Senior International Advocacy Manager

By the time you’ve read this advert, another life will have been lost to the water … you can help change that.

Globally, drowning is a ‘silent epidemic’, responsible for over 235,000 lost lives each year. In many countries drowning is a leading cause of child mortality, yet drowning prevention often goes unrecognised and is under-resourced; lacking global champions and crowded out of the political space. We can change that … with your help.

We’re looking for a Senior International Advocacy Manager to join our International Team and help the RNLI ensure that political commitment for drowning prevention generates tangible action to save lives.

Some of the benefits

• Starting salary £48,521 (UK) or €62,937 (Ireland) dependent on experience
• Flexible working
• 26 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Outstanding pension scheme (contributions of up to 16% of basic salary)
• Life assurance
• Health and dental cashplan

Your Role

As a Senior International Advocacy Manager, you will be tasked with focus on the following areas:

• Play a leading role in the implementation of the RNLI’s Global Influence Strategy, with the aim of convening and convincing development stakeholders of the imperative and opportunity to act on drowning.
• Be responsible for managing strategic partnerships with priority stakeholders, including relevant UN agencies.
• Support the development of advocacy and influencing capacity and capability across the RNLI and partner organisations.
• Gather, interpret, and share political intelligence to inform effective RNLI international advocacy and influencing.
• Help shape the RNLI’s international evidence priorities and products, supporting plans for the uptake and use of evidence and research for drowning prevention by decision makers.
• Ensure high quality delivery of events, activities and communications e.g. roundtables, side events, policy recommendations, position papers, briefings and consultations.

About You

You’ll be someone who can buy-into and help achieve an ambitious vision to end drowning globally. You may have specific experience in advocacy related to a specific sector including, livelihoods, climate change or disaster risk reduction, and want to find ways to connect this with the issue of drowning prevention.

To be considered as a Senior International Advocacy Manager you will need to demonstrate experience in:

• Design, delivery and evaluation of high impact advocacy and influencing activity.
• Building strong collaborative networks and partnerships, externally and internally.
• Supporting colleagues and in-country partners to develop influencing capacity and capability
• Being a great communicator, with the ability to effectively communicate complex ideas and able to tailor communication style to influence different stakeholders.
• Effective management of partnerships and projects, developing agreements and workplans, identifying budget and resource requirements, and monitoring progress.

You must be willing and able to travel internationally for this role. You’ll be working closely with partners in at least one of the countries connected to our work. Some countries may require specific vaccines and visas before entry and therefore it is a requirement of the role to have these when required. In this role we would expect between 6 – 8 weeks of international travel per year.

So, if you have strong communication, insight and influencing skills and want to see how creating awareness and generating action on a neglected issue supports our organisation’s aim to reduce drowning globally, this could be the role for you. Please apply via the button shown.

All our International roles are subject to satisfactory References and International Child Protection checks.

Safeguarding

The RNLI is committed to safeguarding; ensuring the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk. We expect all employees and volunteers to share this commitment and have a zero tolerance approach to proven incidents of bullying, abuse, harassment or exploitation. The suitability of all prospective employees and volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment. This will include relevant criminal record checks being carried out dependent on the eligibility of the role. (England & Wales; DBS check, Scotland; Disclosure Scotland PVG, Northern Ireland; Access NI, Republic of Ireland; Garda Vetting; International, International Child Protection Certificate process).

Diversity at the RNLI

Our staff and volunteers have been saving lives at sea without prejudice for nearly 200 years. We respect and value diversity of background, skills and perspectives within our teams, and consider it essential to help us deliver a world-class lifesaving service. We are an inclusive organisation and welcome applications from everyone. In addition to having the skills needed for the role, we also look for applicants who share our commitment to living our RNLI values (trustworthy, courageous, selfless, and dependable), and helping us work towards Our Vision: To save Every One.