Call proposal Advocacy and Strategic Lobbying Consultant

The World Councl of Chuches is looking for a Consultant for advocacy and strategic lobbying:

The World Council of Churches’ Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (WCC–EAPPI) has worked since 2002 to accompany Palestinian and Israeli communities and organisations pursuing a just peace through non-violent means. The programme combines protective presence, systematic monitoring and documentation, and evidence-based advocacy through an international ecumenical network.
The EU-supported GUARD project will operate for 36 months in East Jerusalem and the Jerusalem periphery, with particular attention to communities affected by forced displacement, settlement expansion, restrictions on movement and worship, settler violence, home demolitions, and discriminatory planning and residency policies. The action aims to strengthen protective presence, translate verified field evidence into strategic advocacy, and mobilise international political, faith, civil-society, and media constituencies.
The project’s advocacy component includes structured international delegations, high-level policy briefings, strategic lobbying in selected countries, sustained follow-up with decision-makers, engagement of WCC member churches and EAPPI national coordinations, and coordination with local and international civil-society partners. WCC–EAPPI therefore seeks an experienced Advocacy and Strategic Lobbying Consultant to support the design, preparation, delivery, and assessment of these activities.

The purpose of the consultancy is to strengthen the quality, reach, coherence, and measurable influence of WCC–EAPPI’s international advocacy under the GUARD project. The consultant will help convert verified field documentation and community-validated priorities into targeted policy engagement, effective lobby missions, and structured follow-up with decision-makers and influential faith and civil-society networks.

• Develop and maintain a practical advocacy and lobbying strategy aligned with GUARD Outcomes 2 and 3 and the approved project workplan.
• Identify priority decision-makers, institutions, entry points, messages, and feasible policy asks in each target country or institution.
• Prepare and coach Ecumenical Accompaniers, former EAs, church representatives, community voices, and WCC–EAPPI staff for safe, ethical, and effective advocacy engagement.
• Support the organisation of lobby weeks, delegations, policy briefings, and follow-up engagement in ways that connect verified field evidence with concrete policy action.
• Strengthen coordination with WCC networks, EAPPI national coordination and the Advocacy Coordination network.
• Establish an outcome-oriented system for documenting access, commitments, follow-up actions, policy influence, learning, and risk.

• Review the approved GUARD application, logical framework, advocacy workplan, existing fact sheets, incident trends, campaign materials, prior lobby reports, stakeholder maps, and relevant WCC policies.
• Conduct inception consultations with WCC–EAPPI coordinator, Middle East programme Executive, and advocacy staff, selected national coordination, and key partners.
• Prepare a concise inception report and an assignment workplan, including methodology, deliverable schedule, consultation plan, risks, safeguarding measures, and information needs.
• Refine the advocacy theory of change, priority policy objectives, messages, calls to action, target audiences, influence pathways, and indicators of progress.

• Map and prioritise relevant executive, legislative, diplomatic, faith, media, and civil-society stakeholders, including…