CHILD SAFEGUARDING

Level 2: either the post holder will have access to personal data about children and/or young people as part of their work; or the post holder will be working in a ‘regulated’ position (accountant, barrister, solicitor, legal executive); therefore a police check will be required (at ‘standard’ level in the UK or equivalent in other countries).

ROLE PURPOSE

Director ACCM will provide strategic leadership in the areas of Advocacy, Campaigns, Communication and Media to deliver the country strategic plan of Save the Children in Pakistan. The role will aim to strengthen the organizational representation and positioning for influencing policies and practices, mobilizing public engagement. The role will seek to amplify the voice of children for the strategic priorities, to deliver lasting impact for children in both development and humanitarian contexts.

S/he will lead the design, development, and execution of the country ACCM strategy and provide strategic guidance for strengthening Save the Children’s brand recognition and the promotion of the work we do in Pakistan. This will support our public campaign and diversify resource base. S/he will represent Save the Children in the external forums and maintain strategic engagement with key government stakeholders to advocate for child-centred and child-informed policies, strategies, and actions.

In the above capacity the role will report directly to the Country Director and in turn manage and provide leadership to our Advocacy, Communications and Media team(s). S/he will support and encourage the teams come up with innovative approaches and solutions, exploring creative freedom to deliver.

SCOPE OF ROLE

Reports to: Country Director, Pakistan CO

Direct reports: ACCM staff  

Budget Responsibilities: Financial approval

Role Dimensions: (e.g. complexity, relationships, communication with stakeholders)

• SMT role with strategic leadership, oversight, technical expertise, budget management
• Development and Humanitarian context, child rights programming, nexus programming
• External networking and representation, 360º engagement with CO, regional and global team

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY

1.     Strategy and planning

• Lead ACCM functions to deliver PKCO country strategic plan while also design, develop, and execute the country ACCM strategy
• Strengthen SCI PCKO representation and positioning for policy influence and public mobilization.
• Facilitate child and youth engagement to create space for them and amplify their voice for SCI PCKO priorities as well as in policy discourse at sub-national, national, regional and global level.

2.     Advocacy and Campaigns

• Analyse and critique relevant policies to inform advocacy agenda, strategies and actions
• Provide strategic leadership on country advocacy actions encompassing both sector and cross-sectoral advocacy level in alignment with CSP 2022-24
• Provide leadership to ACCM team to drive impactful campaigns for programmatic integration and policy linkages through active engagement of the supporters and stakeholders including general public
• Drive fundraising efforts and produce concept notes to secure sufficient and sustained funding to maintain and expand country’s advocacy and campaign activities
• Lead on developing monitoring and measurement mechanisms for advocacy and campaign with strong integration of learning element within
• Support the Country Office to update and monitor advocacy risk assessments for the activities and objectives encompassing both development and humanitarian advocacy including refugee advocacy

3.     Media and Communications

• Provide leadership for strengthening SCI branding in the domestic and international market to support campaign as well as diversify and mobilize resources
• Lead on relationship building with the media and other key stakeholders critical for our branding
• Manage media engagement strategy, including proative and reactive, especially in line with advocacy and campaign priorities

4.     People Management

• Ensures appropriate ACCM structure across the CO ensuring appropriate gender and diversity
• Makes sure that all staff understand their responsibilities and have clearly defined performance objectives including plans and activities to develop their professional capacities.
• Encourage a team culture of learning, creativity, and innovation.

5.     Country Office Leadership and Representation

• Represent Save the Children at appropriate country-level working groups.
• Support the Country Director and other relevant Country Office staff in high-level humanitarian advocacy work towards relevant authorities, Humanitarian Country Teams, key UN actors and Agencies, Donors and other NGOs, as well as media, if necessary.
• Ensure coordination of advocacy messages and activities between the field offices, Country Office and the regional and international levels.

6.     Child Safeguarding Responsibility

• Uphold and adhere to child safeguarding principles and procedures as well as Code of Conduct at personal and professional level to create a child-safe workplace.

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

QUALIFICATION

• Master’s Degree, preferably in Communication/Social Science/English from reputed University

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Significant experience in similar role in a large I/NGO, UN or corporate entity
• Proven experience in developing advocacy strategies and leading evidence-based policy development, influence and wins
• Demonstrated experience in leading public campaign design and understanding various types of communication and branding materials for diverse audience (internal/external) 
• Deep understanding of socio-economic-cultural-environmental-governance-policy landscape, preferably for both development and humanitarian context
• Ability to build and maintain relationship with government and other key stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills
• Excellent ability to analyse, interpret and present complex data for diverse stakeholders
• Agility to manage own team and engage with teams at regional and global level
• Excellence in written and spoken communication skills, including demonstrated ability to respond to media professionally

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.

Women are highly encouraged to apply. 

Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis and only short-listed candidates will be called for the interview.