Advocacy and Communications Specialist

Advocacy and Communications Specialist

Country Office

 

About the job

Overall purpose of the role: This role will be responsible for shaping and implementing DRC Türkiye’s Advocacy and Communications strategies. This will include being responsible for i) Acting as DRC’s advocacy focal point, implementing and further developing the advocacy & communications strategy with support of the Hub Advocacy and Communications Coordinator and supporting DRC’s advocacy in country and at the regional level; iii) Ensuring compliance with donor visibility and reporting requirements. Implementation of the above should take into consideration DRC’s localization and partner-led implementation. This will involve a component of capacity development, monitoring and oversight of partners in relation to data collection, communication and visibility as well as advocacy.

 

Geographic Scope: Country (Türkiye)

The role is based in DRC Türkiye Country Office (Gaziantep). However, regular travel to DRC areas of operation is expected (Kilis, Sanliurfa, Kahramanmaras and Hatay), as well as to partner locations including Istanbul and Ankara and occasionally international.

 

Duties and Responsibilities:

Advocacy

• Under the guidance of the Regional Advocacy Coordinator, Head of Programme, and Country Director, develop and implement the advocacy strategy
• In coordination with technical coordinators, develop policy briefs, talking points, topline messaging and one-pagers on DRC positioning on priority topics/thematic areas and other ad hoc advocacy products.
• Through continued consultation with relevant field staff and DRC’s local partner organizations as well as Turkish and international media, stay abreast of key contextual developments that have an impact on DRC’s programming in Türkiye and provide ongoing analysis and updates on key issues
• Keep track of stakeholder engagement by the CO and coordinate with RO and EU level advocacy staff to support the engagements
• Use DRC protection monitoring data and other available research data particularly for economic recovery to ensure advocacy messages are based on evidence and to raise emerging trends of concern that may have specific relevancy for advocacy.
• With support from the Protection and Economic Recovery Coordinators, suggest program and advocacy recommendations based on programming and research findings;
• Map out and connect with other advocacy actors in Türkiye and participate in ad-hoc joint initiatives as relevant.
• Support partners/provide capacity development to partners on advocacy related topics as required and with the support of the Regional Advocacy Coordinator.
• Maintain regular contact with RO Advocacy Coordinator, and share/exchange relevant information that can be used at the regional level to push key agenda items relevant to Türkiye, and when necessary, ensure advocacy products are signed-off according to DRCs international sign-off procedures.
• Support project development cycles by, including but not limited to, providing contextual analysis and insights and designing evidence-based advocacy components.

 

Coordination and Representation

• Take part in advocacy-related fora in the country and in the region and ensure the representation of DRC in coordination with CO leadership
• Actively participate in relevant research/protection monitoring/advocacy initiatives including support to data collection, feedback/inputs on documents and DRC positioning.
• Liaise with key UN, NGO and other stakeholders in country to ensure DRC has up to date information on the humanitarian situation.

 

Communications and visibility

• Provide strategic direction, technical guidance, and final quality assurance for all communications and visibility activities, ensuring consistency with DRC guidelines and donor requirements, in all stages of project cycle.
• Follow-up on and ensure delivery of communication and visibility requirement across all of DRCs grants
• Follow-up and ensure organizational visibility of DRC
• Coordinate and build capacity of communication focal points across project offices and partner organizations.

 

About You

To be successful in this role we expect you to have bachelor degree in political science, international development, economics or another relevant field.

Moreover, we also expect the following:

Required

• Minimum 3 years of practical experience in communication and advocacy functions; experience in an I/NGO in a humanitarian setting an asset
• Excellent qualitative analysis and report-writing skills
• Experience in influencing and advocacy work including lobbying, policy development and information provision in humanitarian issues
• Excellent knowledge of mixed-method research methodologies, experience in research design and roll-out, including experience in designing data collection tools
• Effective verbal communication and presentation skills
• Proven experience in capacity building of teams, including development of training materials
• Confident and decisive leadership, ability to work independently as well as cooperatively with team members
• Proficiency in MS Office,
• Demonstrated attention to detail, ability to follow procedures, meet deadlines and work independently as well as cooperatively with team members
• Full professional proficiency (written and verbal) in English
• Full professional proficiency (written and verbal) in Turkish
• Knowledge of Arabic an asset

 

In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’ five core competencies:

Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.

Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.

Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.

Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.

Demonstrating integrity: You uphold and promote the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct in relation to our values and Code of Conduct, including safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment.

 

We offer

Contract length: until 31.12.2026 (with possible extension based on fund availability and performance)

Band: G2 – Non-Manager

Designation of Duty Station: Country Office (Gaziantep)

Start date: 13.07.2026

 

Salary and conditions will be in accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for nationals; please refer to drc.ngo under Vacancies. DRC put this recruitment on a rolling basis, recruitment process can continue during the advertisement.

 

Application process

All applicants must upload a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than four pages) in English by this link. Applications sent by email will not be considered.

Closing date for applications: June 24, 2026 (on a rolling basis)

For further information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult our website drc.ngo.