Advocacy & Communication Coordinator

Key Responsibilities:
Communications and Media Engagement

• In collaboration with Global Communications Team, develop and implement a Sudan-specific media and communications strategy, including a country media plan with lines to take, ensuring risk analyses inform any public positions and sign-off procedures are followed.
• Execute digital communications strategies and manage social media platforms in line with NP standards and as agreed with the Head of Mission and Global team.
• Source, research, write and share compelling stories, photographs and videos that demonstrate NP Sudan’s impact, including child-focused content for digital channels, marketing, fundraising, and donor engagement.
• Train and advise partners on gathering quality content and ensure all materials meet NP child protection, informed consent and data protection standards.
• In collaboration with the Global Communications Team, regularly pitch stories, photos and other resource ideas.
• Train and collaborate with NP Sudan programme and field staff to collect content suitable for local media, international outlets and blogs in line with donor requirements.
• In collaboration with the Global Communications Team, support staff capacity development on communications, branding and donor accountability through systematic training in compliance with NP policies including social media standards.

Policy and Advocacy

• In collaboration with NP Sudan, HQ, Global and Regional teams, develop and implement a Sudan-specific advocacy and policy strategy aligned to the overall country strategy, ensuring coherence between advocacy and programmatic priorities.
• Produce high-quality, evidence-based policy analysis, briefing papers and position statements on key humanitarian, displacement, conflict and protection trends.
• Identify and coordinate NP Sudan’s advocacy response to prioritised issues at country and international levels.
• Represent NP in key fora and to relevant stakeholders, including in relevant Sudan specific advocacy and policy spaces.
• Strengthen strategic advocacy networks and identify opportunities for joint advocacy.
• Lead or contribute to relevant in-country advocacy objectives within the humanitarian community in Sudan.
• Liaise with NP Country, Regional and Global Representation Offices to coordinate messaging and maximise impact.
• Serve as a focal point between NP Sudan and the Global Policy and Advocacy and Global Communications teams, ensuring consistent and open information-sharing.

Specific responsibilities:

1. Strategically and ethically raise issues and voices of displaced people in Sudan to the attention of decision-makers, duty-bearers, and the public, through both traditional and innovative means.
2. Increase accountability of NP Sudan through providing regular and consistent information publicly, about the situations we are responding to and the state of our response (or contributions to coordinated responses).
3. Contribute to solving Country Office and Field Offices problem, protection, and programme analyses and ‘systems thinking’ with a policy lens and a public interest lens, and subsequently promote that relevant policy, advocacy, and communications elements are integrated when designing responses and strategies.
4. Coordinate and monitor implementation and impact of NP Sudan advocacy and media plans and strategies.
5. Prepare high quality briefings, reports, press statements, letters, and other communications materials (including visual, digital, and social media) for internal coordination and external use.
6. Gather and analyse primary data, evidence, testimony, and visual stock, from displacement- and conflict-affected people, either directly or indirectly through NP staff or outsourced means (e.g. to a research firm, photographer), in a manner aligned with NP’s standards of informed consent and data protection.
7. Focus capacity development and transfer of responsibilities to Sudanese advocates, spokespeople, and social media champions.
8. Liaise with Global Advocacy and Communication team on response local events, NP’s work and key humanitarian issues.
9. Perform other tasks as requested by the Head of Mission and Head of Programmes.
10. If requested/delegated by the HoM:
    1. Support coordination fora on specific advocacy plans, objectives, or products, e.g. for the Protection cluster, NGO Forum, Durable Solutions Working Group etc.
    2. Support as an on-record, public spokesperson on agreed talking points.
    3. Support with off-record information provision to trusted persons working in the best interests of displacement- and conflict-affected people.
    4. Support facilitation and/or accompaniment of external media personnel visits.
    5. Support resource mobilisation efforts, brand recognition, and project visibility requirements requiring media/social media outreach.
    6. Support the crisis management team, if formed, with crisis communications capacity.
    7. Support the Country management and area management teams, with communications input into humanitarian access negotiation and civil-military coordination preparations and debriefing.

     How to apply

• Candidates meeting the above requirements are requested to submit a CV (max. 2 pages) and cover letter (max. 1 page), through our website detailing their experience and how they qualify for the role. Incomplete applications will not be considered.