Humanitarian and Protection Advocacy Advisor, DRC 110 views0 applications

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BACKGROUND:

World Vision has been delivering relief, advocacy and development programs to conflict, disaster-affected and poverty-stricken populations in DRC since 1984, with most vulnerable children being at the centre of all we do. Currently, WV operates in 13 out of 26 provinces, with programming in protection, health, nutrition, water and sanitation, food assistance, food security, livelihoods, peacebuilding and emergency relief. World Vision DRC has undertaken humanitarian advocacy for many years. Over the past few years this has included several evidence-based research engagements on ending Violence against children, the impact of Ebola and war on child protection in the DRC and barriers of weak

prevention measures against Ebola.

World Vision has been responding to a series of protracted crisis in the country, including in North and South Kivu, in the Kasais on Ebola in North Kivu, the CAR refugee’s situation in Nord Ubangi and the ongoing conflict in the Tanganyika. WV DRC has reached more than 3 million beneficiaries over the last 3years via its emergency response programs.

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:

The role of the Humanitarian and Protection Advocacy Advisor is to manage humanitarian protection and advocacy work across all emergency and fragile locations in DRC delivering on strategic WVDRC advocacy and protection objectives. This will re-enforce WV DRC’s ability to credibly engage with the UN, local authorities, international donors and decision makers for improved humanitarian response, helping WV DRC leverage its presence, results and brand for maximizing impact to transform the lives of most vulnerable children and their communities in the DRC.

It will ensure the following:

• Improved access for children to short term and longer-term humanitarian assistance and protection.
• Implementation of World Vision’s campaign to end violence against children.
• Improved coordination in response to the protection needs of the affected population, especially children (among local authorities, donors, multilaterals, UN and NGOs).

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Strategy and Policy Development:

• Implement, and when needed update, the WVDRC Response humanitarian advocacy strategy focusing on issues of child protection, humanitarian access, coordination and funding for children and civil-military relations as necessary.
• Input into the regionally managed Indicator Tracking Table for the Advocacy Response Group (ARG) to show global progress towards policy change objectives.
• Provide ongoing, bi-weekly context analysis of the unfolding situation on the ground based on operational, security, humanitarian and political changes to the WVDRC National director, Regional Office and Support Offices.
• Promote & foster relationships and collaborations with other WVDRC Response team members – in particular working closely and in complementarity with Protection and Communications Advisors with a focus on areas related to child protection.
• Regularly attend the Senior Management Team meetings and participate in other relevant information sharing with the Response Team.

Representation and External Engagement:

• Leverage partnerships with peer agencies, governments and donors to scale advocacy for improved protection, services and programs for children affected by the humanitarian crisis of the DRC.
• Represent WV DRC in dialogue with external stakeholders on core humanitarian concerns requiring advocacy engagement, including (but not limited to) issues of child protection, protection of civilians, civ/mil engagement, humanitarian access, IHL, humanitarian principles, and community engagement.
• Build relationships and collaborations with relevant actors (UN, humanitarian, MONUSCO, local governments, media), who in turn reach out to WV DRC for inputs and opinion as a valuable expert on matters of protection of children and civilians.
• Lead and actively participate in humanitarian advocacy initiatives of the INGO Forum, supports WV DRC ND engagement with the INGO Forum, Chef de Mission Forum, Comite Regional Inter-Organisations, and UN humanitarian actors in Kinshasa as necessary.

Advocacy and Policy Influence:

• Coordinate and develop policy evidence and advocacy messaging to influence action by external stakeholders on Response priorities, namely humanitarian protection, child protection, the effectiveness of the humanitarian response, and effectiveness of transition management (from crisis to recovery and links to resilience).
• Within the scope of WVI’s global campaign, It Takes a World, manage the campaign implementation in the Response, and integrate the campaign in protection programming.
• Mobilize and effectively leverage WV’s global partnership (Support Offices, Regional Offices, Geneva, New York, EU) to amplify advocacy with donors and actors of influence on key humanitarian concerns through timely provision of key messages, context analysis and policy products.
• Consistently works with the Emergency Communication Manager to provide evidence, messaging and action items to external stakeholders, including media, on WV DRC priorities for the entire SHR projects (from crisis to recovery and links to resilience and peace building).

Proposal Development and Financial Management:

• Provide leadership to mainstreaming advocacy into new or existing grants as appropriate, in collaboration with grants and Response Teams.
• Consistently works with Children in Emergency (CIE) on project proposals to ensure integration of campaign objectives in programming.

Capacity Building:

• Oversee the provision of humanitarian advocacy training for staff particularly in areas of International Humanitarian Law, humanitarian principles, UN transformative agenda (cluster coordination, Level 3 leadership and accountability) and civil military relations as necessary. Coordinate with protection and communications stuff for wider training on protection and communications.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Master’s Degree in International Development or another relevant field or a Bachelor’s Degree with relevant work experience.
• Experience writing grants and/or developing proposals for advocacy or integration of advocacy into wider programming.
• Excellent research, problem solving, policy analysis and writing/verbal communication skills.
• Excellent understanding of the role of the UN in humanitarian emergencies, its agencies and ways of working, especially related to protection.
• Experienced in external engagement/lobbying with high level stakeholders (SRSG, RC/HC, Ministerial, Ambassadorial).
• Experiences in networking and building coalitions.
• At least 3-5 years of progressive work experience in advocacy and protection, (including child protection), and international exposure/external engagement on humanitarian emergencies or fragile country contexts.
• Excellent English and French is required.

Preferred Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

• Experience in resource acquisition.
• Good understanding of World Vision, its programs and policies.
• Experience of working in the DRC would be a plus.

Work Environment/Travel:

• Work environment: Office-based with frequent travel to the field.

• Travel: 50% travel within country to various responses is expected.