Director of Advocacy, Campaigns, Communications and Media

Save the Children

1. Strategy, Planning & Leadership

• Lead the design and delivery of ACCM strategies to drive policy change and deliver impact for children.
• Advise the Country Director and SMT on external positioning, advocacy risks, and opportunities across the humanitarian development peace nexus.
• Foster an accountable, inclusive, high-performing culture grounded in humanitarian principles, child safeguarding, and security standards.
• Ensure ACCM coherence across emergency response, humanitarian coordination, child rights governance, and development programming.

2. Advocacy and Campaigns

• Build and maintain strategic alliances with advocacy networks, child rights forums, and humanitarian fora to ensure timely and effective advocacy.
• Align country advocacy with global campaign priorities and deliver relevant components of the Country Strategic Plan through evidence-based policy and advocacy.
• Position Save the Children as a leading advocate for child rights, chairing and participating in coalitions working to influence government policy and humanitarian action.
• Oversee implementation of global and national campaigns, designing agile tactics and monitoring their impact.
• Lead proposal development and resource mobilization for advocacy and campaigns, integrating MRM, CAAC, and child rights reporting.
• Guide advocacy on protection, access, forced displacement, and humanitarian architecture, aligning with regional and global priorities.
• Lead emergency advocacy and communications, ensuring rapid-response messaging, safe participation, and principled representation. Lead all influencing efforts to promote unimpeded humanitarian access, operational space, and principled action in this high-level complex emergency, engaging with authorities, armed actors, donors and other relevant decision-makers.

3. Humanitarian Affairs

• Lead all influencing efforts to promote unimpeded humanitarian access, operational space, and principled action in this high-level complex emergency, engaging with authorities, armed actors, donors and other relevant decision-makers.
• Develop specialised strategies and products on protection of civilians, grave violations, IHL/IHRL compliance, and accountability.
• Represent Save the Children in humanitarian coordination fora and donor mechanisms, advocating for flexible and timely humanitarian financing.
• Oversee humanitarian information management and crisis communications while upholding conflict sensitivity, do-no-harm, and staff safety standards.

4. Media and Communications

• Ensure consistent application of branding and communication standards and oversee production of high-quality materials policy briefs, reports, appeals, and storytelling that reflect child-centred priorities and amplify children s voices.
• Build and maintain strong media relations to enhance visibility and manage crisis communications effectively.
• Lead timely production of press releases and child-focused humanitarian narratives, ensuring rapid, coordinated internal and external communications.

5. Policy, evidence and analysis

• Provide strategic direction for long-term context-specific policy influence and system change, developing evidence-based advocacy and research products.
• Conduct situational and needs analyses to inform humanitarian policy briefs and advocacy materials on protection, education, and accountability.
• Monitor policy developments, coordination mechanisms, and donor priorities to identify advocacy opportunities and risks.
• Ensure integration of field evidence and lessons learned into advocacy, communications, and programme design to achieve sustainable impact.

6. Monitoring, evaluation and learning

• Establish systems to monitor advocacy and campaign outcomes across development and humanitarian objectives.
• Ensure delivery against KPIs, contribute to Country Annual Reports, and track relevant CSP milestones.
• Lead documentation and dissemination of lessons learned and best practices to inform organizational learning and sector innovation.

7. Staff Management, Mentorship, and Development

• Lead and manage the ACCM team with clear strategic direction, measurable objectives, and robust performance management.
• Build staff capacity through coaching, mentoring, and tailored development plans for team members.
• Foster a culture of motivation, resilience, and wellbeing, ensuring protocols for emergency deployment and staff care.

8. Partnerships, Representation & External Engagement

• Represent Save the Children in key advocacy, humanitarian, and policy fora at national and international levels.
• Cultivate partnerships with government, donors, UN agencies, civil society, and media, ensuring principled and strategic engagement.
• Support senior leadership in high-level diplomacy, crisis communications, and strategic advocacy with key stakeholders.
• Coordinate with global and regional advocacy teams and lead the CO Humanitarian Advocacy Working Group (HAWG) with the global humanitarian advocacy team, to align national work with broader humanitarian and child rights agendas.