Director, Global Program Advocacy and Communications, Health

Responsibilities

• Set and implement the Global PAC Health strategy. Define where Global PAC Health engages focusing on cross-market, technically complex or politically sensitive work and on reusable global assets that regional and country teams draw on. Own the quality of the strategy and the delivery of its outcomes.
• Lead through the GPA division priorities. Own Global PAC Health’s contribution to the division priorities on Maternal & Child Survival, Health R&D, Innovation Introduction and Health Financing, turning each priority into an integrated plan that links advocacy, financing, policy and communications. Work with the relevant PSTs, regional and country advocacy teams, and GPA colleagues to set one clear strategy and ask for each priority, align the partners, coalitions and donors needed to deliver it, and use key global moments to build political commitment and mobilize resources. Hold the team accountable for measurable progress, and make sure global efforts reinforce the work of country and regional teams.
• Be a strategic partner to PSTs and serve as a bridge to GPA teams. Develop a deep understanding of each PST’s strategy and lead the Program Partner leaders who represent GPA on PST and division leadership teams. Bring the best of GPA to program teams in a coordinated way, translating technical priorities into clear policy and financing asks, meeting each team where it is while holding the line on what advocacy can and cannot achieve. Bring regional and country perspectives into PST strategy early, before asks are set. Bring hands-on advocacy expertise to sharpen the team’s engagement and strengthen the credibility of GPA’s counsel.
• Build one strategy with Africa and India. Co-design advocacy strategies, asks, and plans with the Africa Policy, Government Relations and Partnerships (PGRP) and India PAC teams from the start. Clarify roles between GPAC, regional and country teams in Africa and India, and government relationships teams in donor markets. Share intelligence in both directions and hold joint accountability for results.
• Carry country evidence and leadership into global decisions. Provide space in global platforms for analysis and champions from the regional/country efforts, including through replenishments and global moments such as the G20, the UN General Assembly and the World Health Assembly.
• Broker South-South exchange. Work with the India and Africa teams to spread proven approaches across countries, including, AI tools, regulatory reform, local manufacturing when economically viable, and to support the growing role of India and African countries as suppliers of health innovation to other low- and middle-income countries.
• Drive policy and financing alignment for health PST priorities. Define the policy and financing asks for PST issues and lead PAC’s contribution to replenishments, pledging moments and deal teams, coordinating advocacy, strengthening positioning and aligning partners and communications. Work within the GPA Resource Mobilization (RM) Hub model: partner with the GPA teams who lead funder relationships, opportunity development and deal brokerage, and with the RM Hub on shared visibility of financing needs and sources, deal ownership and escalation.
• Advocate for financing countries own health systems. With DPAF, the RM Hub and regional teams, support the shift from aid dependence toward domestic resource mobilization, stronger budget execution, and blended and innovative finance. Engage multilateral development banks and newer sources of finance, including Gulf and Asian governments and domestic and diaspora philanthropy.
• Help shape the reform of global health architecture. Help the Foundation take clear, constructive positions as global health initiatives, UN agencies and donors reorganize, consistent with the Lusaka Agenda and country-led platforms. Promote one national plan, one budget and one accountability framework in each country. Engage bilateral donors as they move to compact-based models so new agreements reinforce national systems.
• Shape the global health advocacy ecosystem and build coalitions. Steward a focused portfolio of health advocacy partners, guide PAC’s engagement with disease-specific institutions and communities, and maintain accountability for results. Convene multilateral institutions, civil society and philanthropic partners around shared goals, and build the investment cases, convenings and cross-market learning that make country and regional advocacy more effective.

Requirements

• A master’s degree or equivalent demonstrated experience, preferably in public policy, public health, health economics, international relations or international development.
• 15+ years of progressive, senior-level experience leading and developing senior teams and leading policy, advocacy and financing initiatives in global health and global development, or equivalent, preferably across government, multilateral, academic, non-profit and private sectors.
• Experience working in or with governments in low- and middle-income countries, ideally in Africa or South Asia, and with multilateral agencies, development banks and global health institutions.
• Professional or lived experience of health systems in low- and middle-income countries, and credibility with leaders of governments and institutions in the Global South.
• Deep knowledge of health financing and health systems: how budgets are set, released and spent, how domestic resource mobilization works, and how global health initiatives finance and deliver programs.
• Demonstrated record of mobilizing resources across bilateral, multilateral, development bank and philanthropic funders, ideally in global health.
• Mastery-level expertise in advocacy and influencing related to resource mobilization, policy analysis, communications, coalition building, and partnership development with diverse constituencies, including the private sector, policymakers, civil society, academia, multilateral agencies and development banks. Campaign or strategic communications experience is an asset.
• Proven ability to turn data, economic analysis and implementation evidence into investment cases and policy proposals decision-makers act on.
• Hands-on advocacy credibility: able to speak in specifics on advocacy tactics, strategy and partners, and to steer multiple complex, interdependent workstreams at once while keeping command of the detail.
• Strategy development and execution, including impact measurement, portfolio management and prioritization in a changing resource environment.

Benefits

• comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums
• generous paid time off
• paid family leave
• foundation-paid retirement contribution
• regional holidays
• opportunities to engage in several employee communities
• as a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally