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Background
Inspiring Girls and Grassroots Networks for Inclusive and Transformative Education (IGNITE) is a consortium funded by the Agence Française de Development (AFD) through the Support Fund for Feminist Organizations (SFFO). The consortium comprising of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the René Moawad Foundation (RMF)- MENA Partner, the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR), and Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-Africa) aims at empowering adolescent girls and advance gender equality in seven target countries in SubSaharan Africa and the Middle East, namely Burkina Faso, Cameroon, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Jordan, Lebanon, and Nigeria.

Major Responsibilities: 
This role is responsible for leading the delivery of IGNITE’s advocacy workstream in collaboration with IGNITE research team and IRC’s advocacy lead. More specifically, the officer will be responsible for delivering activities in line with the policy and advocacy goals of IGNITE, which include: 
• Development of IGNITE’s advocacy strategy and advocacy work plans, identifying specific policy change objectives to guide the consortium’s advocacy efforts in addressing context-specific challenges faced by adolescent girls.
• Lead intergenerational dialogues with adolescent girls and CSOs, including women’s rights activists to advocate for national and statewide policies on adolescents girls’ education and gender equality.
• Conduct in-depth research and analysis to stay updated with national, regional and international policies and identify opportunities for engagement and influence. 
• Designing and implementing advocacy campaigns, including developing messaging frameworks, creating communication materials, and planning outreach activities to target key audience. 
• Building and maintaining relationships with relevant stakeholders to advocate for policy changes around adolescent girls’ education in the IGNITE project countries of operations. 
• Appraising and synthesizing evidence from the IGNITE project into key messages and development of compelling communication materials i.e. policy briefs, blogs, infographics, social media posts, op eds, short videos for both target and wider dissemination and action on a continuous basis.
• Monitoring advocacy activities within IGNITE and support the evaluation of the effectiveness of advocacy and communications activities and tools.
• Supporting IGNITE consortium partners and grantees in leveraging on mainstream media visibility opportunities and social media presence to advance the projects advocacy footprints.

Experience: 
• A minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience in public policy change and/or advocacy-focused roles. 
• Experience in research advocacy and translation of research findings and outputs into advocacy messages for policy change. 
• Experience working on humanitarian emergency, refugee, conflict or development issues in academic or professional setting as part of large consortia/multi partner. 
• Demonstrate a good understanding of working and collaborations with the Media  
• Experience of running online events. 
• Experience in planning, collecting, analysing and interpreting data for monitoring and evaluation
• Excellent English and French (verbal and written) communication skills as well as, an overall ability to be clear and concise in all communications.