Job Title: Advocacy Officer
Hiring Organization: Options Consultancy
Location – Locality: Nairobi
Location – Region: Kenya
Industry: Service
Job Type: Full Time
Salary: KES
Date Posted: 06/04/2024
Company
Description
We are a
global team of experts and innovators tackling some of the world’s most
pressing health challenges. We work with leaders and change makers around the
globe to bring health strategies to life. We provide ideas, advice and
technical know-how that enable our partners to build a path to lasting change.
With 30 years’ experience in global health, we collaborate with our partners to
explore existing evidence, combine expertise, scale up ideas and co-create
solutions that accelerate change. This includes collaborating on policy design,
managing initiatives, building powerful coalitions and galvanising social
movements. Our impact is felt across whole communities, with a focus on women,
girls and those who have been marginalised.
As part of MSI Reproductive Choices, all our profits go back into supporting
MSI’s own mission of children by choice, not chance.
We believe in a world where everyone can access the high-quality health
services they need, without financial burden.
Position
The Girl
Generation (TGG): Support to the Africa Led Movement to End FGM/C Programme,
(TGG-ALM) is a consortium led by Options Consultancy Services, and includes
Amref Health Africa, ActionAid, Orchid Project, Africa Coordination Centre for
Abandonment of FGM/C and University of Portsmouth. It works closely with the
Population Council’s Data Hub, the programme’s data and measurement arm. The
programme envisions a world where girls and women can exercise their power and
rights and have expanded choice and agency and be free from violence, including
FGM/C.
The
programme includes two consortia working in close collaboration. Options leads
a consortium including Amref Health Africa, ActionAid UK, Orchid Project, ACCAF
and University of Portsmouth to implement the ‘Support to the Africa Led
Movement to End FGM/C. Population Council is implementing ‘The FGM/C Data Hub:
Data and Measurement Support to the Africa Led Movement to end FGM/C’.
The
programme is currently being implemented Kenya, Senegal, Ethiopia and
Somaliland.
Options
is seeking a Advocacy Officer will be responsible for supporting the TGG-ALM
advocacy team. By being hands-on in supporting and implementing a multi-country
advocacy strategy. They will also work along TGG-ALM communication team to
ensure Advocacy and communication messages are aligned at all times, across
countries and partners, and supports with identifying and implementing external
opportunities for advocacy & campaigning at the global and regional level,
coordinating the development of campaign materials across partners and
supporting the CAMB Technical Working Group in bringing together the different
advocates from the various partner organizations
The
Advocacy Officer will:
Provide
substantive support to the planning and design of outreach/advocacy strategies
and plans
Support
the design, implementation and assessment of TGG-ALM’s advocacy strategies and
campaigns
Support
movement building, partnerships and resource leveraging work
Support
Knowledge and Research efforts in the TGG-ALM Advocacy Team
Represent
Options’ and TGG-ALM’s broader interests
Requirements
Proven
ability to support coordination of complex international advocacy and
communications interventions, with experience in relevant African countries
Leveraging
the resources of national governments and partners and building strategic
alliances and partnerships.
Experience
of developing and maintaining successful relationships and partnerships with a
diverse range of organisations and consultants
Significant
experience working on gender, women’s empowerment or ending FGM programmes and
campaigns.
Experience
in developing and managing the rollout of communications programmes and media
strategies
Experience
in high profile representation
Experience
of managing large DFID/FCDO programmes, being a key point of contact with the
client
Experience
in fundraising / business development
Other
information
Benefits
Options
offers a comprehensive benefits package including 25 days annual leave,
Birthday Day off, well-being day off, pension, 13th-month pay and generous
medical cover.