Head of Advocacy
4 days ago
**Staff in the London office work a hybrid schedule with 2 days/week in the office**
Working in close partnership with the UK Regional Director, the Head of Advocacy will have responsibility for leading on all advocacy activity for IFAW in the UK. S/he will lead and deliver the strategy for advocacy, consolidating and building on existing progress through the implementation of IFAW programmes and policies.
The Head of Advocacy will work collaboratively with global staff to ensure alignment with programmes worldwide and will balance the needs of internal stakeholders as well as external to achieve success.
**Role and Responsibilities**
- Work collaboratively with UK and global staff to lead campaigns and programmes in the UK which deliver upon global programme goals. Currently UK priority workstreams include wildlife crime and marine conservation.
- Develop the strategy and operational plans for advocacy and research within the framework of IFAW’s global programmes and policies.
- Take the lead in delivering activities and outputs in response to relevant policy areas and work across departments within IFAW to do the same
- Proactively identify, assess and respond to all relevant developments within public policy and media environments, capitalizing upon opportunities to push IFAW’s priority policy calls.
- Achieve positive changes in policy and legislation, reaching a range of audiences, organisations and policy makers
- Build and maintain relationships with political stakeholders, including parliamentarians sympathetic to IFAWs cause. Continue to drive further engagement on the issue across the political spectrum.
- Work closely with colleagues across the global organisation to align plans and ensure effective collaboration across programmes, policy and communications.
- Ensure that budgets, targets and KPI’s are set and the work of the department is evaluated, monitored and reported effectively within the organisation’s reporting mechanisms.
- Work with the UK Senior Communications Manager to develop media advocacy strategies supporting IFAW’s influencing work. Proactively and reactively respond to policy-focused media queries acting as a media spokesperson where appropriate.
- Ensure IFAWs global position is adequately represented in UK politics and key institutions. Ensure IFAW UK external profile contributes toward IFAWs international brand and matches its position statements.
- As part of the senior management team, actively contribute to wider strategy development, planning, management and implementing of these.
- Management of budgets relating to national advocacy and wildlife crime activity.
- Lead as IFAW’s relationship manager for some of the UKs institutional grant funding portfolios
- Ensure effective internal communication on UK advocacy issues and successes.
**Qualifications and Education Requirements**
- Substantial experience of successful political engagement on difficult issues with a track record of achieving success in advocacy campaigns.
- Proven track record of public affairs delivery including the ability to skillfully negotiate parliamentary structures and practice to ensure IFAWs vision is translated into political or governmental support.
- Excellent network of political and governmental contacts and knowledge of policy and legislation development within the UKA strong commitment to animal welfare, conservation and IFAWs mission.
- Experience of public speaking, and effective persuasion through networking, coalitions and policy taskforces
- Knowledge of and commitment to animal welfare and conservation policy and public affairs issues and of finding opportunities in research fields.
- Understanding of working in a global organisation within a matrix model.
- Ability to manage conflicting priorities and a significant workload.
- Evidence of working across functions to manage campaign and project teams to deliver results for organisations.
- Confident and engaging leadership style focused on collaborative approach and an understanding of how to work and lead within a matrix organization.
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