CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
ROLE PURPOSE:
The ACCM Manager will be responsible for the development and delivery of the BRACE programme’s Advocacy, Campaigns, Communication and Media (ACCM) strategy and activities, in alignment with the organization’s overall mission and the South Sudan Country Office’s (CO) Country Strategic Plan as well as the BRACE programme’s programmatic objectives and advocacy, policy, communications and media priorities. S/he will take the lead in designing and delivering innovative advocacy, influencing and media strategies to influence policies, decisions and practices including through child participatory, especially child-led ways of working to achieve positive and lasting change for children in South Sudan.
In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: BRACE Consortium Manager, with dotted line to the Chief of Party Education and the lead of the CO’s ACCM Department.
Key working relations: BRACE Consortium Team, including UN and local NGO partners, Country Office ACCM Team, broader Programme Operations and Impact & Influence Department teams
Staff reporting to this post: None
Budget Responsibilities: None
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Advocacy:
- Lead the overall design and implementation of the consortium’s ACCM strategy and activities, coordinating with relevant global, regional and member stakeholders across Save the Children, other country offices and key external government, UN, international and national NGO partners and other stakeholders.
- Lead on the development and implementation of impactful research and advocacy products related to the consortium’s strategic priorities, for use at the country, regional and international levels.
- Ensure that all advocacy messages, documents, and strategies are evidence-based, drawn from our programme experience, and where possible reflect the input and engagement of children we work with.
- Provide technical leadership and steer to senior management and other departments around ACCM priority initiatives and events.
- Draft and distribute high-quality reports, policy briefings, and letters to government, policymakers, and other stakeholders.
- Ensure close integration of advocacy and campaigns approaches and messaging.
- Develop and maintain relations with key advocacy coordination groups across local, national, and international organizations in South Sudan, providing input and support to joined up advocacy plans and activities.
- In line with Save the Children International’s policies on Safeguarding, work closely with child safeguarding and protection colleagues to ensure that all children involved in ACCM work are protected from any potential harm or repercussions.
Campaigns:
- Support the development and implementation of a strategic approach to strengthening meaningful and safe child-led campaigning and participation.
- Develop key campaign messaging and narratives that reflect the needs, experiences, and inputs of the children we work with.
Communications:
- Identify and document stories and case studies that give voice to children and their needs and/or the impact of our work to support consortium-level communications, media, advocacy, and fundraising materials.
- Develop and implement the consortium’s social media plan that supports campaign priorities and communicates the impact of our work, with a focus on children’s voices and experiences.
- Develop compelling content for social media channels and website (quotes, photos, interviews, videos, animations, impact stories) and update daily the social media tracker.
- Produce, develop and design content and layout of creative promotional materials such as country reports, fact sheets, multimedia products, case studies and newsletters as required for different audiences.
- Regularly update the consortium/programme-level comms pack.
- Support events such as workshops, conferences, media and press visits and webinars.
- Ensure that the branding and communication guidelines of Save the Children are uniformly and consistently followed across the consortium’s work and ACCM activities.
- Management of internal communications content, including archiving, and uploading daily on Content Hub and other platforms.
Media:
- Proactively establish and manage relationships with key national media contacts.
- Assess and evaluate media requests, balancing opportunities with risks.
- Deliver media visits, content collection trips, etc., as needed.
- Write press releases and other media materials suitable for national and/or international media, as appropriate.
- Liaise with the Country Office Media and Communications Manager as well as regional and global media teams on key messages, narratives, and anticipation of risks.
- Ensure the Country Director is adequately briefed and prepared to participate in any media interviews about the programme.
- Overall responsibility for ensuring Save the Children child safeguarding policies and processes are followed in relation to all media activities.
Capacity Building, Representation, Partnerships and Networking:
- Identify key opportunities and events for the Consortium Team and the Country Office to position itself as a leading organization and thought leader for children’s issues in the country, in particular education & climate resilience programming.
- Take lead in provision of capacity-building on advocacy and influencing to key staff and partners.
- Ensure capacity building of relevant consortium SCI and partner staff in meaningful and effective child participation to effectively implement ACCM related activities and child-led ways of working.
- In consultation with Consortium and Country Office senior leadership, represent the Consortium at high-level events and roundtables & key policy/advocacy events.
- Build and maintain effective, collaborative strategic relationships with the government, UN agencies and other national and international agencies to influence them on child rights-based programming, in particular on rights related to education access and quality and climate resilience.
- Perform any other relevant duties as requested by line manager.
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning.
- Ensure effective monitoring and evaluation of the implementation and impact of the ACCM strategy in line with overall Country Office and programme/consortium-level MEAL processes and methodologies, to continuously improve the way we work for children.
- Feed into Country Office, regional and global MEAL reporting systems and mechanisms on the programme’s ACCM outputs and results.
BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
- holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition:
- sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
- widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
- builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
- values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
- approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
- develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
- honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
QUALIFICATIONS
Degree in relevant field such as Social Science, Human Rights, Governance, Development policies, Communications and Media etc
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS.
Essential
- A minimum of five years working experience in advocacy, campaigns, communications, and media engagements demonstrating increasing levels of seniority to Manager level.
- Strong understanding of approaches for communicating information to a wide range of audiences
- Ability to multi task, work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines, responsive to external requests and strong team player.
- Strong understanding of context and government policy processes.
- Excellent writing and communication skills with excellent command of the English language
- Proven ability to communicate verbally with a wide range of actors and audiences
- Ability to review and edit reports and products (in English) for dissemination and publications
- Experience in identifying target audiences and devising engagement and advocacy strategies to inform, influence and motivate current and potential partners
- Previous experience of working on child rights issues in a humanitarian and/or development context.
- Excellent writing skills for the preparation of newsletters, brochures, documents, reports and correspondence
- Strong understanding of and experience in different advocacy methods and tactics.
- Ability and willingness to dramatically change work practices and hours, and work with incoming surge teams, in the event of emergencies.
- Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in a matrix management environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
Desirable:
- Previous experience in working on education and/or climate resilience themes is a strong asset.
- Previous experience in consortium-level roles with a strong understanding of consortium-level approaches and ways of working is a strong asset.
- Previous experience in working with Save the Children in South Sudan is a strong asset.
Additional job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.
Equal Opportunities
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.
Child Safeguarding:
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Safeguarding our Staff:
The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy
Health and Safety
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.