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Description: 

NRC is the lead agency for the Lebanon Protection Consortium, and this position will be hosted by NRC. All NRC employees are expected to work in accordance with the organisation’s core values: dedication, innovation, inclusivity and accountability. These attitudes and believes shall guide our actions and relationships.

  1. Background:

NRC provides humanitarian aid to refugees from Syria, Palestine and vulnerable Lebanese host communities.  This assistance includes education; shelter; community management and coordination; water and sanitation; and information, counselling and legal assistance services. NRC also engages in advocacy with governments and donors to expand and safeguard refugee rights and protection.

NRC is the lead agency for an ECHO funded protection-focused programme, delivered by a consortium comprising Gruppo Volontariato Civile (GVC) and Action Contre la Faim (ACF). The challenge for humanitarian actors is to improve the overall accountability and effectiveness of aid; ensuring that programming outside of multi-purpose cash assistance is community-driven, where appropriate, and based on vulnerability analysis, prioritisation of needs and appropriate and timely response. The overall framework of the programme revolves around three inter-related and complementary outcomes to address this challenge: 1. generating the required data appropriate to inform the response and the advocacy; 2. the provision of a targeted and adequate response with clear protection outcomes; and 3. evidence-based programme advocacy with a focus on the coercive environment and ensuring effectiveness of aid.  

NRC’s Lebanon programme is now looking to recruit an experienced Advocacy Manager to be based in Beirut. Evidence-based and data-informed advocacy is a crucial factor in ensuring a more effective and coordinated humanitarian response, which works to enforce refugee protections and reduce vulnerabilities. The successful candidate will be a university graduate, or a corresponding level of relevant non-academic experience, with at least 5 years’ experience working in the field of protection or human rights, ideally in a complex and volatile humanitarian or recovery context.

This position will be hosted by the lead agency, NRC, which has been working Lebanon since 2006. Although hosted by NRC, including in terms of organisational procedures such as logistics, finance and security, there will be a degree of separation and independence of the Consortium Manager and consortium management unit, as NRC is also implementing within the consortium.

  1. Role Summary:

The Advocacy Manager advises the Consortium Management Unit, Consortium Board, and Partners on programme and rights-based advocacy with the core objective of ensuring that Consortium advocacy activities result in policy and coordination changes which improve the delivery of humanitarian aid and protection while reducing the coercive environment for refugees.

The Advocacy Manager will be responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive multi-year advocacy strategy developed in cooperation with Consortium Partners, the donor, and other stakeholders.  Activities will include a comprehensive analysis of aid effectiveness to-date in the emergency response. The result is expected to be inclusive of a comprehensive report which includes an analysis and evaluation of the successes and gaps in the delivery and coordination of humanitarian aid leads to concrete recommendations to improve the humanitarian response.

The Advocacy Manager is a member of the Consortium Management Unit and actively contributes to the strategic direction of the Consortium, including planning for subsequent years.

Generic Responsibilities:

  1. Identify and coordinate the Lebanon Protection Consortium’s advocacy response to prioritised protection and aid effectiveness issues within Lebanon.
  2. Develop and implement consortium advocacy strategy, aligned to overall consortium strategy and defined outcomes.
  3. Ensure advocacy coherence and reinforce effective synergies between consortium programme work and advocacy by working closely with consortium and partner staff to integrate advocacy into programme planning and implementation.
  4. Provide high quality analysis on key emergency response and humanitarian and displacement trends and prepare evidenced-based policy briefing papers, policy position statements and other public-facing advocacy products when strategic and relevant
  5. Liaise with consortium partners’ offices to coordinate the strategic delivery of advocacy messaging and outputs to maximise impact and ensure coordination.
  6. Represent the consortium to key stakeholders, strengthen strategic advocacy networks and identify opportunities to advocate consortium positions and recommendations.
  7. Media and public advocacy directly related to the Consortium’s work, executed in coordination with Consortium partners, ensuring and potential risks are assessed and sign-off procedures are adhered to.
  8. Oversee and be responsible of mainstreaming protection guidelines in the NRC’s related activities as per NRC’s Protection mainstreaming guidelines and ensure that all breaches/concerns reported are properly resolved.

