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Save the Children International is recruiting for a Policy & Advocacy Advisor (Hybrid/Remote with flexible working options available)

Closing Date: 21 January 2025

Save the Children International is recruiting for a Policy & Advocacy Advocacy Advisor (Hybrid/Remote with flexible working options available)

Overview

Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Policy & Advocacy Advisor, Children’s Rights in the Digital Environment to join its global team.

Global Team Purpose

To advocate for and influence European Union policies and funding to create lasting positive impacts on children’s lives, focusing on reducing child poverty, responding to humanitarian crises, and protecting children’s rights in conflict and migration. The Global team works to strengthen partnerships with EU institutions, ensuring that children’s voices are heard and considered in decision-making processes that affect their futures. By collaborating with Save the Children offices across Europe and globally, the team aim to break cycles of poverty, inequality, and conflict, investing in the health and education of children both within and beyond Europe’s borders.

Role purpose

The Policy & Advocacy Advisor, Children’s Rights in the Digital Environment’s role is to champion the protection of children’s rights in the digital environment by leading and coordinating advocacy efforts on the Child Sexual Abuse regulation and directive within the EU context, empowering Save the Children members to influence decision makers, while upholding our values of integrity, collaboration, and accountability.

Principal Accountabilities

The Policy & Advocacy Advisor, Children’s Rights in the Digital Environment will:

  • Lead the implementation of Save the Children’s European advocacy strategy on children’s rights online, ensuring that policy messages align with Save the Children’s values of accountability, ambition, and collaboration.
  • Coordinate messaging and guidance for influencing the CSA regulation and directive, empowering Save the Children’s members and offices to effectively monitor and contribute to policy implementation.
  • Develop and deliver training sessions to strengthen the advocacy capacity of interested Save the Children’s colleagues in Europe, fostering a culture of creativity and innovation in advocating for children’s digital rights.
  • Establish and nurture advocacy networks both within Save the Children and with external allies, recognising the importance of collaboration to achieve shared goals in the context of children’s rights in the digital environment.
  • Represent Save the Children in external engagements, including with NGO networks and coalitions, to advance child rights in the digital environment while championing SCI’s commitment to integrity and transparency.
  • Monitor advocacy outcomes and contribute to reporting systems, ensuring the initiatives align with Global Policy, Advocacy, and Campaigns strategies whilst embedding the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Experience and Skills

Essential

  1. Demonstrable advocacy experience in child rights, protection, and online protection.
  2. Knowledge and understanding of EU policies on children’s rights in the digital environment.
  3. Networks of influence, and an ability to manage diverse professional relationships, thereby securing significant new opportunities for the organisation.
  4. A proven advocacy track record; the ability to speak and communicate effectively, and to tailor messages to different audiences.
  5. Experience of successfully operating in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
  6. A full appreciation of the value of cooperation within a team environment.
  7. Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in.
  8. Commitment to Save the Children’s values.
  9. Ability to work and write in English.

Desirable

  • Experience in preventing and combatting child sexual abuse, e.g. giving trainings, planning campaigns, or providing support.
  • Knowledge and experience of child participation and/or child led advocacy.
  • Ability to speak and write French

Education and Qualifications

Essential

  • Education to Master’s level, with a qualification in international relations, economics, politics, law, or a related EU policy field is desirable. Education to Bachelor’s degree level is essential 

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