Advocacy Officer – Human Rights & Media Freedom

About the role

The Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression seeks an Advocacy Officer to strengthen its national and international advocacy on human rights and freedom of expression. The role involves monitoring UN mechanisms, drafting policy documents, and building partnerships with human‑rights organisations.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and implement advocacy plans aligned with the Centre’s strategic objectives.
• Draft policy papers, position statements, briefing notes and advocacy memoranda.
• Monitor political and legal developments relevant to media freedom and identify advocacy opportunities.
• Manage the Centre’s UN platform account, prepare periodic consultative status reports and coordinate participation in Human Rights Council sessions.
• Maintain a calendar of international deadlines, register for relevant UN sessions and ensure timely submissions.
• Support preparation of meetings with diplomatic missions, human‑rights bodies and international partners, including briefing dossiers and meeting minutes.
• Represent the Centre at technical meetings, events and media engagements when required.
• Coordinate internally with program teams to align advocacy activities with project implementation.

Required profile

• University degree in law, political science, international relations, journalism or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience in advocacy, policy analysis or human‑rights work, preferably within an international or UN context.
• Strong understanding of UN mechanisms, human‑rights instruments and media‑freedom issues.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; Arabic is an asset.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed.

Required skills

• Policy research and analysis.
• Report writing and drafting of position papers.
• Monitoring of UN and international mechanisms.
• Database and document management.
• Coordination of multi‑stakeholder meetings.