Position: Advocacy and Communications Expert for Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA) Programme

Post Type: Full time (40 hours per week)

Work Station: Kathmandu 

Salary: NRs 24 to 26 lakhs per annum pro rata (all inclusive) 

Contract Type: Two and a half years with 3 months probationary period

Competencies required:

Education and training

Essential requirements for the post holder:

• Master’s degree in law, human rights, social studies, child rights/protection or similar qualification

Desirable:

• Master’s degree in human rights law
• Training in rights-based advocacy

Experience and skills

Essential requirements for the post holder:

• Experience of advocacy/policy advocacy to multiple stakeholders at local and national level
• Experience of working directly with highly vulnerable and marginalised children, adults and communities in particular child laborers
• Demonstrated experience working with vulnerable children or other marginalised groups to bring out their voices to decision- and policy-makers
• Experience of overseeing and implementing child-led / participatory processes
• Experience and knowledge of safeguarding and risk assessment with vulnerable and marginal groups
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Ability to network effectively with key local, national and international stakeholder
• Demonstrated understanding of using Twitter and Facebook to communicate
• Ability to identify and write blogs and articles in an accessible and engaging way for different audiences

Desirable:

• Existing relationships with relevant government and other relevant stakeholders
• Experience facilitating advocacy trainings, workshops or dialogues with vulnerable and marginalised children
• Experience in engaging with regional and international human rights mechanisms
• Understanding of complexity based approaches to change’ (or willingness to learn)
• Experience with existing platforms for children to voice their views, such as child clubs
• Experience of creating multimedia products-i.e. short films and interviews

Knowledge

Essential requirements for the post holder:

• Fluency in spoken and written Nepali and English
• Knowledge of children’s rights and the relevant national legal/policy framework
• A good understanding of the local context and opportunities and barriers to creating change
• Knowledge of child safeguarding
• A good understanding of the realities faced by children in the worst forms of child labour and those who are vulnerable to being drawn into it
• Competence in using MS office
• Knowledge of media landscape
• A good understanding of communications tools and approaches

• Knowledge of the local contexts such as socio-cultural norms in which the child labour work will take place

Personal attributes

Essential requirements for the post holder:

• Passion for the programme contents, issues and approach e.g. child labour, participatory approach, child-centredness
• Commitment to the principles of equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practices
• Willingness to travel to and work with communities living in poverty in remote areas
• Self-motivated, goal-oriented, pro-active, enthusiastic and entrepreneurial attitude
• Commitment to team and collaborative working
• Comfortable facilitating emergent processes, allowing outcomes to emerge through dialogue and action over time

Desirable:

• High level of social intelligence
  

Major Responsibilities:

• Work in close collaboration with the country team and CSC HQ staff to ensure that children involved in the action research are empowered to speak out about their lived realities
• Explore possibilities of engaging with and strengthening existing platforms for child-led advocacy
• Together with the country team and CSC HQ staff, be responsible to develop context-appropriate and child-friendly advocacy training materials and packages
• Coordinate the development of an advocacy plan with the country team, and support from CSC HQ staff where necessary
• Support the country team and CSC HQ staff in engaging with regional and international UN institutions and mechanisms for advocacy purposes
• Participate in shared learning activities, such as webinars, input into e-learning materials, sharing case studies of successes, challenge, and good practices, that will be shared with the project partners, as well as the global CSC Network

• Support CLARISSA’s communication activities on a country and global level via social media; blog commissioning and writing; identifying key moments to communicate and share messages; even promotion; and media engagement