Specific Responsibilities:

  • Liaise with and brief representatives from the Consortium, donor agencies, and the international community on Consortium advocacy findings and recommendations, including emergent events and emergency responses.
  • Convene and facilitate a stakeholder workshop to devise a multiyear advocacy strategy for the consortium.
  • Produce a detailed report which evaluates aid effectiveness and coordination in Lebanon and provides recommendations to improve the response.
  • Facilitate the coordinated elaboration of reports and outputs based on the Integrated Response Manager and Information Manager analyses using evidence-based findings.
  • Ensure that the Consortium’s advocacy strategy and defined activities are implemented according to defined programme outputs and timelines.
  • Chair the Consortium Advocacy Technical Reference Group.
  • Extensive research and evidence gathering to help strengthen policy as it pertains to protection issues and aid effectiveness and coordination.
  • Work with Consortium management and partner agencies to collect and analyse data on protection issues to inform advocacy directions, for use in the production and distribution of advocacy-focused briefs to donors, government, and the diplomatic community.
  • Produce communications materials including engaging photography, storytelling, human interest stories, and social media posts to complement advocacy efforts and for partners to use on their respective communications channels.
  • Contribute to the strategic development of the Consortium, including proposal and strategy development in relation to advocacy contribution.
  • Participate in the Lebanon Humanitarian INGO Forum Advocacy Group, United Nations Agency coordination structures, and other relevant coordinating and planning bodies.
  • Establish strategic networks and alliances for advocacy activities in close cooperation with the Consortium Management Unit and partner agency staff.
  • Design and implement an advocacy strategy focused on Palestinian rights and humanitarian needs in coordination with programme and area teams.

Critical Interfaces:

By interfaces, NRC means processes and projects that are interlinked with other departments/units or persons. Relevant interfaces for this position are:

  • Consortium Advocacy Technical Reference Group and Partners’ Advocacy Focal Points: To ensure direction and coordination with partners’ advocacy strategies and priorities.
  • Consortium Partners Programme and M&E Staff: to ensure that a sound evidence base underpins advocacy work and policy recommendations
  • Consortia Management Unit and Partners: ensure coordination and effective advocacy and communications are engaged in consortia that NRC is leading and/or participating in
  • UN, Donor and NGO Networks: to ensure effective advocacy channels are maintained inside Lebanon and that information flows to NRC
  1. Competencies:

Competencies are important in order for the employee and the organisation to deliver desired results. They are relevant for all staff and are divided into the following three categories:

1. Professional Competencies:

These are skills, knowledge and experience that are important for effective performance.

Generic professional competencies for this position:

  • Bachelor degree in Political Sciences, Journalism, Law, or any other relevant field
  • Minimum 5 years of experience from working as an Advocacy Manager/Adviser in a humanitarian/development context
  • Professional knowledge of humanitarian and protection principles
  • Communications management, including internal communications and communicating with communities
  • Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
  • Experiencing planning and overseeing communications and media planning
  • Fluency in English, both written and verbal; French is a plus

Context/specific skills, knowledge and experience:

  • Knowledge of the context in the Middle East
  • Strong writing and analytical skills
  • Knowledge of Arabic an advantage
  • Experience with humanitarian protection programmes and humanitarian policy and advocacy

2. Behavioural Competencies:

These are personal qualities that influence how successful people are in their job. NRC’s Competency Framework states 12 behavioural competencies, the following are essential for this position:

  • Planning and delivering results
  • Analyzing
  • Communicating with impact and respect
  • Strategic thinking
  • Influencing
  • Handling insecure environments
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Last modified: 
19 Oct, 2018
Intervention Sector(s):
Advocacy & Awareness
Application Deadline:
Thursday, 18 October 2018
Contract Type:
Full Time
Period of Employment:
Fixed terms until 30 April 2019; renewable based on performance, funding, and the need for the position
Salary
According to NRC Salary Scale
Salary Range:
> 3000 (USD)
Education Degree:
Bachelor Degree
Education Degree Details:
Experience Requirements:
5 to 10 years
Arabic Language:
Very Good
English Language:
Very Good
French Language:
None
Country/City: 
  • Lebanon
  • Beirut