Advocacy Advisor, Global

Open Society Institute • New York, NY

263d • $185,235 - $217,923

About The Position

The Advocacy Advisor will design, advise, and lead advocacy support for OSF's programming in global and multilateral arenas. Collaborating closely with colleagues in Programs and Communications, they will ensure coherence, rigor, and innovation across various advocacy priorities and lead collaborative work to develop organizational messaging narratives and positionality on issues of pertinence to OSF's mission.

Requirements

• Proven prior external advocacy experience in an international organization (public or private).
• Demonstrated experience of creating and measuring impact with designing advocacy strategies for a global organization on a wide range of issues.
• Knowledge and experience working across the range of issues related to OSF Opportunities and the OSF mission, in roles that have required the consideration, development and implementation of varied advocacy tactics to achieve moments of progress in public policy.
• Understanding of various tools, methods, approaches, and tactics for doing advocacy in challenging contexts within the global north and south.
• Understanding of Campaign research, design, and implementation in the global and multilateral context.
• Experience in developing and implementing creative MEL for campaigns and advocacy across different movements, themes and contexts.
• Assimilate and understand data and information from various sources to draw appropriate conclusions and make relevant recommendations.
• Apply appropriate analytical processes and procedures to support work outputs.
• Developing and implementing a strategic, organized and/or sustained effort to influence decisionmakers and those who influence them to enact or shape specific laws, public policies, practices, norms and/or attitudes in support of open society.
• Ability to make the case for and shape policy action or reform.
• Catalyzing collaboration amongst cross-sector actors toward shared goals and actions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with Geographic Leads, Network Grants and Opportunity teams in driving forward advocacy in relation to OSF Opportunities, key relationships, and critical priorities as they pertain to global and multilateral contexts.
• Represent OSF's leadership in high-level policy events and processes.
• Develop and manage key relationships with intergovernmental institutions, governments, senior policymakers and economic, political, social and cultural leaders.
• Where appropriate, serve as OSF's spokesperson on specific issues as designated by Managing Directors, or the Executive Leadership Team.
• Manage the coordination of advocacy strategies and partners across all Opportunities as well as aligning/linking up with and where appropriate leading global advocacy initiatives.
• Develop and manage tools, tactics and partnerships for advocacy, and advise leadership accordingly.
• Design advocacy strategies for Opportunities and lead on delivery as needed, including by being ‘embedded' in an opportunity team or cross-opportunity flagship projects or big events/moments.
• Create messaging and build narrative tools and approaches.
• Design and implement appropriate MEL tools for measuring the impact of advocacy interventions.

Benefits

• Exceptional opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact; from a generous annual professional development allowance for every employee to onsite training and learning conversations with visiting experts.
• Excellent benefits and perks to promote well-being and a healthy work-life balance, including: Generous time off, as well as our standard Open Society close at year-end (where vacation days are not required) and flexible work arrangements.
• Employer-paid health insurance and dental plans for individuals and families (no employee contribution required).
• Exceptional retirement savings plan (non-contributory for employees) and life insurance.
• Progressive paid parental leave, reproductive and family planning support, and much more.
• A commitment to nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace, so you can bring your whole self to work and make a positive impact.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level