Advocacy Manager

Job Description

Title: Advocacy Manager

Company Name: Action Contre la Faim (ACF)

Vacancy: 1

Age: Na

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: Tk. 125562 (Monthly)

Experience: --

Published: 2026-04-23

Application Deadline: 2026-05-06

Education:

Requirements: --

Skills Required:

Additional Requirements:

Responsibilities & Context:

OBJECTIVE 1: To promotes the integration of anticipatory action, early warning, and forecast based disaster risk financing into key government policies, frameworks, and operational mechanisms. (30%)

• Develop, refine, and implement an evidence based advocacy strategy aligned with project goals.

• Identify policy gaps, opportunities, and system barriers related to anticipatory action, early warning, and disaster risk financing.

• Advocate for integration of AA into national policies such as Standing Orders on Disaster (SOD), national EWEA systems, and local disaster management plans.

• Promote adoption of pre arranged financing and trigger mechanisms within government systems.

OBJECTIVE 2: To strengthen liaison, Networking and coordination(20%)

• Represent the project in national and humanitarian coordination meetings.

• Build strong partnerships with UN agencies, INGOs, research groups, and local NGOs working on Anticipatory Action and DRR.

• Support joint advocacy by helping create common messages and shared influence strategies.

• Maintain effective communication and networking with stakeholders across different sectors.

• Lead the organization of policy dialogues, workshops, and events with experts from various fields.

• Build and sustain trusted relationships with key government institutions (MoDMR, DDM, BMD, BWDB, BDRCS/CPP, district committees).

• Facilitate technical groups, policy discussions, and roundtables at national and local levels.

• Help government partners improve or develop governance systems for Anticipatory Action (e.g., protocols, triggers, decision-making).

• Ensure the project’s advocacy aligns with national strategies on DRR, climate change, and humanitarian response.

OBJECTIVE 3 : Evidence Generation & Knowledge Translation (15%)

• Work with technical teams to translate scientific data, risk modelling, and impact studies into accessible advocacy products.

• Produce high-quality policy briefs, position papers, guidance notes, talking points, and donor briefing documents.

• Ensure timely dissemination of lessons learned to inform policy and system reforms.

OBJECTIVE 4 : Uphold organization policies and cross cutting issues(20%)

• Adhere key organization polities such as gender policy, safe guarding policies, data protection policy, code and conduct, do no harm principles.

• Ensure accountability to project beneficiaries and affected population

• Ensure team building principles with the project team as well as partners project team

• Uphold localization principle through with local partners and stakeholder

• Uphold partnership principles while working with local partners

Objective 6: Proactively support ACFs commitments to gender equality, child protection and disability sensitivity

• Read and ensure a full understanding of ACFs Gender Minimum Standards & Child Protection Policies, asking questions and/or for support when necessary

• Implement all work related activities with a gender, disability and child protection lens, taking into account the different needs, concerns and ideas of our staff and beneficiaries

• Ensure the incorporation of gender equity principles in all policies and activities

• Encourage the participation of all genders in meeting and on committee;

• Help build an inclusive office environment where people do not feel disadvantaged or judged according to their gender or limited due to manageable disability.

Other Benefits

* Festival Bonus

* Provident Fund

* End of Contract Benefits

* Life and accident insurance from joining day

* Group Life insurance

* Hospitalization and OPD as per organizational policy

PAID LEAVES:

* 18 days of paid leave

* 10 days of paid casual leave

* Up to 01 month of paid sick leave per year

* Up to 26 calendar week`s maternity leave

* Paternity leave, Marriage leave etc.