Summary
Date Posted: Saturday, October 15, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Advocacy & Campaigns Manager

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
To be successful for this role you will bring/have the following:
• Bachelor’s Degree in law, public affairs, political science, or any related field.
• At least 6 years’ experience in advocacy, lobbying, media, event management, marketing, public affairs, or any related field.

Advocacy and Technical Skills
• Strong awareness and knowledge of the Uganda context
• Significant prior experience working in advocacy on humanitarian issues, child rights, human rights, or development issues.
• Deep experience of influencing and advocacy work including lobbying, policy development and information provision in humanitarian issues at national, regional and/or international level
• Excellent skills in advocating towards government officials, humanitarian actors and UN agencies in developing countries
• Experience of and strong skills in developing and implementing advocacy strategies
• Good attention to detail
• Understanding of UN and donor operations at country level and humanitarian response-planning cycles
• Experience in working with other NGOs and coordinating inter-agency advocacy activities, strategies and products
• High-level analytical and strategic thinking skills and strong research skills
• Cultural awareness and ability to build relationships quickly with a wide variety of people
• Patience, adaptability, flexibility, and ability to improvise and remain responsive and to communicate clearly and effectively under pressure
• Excellent planning, management and coordination skills, with the ability to organise a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities
• Strong leadership skills with an ability to seek people’s views while also taking responsibility to determine the most appropriate course of action and to act decisively
• Strong communication (written and spoken), and interpersonal skills in English
• Ability to manage small teams and work across a variety of internal stakeholders.
• Good people management skills/experience and proven ability to create an environment, which encourages team working and motivates a team across various geographical areas.

General:
• Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation developing effective working relationships to deliver outstanding results for children
• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles.
• Willingness and capability to comply with all relevant Save the Children policies and procedures with respect to health and safety, security, equal opportunities and other relevant policies, including the Child Safeguarding Policy
• Ability to travel on regular basis
• Willing to commit to Save the Children's aims, values and principles


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 72

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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