Trócaire

Advisor

• **Role Responsibilities**
• **Key responsibilities **
• Develop and implement effective advocacy for bringing about change on humanitarian advocacy priorities.
• In collaboration with other relevant staff members, develop and implement a humanitarian advocacy strategy, in line with Trócaire’s best practice approach to advocacy, including a strong gender analysis.
• Ensure advocacy and policy is informed by the experience in country programmes and supports the organisational ambition around partnership and localisation.
• Engage in consistent advocacy with relevant duty bearers at the UN, EU and in the Irish political system as appropriate.
• **Policy development **
• Develop high quality policy and advocacy materials, including position papers, briefing papers, research and advocacy reports.
• Develop and maintain an excellent working knowledge of current and emerging policy trends to underpin Trócaire’s humanitarian work (including through maintaining strong links with Trócaire’s localisation hub).
• **Work with country offices **
• Provide support to staff in country offices and partners on humanitarian policy and strategic advocacy.
• Elevate the humanitarian issues and trends from country teams to influence policy change.
• Engage and work closely with country teams to ensure Trócaire’s policy positions are grounded in direct experience and capture key trends and issues.
• **Representation and reporting**
• Represent Trócaire effectively in key external networks and at relevant national and international humanitarian policy discussions.
• Provide regular updates to management, humanitarian team, and country offices on emerging global and regional issues and trends within the sector.
• Ensure regular reporting, monitoring and evaluation of the advocacy strategy.
• Provide ‘rapid response’ policy and advocacy support to Trócaire CEO /Deputy CEO and management as required.

Humanitarian Policy and Advocacy Advisor