Responsibilities and Tasks
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Describe the major responsibilities, principal tasks, competencies and end results for which the position is accountable (limit responsibilities to five). Include WHY it is done and the impact to the organization. List the responsibilities in the order of importance and state the percentage of time the employee spends on each responsibility during a typical year.
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Job Responsibility 1
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Advocacy planning and strategy-setting
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% of time: 30
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- Develop the SRI’s Advocacy & Influencing Strategy and core messages, Advocacy Action Plan and Advocacy Calendar, engaging SRI partners in development.
- Ensure the Strategy and Action Plan are implemented and reviewed annually.
- Coordinate the SRI Advocacy Working Group, comprising partner Advocacy Lead representatives.
- Identify influencing opportunities and prepare plans for SRI engagement in these opportunities, working with the SRI Advocacy Working Group.
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Job Responsibility 2
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Produce and share content for influencing the Syrian humanitarian sector and stakeholders
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% of time: 30
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- Identify relevant content (blogs, papers, social media, statements, etc.) for influencing opportunities and develop workplans to produce them, in collaboration with the Advocacy Working Group.
- Produce policy briefs, joint position statements, talking points or other advocacy materials and secure sign-off from SRI partners.
- Oversee maintenance and updates to SRI media channels (website, X, etc.), providing relevant and current content.
- Work with Program Quality and Learning Lead to generate content and information that serves as evidence for SRI core messages and influencing.
- Closely monitor policy issues, access and security, regional politics, humanitarian coordination and other issues that may impact the humanitarian situation and response in Syria, and where relevant prepare SRI positions.
- Provide comments and inputs on behalf of SRI into strategic materials produced by forums, donors, governments, etc.
- Ensure contractual communications deliverables for donors are on time and of high quality, maintaining a clear process relating to content generation and dissemination.
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Job Responsibility 3
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Engagement with sector forums, donors and other external stakeholders
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% of time: 20
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- Support the Consortium Director in engagements with donors on policy and strategic issues for Syria, the humanitarian response, and early recovery and resilience programming in Syria.
- Plan and coordinate the SRI’s involvement in the annual Brussels Syria conference, and other events and meetings led by donors, NGOs, UN or other stakeholders.
- Build relations with coordination mechanisms (e.g. SIRF, NGO Forums, Working Groups, Clusters) and other humanitarian actors and stakeholders for cooperation on messaging, advocacy and influencing.
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Job Responsibility 4
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Organize and coordinate SRI-led advocacy initiatives
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% of time: 15
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- Identify opportunities for campaigns, events, roundtables or other advocacy opportunities that SRI could initiate and lead in order to inform and influence humanitarian actors, UN, donors and policy makers.
- Include these opportunities in the Advocacy Action Plan and Advocacy Calendar.
- Coordinate and organize these events, working with the SRI partners Advocacy Working Group.
- Manage the publicity, promotion and logistics of these events, working with the PMU Senior Programs and MEL Officer.
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Job Responsibility 5
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Other relevant duties and responsibilities assigned by the manager
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% of time: 5
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Internal Relationship:
SRI Program Management Unit team members
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External Relationship:
SRI partner advocacy leads; donors; humanitarian Syria working groups, forums and clusters; international and Syrian response actors and NGOs; UN agencies.
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