National Advocacy Coordinator

• Job Title: National Advocacy Coordinator
• Duration: Annual contract
• Direct Supervisor and Reporting: Program Director 
• Department/Division: Program Development
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
• Functional Supervisor and Reporting:
  • Program Director
  • IOR Asia- Advocacy Advisor

• Build and strengthen advocacy capacity for SOSVN including management, programme co-workers and its partners.
• Develop, adapt and revise advocacy trainings plan, including training materials to ensure co-workers are equipped for effective advocacy.
• Support co-workers to empower youth’s advocacy ability through youth participation activities and community engagement programmes.
• Support co-workers to form and develop children’s clubs in the CVs and in communities to enhance opportunities for connecting resources for children.
• Work with youth coordinator to strengthen and enhance advocacy activities with full spectrum of safeguarding for children in the CVs.

• Develop parnership working with government agencies for promoting technical support in child rights, child protection and alternative care for children deprived of parental care and at risk of lossing this care at national and local levels.
• Leverage the existing child rights networks proactively to voice about quality of FLC model.
• Strategically collaborate with child rights-focused agencies such as UNICEF, Care for Children, Save the Children, VACR, ChildFund, Plan International, World Vision, Birla Children’s Village, Women’s Union, Youth Union and academia.
• Strategically participate and engage in meetings, workshops, forums organized by the relevant Government authorities (such as The National Plan of Action for Children for the period 2021–2030)
• Advocate for the deinstituionalization (DI) of children; and for the new Alternative Care Decree (with UNICEF and Department of Children’s Affairs, MOLISA). This effort can be facilitated by joining UNICEF and VACR, and Child Rights Working Network.

• Conduct a comprehensive research of all forms of alternative care including FLC in Vietnam:
• Utilize existing researches/studies or survey to influence legislative change on FLC with concerned government authorities.
• Disseminate researches/ studies/ surveys illustrating best practices and successful stories of FLC to relevant partners and stakeholders.
• Document FLC models and lessons learned in the context of SOSVN, included budgeting, human resource requirements, programme activities, assessments, monitoring and evaluations.
• Encourage care leavers to share their experience with the children and mothers in the CVs; Create group of care leavers via social media ; to mobilise the participation of these children in advocacy activities : they will inspire to other children in the CVs.
• Advocate to have FLC integrated in Decree 56/2017 or the Law on Children 2016 for the next legislation’s revision.
• Closely monitor the mandate and actively participate in the initiatives launched by the National Commission on Children.

• Work closely with FDC to mobilise funding sources from both public and private sector; including small and medium enterprises and big companies, celebrities, Vietnamese expats, in particular potential corporate in Vietnam.
• Work with Business Development and FDC teams to ensure that advocacy is included in project proposals as much as possible and required resources are adequately budgeted for.
• Mobilise resources from the Government and provinces for SOS programs such as budget for nurturing children in the care program in SOS Children’s Villages under Decree 20/2021/NDCP or MOLISA pays counterfunding in equivalent to 50% granted for supporting children in Family Strengthening Program in 6 provinces.
• Mobilise financial support from provincial People Council and People Committee based on Decree 762/VBHN-BLĐTBXH/2019 and Decree 26/2016/NDCP.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Degree or Diploma in Social Sciences, Law, International Relations or related field.
• Minimum 3 - 5 years’ experiences in the area of child rights, alternative care and youth development..
• Minimum of 2 years’ advocacy experiences with MOLISA and concerned governmental agencies on child rights and alternative care for children at all levels.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experiences on results-based program management, implementation and reporting.

• Good knowledge of UNCRC, UNGAC, national laws and policies, national alternative care and child protection system and socio-cultural systems.
• Experience working on Child Rights, Youth Development and Child Safeguarding in Vietnam.
• Sound knowledge of local regulations on beneficiary of social welfare (especial for children without parental care and low-incomes families)
• Knowledge of results-based programme development, implementations, monitoring and evaluation.
• Demonstrated experience of context analysis, policy analysis, design and implementation of advocacy with government, other relevant authorities/stakeholders to secure commitment around common goals.
• Working experience with NGOs or international development organisation is preferable
• Familiar in fund raising.
• Excellent team working.
• Fluency in English and Vietnamese. (written and verbal).
• Effective communication skills with eyes for details.
• Computer literacy (WORD, Poewerpoint and Excel).

• Professionalism
• Strong results-driven
• Proactivity
• Confidentiality
• Integrity

• Team members are based in SOS National Office.
• Frequent travel to the target locations is required.