Humanitarian Advocacy Officer - Climate Crisis & Food Security in Berlin bei Ärzte ohne Grenzen e V / Médecins Sans Frontières

Humanitarian Advocacy Officer - Climate Crisis & Food Security (f/m/d) in Berlin bei Ärzte ohne Grenzen e V / Médecins Sans Frontières

Ärzte ohne Grenzen e.V. / Médecins Sans Frontières

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Be Part of the Team

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is a private and independent international medical aid organisation. Diversity, open mindedness and mutual respect are of particular importance in our organisation. MSF provides medical aid in more than 70 countries worldwide. The headquarters of the German section of MSF - Ärzte ohne Grenzen e.V. is in Berlin. In the headquarters, over 250 employees work in the fundraising, communications and engagement, finance and administration, human resources and project departments.

Humanitarian Advocacy Officer - Climate Crisis & Food Security (f/m/d)

Job Location

Berlin

Start Date

01.02.2024

Job Duration

permanent

Job Dimension

40 hours/ week

Application Deadline

07.01.2024

The Advocacy Officer directly reports to the Heads of Berlin Advocacy Unit and is part of the GD department and is responsible to develope strategies and advocacy plans on climate crisis and its affects on humanitarian contexts as well as on food security and nutrition. The Humanitarian officer takes over content responsibility (research, text production etc.) over a set of priority advocacy dossiers in coordination with the Head of BeAU. The Humanitarian officer also supports the strategic goals of BeAU to ensure that key stakeholders in government and parliament as well as NGOs, academia and other relevant sectors of civil society are aware of and support MSF’s primary concerns and priorities related to the needs of its patients and the organization’s ability to help them. This includes influencing government policy-making and action in relevant areas and shaping the policies and actions of German NGOs active in humanitarian work.t advocacy activities (like events, letters and other forms of communication etc.).

In your role you will

Identify priorities for MSF regarding our work on climate crisis and food security
Develope and roll-out of advocacy strategies and plans; identification and power mapping of relevant actors inside and outside MSF.
Research and create evidence-based content; development of content in alliances with other relevant stakeholders.
Engage and network with relevant political contacts in parliament and ministries, private sector, academic, civil society organizations as well as international teams of MSF
Prepare memos, reports and dossiers to be used internally and externally for advocacy purposes; track advocacy related developments and information including list serves, meetings, calls, media, and publications and identification of advocacy opportunities and targets.
Organise and track advocacy activities; support internal reporting and planning processes.
Support other priorities of MSF operations as well as humanitarian crisis as needed

You Have

High expertise on climate crisis, expertise on food security and nutrition in humanitarian settings, skills to identify political opportunities and influence debates and decisions in favor of MSF’s operational priorities.
Profound experience in advocacy work in Germany as well as representation and public speaking; Confident command of a wide range of advocacy tools
High ability to monitor relevant dossier landscape, researching and monitoring of the positioning and policies of German government, civil society and other stakeholders on key areas of MSF interest.
High agility and flexibility in strategic and critical thinking, managing various topics at a fast pace and professional level, openess to also cover attoc priorities outside of climate crisis or food security
Relevant academic degree (Law, Politics, humanitarian degree or similar)
Team player with a can-do attitude and the ability to handle a high workload.
Fluent in German and English
Commitment to the aims and principles of MSF; knowledge of and prior work with MSF are an asset

Our Offer

Financial benefits

Payment according to a transparent internal salary structure; in this position according to group 4 with full-time employment (40h/week) from 3.714 Euro to a maximum of 4.698 Euro, depending on the relevant professional experience
13th salary, regular salary increases within the salary structure and annual inflation adjustment
Company pension plan after 24 months of seniority
Subsidy for job ticket or Deutschlandticket
Subsidy for a sports membership at Urban Sports Club
Financial allowance for remote work and company laptop with additional accessories for mobile working

non-financial benefits