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Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Employee Contract Type:
Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)
Job Description:
Job Purpose
The Advocacy & Influence Coordinator is responsible for designing, coordinating, and driving WVG’s public advocacy campaigns and civil society mobilization efforts — with a particular focus on leading the ENOUGH Campaign in Ghana and spearheading all other emerging global and national campaigns. Working under the supervision of the CAPI Manager, the post-holder translates WVG’s advocacy priorities into bold, evidence-based, and high-impact public campaigns that shift attitudes, mobilize communities, influence policy, and drive social change. The Coordinator builds and activates networks of civil society actors, community champions, government allies, donors, media partners, and public supporters to amplify campaign reach and deepen public influence. The role is critical in establishing WVG as Ghana’s most visible, credible, and impactful campaigning voice on issues affecting children, communities, and development outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
C. Policy Advocacy and Government Engagement
- Develop and implement targeted policy advocacy strategies that translate campaign objectives into concrete tasks, policy recommendations, and legislative or regulatory changes at national and sub-national levels
- Map, monitor, and engage key government decision-makers, parliamentary committees, regulatory bodies, and sector ministries whose decisions affect the organization’s campaign priorities
- Prepare high-quality advocacy materials including policy briefs, position papers, parliamentary submissions, open letters, and official statements that advance the organization’s campaign positions with government stakeholders
- Represent the organization in government consultations, policy dialogues, sector working groups, and inter-agency forums relevant to campaign priorities
- Build and maintain strategic relationships with government champions, sympathetic policymakers, and sector allies who can advance the organization’s advocacy agenda from within government
- Monitor legislative and policy developments in Ghana that affect campaign priorities, providing timely intelligence and analysis to the CAPI Manager and Senior Management Team
Civil Society Mobilization and Coalition Building
- Build, coordinate, and sustain broad-based civil society coalitions and campaign alliances that unite diverse actors — including NGOs, community-based organizations, professional associations, youth groups, faith communities, and academia — around shared campaign objectives including the ENOUGH Campaign
- Design and manage community mobilization strategies that activate grassroots support for campaigns, ensuring campaign voices and energy reach from community to national level
- Develop and facilitate campaign training, capacity-building workshops, and mobilization toolkits for civil society partners and community campaign champions
- Organize coalition meetings, campaign convenings, and strategic planning sessions that maintain partner alignment, shared commitment, and coordinated action throughout campaign cycles
- Manage relationships with international NGO networks, regional civil society platforms, and global campaign partners to align national campaign activities with broader movement building efforts
- Identify and recruit new civil society allies, community influencers, and grassroots champions who can extend the organization’s campaign reach into underserved communities and new geographic areas
Campaign Communications and Public Mobilization
Develop compelling campaign messaging frameworks, slogans, calls to action, and audience-targeted narratives that inspire public engagement and drive campaign participation across Ghana
- Serve as the organization’s primary lead and national coordinator for the ENOUGH Campaign in Ghana, ensuring the campaign is implemented to the highest standards in alignment with global campaign frameworks, timelines, and objectives
- Work closely with the Communication, Marketing & Public Engagement Coordinator to develop and deliver campaign communications assets — including digital content, visual materials, campaign videos, social media activations, and press releases
- Design and execute public mobilization activities including petition drives, community activations, public demonstrations, social media campaigns, and mass participation events
- Manage campaign media relations, including press briefings, journalist outreach, and media activations that generate sustained and accurate coverage of campaign goals and progress
- Develop and manage campaign digital presence, including campaign-specific social media content, hashtag strategies, online petitions, and digital action tools
- Identify and engage public figures, celebrities, faith leaders, and community voices as campaign champions and spokespersons to amplify campaign messaging to broader audiences
Resource Mobilization and Organizational Collaboration
- Support the CAPI Manager and Business Development & External Engagement Manager in developing funding proposals, concept notes, and donor reports that relate to advocacy and campaign programming
- Contribute campaign evidence, impact data, and success stories to organizational communications outputs, annual reports, and donor communications materials
- Represent the organization in external forums, conferences, and donor engagements relevant to advocacy and campaigning, articulating the organization’s campaign approach and achievements
- Collaborate with programme teams to ensure campaigns are informed by and connected to programmatic evidence, community experiences, and field-level insights
- Provide advocacy and campaign expertise to support colleagues across the organization in integrating advocacy thinking into programme design, implementation, and reporting
- Perform any other duties as reasonably required by the CAPI Manager in line with the scope of the role
. Campaign Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
- Develop campaign monitoring and evaluation frameworks that set clear indicators, baselines, and targets for each campaign, enabling rigorous tracking of campaign reach, engagement, and influence outcomes
- Collect, analyze, and report on campaign performance data — including participation figures, media reach, stakeholder engagement, digital metrics, and policy outcomes — at regular intervals throughout each campaign cycle
- Produce high-quality campaign reports, impact summaries, and learning briefs for internal review, donor reporting, global network reporting, and public communication purposes
- Facilitate post-campaign reviews and learning sessions with internal teams and coalition partners, capturing lessons that inform the design and execution of future campaigns
- Contribute to organizational knowledge management by documenting campaign strategies, methodologies, coalition structures, and outcomes in accessible and replicable formats
- Stay current with global best practices in advocacy campaigning, social movement building, and public mobilization, proactively integrating new approaches and tools into organizational campaign practice
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
The following may be acquired through a combination of formal or self-education, prior experience or on-the-job training:
- Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, Development Studies, International Relations, Advocacy, Communications, or related field. (Master’s degree an asset)
- 5–7 years’ experience in advocacy, campaigns, social mobilisation, or policy engagement (NGO/development context preferred).
- Demonstrated experience providing technical guidance to field teams or decentralized staff.
- Experience supporting or coordinating advocacy campaigns and external engagement.
- Experience working across multiple stakeholders and teams.
- Experience in coalition and network-building is an added advantage.
- The position requires the ability and willingness to travel domestically up to 40% of the time, and occasionally internationally.
- Demonstrated experience designing and managing multi-stakeholder national advocacy campaigns from inception to evaluation, including coalition building, public mobilization, and policy engagement
- Proven ability to develop policy advocacy materials and engage effectively with government officials, parliamentary bodies, and sector-level policymakers
- Established networks within Ghana’s civil society, community organizations, and advocacy ecosystem, with experience building and managing coalitions
- Strong writing skills with ability to develop campaign messaging, policy briefs, advocacy materials, and mobilization content for diverse audiences.
- Experience working on global campaigns or within international NGO campaign networks
- Experience leading or coordinating a specific named global campaign (e.g. ENOUGH, 16 Days of Activism, or equivalent)
- Established relationships with Ghana government ministries, regulatory bodies, or parliamentary networks relevant to child rights, gender, or social development
- Connections to regional civil society platforms, Africa-wide advocacy networks, or global NGO campaigning communities
- Experience managing social media for campaign purposes including hashtag campaigns, digital petitions, and online mobilization
- Proficiency in a Ghanaian local language; French an added advantage for regional campaign engagement
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only
