About Global Health Corps
Since 2009, Global Health Corps’ (GHC) has built a global community of 1,000+ young leaders who are working to transform health systems around the world. The entry point to our high-impact community is a paid 13-month fellowship with placements in nonprofit and government health organizations in East and Southern Africa. In addition to filling capacity gaps on a range of health issues, fellows participate in bespoke leadership training and community building activities.
Our tight-knit network of alumni work at 240+ organizations across more than 45 countries, with 95 percent retained in the health and social impact field. A growing number are now in management positions where they are charged with making key decisions that directly impact health outcomes. We support their leadership development beyond our fellowship program through ongoing coaching, mentorship, and training on topics such as advocacy and management. As GHC leaders continue to gain influence and mobilize others outside the GHC community, their impact generates a ripple effect across the global health ecosystem.
Committed to promoting gender equity as a key component of health equity, a critical mass of GHC’s leaders are working to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). To date, GHC has hosted six high-level convenings and advocacy trainings with a focus on SRHR and primary healthcare in Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia in partnership with Ministries of Health and other key stakeholders. These events have provided our alumni with opportunities to hone their voices as advocates, build their leadership profiles, and connect with others beyond the GHC community to amplify their impact. The organization has secured funding from two major donors to ramp up these efforts over the next year.
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Global Health Corps seeks a consultant to provide project management, research, administrative and communications support to advance our efforts to build a strong bench of diverse, effective SRHR leaders in our countries of operation. The consultant will collaborate with the GHC team in advancing our ecosystem approach to realizing both the individual and collective leadership potential of our community at-large to drive SRHR agendas. The consultant will play a key role in leveraging GHC’s convening power and tight-knit network of leaders to uphold hard-won SRHR gains and expand access to life-saving services.
The consultant will primarily report to the Director of Community Engagement and work closely with GHC’s Advocacy & Communications Manager, Impact and Learning Manager, and Country Teams in Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia.
Projects And Responsibilities
Grassroots Organization Capacity Building Program Management (40%)
- Work with the donor and GHC community to identify and develop connections with SRH grassroots organizations; potentially support the development of tools and training resources to map the focus area of grassroots and adolescent SRH organizations in GHC’s operating countries of Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia.
- Build relationships with organizations working on SRHR in GHC’s operating countries, specifically focusing on grassroots organization staff and leaders in conjunction with the GHC Country Team in each country.
- Collaborate with GHC staff to conduct virtual and recorded trainings – such as The Management Center trainings and public narrative trainings – for dissemination to local grassroots SRH organizations.
- Manage the recruitment and selection process for grassroots organization staff and GHC alumni participating in McKinsey Management Academy SRH pilot courses.
- Manage the recruitment and selection process for grassroots organization staff and GHC alumni in training developed through a partnership between GHC and Advocacy Accelerator.
- Develop tools and support structures for continued engagement between GHC alumni and grassroots SRH organizations.
- Manage partner communication, MOUs, invoices, and payment
Training Coordination and Project Management (25%)
- Support the coordination of additional SRH advocacy trainings in each of GHC’s countries of operation in collaboration with GHC Country Teams.
- Manage communications and content generation with Advocacy Accelerator.
- Provide guidance and assistance to GHC Country Teams for on‐site logistics and coordination of advocacy training events.
- In collaboration with Advocacy Accelerator staff and GHC’s Communications and Advocacy Manager, coordinate, research, and prepare materials such as draft invites, program agendas, workshop guides, media releases, presentation decks, participant resources, and talking points in the lead up to the event.
- Support the GHC team in conducting follow up, including sharing key takeaways and gathering feedback from participants, upon completion of the event
- Document templates, standard operating procedures, guidelines, and lessons learned for GHC knowledge management.
- Manage vendor contracts, invoices, and communication.
- Manage GHC’s third annual high-level SRH convening and advocacy training in Rwanda, funded by the Packard Foundation.
- Coordinate on‐site logistics leading up to and during the day(s) of the event, to be held in/near Kigali.
