Senior Manager, Global Advocacy

Senior Manager, Global Advocacy

Living Goods

Nairobi, Kenya or Kampala, Uganda

The position:

Living Goods seeks an experienced results driven advocacy professional to join the Global Advocacy team. We are looking for someone with demonstrated expertise and impactful achievements in advocacy work.

The role holder will be responsible for building and maintaining collaborative partnerships, sharing effective practices, exploring new opportunities to improve community health, and providing administrative support to the team. The role involves a primary focus on country-level teams support with additional responsibilities at the regional and global level.

Responsibilities:

• Provide day-to-day support to country teams on implementing country-level advocacy strategies and monitoring performance;
• Facilitate cross team learning and knowledge sharing for country teams and provide advisory tactics;
• Provide support on the coordination of global and regional events, including coordination with the communications team on increasing visibility on events;
• Backstop Director and Deputy Director in global and regional coalition meetings, activities, campaigns and events. Represent LG (Living Goods) in coalition and partner meetings as needed to promote community health;
• Conduct policy research and analysis, providing timely and relevant information to guide advocacy initiatives – including on health financing at country-level;
• Support documentation, including Living Goods advocacy approaches and wins, policy briefs, and position papers at global, regional, and country levels;
• Support, nurture, and sustain partnerships and identify new partners in the community health space;
• Flag changes, high-level external meetings and events at national, regional, and international platforms, and new developments in community health work to the teams;
• Track and maintain a calendar of external engagement opportunities and contacts and assist in meeting and conference planning and preparation;
• Manage administrative needs of the advocacy team.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field, or a combination of education and experience that yields the required competencies. Masters in a relevant field is desirable;
• At least 5 years of professional experience at the national, regional level demonstrating a proven ability to coordinate advocacy interventions across multiple countries;
• Experience supporting country offices, building capacity and providing tactical support is essential;
• Experience in developing robust advocacy strategies in the development context;
• Experience working with coalitions, building effective networks, and nurturing partnerships.

Skills and Competencies:

• Ability to consult, gather and integrate feedback into internal and external influencing briefings and materials- proven research and writing skills;
• Knowledge of global health and development issues and hands-on experience in advocacy related to primary health care, health workforce, universal health coverage, and/or community health is strongly preferred;
• Ability to work autonomously combined with experience working remotely and with country and global teams;
• Strong analytical, writing, editing, and verbal skills for communicating with broad and diverse stakeholders;
• Effective as a collaborator in complex internal and external organizations;
• Proven ability to build and cultivate strong relationships;
• Excellent communications, collaborating and influencing skills;
• Meticulous and organized;
• Good interpersonal and critical thinking skills;
• High integrity, commitment, and respect for diversity;
• Bilingual in French is a plus.

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