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The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: that people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. By building a global and cultural workplace that supports greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — together with our employees and partners, we can help all people improve their lives from poverty and health to education. As an organization we offer full healthcare premiums coverage, generous paid time off, contribution to your retirement fund, several employee communities, and a commitment to embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion into everything we do.

The Team

The Program Advocacy & Communications (PAC) team works in partnership with program teams and other teams in Global Policy and Advocacy (GPA) to achieve their policy and finance goals by:

• Developing and coordinating the execution of advocacy and communications strategies.

• Leveraging leadership and foundation voice to implement communications and advocacy strategies.

• Developing and managing a grant portfolio dedicated to achieving communications and advocacy outcomes.

• Directly advocating with sector leaders, influencers, media and government officials in order to achieve communications and advocacy outcomes.

• Leading issue-specific communications in service of communications and advocacy goals.

• Developing policy recommendations or proposals in partnership with programmatic and regional offices.

Your Role

The Program Officer, Global Media Partnerships, PAC will be responsible for supporting efforts in partnership with teams across the foundation to build, implement and evaluate media grant making strategies that accelerate the awareness and understanding of global health and global development, as well as gender equality. This work supports the foundation’s media investments strategy, which ensures the salience of health and development in decision maker and opinion leader agendas.

The postholder will be based in London and report to the Deputy Director, Program Communications, PAC.

• This is a limited-term position for 12 months. Relocation will not be provided.

What You'll Do

• Develop, negotiate, and manage a portfolio of grant investments, including oversight of portfolio budget and all related grant making processes (e.g., investment reviews, strategic alignment, grantee engagement, etc.), conducting research and analysis to strengthen investment decisions.

• Provide clear, concise, and insightful written analyses and recommendations for funding.

• Partner with the PAC team, programmatic leadership and teams, country and regional offices (in particular, Africa Regional Office, India and China Country Offices, North America Team), and the GPA division to update and implement the GMP strategy that include market-specific approaches and assessments of political economies, ensure long-term sustainability and impact, and are synergistic to other strategies in the foundation.

• Serve as a point of contact on portfolio-related issues for internal and external partners, and in coordination with the GMP SPO, manage all internal relationships with other teams.

• Form partnerships with people and organizations – in both the public and private sector – to improve implementation of advocacy strategies and tactics.

• Conceptualize and lead high impact and complex partnerships, grants, coalitions, and advocacy campaigns.

• Represent the foundation and our strategies to external constituencies. This could include formal and informal presentations such as making speeches, attending conferences, committee representation and other meetings. May serve on boards and working groups.

• Write and produce informative briefings, reports, email updates, and other materials on key media and other relevant issues for foundation leadership.

Your Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, public policy, international relations, public health, development or a related field with relevant progressive senior level experience leading advocacy initiatives in global health and development.

• Understanding of the role of media and communications efforts to increase awareness of global health and development issues and shape political and financial support for health and development goals in the developing world with governmental and non-state organizations.

• Experience working on media in different regions across the world where the foundation has a presence.

• Experience with advocacy on international development issues, including interaction with senior level policy makers, civil society organizations, coalitions, and governments.

• Connection and networks within the media industry, desirable.

• Understanding of the issues driving the broad global health and development areas.

• Proven ability to provide vision and influence others in a constructive, optimistic manner, while building and sustaining collaborative relationships.

• Outstanding project and team leadership skills, including proven ability to lead teams and organizations from strategy development through execution, develop shared goals and execution plans, facilitate meetings, manage budgets, developing partner consensus, and work both autonomously and collaboratively.

• Experience managing a grants portfolio (ideal) either as a grantee, receiving and reporting on a grant or as a grant manager, with direct responsibility for grant making and management.

• Experience driving processes to make tradeoffs and prioritize effort to improve impact.

• Experience working in an environment with ambiguity while helping teams adapt to change.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to effectively synthesize information to reach diverse audiences and build consensus.

• Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time.

• Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.

Application deadline: 3 February 2023

Hiring Requirements

As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

Depending upon your work location, we may require proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 and any recommended booster doses. All employees based in the United States are to provide proof of full vaccination upon hire and any recommended boosters, subject to applicable laws.

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Inclusion Statement

We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We’re committed to creating a workplace where employees thrive both personally and professionally. We also believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve—in race, gender, age, cultures and beliefs—and we support this diversity through all of our employment practices.

All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.