to drive refugee inflows and returnee movements into South Sudan, placing additional pressure on already overstretched services and humanitarian systems. Over 1 million people have crossed into South Sudan since the Sudan conflict began.
NRC works in South Sudan to protect the rights of displaced and vulnerable people during crisis and meet immediate humanitarian needs, prevent further displacement, and contribute to durable solutions. Access remains one of the most significant operational challenges due to active conflict, insecurity and bureaucratic impediments making it difficult for aid organizations to reach those in need. Our programme primarily includes Rapid response to emergencies, multipurpose cash assistance, legal protection, education, shelter, Water and hygiene promotion. Beyond this, NRC South Sudan has volunteered to co-lead Protection, WASH, Shelter, Land, and Site Coordination Clusters, including HLP and Durable Solutions Working Groups.
**What you will do:**
The Advocacy and Media Manager support leadership, management and strategic direction to NRC’s advocacy and communications work in South Sudan, leading or coordinating delivery of the advocacy strategy and media plans. The Advocacy and Media Manager will play a central role in defining the advocacy strategy and media plans, although the Country Management Group (CMG), and ultimately CD, approves these. The role ensures that NRC’s operational evidence, protection analysis, and humanitarian positioning effectively influence policy, funding, public discourse, and decision-makers at national, regional, and international levels. The position strengthens NRC’s external profile while ensuring principled, risk-informed, and evidence-based advocacy that supports the affected populations in South Sudan,
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
- 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
- Develop high quality analysis on key humanitarian, displacement, conflict, and protection trends and prepare evidenced-based policy briefing papers, policy position statements and other public-facing advocacy products when strategic and relevant
- Represent NRC to key stakeholders and in main fora, strengthen strategic advocacy networks and social/political capital, and identify opportunities to jointly advocate NRC’s position
- Liaise with other NRC Country, Regional and Global Representation Offices to coordinate the strategic delivery of advocacy messaging and to maximise impact
- Ensure coherence between NRC South Sudan’s advocacy and programmatic priorities Lead or contribute to relevant in-country advocacy common objectives within the humanitarian community in South Sudan
Specific responsibilities:
1. Strategically and ethically raise issues and voices of displaced people in South Sudan to the attention of decision-makers, duty-bearers, and the public, through both traditional and innovative means
2. Increase accountability of NRC South Sudan 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)
3. 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
4. Coordinate and monitor implementation and impact of NRC South Sudan advocacy and media plans and strategies
5. Prepare high quality briefings, reports, press statements, letters, and other communications materials (including visual, digital, and social media) for internal coordination and external use
6. Gather and analyse primary data, evidence, testimony, and visual stock, from displacement- and conflict-affected people, either directly or indirectly through NRC staff or outsourced means (e.g. to a research firm, photographer), in a manner aligned with NRC’s standards of informed consent and data protection
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