Yayasan Sayangi Tunas Cilik seeks Policy Advocacy Manager based in Jakarta

Save the Children in Indonesia is changing for the better. We've begun to build a national organization that aims to be a strong, local, and self-sustaining voice for children in Indonesia. To this end, SC Indonesia has been designated as a “Prospect Member”. As ‘Prospect Member’ Indonesia has been identified as part of the next way of new member development, which focuses on strengthening and localizing our voice for children in strategic middle income countries. Indonesia has been authorized by member ballot to start fundraising locally as a first step towards building a financially sustainable local organization. Future work will also involve developing a strong local governance structure and building key partnerships with local government, the private sector, local civil society among others. Success of the pilot phase will set the Indonesia on a pathway to full membership. We are currently seeking to fill the following position:

 

 

POLICY ADVOCACY MANAGER (PAM)

1 position, based in Jakarta

Code : PAM-CO

ROLE PURPOSE:

Advocacy is central to securing lasting change in children’s lives and is a key aspect of Save the Children’s Theory of Change: be the voice – build partnerships – innovate – achieve results at scale. Policy Advocacy Manager in his/her capacity is responsible to ensure excellence delivery of advocacy strategy and policy works to members and their donors, in both emergency and development contexts. She/he will work with the Director of Advocacy and Campaign to provide overall leadership, vision, strategic direction and management of YSTC’s policy advocacy work across thematic areas and ensure that advocacy is an integral part of Save the Children’s Theory of Change. Specifically, he/she is responsible for external policy analysis and policy advocacy strategy development for the country office supporting primarily on inequality that will influence government and institutions in changing and/or strengthening the implementation policies and practices to fulfil children’s rights

Policy Advocacy Manager will develop and implement a humanitarian advocacy strategy for the emergency phase that links to existing advocacy priorities of the team in respect to ongoing advocacy engagement with key national stakeholders in relation to Child Rights Governance (CRG) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). The function will be a focal person for advocacy enquiries in the Response Team and from Save the Children International and individual Save the Children members. The function will be part of the Humanitarian Team in order to ensure that key advocacy messages and strategies are informed by the response. She/he shall be able to be deployed to any other humanitarian areas to provide support on advocacy side.

SCOPE OF ROLE

Reports to: Advocacy and Campaign Director

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor degree or at least 10 years working in advocacy in an area of social development or equivalent
• Prior experience working in an emergency response contexts
• Significant prior experience working in advocacy on humanitarian issues, child rights, human rights, or development issues, preferably in emergency response contexts or fragile states

·       Experience of influencing and policy 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 humanitarian advocacy strategies

• Strong communication (written and spoken), and interpersonal skills in English, with experience in managing multicultural teams

·       Good attention to detail

·       Extensive knowledge of child rights and international humanitarian law

·       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
• Experience in working with other NGOs and coordinating inter-agency advocacy activities, strategies and products
• Commitment to Save the Children values

Please visit our site for more detail:

https://www.stc.or.id/join-us/karir

Sayangi Tunas Cilik | Karir www.stc.or.id Yayasan Sayangi Tunas Cilik partner of Save the Children in Indonesia is changing for the better. We've begun to build a national organisation that aims to be a strong, local, and self-sustaining voice for children in Indonesia namely Yayasan Sayangi Tunas Cilik Tunas Cilik.

 

Updated CV and application letter should be sent to recruitment.indonesia@savethechildren.org

Please fill the “subject” column of the e-mails in this format: <PAM-CO ><your name>

Closing date for application is up to 21 November 2018

(Only short-listed candidates will be notified)

 

 

Save the Children encourages qualified candidates to apply regardless of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation or disability

All recruitment practices and procedures reflect Save the Children’s commitment to protecting children from abuse