Advocacy and Strategy Advisor Médecins Sans Frontières Experience: Internship Ottawa, Canada Apply By: 06-09-2024

At the core of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Canada’s identity is a commitment to medical ethics, independence, neutrality, and impartiality. We go where people’s medical needs are greatest. These ideals have driven every aspect of our work – from medical care and logistical coordination, to finance and communications – since MSF was established in 1971. 

The Advocacy & Strategic Advisor is a position with responsibilities for devising strategies for MSF Canada’s humanitarian affairs advocacy and analysis, and for obtaining and managing institutional funding. Working as a member of the Humanitarian Affairs team, the Advocacy & Strategy Advisor works with MSF operational partners and senior management across the organization to identify, support, and strengthen MSF Canada’s need for analysis, advocacy, and positioning on priority operational contexts and issues, the Canadian policy environment, and humanitarian funding mechanisms.

MSF Canada is looking for someone to join our Humanitarian Affairs team who will:

• Ensure strategic communication of MSF’s analyses and positioning to the Canadian public and in private advocacy engagements
• Develop relationships and networks to support the strategic advocacy and public institutional funding work of the Humanitarian Affairs team
• Provide analyses of key events from operational contexts to inform reporting, advocacy, representation, and public communications
• Develop advocacy and representation strategies that speak to the Canadian context given current operational events and conditions

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• a commitment to MSF’s principles, including cross-cultural awareness, and service orientation
• fluency in English
• fluency in French (strong preference will be given)
• experience in the humanitarian sector with experience in advocacy, communications, and/or fundraising/institutional funding
• experience in a role with specific responsibilities in developing advocacy and/or communications strategies and actions within the field of humanitarian assistance
• knowledge of the Canadian policy environment as it relates to humanitarian assistance, foreign affairs, international assistance funding, and MSF’s work
• excellent strategic communication and advisory skills, preferably in a public advocacy environment
• diplomacy, with strong negotiation and communications skills
• an analytical approach with the ability to synthesize complex and sensitive material accurately
• the ability to translate complex issues into public-facing messaging

Source: https://boards.greenhouse.io/doctorswithoutborders/jobs/6199294