Advocacy Projects Officer

• Update and follow up on ASDC’s strategic advocacy plan
• Develop advocacy/ projects plans and budgets and ensure that they are on line with the strategic advocacy plan
• Participating in developing project proposals and ensure mainstreaming of persons with disability interest on planned interventions 
• Contribute to projects documentation
• to conduct advocacy related capacity building for staff and partners Contribute with the M&E officer In Establishment of advocacy monitoring and evaluation systems including indicators
• Actively participate in project events (meetings/workshops/trainings)
• Undertake other program administration tasks as and when necessary
• Ensure transparency, ethical conduct and efficiency in project implementation 
• Reporting on advocacy/ project activities as requested by ASDC management and donors and according to the advocacy projects timeframes
• Preparing of monthly, quarterly and annual reports
• Report any of changes which impact to the advocacy/ project implementation
• Support ASDC to start up and implementation of the projects with good and adequate understanding of terms and conditions of projects agreement.
• Introduce better integration of gender related aspects to the work plans of ASDC and ensure that activities are implemented, recorded, reported and analyzed to improve the gender equality situation
• Undertake regular field trips to the project sites with the purpose of performing monitoring assessments; develop reports and make a follow up on recommendations

• Based on Atfaluna’s mandate, identify those groups in severe marginalization (through desk review and communication with stakeholders)
• Set advocacy priorities using participatory approach with beneficiaries and other stakeholder
• Maintain a functioning network of contacts with a variety of stakeholders and support ASDC in building alliances to promote a better understanding of ASDC’s mandate and to support its advocacy efforts 

• Maintain an established network of contacts for general information sharing and to remain up-to-date on partnership related issues
• Coordinate with relevant stakeholders in order to carry out advocacy activities related to Atfaluna advocacy priorities

• Generate new ideas and approaches, researches best practices and propose new, more effective ways of doing things
• Document and analyses innovative strategies and new approaches

• Analyze information/databases on potential and actual donors

• Identify and communicate relevant information for advocacy for ASDC’s goals for a variety of audiences

• Innovation: Ability to make new and useful ideas work
• People Management: Ability to improve performance and satisfaction
• Leadership: Ability to persuade others to follow

• Communication: Ability to listen, adapt, persuade and transform

• Delivery: Ability to get things done

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, English literature, international relations or public policy is required
• At least three, and preferably five years professional experience coordinating and executing internal and external advocacy project preferably in internationally- or humanitarian-focused organizations
• Exceptional written, verbal and interpersonal skills and the ability to perform in stressful situations with tight deadlines are essential
• Familiarity with international humanitarian issues and key actors specially those are related to the persons with disabilities rights  
• Proficiency in English is highly desired