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ADVOCACY COORDINATOR

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

WorldVision is a global Christian relief, development and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children,families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.We are a community of close to 40,000 staff working across the world to help change the lives of vulnerable children. Our supporters, partners and staff join forces with communities on the ground to help children enjoy good health, be educated for life, experience the love of God and their neighbours and be cared for, protected and participating in addressing issues that affect their lives. World Vision has been active in Zimbabwe since 1973. Our operations are spread across 9 out of 10 provinces, with a majority of over 1.75 million beneficiaries in rural areas. Our current programs focus on improving the well-being of boys and girls in three priority sectors: health and nutrition, livelihoods and education.We also focus on child protection, gender and disabilities, emergency assistance and resilience building as cross cutting priorities across our programs.

WorldVision Zimbabwe is committed to the safeguarding of staff, children and communities that we work with, preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work, including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct. We are committed to promote the welfare of children, youth, adults and individuals with whom World Vision engages with.WorldVision expects all staff to share this commitment through our conduct and behavior.We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work with us. If you share the same vision and values,JOIN US and contribute to life in all its fullness for the children and communities we serve.

PURPOSE OF POSITION

The Advocacy Coordinator assists in planning, developing, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of advocacy programs byWVZas per the established priorities and annual action plan. Reporting to the Advocacy Communications and External EngagementTeam Lead, the AC provides support to program initiatives by analysing policy gaps, opportunities for scaling up and strengthening programs, especially the gender, child protection and the It takes a world to end violence against children’ campaign.The coordinator coordinates establishment of linkages in programs, and ensure the advocacy pillar to WV programs is enhanced.The coordinator will be responsible for developing models, key messages and effective advocacy campaigns and handle complex WVZ campaigns forgrassroots program effectiveness and realisation of intended outcomes.

Interested candidates should view the position on the link below and apply online