Advocacy Manager

**CHILD SAFEGUARDING:**

Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people *either* frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

**ROLE PURPOSE:**

The Advocacy Manager is responsible for supporting PDQA team in producing high-quality humanitarian policy analysis, research, and written products on issues affecting children in Afghanistan. Under the direction of the Senior Advocacy and Policy Advisor, the post holder contributes to evidence, analysis and drafting that inform SCI’s policy positions and advocacy priorities on humanitarian issues in Afghanistan. The role focuses on research, developing briefings, trend monitoring and supporting stakeholder engagement. During a major humanitarian emergency, the post holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

**SCOPE OF ROLE:**
The Advocacy Advisor will be responsible for developing products on issues affecting children in Afghanistan, including policy briefs, briefing papers, reports and original research.

**Reports to:** Senior Advocacy and Policy Advisor

**Staff reporting to this post:** N/A

**Budget Responsibilities:** ***N/A***

**Role Dimensions**: This role has extensive collaboration with programme teams, MEAL, cluster colleagues and external partners at working level.

**KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:**

**Advocacy development and implementation**

- Support the implementation of SCI Afghanistan’s advocacy strategy, ensuring policy and evidence are integrated into advocacy priorities.
- Maintain working-level relationships with humanitarian partners, UN agencies, donors and other stakeholders, under the guidance of the Senior Advocacy and Policy Advisor.
- Support the preparation of advocacy initiatives, meetings, missions and campaigns, including drafting talking points, background notes, and presentation.
- Manage, track and report on donor commitments tied to advocacy,
- Support programme staff to develop achievable advocacy-specific objectives in project plans and logframes for new funding proposals.
- Contribute to the development of SCI-AF analysis and policy on prioritised programme and children protection issues, linking them to prioritised advocacy issues.
- Draft regular humanitarian policy products such as short reports, briefs, talking points and updates on education and literacy, child protection, children and armed conflict and violence against children.
- Support and advance the Afghanistan CO policy objectives during emergencies, including drafting and distributing plans, advocacy-policy messages, policy briefs, and letters to governments, policymakers and other stakeholders,
- Support thematic directors/advisors to articulate their top priority policy objectives and connect programme learning with advocacy opportunities.
- Identify key opportunities and events for the SCI Afghanistan to strengthen its position as the leading organisation for children’s issues in the country.
- Work with global Save the Children advocacy teams to ensure alignment with Afghanistan CO’s priorities.

**Reporting**

- Provide project management, communications, policy and administrative support to the PDQA team, Save the Children Afghanistan CO partners, senior management, and other departments around priority initiatives and events, including humanitarian appropriations.
- Support field teams in communicating and reporting on key programme and humanitarian developments in Afghanistan through summaries, short reports and coordinated updates.
- Edit and prepare materials for clarity and accuracy.

**Research**

- Working closely with Research, Evaluation, Assessment, Learning and Monitoring colleagues to agree a country office-wide research strategy.
- Conducting a rigorous analysis of relevant existing secondary data and previously un-analysed primary data and writing a short overview of key findings and trends;
- Conducting interviews with key SCI staff and potentially external experts on the topic of humanitarian policy, child protection and psychosocial support in displacement contexts;
- Drafting a policy brief on the interlinkage of humanitarian policy issues and ongoing conflict in Afghanistan, with concrete policy recommendations, incorporating comments from the SCI team and delivering a final version.
- Analysing the impact of international policies, e.g. on sanctions and political recognition of the IEA on the humanitarian and development outcomes in Afghanistan
- Represent emergency- and response-related policy views of Save the Children in meetings with other departments within Save the Children as well as with other non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and policymakers stakeholders when delegates by the Senior Advocacy and Policy A