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Senior Policy and Advocacy Adviser

4 weeks ago

Belfast, United Kingdom Save the Children Full time

Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a collaborative and influential individual with advocacy experience to join us as our **Senior Policy & Advocacy Adviser **where you will work with the Education Policy and Advocacy Team.

**Please note, this is a 2-year fixed term contract. This role is also part time at 21 hours a week.**

**About Us**

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

**About the role**

As a Senior Policy & Advocacy Adviser you will work in the Education Team within the Global Policy, Advocacy and Research department.

**In this role, you will**:

- Design, lead and implement complex policy and advocacy strategies and products, to a high standard and with mínimal supervision
- Identify global policy and research needs and influencing opportunities in your thematic area
- Represent the organisation externally including in high-level meetings and events and with donors and other key stakeholders, building relationships with external experts, partners and coalitions
- Write advocacy briefings, reports, externally published articles and blogs, as well as assist in the drafting of press releases, Q&As and opinion pieces
- Maintain and develop very high-level knowledge and expertise in global education and advise colleagues across the global movement, including at a senior level, as well as senior external stakeholders

**About you**

**To be successful, it is important that you have**:

- Very high-level expertise in global development policies, including national developing-country government policies, donor behaviour, international institutions and NGOs
- Very high-level knowledge and expertise in global education policy and advocacy.
- A proven track record of carrying out first-class research, policy and/or advocacy
- Ability to think creatively, innovate, strategize, set priorities, manage a workplan and evaluate progress with mínimal supervision
- Strong networking and experience of participating in coalitions and working with civil-society actors to achieve change
- Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission and values.

To learn more about the position, please review the Job Description in the attached Documents.

**What we offer you**:
Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is - a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.
- We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
- We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day. You can read more about our benefits here.

**Please note**:
**Ways of Working**:
Remote First - The majority of our roles can be performed remotely, however you may work from the office as often as you wish. Whilst you will be predominantly working from home, we may at times require you to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter). Note: This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team. This is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building.

On-site - There are certain roles that cannot be performed remotely and so your role will be based in an office location and you may occasionally be able to work from home.

**Flexible Working - **We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview**.**

**Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion**:
We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.

**Salary Structure**:
**Interview Expenses**:
**Pre-employment**_ Checks:_**
- a satisfactory police record check to include a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and/or an International Criminal Record Check (If applicable)
- receipt of satisfactory references
- proof of eligibility to work in the national location for this roleDivision:

- Policy, Advocacy & CampaignsLocation (Role):

- UK (Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London or Manchest

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