Overview
This role provides strategic leadership on advocacy, policy influence, media, and communications to raise the profile of issues facing children and amplify Save the Children's impact in Syria.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of ACCM strategies.
- Advise the Country Director and SMT on external positioning, advocacy risks, and opportunities.
- Foster an accountable, inclusive, high-performing culture.
- Ensure ACCM coherence across emergency response, humanitarian coordination, child rights governance, and development programming.
- Build and maintain strategic alliances with advocacy networks, child rights forums, and humanitarian fora.
- Align country advocacy with global campaign priorities.
- Position Save the Children as a leading child rights and protection advocate.
- Oversee implementation of global and national campaigns.
- Lead proposal development and resource mobilization for advocacy and campaigns.
- Lead emergency advocacy and communications.
- Ensure consistent application of branding and communication standards.
- Oversee production of high-quality materials.
- Build and maintain strong media relations.
- Lead timely production of press releases and humanitarian narratives.
- Provide strategic direction for long-term context-specific policy influence and system change.
- Conduct situational and needs analyses.
- Monitor policy developments.
- Ensure integration of field evidence and lessons learned into advocacy, communications, and programme design.
- Lead advocacy on humanitarian access, operational space, and principled action.
- Develop specialized strategies on protection of civilians, grave violations, IHL/IHRL compliance, and accountability.
- Represent Save the Children in humanitarian coordination fora and donor mechanisms.
- Oversee humanitarian information management and crisis communications.
- Establish systems to monitor advocacy and campaign outcomes.
- Ensure delivery against KPIs, contribute to Country Annual Reports, and track CSP milestones.
- Lead documentation and dissemination of lessons learned and best practices.
- Lead and manage the ACCM team.
- Build staff capacity through coaching, mentoring, and tailored development plans.
- Foster a culture of motivation, resilience, and wellbeing.
- Represent Save the Children in key advocacy, humanitarian, and policy fora.
- Cultivate partnerships with government, donors, UN agencies, civil society, and media.
- Support senior leadership in high-level diplomacy, crisis communications, and strategic advocacy.
Required Experience
Minimum of 7-10 years' progressive experience in senior positions delivering advocacy, campaigns, communications, and media work with INGOs in both development and humanitarian contexts, including experience in Category 1 or large-scale emergency responses and protracted crises. Demonstrable track record in advocacy on International Humanitarian Law, and engagement with humanitarian coordination mechanisms (OCHA, clusters, HCTs), alongside long-term policy influence on child rights. Proven success in designing and implementing advocacy strategies and campaigns resulting in measurable policy change, improved protection, or enhanced humanitarian response for children and communities. Experience managing external relations, government/UN agency/NGO/donor engagement, and high-profile media work in both stable and crisis settings. Proven management and leadership skills, including building, motivating, and developing diverse teams in high-pressure, rapidly changing environments (humanitarian and development).
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master's or equivalent) in policy, social science, communications, journalism, international relations, humanitarian studies, international development, or related fields.
