Advocacy and Communication Coordinator

The Advocacy and Communication Coordinator supports implementation of advocacy, communication, and Social and Behaviour Change activities for the Sierra Leone Coastal Resilience Project. The role focuses on strengthening project visibility, coordinating documentation, and ensuring consistent messaging and high-quality documentation of results and impact, requiring frequent travel to project districts.

Responsibilities

• Support implementation of the project advocacy strategy in line with Save the Children priorities.
• Coordinate advocacy initiatives on climate resilience and policy influence at national and district levels.
• Organize stakeholder consultations, policy dialogues, advocacy meetings, community engagement events, and campaigns.
• Build and maintain relationships with government institutions, partners, civil society organizations, media, and communities.
• Develop advocacy inputs including policy briefs, talking points, position papers, and campaign materials.
• Document advocacy processes, stakeholder commitments, and influencing outcomes.
• Implement the communication and visibility plan in line with donor and Save the Children branding requirements.
• Develop communication products including newsletters, briefs, blogs, reports, case studies, and stories of change.
• Coordinate production of multimedia content including photos, videos, testimonials, and human-interest stories.
• Ensure dissemination of project results to communities, donors, partners, media, and internal audiences.
• Support media engagement including interviews, press visits, briefings, and field visits with the ACCM team.
• Provide regular communication and visibility updates.
• Support documentation of project achievements, lessons learned, innovations, and best practices.
• Maintain an organized repository of communication and knowledge management products.
• Support baseline, progress, and endline visual documentation.
• Identify and document emerging evidence and innovations.
• Contribute to donor reports, learning products, and knowledge outputs.
• Support the implementation and documentation of Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) interventions and campaigns that promote climate resilience, community participation and adoption of positive behaviours.
• Work closely with technical teams and implementing partners to develop communication materials and messaging that reinforce SBC objectives.
• Work closely with district teams, partners, and communities to ensure consistent messaging.
• Collaborate with the MEAL team to generate and communicate evidence and results.
• Provide technical guidance on communication, storytelling, branding, and documentation.
• Participate in learning events, trainings, and coordination meetings.
• Prepare and submit regular weekly/monthly plans and reports of activities.
• Participate in and represent Save the Children in external events/meetings as requested.
• Undertake any training required to meet the objectives of the post or as relevant to SCI.
• Comply with all relevant Save the Children policies and procedures, including fraud and anti-bribery, child safeguarding and code of conduct, sexual harassment and gender equality, safety and security, finance, procurement, and human resources.
• Ensure all project activities are implemented in line with safe programming procedures/protocols.
• Perform any other duties assigned by the supervisor in support of the successful implementation of the Sierra Leone Coastal Resilience Project.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mass communication, Development Communication, International Relations, or related field.
• Minimum of three years’ experience in advocacy and communication work for children or youth programmes.
• At least two years’ experience working with an international organization.
• Experience in writing blogs, articles, short stories etc.
• Experience in using digital camera or smart phone technology for productions of B-rolls, short videos, films high quality still photographs.
• Experience working with networks and cultivating partnership with various stakeholders.
• Experience in report writing.
• Experience in policy analysis and development of communication messages and materials.
• Experience in coordination of advocacy and communication related activities/events.
• Experience in mobilising and working with community structures in an inclusive, child-sensitive, and gender-sensitive manner.
• Proven experience in organising and facilitating trainings, especially on child protection issues.
• Experience in using participatory methodologies in programme implementation, preferably involving children and adolescents.
• Experience working with local partners and providing technical support to them.
• Excellent facilitation, communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to work as a team member within a collaborative framework.
• The ability to work independently and use own initiative; strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to plan and organise work, cope with pressure and prioritise competing demands on time.
• The ability to represent the organisation and advocate with a wide range of partners, including government, NGO’s and community representatives.
• Ability to write clear and well-structured reports in English.
• Strong computer skills, especially in word, excel, PowerPoint, internet.
• Commitment to Save the Children’s aims, values and principles.
• Training in content gathering, including staging videos and photos, lighting, background noise and visuals, microphones, aspect ratios for social media, conducting interviews, storytelling techniques.

Skills

• Advocacy Communication
• Child Protection Training
• Policy Analysis
• Report Writing
• Digital photography
• Video Production
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Partnership Building
• Event Coordination
• Social Mobilization
• Participatory Methodologies
• Technical Support to Partners
• Content Gathering
• Storytelling Skills
• Social Behaviour Change
• Facilitation Skills
• MS Word
• MS Excel
• MS PowerPoint
• Internet Research

Languages

English