Job Description
The Role:
Reporting to the Senior Advocacy Adviser, the Advocacy Adviser for Africa, will support the delivery of the Center’s strategic policy and advocacy objectives, working with key partners to build, strengthen and implement SRHR standards and norms regionally and internationally.
This position will be based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Primary Responsibilities:
Technical support and Norm building:
• Lead in engagement with the regional and sub regional human rights mechanisms.
• Provide technical support to regional human rights mechanisms and support special Mandates and procedures in executing their mandates as necessary.
• Support partner capacity strengthening for an increased engagement with Human rights mechanisms.
• Deliver a range of influencing activities including events, publications, drafting position papers and briefings, convening policy dialogue with policymakers, among others.
• Follow key influencing processes and provide briefings and updates as required to relevant Center staff and partners.
• Map out key influencers that the Center should engage with on the SDGs and AU policy processes working closely with the relevant partners and strategic allies.
• Represent the Center and engage with a range of key external stakeholders, including government officials, regional and global institutions, think tanks, academics, private sector and other key advocacy audiences.
• Draft and communicate analysis and insight of key policy and political trends and issues for internal and external audiences.
• Work with the Africa team to deliver the overall policy and campaigns strategy and organizational priorities.
• Track, monitor and evaluate the Center’s influencing strategies and contribute to team planning, budgeting, and annual reporting.
Implementation
• Lead in implementation of court decisions in Kenya and collaborate with partners for implementation in the focal countries.
• Build relationships with relevant line ministries and legislators in Kenya.
• Support partner efforts towards national level legislative and policy processes in the focal countries.
• Coordinate strategic advocacy partnerships for purposes of implementation.
• Support national level implementation of decisions and recommendations from human rights mechanisms (UN & regional)
• Develop project agreements, as needed, and monitor activities and expenses relating to them.
General
• Any other relevant duties as may be assigned from time to time.
Qualifications:
• Degree in law, human rights or other relevant degree required with 5+years’ professional and/or relevant experience.
• Knowledge of international human rights, women’s rights, Africa regional and global human rights mechanism.
• Ability to travel and, when required, to work outside normal office hours.
• Demonstrable Experience in:
o successfully achieving advocacy objectives and achieving policy change, in the context of NGO influencing agenda.
o designing and delivering successful advocacy strategies.
• Strategic understanding of the political trends, opportunities, and challenges in international development and of the African and international political landscape.
• Designing and delivering successful advocacy strategies
• Commitment to the values of the Centre for Reproductive Rights.
• Strong relationship building and networking skills.
• Strong facilitation and negotiation skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including writing, editing and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate complex policy propositions to a range of audiences (external and internal).
• Analytical, creative, and proactive in approach.
• Good at planning, organizing and work structuring.
• Flexible while working in fast-paced diversified work environment.
Critical Competencies:
• Strategic thinking: Applies big-picture thinking while also focusing on the details of implementation.
• Decisiveness: Consistently makes sound decisions in a timely manner supportive of the Center's mission, core values, and strategic objectives. Blends vision and judgment.
• Collaboration: Brings a track record of working effectively with various and diverse individuals and groups, and a willingness to actively listen and invite different views and opinions across all levels of the institution to build alignment in support of a common goal.
• Receives and Provides Direct Feedback: Actively gives and requests feedback to and from peers, supervisors and direct reports (if applicable) about work products, behaviors, values, style and approaches with a view on how this impacts self, other individuals and teams.
• Transparency: Consistently applies openness and honesty in communicating decisions and plans to team members.
• Commitment to learn: Applies a growth mentality to their own and their team’s (if applicable) development. Promotes a culture of learning by modeling inquisitiveness and an openness to viewing mistakes as an opportunity to learn and improve.
• Passion for Coaching, and Mentoring Staff: Empowers and motivates employees and creates opportunities for learning, development, and leadership, with a focus on harnessing skills for the future development of team members. (if applicable)
• Accountability: Follows through on each commitment made to individual contributors, teams and partners and proactively informs others of any delays that occur along the way. Holds team members accountable.
• Integrity: Possesses impeccable integrity and personal and professional values that are consistent with the Center’s high standards and mission.
• Empathy: Serves as an empathetic, approachable leader who engenders trust and confidence. (if applicable)
• Adaptability/Flexibility: Demonstrates comfort with ambiguity and calculated risk.
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