Advocacy and Communication Manager

Position: Advocacy and Communication Manager PRF-2202-01006- 268

Job Location: Gaziantep, Turkey

Reporting to: Country Director

Working area: Gaziantep, Turkey

Number of positions open: 1

Last date for application: Sunday 20^th of March, 2022

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Key relationships:

Senior Manager Programs, IMU team, Syria Field Manager, Headquarters Advocacy and Communications Manager, Advocacy Manager from other SAMS country programs.

Location: Turkey Gaziantep with ability to travel in Turkey, and abroad.

General objective of the position:

The Advocacy and Communication Manager is responsible for working with advocacy and communications staff in other SAMS offices and headquarters to influence policies to improve access and humanitarian services, and protection of civilians, and humanitarian workers, and raise SAMS’ profile. The advocacy manager should be able to work on both strategic level, and daily operations.

Main tasks and responsibilities:

· Work with country director, senior management team, leadership of the organization, advocacy staff from SAMS other country programs and headquarters advocacy, media and communications staff to identify key policy areas SAMS wants to influence, e.g. access, protection, services, funding, administrative policies/issues affecting SAMS staff and operation.

· Work with country director, and headquarters advocacy and communications staff to develop SAMS advocacy strategies, policies, tactics and tools. That includes developing the advocacy campaigns that serve the organization, and supervision of implementing them.

· Map and analyze donors and partners existing and planned assessments.

· Engage with humanitarian coordination platforms.

· Work closely and communicate on daily basis with medical teams on the ground.

· Monitor data Collecting from IMU, SAMS teams on the ground, other organizations working on human rights and humanitarian response, and updates coming from other partners on the humanitarian needs in Syria.

· Liaison with local, regional, and international media, and representing SAMS on media when needed.

· Lead the media team in Turkey and Syria, that includes supervision on materials flow to HQ, supervision of content including visual one, for SAMS social media, website, and monthly newsletters in Arabic and Turkish.

· Representing the organization in humanitarian platforms including civil society alliances, donors’ meetings, UN coordination meetings, advocacy working groups, and others.

· Working on talking points, presentations, briefings for the senior leadership of the organization when they represent the organization in any platform.

· Facilitating advocacy events and trips including conferences, and trips to EU, USA, and other countries.

· Work with HQ to give the leadership updates from the ground to form the messages of the organization.

· Liaison with human rights and investigation bodies who are tracking violation against humanitarian workers.

· Build and maintain long-term relationships with key policy makers, donors and other stakeholders.

· Supervision of the liaison with Turkish governmental and non-governmental entities.

· Supervision of the budget of the advocacy activities.

Office culture

· Promote and model a positive, professional and respectful office culture.

THE CANDIDATE’S REQUIREMENTS

Mandatory Qualifications required

• University degree in Communication, Journalism, International Relations or any other related field.

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in Advocacy, Journalism, or Media.

Languages

• Fluency written and spoken in Arabic

• Advanced Written and spoken English

Competencies

• Advocacy Management skills

• Representation Capacities

• Networking Abilities

• Coordination