Parliamentary Policy Advocate

2 weeks ago

Ottawa, Canada Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East Full time

**OVERVIEW**:
**Relevant Work Experience**:
Minimum 5 years

**Career Level**:
Experienced

**Education Level**:
University degree, with preference for expertise in public affairs, political science, management, organizational development and/or public relations

**Salary**:
**Industry**:
Non-profit sector

**The role and the organization**:
CJPME is looking for highly motivated individual who is passionate about CJPME’s mission, who has concrete work in lobbying/advocacy work, and who wants to play a major role in the growth and influence of CJPME with the public and elected officials.

CJPME is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to empower Canadians of all backgrounds to promote justice, development and peace in the Middle East, especially Palestine. CJPME is a national, independent, non-partisan Canadian organization at the forefront of promoting human rights and justice for all peoples in the Middle East, and Canadians of Middle East origin.

**JOB DESCRIPTION**:
**Political Advocacy**
- Represent the organization to politicians, media, or the general public to articulate and socialize the organization’s policies and campaigns
- Be able to speak publicly of the organization, its mandate, and its focal areas
- Organize meetings/events/press conferences with the public, media, partners and volunteers, to socialize the organization’s policies and campaigns
- Be able to develop strategic policies, in various written/graphic formats, that meet advocacy needs, targeting potentially politicians, media, or the general public
- Carry our all manner of lobbying/advocacy work as necessary
- Work as part of an advocacy team - involving staff, volunteers, and partners - to collectively carry out advocacy policy

**Public Relations**
- Develop strategic relationships at various levels with individuals, organizations, and politicians to promote the work and mandate of the organization
- Liaise with elected officials, partners, supporters and volunteers
- Be able to speak publicly of the organization, its mandate, and its focal areas
- Help organize events involving elected officials, the public, partners and volunteers
- Represent the organization at community events, occasionally outside office hours
- Help develop communications, brochures, promotional videos, or other vehicles for relationship building and messagingHelp manage our advocacy work with traditional media.

**Management**
- Assist in all aspects of the managerial/administrative work of launching and supporting advocacy campaigns
- Carry out personnel administration and orientation of junior staff
- Oversee and manage junior staff
- Maintain and update organizational processes and templates

**Communications**
- Provide advocacy and policy guidance for social media communications, by developing the written/visual communications
- Provide advocacy and policy guidance supporting the successful rollout of and engagement with organizational campaigns
- Help develop outgoing communications with elected officials and the public
- Help maintain platforms for policy campaigns and related
- Perform functions above as appropriate to both English
- and French-speaking audiences
- Review automated translation outputs prior to publishing

**QUALIFICATIONS**:
**Experience and education**
- Minimum 5 years professional experience with roles involving the above skills
- University or post-secondary education

**Communications and writing skills**
- Native language skills in English (or equivalent) spoken and written
- Ability to write professional, well-structured, persuasive texts of various lengths
- Strong public speaking ability
- Language skills in French and Arabic would also be an asset

**Technology and platform skills**
- Solid, hands-on, office experience, with all Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
- Solid, hands-on, office experience, with Google docs/sheets/slides/forms
- Experience working creatively with many different media platforms and tools (e.g. social media, Websites, on-line tools, video/audio, podcasts, etc.)

**Knowledge**
- Strong knowledge of international humanitarian law, and international human rights law.
- Strong academic knowledge of Middle East history, culture and politics.
- Understanding of Canadian politics, and experience communicating with elected representatives.

**Personality traits**
- High integrity and passionate drive for human rights, especially Palestinian human rights
- Strong organizational abilities including planning, delegating, and program development
- Excellent customer relations skills, in-person and over the phone/Zoom
- Skills to collaborate with and motivate volunteers
- Team player keen to work collaboratively with others
- Willingness to work flexible hours as needed

**APPLICATION PROCEDURE**:
**Salary**: $50,000.00-$80,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Paid time off
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus pay

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