Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, December 13, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

Position description
You will act as the Head of Advocacy for the organisation by:
• Leading the development of Cohere’ positioning, strategic engagements, and recommendations in line with mission objectives.
• Collaborating with the Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) team to support Cohere’s synergy between its operation and advocacy.
• Collaborating with RLO partners in advocacy, through joint action or other forms of support according to their expressed needs.
• Collaborating with the Head of MEAL in generating and analysing programmatic data available for advocacy objectives.
• Collaborating with the Head of Communication to ensure that communications strategy is advocacy-driven.

Key Responsibilities
Lead Cohere’s advocacy strategy development
• Co-design Cohere’s advocacy strategy with RLO partners, while ensuring
• Accessibility and inclusivity of all different refugee identities in the process
• Accountability, transparency, and equal share of decision-making with RLOs over Cohere’s advocacy strategy.
• Work with partners to integrate and position Cohere within the existing advocacy ecosystem on refugee leadership.
• Monitor learning opportunities and developments relevant to Cohere’s advocacy objectives.
• Pilot the implementation of Cohere’s advocacy strategy
• Take a lead in ongoing advocacy projects (Community of Practice around barriers to meaningful refugee participation in humanitarian decision-making)
• Elaborate and execute Cohere’s advocacy strategy and ensure its complementarity with the existing initiatives, alliances and coalitions.
• Lead the work of influencing decision-makers around the advocacy strategy championed by Cohere.
• Ensure external representation at events related to Cohere’s advocacy strategy : local, and national conferences and meetings organised by other networks, INGOs, donors, UNHCR, government bodies, academics, and ensure RLO participation to these same events.
• Lead the direction of publications and interventions linked to Cohere’s advocacy.
• Lead the editorial consistency of Cohere’s communications strategy elements that relate to advocacy.
• Lead the M&E and reporting of Cohere’s advocacy strategy.

Ensure Cohere’s exemplarity and synergy between its operations and advocacy.
• Actively contribute to the synergy between Cohere’s four strategic objectives (advocacy, funding, coordination, capacity-sharing).
• Along with DEI consultants and the DEI officer, actively contribute to ensuring the synergy between Cohere’s internal transformation and its advocacy.
• Strengthen Cohere’s strategy to support and collaborate, and complement RLO partners’ advocacy.

Contribute to the operational direction of Cohere
• Contribute to Cohere’s broader strategies, leadership initiatives and operations.
• Contribute to ensuring accessibility to diverse and relevant refugees in Cohere’s leadership.
• Contribute to organising and facilitating internal meetings.
• Ensure coordination of Cohere’s advocacy department with other departments.

Manage the resources of the Advocacy department
• Monitor the budget of the advocacy department.
• Support the DEI officer in gaining competences in advocacy (mentorship, information sharing, professional development)
• Secure legal counsel when necessary

Your profile
• You have robust experience working for a refugee-led organisation or a community-based organisation working with displaced communities, and/or a master’s degree in international relations, social sciences, development studies, or similar fields.
• You have a robust and demonstrated experience in policy analysis, data collection, qualitative and quantitative analysis and interpretation, writing and production of reports, policy briefs and publications.
• You have demonstrated experience in being exposed to, influencing and negotiating with high-level stakeholders (NGO leadership, UN agencies, and governments)
• You have a good knowledge of the localisation and “meaningful refugee participation” agendas, of the DEI principles, and of the stakeholders from the refugee leadership advocacy ecosystem. Ideally, you have previous experience working in those fields.

You also have:
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, with an ability to develop and maintain relationships according to interests.
• A passion for systemic change, particularly to dismantling top-down approaches and unequal power distribution in the humanitarian and forced displacement fields.
• A demonstrated ability to lead a department (management, budget tracking).
• An ability to lead in broader initiatives around diversity, equity and inclusion at Cohere.
• You have excellent writing skills and oral communication skills in English. Kiswahili, Luganda, or a language spoken by one or more refugee communities around the world is an asset.


Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

Please be sure that the application includes the following:
Your answers to this application form
A CV of 3 pages maximum
One or more relevant work samples that demonstrate your past work in advocacy
CVs and work samples can be sent to Julia Zahreddine j.zahreddine@wearecohere.org  and to jobs@wearecohere.org , with the title “Application - Head of Advocacy [your full name]”.
Please be sure to send the answers to the application form and all documents simultaneously, and to respect the application process thoroughly. Please also note that applications with missing elements will be disqualified. Candidates shortlisted will have to go through a written test to be completed within a three-hour window according to their availability. Candidates having succeeded to the test will attend an oral interview (in person or remotely).


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