Advocacy Manager (W/M) - Nigeria mission

Specific Objectives / Priorities

• Develop and implement advocacy action plans, ensuring effective coordination of activities to achieve defined goals.

• By HoM delegation, represent MSF within government coordination platforms addressing acute malnutrition, in close collaboration with key stakeholders; same for maternal health

• Engage with high-level counterparts and strengthen MSF’s network of relationships in coordination with the Head of Mission (HoM) and Country Representative (CR).

• Represent MSF in multi-stakeholder fora on nutrition data analysis, food security, and nutrition assessments across Nigeria

• Participate in the advocacy manager/coordinator platform and designing the intersection advocacy strategy; to foreseen the intersection advocacy set up.

Expected results:

• A clear advocacy plan is available and understood by all the coordinators

• Katsina State Government commitments to address malnutrition are regularly monitored, with documented follow-up actions and effective advocacy ensuring tangible progress in their implementation.

• A high-level advocacy committee is established, supported, and effectively coordinated in the Northwest, bringing together key actors such as the Director General of the Northwest Governors’ Forum, the Office of the Vice President (OVP), the World Bank, UNICEF, and other strategic partners

• Available resources for scaling up the management of malnutrition are identified and actions to mobilize them implemented, including inputs from the World Bank, the Nigerian and Katsina State Governments, UNICEF, international donors, and NGOs, alongside exploration of additional funding opportunities

• Support the implementation of a management model (simplified protocol, prevention strategy).

• Jigawa State Government commitments to address maternal health issue are regularly monitored, with documented follow-up actions and effective advocacy ensuring tangible progress in their implementation.

Main Responsabilities

• Set up or support advocacy mechanism with existing key stakeholders in nutrition (at federal and state level, with government, UN, NGOs, donors)

• Conduct and maintain an up-to-date narrative and analysis of the humanitarian situation and needs based on mission data as well as the available intersection data, and relevant external reports.

• Define the advocacy strategy for MSF (in discussion with cell and mission): main issues, objectives, messages, targets and activities.

  • Based on meetings and identified needs, write the talking points, presentations, briefing notes and Verbal Note

  • Sequence the advocacy actions (identify external targets and MSF spokespeople)

• Participate in the maintaining of the up-to-date timeline (meetings, incidents, OP changes, events, etc…)

• Ensure the liaison with the field teams to explore certain topics: meetings with key actors / testimonies to improve the understanding of certain themes, etc..)

• Support the CR in coordinating the intersection advocacy efforts for identified key topics:

  • Propose working session on advocacy with others OC to define agenda and strategy

  • Organize and contribute in weekly advocacy meetings, provide clear feedback and actions to CR

  • Contribute in the making of the talking Points and intersection report

  • Contribute to the intersection data management

• Represent MSF to government, UN or civil society coordination and advocacy working groups

• Maintain a regular link with the communication department (ensure consistency of messages + regular updates on ongoing works)