Advocacy and Communication Coordinator

Erbil or Baghdad

In 2003, , DRC turned one of many first organisations to offer humanitarian help within the nation. Immediately, DRC continues to offer humanitarian help to probably the most weak displacement-affected households, together with IDPs, returnees, and host communities in Basra, Baqubah, Jalawla, Gatoon, Baghdad, Muqdadiya, Balad, Aziz Balad, Samarra, Mosul, Duhok, Tel Afar, Baa’j, Sinjar, and Erbil.

Discover extra about DRC operations in Iraq right here: Iraq DRC Danish Refugee Council

The Danish Refugee Council, one of many world’s main humanitarian NGOs, is at the moment searching for a extremely certified Advocacy and Communication Coordinator

Concerning the job

Assist the DRC Iraq program in advocating for the rights and safety of the displaced inhabitants in Iraq by main advocacy efforts in partnership with different stakeholders, NGOs, UN Businesses, and dealing teams. Make sure the experience and affect of DRC are successfully communicated throughout channels and assist the organisation’s program and technique. . Your essential duties and duties can be:

Advocacy

Conduct the next in shut session with the CD and the Head of Packages:

• Lead the supply of the advocacy technique in coordination with SMT and related technical programme employees, together with offering updates on progress in the direction of the technique and reviewing relevance at outlined intervals.
• Develop and replace speaking factors, topline messaging, and advocacy duties for DRC Iraq; Assist in creating messaging for and actions round key nationwide coverage responses and frameworks, in addition to different elements resembling UN coordination, safety issues, funding for the response, safety and present and future challenges that have an effect on displaced populations and their entry to humanitarian help and safety providers;
• Maintain up to date disaster data paperwork on Iraq, detailing the present context, safety issues, and regulatory conditions;
• Draft and assist the manufacturing of advocacy merchandise as outlined within the advocacy technique to be used on the nation, regional, and worldwide ranges; present well timed contextual updates and key messages to the DRC advocacy community, together with within the area, HQ, and DRC representations.
• Construct relationships with key advocacy targets immediately and thru supporting the CD and different SMT members as related, together with throughout the UN, donor group, establishments in Iraq, and Iraqi civil society. Maintain SMT and programme colleagues knowledgeable on related coverage developments and their implications for the help response in Iraq.
• Work with the Head of Programme, Grants Division, and technical programme employees to establish alternatives to construct advocacy actions into the programme (and programme proposals) with needed assets included.
• Assist Space managers and program managers to articulate their prime precedence advocacy targets and full advocacy based mostly on programmatic wants;
• Determine and information the administration on key advocacy alternatives and targets at nationwide and regional ranges;

Communications

• Take the lead on communications instruments and merchandise, together with press releases, function tales, and case research; assist programme colleagues in challenge areas to gather high-quality case research for exterior use, following DRC do-no-harm rules and with knowledgeable consent.
• Supply and write inside and exterior publications;
• Handle DRC Iraq social media channels by an agreed technique and supply content material for world and regional social media channels.
• Lead within the growth of communications for donor necessities;

Illustration

• Guarantee DRC MERO, HQ, and DRC illustration places of work are in step with DRC Iraq advocacy technique and perceive and promote its asks;
• Liaise with key UN, NGO and different interlocutors in Iraq to make sure DRC has up-to-date info on the humanitarian state of affairs and response within the area;
• Assist nation administration and different programme employees of their work, together with creating a plan for reaching their precedence advocacy targets in each an emergency and growth context. This could embrace pointers on the significant and protected participation of beneficiaries in advocacy and communications;
• Construct networks of key informants and stakeholders inside Iraq and concerning the Iraqi context;
• Symbolize DRC in advocacy-related and (as related) regional fora associated to advocacy or as in any other case delegated by the CD, together with the Advocacy Working Group.

Different Duties

• The likelihood to behave as an English spokesperson for DRC Iraq when needed;
• Assist the senior administration workforce in taking minutes, following up, and coordinating motion plans for month-to-month conferences.

The duties listed within the JD will not be exhaustive and could also be readjusted in line with operational wants, however they’ll stay in step with the position’s general objective.

About you

To achieve success on this position we count on you to have at the very least 4 years of comparable expertise. Furthermore, we additionally count on the next:

Required

• Sturdy data of the help response response in Iraq and the position of worldwide NGOs, Iraqi civil society, and the United Nations.
• Important expertise in advocacy, ideally specializing in displacement, support responses (humanitarian or growth), or human rights. s.
• Expertise in influencing and advocacy work, together with lobbying, coverage growth and knowledge provision in humanitarian points.
• Expertise and robust expertise in creating and implementing advocacy methods and campaigns.
• Excessive-level analytical and strategic considering expertise. Excessive-quality writing expertise in English and Arabic.
• Cultural consciousness and skill to construct relationships rapidly with all kinds of individuals.
• Affected person, adaptable, versatile, capable of improvise, stay responsive, and talk clearly and successfully beneath strain.
• Wonderful planning, administration and coordination expertise, with the power to organise a considerable workload comprised of complicated, numerous duties and duties.
• Sturdy communication (written and spoken) and interpersonal expertise, with expertise coordinating multicultural groups.
• Dedication to Danish Refugee Council values

Fascinating

• Intensive data of human rights and worldwide humanitarian legislation.
• Understanding of UN and donor operations at nation and regional stage.
• Wonderful expertise in advocating in the direction of authorities officers.

Most well-liked attributes and {qualifications}

• Confirmed expertise in advocacy work;
• Ideally, comparable working expertise inside an INGO within the area;
• Earlier expertise in media, media relations, advertising, or journalism a bonus;

Languages:

• Fluent in English and Arabic
• Data of Kurdish a bonus

Training:

Related diploma

On this place, you’re anticipated to show DRC’ 5 core competencies:

Striving for excellence: You deal with reaching outcomes whereas making certain an environment friendly course of.

Collaborating: You contain related events and encourage suggestions.

Taking the lead: You’re taking possession and initiative whereas aiming for innovation.

Speaking: You hear and converse successfully and truthfully.

Demonstrating integrity: You uphold and promote the very best requirements of moral {and professional} conduct in relation to our values and Code of Conduct, together with safeguarding in opposition to sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment.

WE OFFER

• Contract Size: 12 months
• Wage Band: F (non-management)
• Begin Date: As quickly as attainable
• Complete medical health insurance for workers, partner, and as much as two kids beneath 18.
• Private Accident insurance coverage protection within the occasion of work-related accidents throughout working hours.
• Psychosocial assist for workers and relations.
• Studying & Growth alternatives for skilled progress.

Wage and circumstances can be in accordance with the Danish Refugee Council’s Phrases of Employment for Nationwide Employees. Please confer with drc.ngo under Vacancies.

Software course of

All candidates should add a canopy letter and an up to date CV (not than 4 pages) in English. Applications despatched by e mail won’t be thought-about.

Time limit for purposes: 13 April 2024

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