What we are looking for
NRC is looking for an Advocacy & Communications Manager to join the Bangladesh mission, to provide overall leadership and strategic direction to policy, communication, and advocacy work in Bangladesh. The role holder will be responsible for identifying protection concerns for advocacy, strengthening its incorporation into NRC’s activities, and guiding NRC’s messaging to promote an improved protection and humanitarian response environment.
He/she will focus on the Rohingya crisis; climate-related displacement; and regional/intra-country advocacy initiatives in close coordination and collaboration with the regional level and the Myanmar country mission.
If you are an influential and strategic leader who takes initiative; with strong communications, networking, and collaborative skills; and a background in protection, analysis, messaging, and coordination, then this is the role for you!
What you will do
- Line management, including performance management, workforce planning, recruitment, induction, development, and duty of care.
- Humanitarian and protection analysis synthesis, to inform advocacy and communications products.
- Humanitarian and protection analysis compilation, interpretation, and translation into advocacy and communications products.
- Advocacy strategy development, revision, and implementation.
- Advocacy coherence and synergies with programmes.
- Advocacy training and capacity building.
- Sectoral and operational analysis, ensuring advocacy messaging is evidence-based and validated.
- Advocacy and communications messaging strategic delivery coordination to maximise impact.
- Media lines and media strategy advice, ensuring potential risks are assessed and procedures followed.
- NRC representation, strengthen advocacy networks, and identify opportunities to advocate NRC’s position.
What you will bring
- Protection principles and advocacy knowledge.
- International legal and policy processes understanding, relating to forced displacement and migration.
- Analysis, messaging, coordination, and networking experience.
- Advanced degree, or similar qualification.
- Managerial and interpersonal skills.
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Refugee and internal displacement understanding relevant to the Bangladesh context.
- Complex, and volatile context exposure, with experience working with displacement-affected people.
- English fluency, both written and verbal.
What makes this position attractive?
- The opportunity to work in the steadily growing NRC mission of Bangladesh that has scaled up since inception in 2018 to respond to the Rohingya influx, and that has an increasingly growing portfolio and funding. NRC interventions are used to increase the acceptance of humanitarian assistance amongst Rohingya and Bangladeshi populations.
- NRC Bangladesh currently operates in Cox’s Bazar, Ukhiya, and Dhaka. NRC interventions are grounded in humanitarian principles, which guide efforts to increase acceptance of humanitarian assistance among Rohingya refugees and host communities, and to facilitate access.
- In addition to the existing Rohingya refugee response, NRC’s integrated activities are addressing the impacts of displacement from climate change in Cox’s Bazar, in the North-East and South-West parts of Bangladesh. As of 2022, NRC is working to respond to severe floods in Sylhet. Bangladesh is one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries while also hosting nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees. This is considered a protracted emergency in which displacement and recurrent climate disasters combine.
- Bangladesh remains highly disaster-prone while hosting approximately one million Rohingya refugees. The situation is now considered a protracted crisis, where displacement and recurring climate-related shocks intersect with limited humanitarian access and ongoing political pressure for repatriation. The broader humanitarian context is characterised by multiple localised emergencies, high vulnerability, and acute poverty.
- Meaningful work that responds to the diverse needs, priorities, and concerns raised by beneficiary communities. The current context is set against a backdrop of continued conflict in Rakhine State, steady attenuation of humanitarian access, and political pressure to repatriate refugees. This is characterised by multiple localised emergencies adversely affecting communities and populations with low levels of resilience, high vulnerability, and acute poverty.
- Female candidates are strongly encouraged to join our work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility.
What we offer
- Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh duty station.
- 12 month contract duration, with the possibility of extension based on performance, requirements, and funding.
- 25% travel, approximately.
- Grade 9 in NRC’s International Salary Scale, with accompanying terms and conditions. NRC offers a competitive compensation and benefits package.
- NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.
- We think outside the box, encourage ideas, and give responsibility to all employees at all levels. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take the initiative.
The full Job Description can be found on our website.
How to apply
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