Regional Advocacy Officer
Regional Advocacy Officer Sustainable Diets (Fixed term contract full time – either Malawi or Zambia) – Hivos Southern Africa Hub
Hivos – people unlimited
Hivos Southern Africa Hub, aims towards an open and green society, inspired by humanist values such as freedom, dignity, responsibility and curiosity, Our objective is that every person can line in freedom and dignity on a planet that is sustainable, We pride ourselves as upholding the principles of Social Innovation of generating new ideas and approaches that resolve existing social, cultural, economic and environmental challenges for the benefit of people and planet, We use this frame to stretch Hivos’ view and remit beyond ‘development’ towards a future as a global organisation that finds its relevance and impact in the generation of ideas, initiatives and relationships for open and green societies
To support our office generate new initiatives and mobilise resources we are looking for the following position
Regional Advocacy Officer Sustainable Diets (Fixed term contract fulltime – either Malawi or Zambia)
The Regional Advocacy Officer Sustainable Diets manages and implements the advocacy dimension of the Sustainable Diets For All (SD4All) Strategic Partnership in Southern Africa S/he positions and profiles the Strategic Partnership of Hivos and IIED as set out in The Citizen Agency Consortium (Chapter Sustainable Diets), engages in the debate, communicate with stakeholder in the broadest sense to generate the moral and political support needed to successfully impellent Hivos programmes and projects and gives feedback and recommendations for properly and successfully implementing of the project, The Regional Advocacy Officer is also responsible for working in close liaison with partner organisations, where necessary building and developing advocacy capacities and ensuring partnership action in the area of advocacy, The Regional Advocacy Officer manages and implements the SD4All programme in Southern Africa, The programme will include national partners, including the multi-stakeholder Food innovation Labs and potentially national campaign, It will include national and international research, relevant for (inter) national advocacy and the Food Diversity Atlas, Regional aspects of advocacy will be
Academic level of working and thinking (minimum First Degree) in Agriculture, Food and Nutrition, security, Development Studies, Resource economics and a relevant Masters or equivalent professional qualification, relevant working experience: 3-5 in the field of agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security, Development Studies , Resource Economics, Access to relevant national and regional networks and preferable international networks, Expertise or experience in advocacy and preferable campaigning experience, Advocacy experience in relation to public sector and preferable private sector, Relevant work experience in an international environment with NGOs
Hivos offers a challenging position in an international environment
Hivos Hob for Southern Africa has offices in Malawi, Zambia, South Africa and Zimbabwe, This position is ideally in either Malawi or Zambia, Hivos welcomes applications from citizens from countries in the Southern African Region but can only offer a position to only those with a valid work permit for the country the vacancy is in, Hivos can only offer employment on local terms and conditions of the relevant country, This is a bridged version of the vacancies for full information on the vacancies and on Hivos visit our Facebook page onhttps://www.facebook.com/hivossouthernafrica or our website www.hivos.org
If you are interested in the above mentioned position, send a letter explaining our motivation and your CV to Hivos email: southernafrica@hivos.org Deadline: 12th February Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
