Policy Manager

Ipas Pakistan seeks the services of a seasoned Policy Manager with a successful track record of policy development in the health in general and reproductive health and family planning in particular. The ideal candidate will be passionate about Ipas mission vision and core values and have the capacity to lead excellent advocacy agenda policy standards and guidelines development process partners and stakeholders management. This position is focused on advancing safe post abortion and family planning access and rights by designing policy and advocacy strategies and building meaningful partnerships to improve the legal and policy environment for reproductive rights.

The Policy Manager contributes to national policy and advocacy strategies and fora through collaboration with Ipas staff external coalitions and strategic partners and donors. The position holder works closely with others in the program team to foster innovation learning and exchange across the Ipas programs and partners to advance reproductive justice and safe uterine evacuation services access. Success in this role will depend on attention to detail determination to achieve advocacy targets on time taking initiative a proactive approach to risk management and troubleshooting and strong communication skills. The manager will be involved in writing reports developing project briefs reviewing various documents for publication offering general technical expertise regarding communications and media and ensuring publications / broadcasts of the essential information relating to Ipas work in the region. This will include documentation of case studies from the Pakistan program work and maintaining the global Ipas brand through consistent messaging.

POLICY DEVELOPMENT

• Provides high quality strategic technical assistance to the government for policy formulation related to PAC FP and other related reproductive health initiatives. This includes being a subject matter expert on SRHR safe uterine evacuation and family planning.
• Contributes to the research documentation publication and dissemination of policy and advocacy reports and briefs to support Ipass priorities and strategies.
• Proactively develops policy briefs evidence briefs position papers articles brochures and policy statements for supporting Ipass mission for external publication as required.
• Maintains relationships with and participates in relevant external coalitions to advance national and provincial policy gains.
• Leads coordination of the secretariat function of the Pakistan Post Abortion Care Alliance and implement the action plan.
• Builds and nurtures existing networks and partnerships of organizations and institutions to support Ipass mission and legal / regulatory / policy changes on safe uterine evacuation and post-abortion care.
• Provides policy and external influencing support and technical assistance as needed including drafting speeches presentations and materials for presentation in international regional and national conferences e.g. compendiums best practices documents research fact sheets and briefs; program documents policy statements and workshop materials.
• Provides policy and advocacy support and technical assistance as needed including drafting speeches and presentations for international regional and national conferences e.g. compendiums best practices documents research fact sheets & briefs; program documents policy statements and workshop materials.
• Implements and reports progress / outcome on country activities toward achievement of efforts for policy change as reflected by donor deliverables and other indicators
• Participates in planning meetings for donor programs; prepares timely and high-quality policy components of related donor reports.
• Assists in relationship management and helps maintain key relationships with national non-profits private sector entities and policy networks especially at the national level
• Maps stakeholders at national and provincial level develop and implement relationship management strategy.
• Ensures consistency of messages of the organization.
• Effectively represents organizational priorities and positions in selected national provincial and international fora as necessary.
• Seeks guidance from senior management in partnership building and fundraising efforts and contributes to drafting policy and advocacy-related donor proposals and reports.

TECHNICAL EXCHANGE

Qualification and Experience :

Desired :

Ipas is strongly committed to providing a work environment that is free from all forms of harassment discrimination and inequity. We recruit employ train promote and compensate our personnel without regard to race age sex religion national origin color creed ancestry citizenship caste ethnicity regional identity tribal identity marital status veteran status disability genetic information gender identity transgender status sexual orientation or any other personal characteristic protected by law or outlined by Ipas policy. Ipas acknowledges that these personal characteristics may differ in different contexts.

Required Experience :

Manager

Key Skills

Legal Drafting,Communication skills,Computer Operation,Business Management,Pricing,Research Experience,Information Security,Project Management,Administrative Experience,Public Speaking,Data Analysis Skills,Writing Skills

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1