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Communications & Advocacy Manager
locationsMansourieh, Lebanon time typeFull time posted onOffre publiée aujourd'hui time left to applyDate de fin : 29 mars 2025 (Il reste 13 jour(s) pour postuler) job requisition idJR39676 With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
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The Communications and Advocacy Manager (CAM) is responsible for the strategic oversight of World Vision Lebanon’s communications, advocacy, and external engagements through leading integrated communications strategy and advocacy plans that cultivate, enhance, and strengthen WVL’s leadership at the national level. Equally, this role supports efforts to promote WVL work and its influence on the regional and global levels through close collaboration with colleagues in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, WV support offices, and the WV global centre. This role is key to using, creative storytelling, traditional and digital media, advocacy campaigns, and strategic leadership positioning to establish WVL as a leader in humanitarian, recovery, and long-term development impact in Lebanon. Under the direction of the National Director, this role will have a unique opportunity to contribute to the evolution of WVL current communications and advocacy unit through technical excellence and an inclusive and supportive management approach that creates a culture of trust, transparency, and support for staff within the CAM unit and across the organization. The role is directly responsible for managing and mentoring a communications and advocacy staff and supporting a creative, innovative deadline driven, and ambitious communications and advocacy team culture that is excited about the possibility and potential to affect change through telling the WVL story and advancing its efforts to influence the wellbeing of children throughout Lebanon.
Build WVL’s Brand
Lead the communication & advocacy team (CAT), in collaboration with other relevant functions, to build WVL’s Brand, based on global guidelines, with local, regional, and global audiences, including donors, the general public, peers, and civil society actors to increase WVL's Income, Impact and Influence, through the active participation in coalitions, building thought leaders within WVL staff, and/or identifying and collaborating with relevant local influencers. Develop an annual communication plan to guide the team’s work and define clear objectives and outcomes. Develop and manage targeted media contacts and social media campaigns to improve external positioning, build brand awareness, and grow awareness of technical expertise. Oversee the CAT team’s management of social media platforms, content production, and publication activities, ensuring brand alignment and amplification across the Partnership. Build the capacity of all WVL staff to communicate and advocate in a way that strengthens its position in the local market and increases its brand recognition.
External Engagement, Networking and Coordination:
Implement existing plans for the ENOUGH campaign in alignment with WV’s global plans and based on contextual developments. Lead on the 5 to Thrive policy framework. Develop an external engagement plan in alignment with the Regional Office, Support Offices, and Global Center. Cooperate with the grants and the Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Accountability leadership and their teams to collect evidence and ensure it can be communicated in a meaningful way to effectively position WVL for grants. Work in consultation with Programme Quality & Development unit and Field Operations, to influence national level policy and ensure its implementation. Represent WV in coordination spaces as needed such as the INGO Forum Advocacy Working Group. Advise and prepare WV FO senior leaders for high-level external engagement and representation meetings with talking points, etc.
Ensure delivery of Communications and Advocacy Strategy
Develop, implement and monitor a strategic communications strategy in alignment to WVL’s National Strategy and Global Communications Strategy. It includes target shifts from where WVL is now to where WVL wants to be positioned externally amongst donors, peers, partners (including government) and the media. Lead on delivery of rapid emergency communications during crises and ensure staff members’ communications preparedness.
Lead on advocacy plans
Design an advocacy plan based on context analysis linked to external engagement plans, response strategies, and stakeholder/actor mapping Identify key partnership and coalition opportunities, influencing and engaging as appropriate, including (as needed) on regional advocacy coalition work Lead on the development of WVL policy and advocacy briefs, in collaboration with regional and response teams (as appropriate) Supervise advocacy engagement initiatives Build on evidence-based resources in the development of policy asks and papers and leverage in external engagements Ensure advocacy efforts are strategically aligned with the social media strategy and comms plans Implement advocacy efforts to achieve ENOUGH campaign goals Maintain regular updates to humanitarian and child rights advocacy messaging and communications guidance Lead and participate in humanitarian advocacy initiatives Coordinate humanitarian advocacy policy messaging on sector- specific issues that are critical to WV programming responses Provide advocacy advice to the Advocacy Response Group (ARG) and EMS
Responsible for Reputation Risk Management:
Develop strategies/communications to counteract areas of weak reputation/respond to reputational risk concerns. Develop internal capacities and preparedness for reputation risk management and communications in adherence to established internal protocols through:+ Development of reactive guidance and messaging on incidents with potential risk reputation
+ Ongoing capacity building for identified spokespeople.
+ Update Messaging on WV programmes as needed
Handle Staff Management:
Ensure that CAT members daily work is aligned with strategic communications and advocacy plans and ensure that their tasks are delivered based on the integrated business plan, response plans, and global/regional/emerging needs. Ensure optimization of subordinates’ potentials through coaching, on-the-job training, and capacity building. Effectively manage the performance of direct reports ensuring performance agreements, regular performance discussions, and annual performance reviews are done.
Perform other duties as required
Attend leadership meetings as needed within WVL and provide guidance on advocacy and communications to WVL leadership Attend Program and MEAL related meetings within WVL, and with the sector, donors, and local authorities as needed. Attend and participate in capacity building trainings locally and internationally. Attend and participate in WVL’s spiritual nurture and other organizational events. Act responsible of own security and actively contribute to a positive security culture. Report Child Protection (CP) incidents as per the safeguarding policy guidelines. Abide by the security policies and procedures and report any incidents or breaches to line manager and / or security manager. Perform other duties as assigned by Line or Matrix Manager.
Minimum Requirements:
* Bachelor's degree; Master degree strongly preferred in journalism, communications, multimedia studies, development,
