Advocacy & Communications Coordinator

ABOUT CHILD HOUSESChild Houses is a Syrian-led child protection organization dedicated to replacing institutional care with family-based alternatives. In Syria, many children have been separated from their families due to conflict, poverty, and social stigma, often resulting in long-term placement in orphanages. Child Houses works to ensure children grow up safely within families by combining direct case management, family reunification, alternative care, and psychosocial support with broader system reform. Through partnerships with families, communities, and public authorities, the organization strengthens child protection systems at the child, family, community, and institutional levels to create sustainable, long-term change.POSITION SUMMARYThe Advocacy and Communication Coordinator is responsible for leading, developing, and implementing the organization’s advocacy and communication strategies to promote child protection, family strengthening, psychosocial support, and wider humanitarian objectives. This role ensures evidence-based messaging, community engagement, and representation of the organization’s work to stakeholders, partners, and the public. The Coordinator strengthens institutional visibility while maintaining ethical standards and safeguarding principles across all communications.KEY RESPONSIBILITIESA. Advocacy Strategy & Implementation* Develop and implement a comprehensive advocacy strategy aligned with the organization’s child protection and humanitarian priorities. * Identify key policy gaps affecting children, families, and vulnerable groups and develop policy briefs, position papers, and advocacy messages. * Represent the organization in advocacy coalitions, working groups, and meetings with government stakeholders, INGOs, UN agencies, and community leaders. * Coordinate and implement awareness-raising campaigns on child protection, MHPSS, family strengthening, and community safety. * Support evidence generation from field teams (case management trends, assessments, protection concerns) to inform advocacy priorities.B. Communication & Media Management* Lead the development of communication materials including success stories, newsletters, human-interest stories, reports, social media content, infographics, and videos. * Ensure all content adheres to safeguarding, ethical storytelling, confidentiality, and informed consent standards—especially when involving children. * Manage the organization’s communication channels (website, social media, press releases, media contacts). * Collaborate with program teams to document program outcomes, achievements, lessons learned, and impact stories. * Oversee branding compliance across field activities, visibility materials, and donor requirements.C. Community Engagement* Develop community engagement strategies to promote awareness on child protection, positive parenting, psychosocial wellbeing, and referral pathways. * Support field teams in conducting community-based awareness sessions, focus group discussions, and child-friendly campaign activities. * Collect feedback from communities to ensure messaging is appropriate, accessible, and culturally sensitive.D. Capacity Building* Train staff, partners, and institutions on communication standards, ethical reporting, advocacy skills, and child-safe content collection. * Support national institutions and partners in strengthening their communication and advocacy capacities in line with child protection best practices.E. Coordination & Reporting* Produce monthly, quarterly, and annual advocacy/communication reports. * Work closely with child protection, MHPSS, and case management teams to align messaging and gather data. * Support donor reporting with communication materials and advocacy-related content. * Maintain efficient documentation and archiving of communication assets.REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONSEducation* Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Social Sciences, International Relations, Humanitarian Studies, or related field. * Master’s degree is an asset.Experience* Minimum 4–6 years of experience in advocacy, communications, humanitarian work, or child protection sectors. * Experience in NGOs, INGOs, or humanitarian contexts is highly preferred. * Proven experience in designing campaigns, coordinating advocacy initiatives, and producing communication materials. * Familiarity with child protection approaches, case management, family strengthening, and MHPSS programming. * Excellent written and verbal English skills are essential for this role, high English proficiency is a must.Skills & Competencies* Strong written and verbal communication skills. * Ability to simplify technical language into public-friendly messaging. * Excellent photography, videography, or storytelling skills (preferred but not mandatory). * Understanding of humanitarian principles, do-no-harm, and safeguarding. * Ability to work with diverse communities and maintain confidentiality. * Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills. * Fluency in English required; local languages are an asset.Safeguarding and Child Protection* Ensure all communications uphold child safeguarding, protection principles, and ethical standards. * Ensure consent procedures are strictly followed for all images, videos, and stories. * Report any suspicion of child protection or safeguarding violations immediately as per organizational policy.Working Conditions* Regular travel to field locations. * Ability to work in challenging humanitarian settings. * Flexible schedule to respond to emergency communication needs.HOW TO APPLYInterested candidates are invited to submit:* A detailed CV * A cover letter outlining relevant experience and motivation for applyingApplications should be sent to: [email protected] include “Advocacy & Communications Coordinator – Syria” in the subject line of your email.Deadline: March 15, 2026Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Child Houses is committed to safeguarding and child protection. Background checks may be conducted as part of the recruitment process.