Advocacy Officer

Contract length: open-ended

Hours: 80%

Location: home-based, with core availability during office hours in Western Europe

Travel: occasional and for short periods, to country programs and influencing events worldwide, funding and public health provisions permitting

Reporting to: Strategic Partnerships Director

Remuneration: 2,700-3,100USD/month (this amount will be prorated to 80% time commitment)

Deadline for applications: 12 November 2024

CLEAR Global is an equal-opportunity employer, committed to having a diverse team where individuals of all backgrounds collaborate and learn from one another. We believe we can be most effective with diverse experience and expertise in our team. We recruit on merit, actively seek diverse applicant pools and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, age, gender identity and expression, national origin, race and ethnicity, religious beliefs, marital or parental status, or sexual orientation, and welcome all types of diversity.

We offer in addition to salary:

• an innovative work environment with a diverse and passionate team,
• 20 days of annual leave and 10 days of floating holidays,
• the flexibility of home-based/remote work,
• accommodation and per diems when on deployment.

Role

The Advocacy Officer will work closely with the Strategic Partnerships Director and others to help develop and implement CLEAR Global’s advocacy and partnerships program, in order to reach core stakeholders with our vision of helping people get vital information and be heard, whatever language they speak.

The Advocacy Officer is a member of the Strategic Partnerships team, which seeks to expand CLEAR Global’s influence, programmatic impact and income in particular by building strategic partnerships with bilateral and multilateral organizations. The overall goal of the influencing program is to translate our mission into action by ensuring that our mission, learning and advocacy informs all our external engagement and helps catalyze change across the social impact sector.

Reporting to the Strategic Partnerships Director, the Advocacy Officer will work closely with the program, tech, communications and language services teams to deliver on these goals. The Advocacy Officer will help to distill and communicate CLEAR Global’s aims, learning and thinking through appropriate publications, events and conversations, and to ensure that they inform communication and partner engagement  across the organization. The postholder will coordinate and support general, thematic and geographically focused advocacy, making the best use of the organization’s network and proposing effective influencing strategies.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the Strategic Partnerships and program teams to develop and execute a global advocacy strategy that serves CLEAR Global’s vision and builds on learning from our programs and research.

• Work with program and subject matter specialists to formulate key advocacy objectives, messages and targets for humanitarian and development action.

• Contribute to developing advocacy and communications materials that can support change in the lives of speakers of marginalized languages and others experiencing language exclusion, in collaboration with the Communications team.

• Support program teams where needed to communicate their learning and research findings in ways that support our advocacy efforts.

• Lead on producing a regular cycle of communication with partners and advocacy targets drawn from program information to raise the profile of the organization and its aims, learning and achievements; coordinating with Communications, Language Services and program teams on content and dissemination as part of a rolling program of external communications.

• Contribute to developing communication and fundraising content that reflects CLEAR Global’s aims, learning and thinking and projects an image of the organization as expert, innovative, principled and delivering change through partnerships geared to shifting the power balance in the aid sector.

• Help to provide capacity building and communication support to other teams for partner engagement informed by the organization’s aims, learning and achievements.

• Support the Strategic Partnerships Director and internal subject matter specialists to maintain a strategic overview of issues affecting language in humanitarian and development discussions and debates, monitoring trends, maintaining a directory of relevant publications, and inputting to organizational strategy and planning processes, in coordination with other team members.

• In tandem with the Strategic Partnerships Director and other team members, participate as needed in relevant global coordination meetings in support of global advocacy aims.

• Represent CLEAR Global in advocacy forums, including coordinating with other NGOs, UN, donors and government officials. Proactively network to continually inform, challenge and improve advocacy messaging and plans, developing and investing in relationships and attending meetings.

• Monitor electronic and social media for mentions of CLEAR Global and other topics of interest to the organization, and inform the leadership team. Undertake public speaking and media work when needed.

• Proactively seek opportunities to further CLEAR Global’s messaging. Document progress and contribute to organizational learning.

Please note that these responsibilities may change over time. The role will evolve as activities develop.

Qualifications

CLEAR Global is seeking an energetic team player with some experience in advocacy in the humanitarian or development sector who is enthusiastic about the importance of increasing access to knowledge through language. The right candidate agrees with CLEAR Global’s basic beliefs and values and can work virtually with team members based throughout the world.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in humanities, Master’s preferred
• Experience in communications and/or advocacy in an international setting
• Demonstrated interest in language issues
• At least 3 years’ humanitarian/international development experience and understanding of related issues and institutions
• Excellent English writing, editing and speaking skills
• Professional communication skills in French, Arabic or Spanish desirable
• Communication skills in other languages preferred
• Personal experience of language exclusion desirable
• Experience with CRMs (HubSpot or others) desirable
• Willingness to work in a small team with a range of team members
• Willingness to explore different outreach mechanisms, electronic and in person
• Willingness to travel to program locations for up to a month at a time, sometimes in insecure locations and at short notice, and to abide by CLEAR Global’s  security management rules
• Resourceful, able to self-direct and manage competing priorities

About CLEAR Global

CLEAR Global exists to help people get vital information, and be heard, whatever language they speak. We believe that everyone has the right to give and receive information in a language and format they understand. We work with nonprofit partners and a global community of language professionals to build local language translation capacity, and raise awareness of language barriers. Our network of over 100,000 linguists translates millions of words of life-saving and life-changing information a year.

Core Values

CLEAR Global employees and volunteers are people who believe passionately about the value of this work and take personal responsibility for achieving the mission. CLEAR Global’ mission and organizational spirit embody the core values established in its strategic framework:

Excellence: As the leading voice for communicating humanitarian information in the right language, CLEAR Global is a leader in the translation industry and in the non-profit sector.

Integrity: CLEAR Global believes that every person, whether it’s the people who we serve, our volunteers or our staff, has value, deserves respect and has inherent dignity.

Empowerment: CLEAR Global believes in using language to empower people around the world to control their own development and destiny.

Innovation: CLEAR Global recognizes and celebrates the power of innovation to address humanitarian and crisis issues around the world.

Sustainability: CLEAR Global recognizes that meeting our mission necessitates establishment and maintenance of a solid financial and organizational infrastructure.

Tolerance: Our staff and volunteers are highly knowledgeable and skilled; value each other, our partner and our recipients; create a supportive work environment; and conduct themselves professionally at all times.

Keywords

AdvocacyPartnershipsCommunicationLanguageHumanitarianDevelopmentTranslationInnovationSustainabilityEmpowermentExcellenceIntegrity