RE_ADVERTISEMENT OF REGIONAL INFLUENCING LEAD POSITION FOR WEST AFRICA
Position Details
* Job Title: Regional Influencing Lead - West Africa
* Responsible to: Regional Director
* Group: Global Influencing and Programme Group
* Team: West Africa
* Location: West Africa (Togo, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, and Burkina Faso)
* Salary: [Togo: 28,497,373 / Burkina: 32,907017 / Chad: 28,550,679 / Mali: 30,652,660 XoF]
If you are passionate about Influencing Change through Church and Community Transformation, experienced in advocacy and networking within CBOs, we are looking for you. The Influencing Lead is responsible for leading, managing, representing, and setting the overall direction of Tearfund's strategy, networking, advocacy, and influencing work, in Tearfund's Country Operating Model 1 countries and influencing work in the WA Region. Influencing long-term change through the integration of our 4 corporate priorities within the geographical remit of the role (national, sub-regional, or regional level) is a key function of this role. The Influencing Lead is responsible for Tearfund's work of envisioning and strengthening the Church, advocating with national authorities, participating in Integral Mission, and influencing change in churches, government, society, and countries in line with Tearfund's vision, strategy, corporate priority areas and policies, and procedures. Other key responsibilities are:
* Responsible for the design, implementation and review of Tearfund's influencing strategy for model 1 countries in the region, ensuring input from key stakeholders, both external and internal Tearfund teams, to shape the overall strategy as an outworking of Tearfund's corporate vision, corporate priorities, strategic objectives and approaches for country operating model 1;
* Support the Models 2 & 3 countries in the design, implementation, and review of their influencing and CCT scale-up strategies.
* Inspire, envision and strengthen national ACT Forum, networks and movements of churches, theological institutions and civil society actors, as well as individuals who seek to influence policy and practice;
* Promote Church & Community Transformation (CCT) with an emphasis on catalysing and strengthening the Church for Integral Mission;
* Promote qualitative integration of RSG/SHG into CCT
* Promote Environmental and Economic Sustainability (EES) by working with churches, governments, partners and allies to influence them to adopt more environmentally and economically sustainable approaches and policies.
* Promote Reconciled and Peace Filled Societies (RPS) by working with churches, governments, partners and allies to adopt peacebuilding and other approaches to reduce and end conflict within countries.
* Work with churches, NGOs, networks and allies to inspire, empower, develop, mentor and mobilise them to influence change in government policy, economic systems, legal systems and social-cultural practices;
* Influence and support advocacy networks and engage in movement building efforts in line with Tearfund's priority areas;
* Support the identification of advocacy and influencing opportunities, developing position statements and briefing papers, and leading representation to government authorities at local, national, Regional and Global levels, in consultation with the Advocacy Team;
* Promote the role of theology, prayer, land leadership development in churches to influence change
* Develop a preparedness/contingency plan and strategy to respond to crisis, using existing networks TF works with already in country;
* Monitor, review and analyse the country context and changing role of aid and development, and adapt Tearfund's strategy accordingly
* Ensure Tearfund's Quality Standards are upheld at the country level;
* Ensure alignment between the country strategy and Tearfund's global work on the 4 corporate priorities working closely with regional roles;
Successful applicants must be committed Christians who are willing to sign up to Tearfund's evangelical statement of faith.
Applicants must be committed to Tearfund's Christian beliefs.
Please note: The candidate should have the right to live and work in Togo, Chad, Mali, Cote d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso. The candidate should have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and French, good interpersonal skills to work in a cross-cultural setting.
The recruitment process will include specific checks related to safeguarding issues. In addition, personal identification information will be submitted against a Watchlist database to check against criminal convictions as a counter-terror measur
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