Advocacy, Partnership And Knowledge Coordinator

• 4 - 6 years' experience in leading advocacy portfolios, community mobilization, campaign management, stakeholder management, and/or supporting self-governance transition of youth groups, preferably in social and economic development.

• A robust understanding of the policy landscape around AGYW's social and economic development, preferably in the African context.

• Prior experience in programme-related knowledge management processes.

• Prior experience working with women groups in advocacy and campaign work.

• Experience in strategic relationship and partnership management.

• 4 - 6 years' experience in leading advocacy portfolios, community mobilization, campaign management, stakeholder management, and/or supporting self-governance transition of youth groups, preferably in social and economic development.

• A robust understanding of the policy landscape around AGYW's social and economic development, preferably in the African context.

• Prior experience in programme-related knowledge management processes.

• Prior experience working with women groups in advocacy and campaign work.

• Experience in strategic relationship and partnership management.

Advocacy and alumni engagement strategy

• Support the Programme Manager in the development and rollout of the AIM programme advocacy and alumni (network of graduated programme participants) engagement strategy.

• Work closely with the Programme Manager to prepare the annual work plan, complete with detailed activities, targeted towards the operationalization of the advocacy and alumni engagement strategy.

• Prepare a mapping of key stakeholders instrumental to the operationalization of the advocacy and alumni engagement strategy and lead these engagements.

• Coordinate tailored support to programme participants, including capacity strengthening on evidence-based advocacy, negotiation and effective communications and media engagement skills.

• Coordinate and provide support to the national and subnational level advocacy initiatives Represent AIM programme in National and Regional foras as required.

• Support in research within the country to facilitate evidence based advocacy actions.

• Work closely with field teams to research and identify transition options in the areas and create transition procedures ahead of the cohort completion. This will also involve working with Microfinance (MF) teams to ensure the transition process to MF in the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) is adhered to in practice.

• Lead the transition and alumni management part of the AIM programme by ensuring most of programme participants who transition to either MF groups or other networks are fully supported and outcomes are tracked.

• Work closely with the program team to institutionalize the Youth Development Committees (YDCs) to use the YDC platform for grassroots advocacy and undertake other relevant activities to deepen the impact of the YDCs at the community level.

• Support field teams to organize local level workshops/meetings/sessions with external stakeholders to get the buy-in and approval of government authorities.

• Provide support to the Monitoring & Evaluation Manager to evaluate the impact of advocacy initiatives; produce reports on the progress and outcomes of the advocacy work.

Knowledge Management

• Work closely with the Manager - Knowledge Management & Learning (AIM) to support the knowledge management component at the country level.

• Work as a knowledge champion and help support process documentation, good practices and success stories compilation.