Regional Lead for Safeguarding Resource and Support Hub- MENA

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Team Leadership and Delivery

• Team leadership: manage and develop the strategic relationships within the team. Cultivate an inclusive, high-performing, values-driven culture that champions collaboration, reflection and continuous learning.
• Operational delivery: work with the Deputy Team Leader to develop and track a workplan for the regional delivery.
• Stakeholder representation: represent RSH at high level meetings, lead activities such as roundtables or webinars.
• Quarterly reporting: coordinate team members to develop quarterly update on activities and impact of the RSH work in MENA.
• Learning and collaboration: Collaborate with the global team, sharing ongoing data to build on lessons learned and adapt approaches.

Communications and Dissemination

• Strategy and planning: Develop and implement communication and dissemination regional or country strategies to align with project goals.
• Convening: Organize and implement events, workshops, roundtables to share information and results.
• Advisory: Engage the Strategy Communications Lead to advise the RSH MENA team on the best way to communicate their research and outputs, and to ensure that Regional or Country Level communications assets and products (newsletters, social media, blogs) are developed and are contextually relevant and appropriate.

Stakeholder Engagement and Policy Influencing

• Strategic stakeholder leadership: lead and coordinate strategic stakeholder relationships. Embed mutual benefit, shared purpose and member-centred engagement into all relationship-building activity. Support others to lead relationships, embedding the core principles of good stakeholder management across the team. Ensure key relationships such as FCDO, PSEAH Networks, CSO Networks are actively engaged.
• Change leadership: Navigate and influence shifts in traditional partnership dynamics, encouraging stakeholders to lead and co-create. Engage with organisation leadership to promote culture change towards PSEAH.
• Cross-functional enablement: act as a connector and enabler for RSH in MENA, supporting teams to understand, utilise and grow relationships with key stakeholders, amplifying partner voices and integrating their insights into RSH work.
• Agile convening: operate with both planned and reactive agility to convene stakeholders around emerging issues, strategic priorities and sector challenges. Facilitate purposeful dialogue, sometimes at short notice, to maintain momentum and relevance.
• Partnership innovation and growth: seek and develop opportunities for partnerships that extend RSH s reach and sustainability strategy for local ownership.
• Approach complex and sensitive topics focusing on shared values and human rights: initiate and contribute to debates, discussions and other events relating to sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment, including of marginalised groups.