Director Advocacy and Strategic Partnerships
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Full Time
Executive
Role: Director Advocacy and Strategic Partnerships
Reports to: Country Director
Location: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Are you a mission driven change maker passionate about making a real difference through community health system strengthening? Do you thrive on building strategic partnerships and influencing key decisions? Living Goods is seeking a highly collaborative strategic thinker who is government savvy, to advance our mission of saving lives.
About Living Goods:
We’re on a mission to ensure no woman or child dies from easily preventable diseases. To bring high-quality healthcare door to door, we’ve partnered with African governments to ensure that community health workers (CHWs) have the tools, support, and knowledge they need to save lives. We focus on ensuring CHWs are treated as essential health workers who should be digitized, equipped, supervised, and compensated—so they can make the greatest impact—and harness community-level data to transform health systems. We have supported over 12,000 CHWs, impacting more than 6 million people across Kenya, Uganda, and Burkina Faso.
The Opportunity:
Reporting to the Country Director and working closely with all the Burkina Faso’ Senior Leadership Team (SLT), the Director of Advocacy, and Strategic Partnerships will manage institutional relations, regulatory compliance and strategic dialogue with public authorities, in line with the mission and values of Living Goods. The Director will develop and execute the Living Goods Burkina Faso priority policy, advocacy and influence activities to promote optimized community health systems.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Policy Advocacy & Influencing – 40%
A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and bonus opportunity. The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for those in need.
Living Goods is an equal opportunity employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. Living Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
Our current job openings are displayed on our website, where you can search for open positions and apply directly. Living Goods does not offer any positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do not send money or personal information. If offered a role at Living Goods, we’ll request consent to complete a background check, which is part of our hiring process.
Reports to: Country Director
Location: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Are you a mission driven change maker passionate about making a real difference through community health system strengthening? Do you thrive on building strategic partnerships and influencing key decisions? Living Goods is seeking a highly collaborative strategic thinker who is government savvy, to advance our mission of saving lives.
About Living Goods:
We’re on a mission to ensure no woman or child dies from easily preventable diseases. To bring high-quality healthcare door to door, we’ve partnered with African governments to ensure that community health workers (CHWs) have the tools, support, and knowledge they need to save lives. We focus on ensuring CHWs are treated as essential health workers who should be digitized, equipped, supervised, and compensated—so they can make the greatest impact—and harness community-level data to transform health systems. We have supported over 12,000 CHWs, impacting more than 6 million people across Kenya, Uganda, and Burkina Faso.
The Opportunity:
Reporting to the Country Director and working closely with all the Burkina Faso’ Senior Leadership Team (SLT), the Director of Advocacy, and Strategic Partnerships will manage institutional relations, regulatory compliance and strategic dialogue with public authorities, in line with the mission and values of Living Goods. The Director will develop and execute the Living Goods Burkina Faso priority policy, advocacy and influence activities to promote optimized community health systems.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Policy Advocacy & Influencing – 40%
- Lead & coordinate policy, advocacy, and influencing efforts at local and national levels to ensure the adoption of sustainable, high-impact community health policies, financing, and practices focused on a professionalized community health workforce.
- Develop and deploy strategic communications and compelling advocacy messages to influence Community Health policies, financing, and practices -- leveraging the organization’s evidence and learnings.
- Lead the country health financing function to drive domestic resource mobilization by engaging with key government ministries and partners to influence budget decisions, strengthen integration of community health into national and regional health financing frameworks, and secure the disbursement of sustainable public funding for community health programming.
- Provide oversight and management of strategic partnerships with stakeholders, including government agencies, donors, and health implementing partners, to influence stakeholder priorities and advance LG’s advocacy and financing objectives.
- Serve as a strategic representative of LG, including in high-level meetings and forums, promoting LG’s brand and approach to position the organization as a thought leader and trusted partner to government and priority stakeholders.
- Ensure quick, responsive, and high-quality support and information are provided to LG's key external and internal stakeholders, maintaining clear and effective communication channels.
- Coordinate with in-country and global colleagues on the implementation of donor engagement plans, including direct participation in meetings with donors and partners, and contributing to strategic preparation materials, including donor pitches.
- Lead the planning, budgeting, and implementation of Advocacy and Strategic Partnerships activities in accordance with donor policies and LG's core values, ensuring that activities are delivered within budget and that accurate and timely financial accountability is maintained.
- Bachelor’s degree in public health, public policy, public administration, or related field from a recognized university.
- At least 10 years of experience working in government, NGO representative, advocacy and/or public affairs aimed at influencing policy change in Burkina Faso (national or sub-national), preferably related to health.
- Experience in high-level institutional relationships, advocacy engagements, influencing or contributing to national policies and strategies and funding.
- Proven track record of securing strategic partnerships and funding for health and/or development programs.
- Experience in institutional and strategic communications, including media engagement
- Strong experience working with various donors, including Global Fund, Gavi, MCF, and philanthropic foundations.
- Existing relationships and connections within the Burkina Faso Government (desirable).
- Experience developing and managing efforts to influence policymakers, institutional funders, and other external stakeholders
- Strong experience in leading Institutional relationships and advocacy in Burkina Faso.
- Deep understanding of the global health ecosystem; including policy, and legal frameworks, and MoH strategy, guidelines relating to Primary Health Care and community health.
- Demonstrable experience in policy development and implementation at national level and understanding of health service delivery.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills with high levels of integrity – diplomatic and engaging.
- Ability to build commitment through collaboration, consultation, and stakeholder engagement.
- Excellent communication and advocacy skills, including public speaking and writing.
- Sound understanding of health trends related to: RMNCAH, health workforce development, climate, gender programming and digital health
A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and bonus opportunity. The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for those in need.
Living Goods is an equal opportunity employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. Living Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
Our current job openings are displayed on our website, where you can search for open positions and apply directly. Living Goods does not offer any positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do not send money or personal information. If offered a role at Living Goods, we’ll request consent to complete a background check, which is part of our hiring process.
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