Senior Humanitarian Advocacy and Policy Manager (Khartoum) – SAVE THE CHILDREN

By Osama Elsheikh Last updated Dec 19, 2025

Job Description

Job Identification	14940
Job Category	Advocacy, Campaigns and Policy
Posting Date	12/18/2025, 01:35 PM
Apply Before	01/05/2026, 01:59 AM
Job Schedule	Full time
Locations	Khartoum

General

Serve as part of the ESMT for Sudan Country Office, demonstrating behaviors aligned with Save the Children’s Mission, Vision, and Values, and promoting these across the program.
Foster a collaborative and productive work environment built on teamwork.
Act as delegate for the ACCM Director when required.
Represent the organization as spokesperson and facilitate media interviews with the Country Director or designated representatives.

Humanitarian Advocacy Strategy

Lead the development and implementation of the humanitarian advocacy strategy aligned with the country strategic plan and Save the Children’s global priorities.
Identify critical humanitarian issues impacting children in Sudan, based on assessments, evidence, and programmatic experience.
Map key actors, power dynamics, and advocacy opportunities within humanitarian policy and response systems at national and regional levels.
Collaborate with program and technical teams to ensure advocacy objectives complement and enhance humanitarian response programming.
Monitor, evaluate, and adapt advocacy engagements/ activities based on results and emerging opportunities.
Collaborate with peer advocacy colleagues to ensure collective advocacy messaging across platforms.
Work closely with technical advisors, PDQ and MEAL, and programme colleagues to maintain consistent messaging aligned with program priorities.
Mainstream cross-cutting themes such as protection, child participation, gender, and disability in all media and advocacy outputs.
Respond promptly to advocacy products and requests from members and INGO forum and coordinate accordingly.

Policy Analysis and Advocacy

Conduct analysis of humanitarian access, protection issues, policy changes, and humanitarian operational space affecting children.
Provide strategic leadership on integrating engagement with armed actors and humanitarian negotiations into organizational policies and programming frameworks, ensuring coherence and alignment across advocacy, humanitarian, and development initiatives.
Develop advocacy products including policy briefs, position papers, and messaging used for influencing stakeholders and decision-makers.
Inform and influence humanitarian coordination bodies, clusters, government agencies, UN actors, and donors to prioritize child rights and humanitarian needs.

External Representation and Partnership

Represent Save the Children in humanitarian advocacy forums such as Humanitarian Country Team, clusters, and other relevant coalitions.
Foster collaboration with local and international partners, INGOs, UN agencies, and civil society for joint advocacy initiatives.
Support capacity strengthening of national partners on humanitarian advocacy and child rights engagement.

Child Participation and Accountability

Ensure meaningful participation of children and youth in humanitarian advocacy initiatives, promoting their voices in relevant platforms (national, regional and global).
Support accountability mechanisms and feedback systems related to humanitarian advocacy interventions.

Emergency Preparedness and Response

Support rapid advocacy response during humanitarian emergencies, adapting advocacy approaches as necessary.
Collaborate with surge teams and contribute to emergency preparedness advocacy plans.
Support strategies for principled engagement with armed actors to ensure safe access for aid delivery.
Ensure advocacy efforts align with humanitarian programming and organizational priorities.

Master’s degree or equivalent in international development, humanitarian affairs, social sciences, or related fields.
Minimum 8 years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian advocacy, preferably within complex emergencies or fragile contexts.
Demonstrated experience in developing and implementing humanitarian advocacy strategies and influencing policy change.
Excellent communication skills in English; Arabic proficiency highly desirable.
Strong understanding of child rights, international humanitarian law, and protection principles.
Familiarity with child protection and safeguarding issues, including experience with vulnerable populations.
Experience engaging with government, UN bodies, donors, and other humanitarian actors.
Capacity to work under pressure, adapt to changing priorities, and support emergency response efforts.
Operate on tight deadlines and use independent judgement within agreed parameters

Competence

Strategic thinking and analytical skills in humanitarian contexts
Strong inter-organisational skill such as networking, negotiation and communication
An initiative-taking, proactive, inspiring attitude with the ability to manage and prioritise an unpredictable workload and solve problems quickly with limited support
Excellent communication, writing and reporting skills
Excellent planning and organization skills with attention to detail