Coordinator - Advocacy

Job Description

Title: Coordinator - Advocacy

Company Name: Save the Children

Vacancy: 1

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Master's Degree, preferably in Social Sciences/Mass Communications/English or relevant discipline.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Save The Children in Bangladesh invites interested and potential candidates to apply for the above-mentioned position. Qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply. Minimum requirements will be flexible for the potential female candidates.
∎ Contract Type: Regular

Additional Requirements:
∎ At least 5 years of working experience in protection, humanitarian, campaigns, or advocacy work in humanitarian/conflict settings area including a minimum of 1 (one) year of experience working in refugee response context.
∎ Proven experience and a good understanding of the Rohingya Response program and Cox's Bazar area.
∎ Prior experience, with proven impact, working in humanitarian advocacy in a large INGO.
∎ Demonstrate experience assessing and managing risk for a large country programme in a politically sensitive context.
∎ Ability to write policy or communications products (private briefs, op-eds, press releases etc) of high quality at short notice.
∎ Sound understanding of Media and Communication products required in emergency settings.
∎ Excellent skills in advocating towards government officials, humanitarian actors, donors, and UN agencies in developing countries and emergency context.
∎ Excellent attention to detail and Cultural awareness and ability to build relationships quickly with a wide variety of people.
∎ Proven experience in computer operation in MS office specially Power Point.
∎ Excellent communication (written and spoken) and interpersonal skills in English, with experience interacting with multicultural teams.

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 23 Sep 2023

Company Information:
∎ 20 Sep 2023
∎ Save the Children
∎ Business : We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

- No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
- All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
- Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

Category: NGO/Development