National Advocacy Support Lead - WaterAid

The National Advocacy Support Lead is a pivotal role, reporting to the Global Campaigns Director, that will provide advocacy thought leadership and expertise to WaterAid teams across the organisation to scale up the impact of our influencing and achieve our ambition.

It will work closely with country teams and experts within and outside WaterAid to provide bespoke influencing advice and support to successful advocacy within country programmes. It will also provide advocacy thought leadership and expertise to WaterAid teams across the federation.

You will also:

• Provide sustained expert advocacy advice and support to an identified set of countries to embed and strengthen influencing as part of reorienting programmes in line with country 5-year strategies.
• Design and deliver influencing trainings and workshops for country programme teams.
• Support national influencing strategy planning and review processes.
• Provide quality-control thought leadership to WaterAid’s advocacy work, identifying trends in areas of improvements or weaknesses, and developing and implementing initiatives to address this.
• Lead programmes of advocacy skill-building and peer learning for the organisation

About You:

• Extensive experience of delivering impactful advocacy, particularly in African countries
• Political savviness and experience on applying this to advocacy work in order to achieve scale of impact
• Experience in leading advocacy learning programmes
• Willingness to travel extensively – with a significant amount of time spent visiting different WaterAid programme countries
• Ability to navigate complex organisational dynamics, bringing diplomacy and negotiation skills, in order to achieve progress on projects and priorities

Location: The role can be based in the UK or one of the following WaterAid Country Programme – Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia– subject to right to work eligibility in the respective countries.

Salary & Benefits

Salaries and benefits for different countries will vary in line with the location of the successful candidate and depending on experience.

See below some example salary ranges:

• Ghana: Grade G: 229,023 – 316,778 GHS per annum with excellent benefits
• Zambia: Grade G: 636,371 – 890,919 ZMW per annum with excellent benefits
• Rwanda: Grade G: 32,412,352 – 53,871,621 RWF per annum with excellent benefits