SOS Children's Villages Program Officer (Advocacy) Job in Nairobi Kenya

SOS Children's Villages Kenya

Vacancy: Program Officer - Advocacy (National Office, Nairobi)

Category: Development 

Level: Seasoned Professional 

Location: Nairobi (Kenya) 

Pay: Competitive 

The Organization: SOS Children’s Villages Kenya is a development organization that works with communities, organisational partners and authorities to help improve the lives and opportunities of vulnerable children. 

Uniquely, we provide long-term, family-based care for children who have lost parental care, or who are at risk of losing it, and we support and strengthen families and communities to prevent child abandonment. 

We steadily growing and are inviting suitably qualified persons to fill several positions that are currently available in the organization as follows:

The Role: This is senior programme position that is designed to help the organization develop and strengthen its work in child rights advocacy. This position reports to the National Family Strengthening Programmes Manager. 

The position coordinates all advocacy based programmes and activities both at the National and Locational Offices, working with all the programme teams in the designing, coordination, implementation, monitoring and reporting for all child rights advocacy and related partnership activities. 

This position is based at the National Office in Nairobi.

Key Responsibilities
 

This position is responsible for:

• Leads all the advocacy activities of the National Association
• Ensures timely and effective communication of SOS CV Kenya advocacy messages on children and children’s rights to the public and policy makers
• Monitoring current debates in the country, among the SOS CV family association members’, the international office, the United Nations and other international policy dialogue and forums on child rights and utilizing available opportunities to have the SOS CV Kenya influence and shape those policies.
• To build and maintain contacts with relevant government functions, children’s policy organs, and development or NGO networks as a mechanism for strategic positioning of SOS CV as the most strategic children’s based organization of choice.
• Working closely with the communication team in designing, developing and dissemination of materials and information on the rights of children.
• Resources Mobilization for sustainability of SOS CV Kenya advocacy work.

Required Qualifications / Abilities

• A degree in social sciences or equivalent (those with degree in law may have an added advantage)
• At least Five (5) years’ experience in policy formulation, influencing and monitoring
• Demonstrable experience in designing and implementing child based rights campaigns
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Demonstrable experience and skills in designing and implementing policy research activities, analysis and documentation of results.
• Highly skilled in report writing and proposals development
• Excellent understanding and appreciation of the civil society space in Kenya
• In-depth understanding of the Child Rights issues in Kenya.

How to Apply
 

Qualified and interested candidates should CLICK HERE apply on-line and attach a copy of their updated resume together with details of their current salary and benefit package. 

The deadline for application is Wednesday 26th November 2014