Vacancy Announcement Position: Regional Policy and Advocacy Officer, Lomé, Togo (West Africa)

Vacancy Announcement Position: Regional Policy and Advocacy Officer, Lomé, Togo (West Africa)

Vacancy Announcement

Position: Regional Policy and Advocacy Officer

Location: Lomé, Togo (West Africa)

Contract Type: Fixed Term for One Year, September 1, 2023 - August 31, 2024

About Caritas Africa

Caritas Africa is formally linked to the Catholic Church as one of the 7 Regions of the global Caritas Internationalis Confederation. Africa Region groups together 46 National Caritas organisations in 46 African countries including adjacent islands in the Atlantic and Indian oceans.

Caritas Africa is an International non-profit charity organisation headquartered in Lomé, Togo; whose function is to promote cooperation and harmonize the work of Caritas members of the Africa Region, in conformity with the priorities determined by the General Assembly of Caritas Internationalis (CI).

The purpose of Caritas Africa is to assist the Catholic Church in Africa in carrying out its social-pastoral ministry of: spreading charity and justice by assisting the poor and the needy, responding to humanitarian emergencies, promoting community development and resilience and, advocating for peace and respect for the human rights according to the Holy Scriptures and the teachings of the Catholic Church.

Download the entire Vacancy Announcement Position: Regional Policy and Advocacy Officer, Lomé, Togo (West Africa) here: https://caritaszambia.org/phocadownload/general/Policy-and-Advocacy-Officer-22062023.pdf

About Caritas Zambia

Caritas Zambia is a Catholic Organisation that is an integral structure of the Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB). The Conference of Bishops is a permanent grouping of Bishops of a given nation or territory that jointly exercises certain pastoral functions on behalf of the Christian faithful of their territory. This is done for the sake of effective evangelisation. To promote the principle of the common good which the Church offers humankind, especially through forms and programmes of the apostolate which are fittingly adapted to the circumstances of the time and place, is the role of Bishops.