Campaign Manager

 
JOB DESCRIPTION
Background and Summary:
The idea of the coalition started taking shape after several organizations, activists and women human rights defenders (WHRDs) met in Cairo during June 17 - 20, 2013, based on an invitation by Nazra for Feminist Studies. The meeting resulted in the formation of a Steering Committee that was formed from WHRDs who volunteered from different countries, and they took the responsibility to work on formulating the suggestions and ideas that were raised in June 2013. They also completed the basic and necessary steps needed to build a strong base for the coalition of WHRDs in the MENA region. Two meeting for the Steering Committee were conducted during the periods June 2 - 5, 2014 in Amman, Jordan, and August 6 - 8,2014 in Beirut, Lebanon, respectively. They worked on drafting the code of conduct, internal regulations, objectives of the coalition and membership criteria. The 2 referred to meetings also included the design of an internal system for the transition period until the beginning of 2015, where the first general assembly for the coalition was conducted in February 2015 with the presence of 14 WHRDs from different countries in the region, where the internal regulations were confirmed, a strategic plan was drafted and the first elections for the coalition's Executive Committee were conducted, in addition to appointing consultants for the different sub-regions and handing the coordination of the coalition to SAWT AL NISWA collective.
 Coalition Objectives:
The General Assembly confirmed and certified a general objective for the coalition, which is the building of sub-regional coalitions that are coherent, effective and work as the basis or a group of local groups, and provides support for WHRDs to raise the issues they work on in a safe and effective environment via strengthening protection and enabling mechanisms for WHRDs, disseminating the concept of WHRDs and raising awareness about the role they play, in addition to disseminating the culture of respect and support for WHRDs.
About the Activity :
 Activity 2. is supported through the Norwegians peoples aid through SIDA, under the project" Empowering WHRDs in MENA region" and implemented by the WHRD MENA coalition. It’s main objective is to launch a global campaign on the protection of the WHRDs in the region, and present WHRDs with detailed content and clear steps to engage with and use International mechanism the protects WHRDs, HRDs and Human rights in the region.

The WHRD MENA coalition would like to hire a campaign manager to be responsible about managing and implementing a campaign that aims to bring the attention of the international community to the situation of WHRDs in MENA.
The Campaign Manager is a consultancy for three months, and where the duties and tasks of the CM are:
1-    Excute and implent a media and PR stratigies. 
2-    Develop and implement the campaign related activity in coordination with designer. 
3-    Develop creative online presence and identity for our Campaign.
4-    Contact international, regional and local media outlets and engage them in the campaign.
5-    Follow up and coordinate with international partners of the coalition.
6-    Submit a report on the campaign ‘activities and impact.
7-    Laisse with Regional coordinator on the campaign strategic development and activities.
8-    Perform other task requested by the Regional Coordinator and is relevant to the WHRD MENA Campaign and WHRD MENA coalitions ‘online presence.
9-    Coordinate closely with designer. 
 
 The campaign manager will report to the Regional Coordinator, and will abide by the NPA’s code of conduct, WHRD MENA internal regulations, and anti-corruption policy.