Advocacy Officer

Job Posting: 15/Jul/2025

Closure Date: 05/Aug/2025, 4:59:00 PM

Organizational Unit: PSU

Job Type: Staff position

Type of Requisition: Professional Project

Grade Level: P-2

Primary Location: Italy-Rome

Duration: Fixed-term: one year with possibility of extension

Post Number: 2009224

CCOG Code: 1A10

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) contributes to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda through the FAO Strategic Framework by supporting the transformation to MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, for _better production_, _better nutrition_, _a _better environment,_ and _a better life_, leaving no one behind.

**Organizational Setting**
- The Partnerships and UN Collaboration Division (PSU) is FAO’s hub to ensure rights-based and sustainable development for all,
- leaving no one behind. PSU builds transformative partnerships and proactively engages with key stakeholders, including family
- farmers, Indigenous Peoples, parliamentarians, academia, research institutions, UN organizations and civil society. PSU drives a
- people-centred approach through technical support, capacity development, policy advice and inclusive dialogue.
- Within PSU, the Indigenous Peoples Unit (PSUI) provides technical support on Indigenous Peoples within FAO and ensures the implementation of FAO Policy on Indigenous Peoples at corporate level by liaising with regional and country focal points as well as with other technical divisions within FAO. The Indigenous Peoples Unit has three main objectives: 1. Implement FAO Policy on Indigenous Peoples; 2. Provide technical advice to other FAO technical divisions in integrating Indigenous Peoples into their work; 3. Advocate, influence key policy processes and open spaces of dialogue between decision makers and Indigenous Peoples within FAO's mandate. Indigenous Peoples' food systems is one of the seven pillars of work of the Unit. One of the outputs of the United Nations Food Systems Summit in 2021 was the creation of a Coalition on Indigenous Peoples' food systems joined by FAO Members, Indigenous Peoples and Rome-based agencies.
- The main objective of the Coalition is to ensure understanding, respect, recognition, inclusion and protection of Indigenous Peoples' food systems and to provide evidence on their 'game-changing and systemic' aspects. To support the work of the coalition, the Indigenous Peoples' Unit hosts the Global-Hub on Indigenous Peoples' food systems. The Global-Hub is a platform of knowledge that brings together Universities, research centres, Indigenous Peoples and UN organizations to co-create knowledge from scientific and traditional knowledge systems.

The position of Advocacy Officer is located in the Indigenous Peoples Unit (PSUI) of the Partnerships and UN Collaboration Division, at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy.

**Reporting Lines**

The Advocacy Officer reports to the Senior Advocacy Officer/Head of the PSU Indigenous Peoples Unit, PSUI.

**Technical Focus**

Contributes to the development and strengthening of advocacy activities to promote family farming and right to food policies and partnerships and initiatives with all the different actors to accomplish FAO's mandate.

**Key Results**

Comprehensive services on advocacy-related initiatives; increased and strengthened partnerships and knowledge networks within and outside the Organization to support country level actions guided by FAO Country Programming Framework (CPF).

**Key Functions**
- Processes, coordinates arrangements, and delivers services.
- Researches and analyses advocacy-related policy and service delivery issues, maintains operational statistics, and prepares related reports.
- Contributes to the development of information and training materials and coordinates and assists in the presentation of information/ training sessions to management and staff.
- Provides information and advice to management and staff.
- Participates in project teams and work groups.

**Specific Functions**
- Supports PSUI unit work including advocacy materials