- In collaboration with the GHC Rwanda Country Team and Communications and Advocacy Manager, coordinate, research, and prepare materials such as draft invites, program agendas, media releases, workshop guides, presentation decks, participants resources, and talking points in the lead up to the event.
- Support the GHC team in conducting follow up, including sharing key takeaways and gathering feedback from participants, upon completion of the event.
- Document templates, standard operating procedures, guidelines, and lessons learned for GHC knowledge management.
- Manage vendor contracts, invoices, and communication.
Social Entrepreneurship Program Management (20%)
- Manage McKinsey Management Academy SRHR grassroots organization pilot recruitment and selection process
- Collect information on the progress and experience of the GHC alumni teams who won seeding funding for SRH initiatives through D-Prize Challenges to track progress and provide support
- Develop a structure for mentorship and coaching with potential GHC partner Impact
- Expert for GHC’s SRH entrepreneurs; support the selection and recruitment of participants in the program.
- Manage partner communication, MOUs, invoices, and payment.
Donor management, communications, monitoring and resource engagement (15%)
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- Support GHC’s Communications and Advocacy Manager and Country Teams in
- identifying stories from the GHC community and SRHR grassroots organizations to advance GHC’s efforts to raise the global awareness of SRHR challenges and successes.
- identifying and coordinating digital engagement opportunities to amplify under-represented voices and drive progress on SRHR in GHC’s countries of operation, including but not limited to researching, writing and editing press releases, advisories, letters to the editor, op-eds, pitch letters and other written content for the news media as it relates to SRHR issues in Uganda, Rwanda, Malawi and Zambia.
- identifying, cultivating, and managing media relationships and opportunities to pitch GHC community pieces and SRHR events to reporters while applying a strong knowledge of sexual and reproductive health and rights issues and how they can be placed in the media for maximum impact on the issues and current landscape.
- Support GHC’s Impact and Learning Manager in monitoring and evaluation of programs and collecting data.
- Draft donor communications, updates, and reports on programming.
- Stay abreast of salient resources, guidelines, policies briefs, information, and updates in the SRHR community and disseminate them to the GHC community through the online Community Portal platform.
- Share regular updates on country and program-level activities through this initiative with the GHC team, the Country Teams and the Community Engagement Team to increase effective coordination and information sharing.
- Other support for the SRHR work of the organization and teams under this initiative as necessary.
The ideal candidate for this consultancy will:
- Have 7+ years of experience in non-profit health programming, experience working with non-profit organizations focused on sexual and reproductive health and rights preferred.
- Be able to work independently with minimal supervision and enjoy working closely with a collaborative team.
- Have experience living and working in East and Southern Africa, specifically Uganda, Rwanda, Malawi or Zambia. Must be willing to be based in one of these four countries.
- Be a strong project manager with experience working in teams across countries and cultures.
- Possess strong organizational skills, with attention to detail and follow‐up, ability to track and report on progress, and a history of producing on-time, high quality deliverables.
- Be a strong oral, written, and visual communicator with experience producing compelling communications, including press releases, blogs, media content and donor reports preferred.
- Have experience developing and/or leading trainings for adult learners and diverse audiences, ideally in organizational development, advocacy, or management.
- Have experience with leadership development, social entrepreneurship, coalition building, non-profit management, and/or capacity building for organizations, strongly preferred.
- Have experience with multi-channel media approaches and media pitching and demonstrated experience, results, and relationships with key journalists and outlets, preferred.
Our Philosophy and Benefits
- Global Health Corps is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information or other characteristics or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
- We embrace and value diverse skillsets and backgrounds. We are a community of leaders who are proud to represent many different national, racial, ethnic, socio-economic, religious, gender, and other identities. We represent varied professional backgrounds, collaborating across fields and sectors to form a powerful, close-knit network of change makers. Our diversity as a community is our strength, driving our ability to be empathetic, visionary, and effective leaders in the health equity movement, and engage with the world with dignity and respect
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- Due to the high volume of applications received, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
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This job description reflects Global Health Corps’ assignments of essential functions and qualifications for this role. Nothing in this herein restricts management’s right to assign, reassign, or eliminate duties and responsibilities to this role at any time.
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