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Advocacy Manager
Advocacy/Communications
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**Job Purpose:**
This role is responsible to lead and manage both external and internal advocacy, policy development, media and communications, while implementing the influencing strategy for Oxfam in Syria.
The role leads on the implementation of a coherent and contextually relevant policy and influencing agenda, grounded in programming and cognizant of risk factors.
The post holder will define and represent Oxfam Syria’s positions on key national and regional issues in collaboration with relevant team members, while integrating all aspects of influencing (advocacy, policy work, media and communications) – into a unified strategic framework. The position also holds accountability for managing risks associated with the execution of Oxfam’s influencing strategy and related action plans.
Furthermore, the role actively contributes to strategic decision-making forums concerning campaign management within Syria, across the MENA region, and within the wider Oxfam confederation.
**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:**
Technical
- Provide strategic advice and direction to Oxfam in Syria on advocacy, media and communications work ensuring a good and productive collaboration within the Influencing team and with Programme teams.
- Lead, manage and implement the Oxfam in Syria’s Influencing Strategy, encompassing advocacy, media & communications, and policy. Ensure alignment with the Country Strategy and the Regional and Global influencing strategies for Oxfam.
- Ensure the integration of feminist and decolonial principles across all influencing work, including advocacy, campaigning, and policy development, promoting intersectionality, challenging power imbalances, and centering the voices and leadership of affected communities, especially marginalized groups in Syria.
- Contribute to Oxfam’s contingency planning from an advocacy and media perspective. In emergency situations, coordinate the Oxfam advocacy response.
- Oversee the production of quality media and communications products - in collaboration with the media and communications coordinator.
- Oversee the production of policy products and positions – in coordination with the policy coordinator and the Deputy Country Director Programmes.
- Support the Country Director and others in building consensus among Oxfam affiliates on policies and coordinating the internal sign-off process on all Syria policy issues.
- Ensure the development of media and communications plan, in accordance with the influencing strategy.
- Ensure the development of evidence-based advocacy work that amplifies the voices of local actors and Syria communications in key national, regional and global decision-making spaces.
- Provide and share regular analysis on political and programme developments, in Syria.
- Advise and brief Oxfam spokespeople ahead of external meetings, including support in the development of respective talking points.
- Ensure the integration of feminist and decolonial principles across all influencing work, including advocacy, campaigning, and policy development, promoting intersectionality, challenging power imbalances, and centering the voices and leadership of affected communities, especially marginalized groups in Syria.
Internal and external coordination
- Coordinate with the wider Oxfam Confederation on global campaigns as relevant, feeding in Syria information to global advocacy as needed.
- Collaborate closely with the Country Director, programme managers, technical advisors, partners, NGOs, Oxfam’s regional and global advocacy and policy teams to lead on influencing work. This includes identifying opportunities to drive positive change for communities across Syria in the short and long term.
- Proactively engage with the policy and advocacy working group of the Syria NGO forum.
- Support the Policy Coordinator in the representation and participation in policy spaces (i.e., sector working groups, workstream, etc).
- Build and maintain relationships with key actors inside Syria, including staff working for UN agencies, INGOs, the donor community, government, research institutes, journalists, media, think tanks, local NGOs and CSOs.
Advancing Programme Quality
- Integrate programme learnings into advocacy strategies and policy work.
- Embed advocacy components into programme and proposal design processes.
- Implement regular monitoring and evaluation practices for advocacy initiatives, supporting continuous learning and strategic refinement, in collaboration with the MEAL and influencing team.
- Contribute to the formulation of Oxfam Syria's country strategy and programme design.
- Strengthen internal capacity around advocacy, media and communications.
- Work with Oxfam programme teams to engage communities in identifying structural challenges that advocacy and programming must address.
- Build advocacy capabilities among local partner organizations.
- Support localization efforts, ensuring the voices of local actors are amplified across different spaces Oxfam has pre
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