Communications & Advocacy Senior Associate, Africa

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Global Health Strategies Full time

**Position**:Communications & Advocacy Senior Associate, Africa

**Preferred Location**:Dakar, Senegal/ Johannesburg, South Africa/ Nairobi, Kenya/ Abuja, Nigeria

Global Health Strategies (GHS) is seeking a Senior Associate to support the growth of its Africa office. GHS is a worldwide organization that uses advocacy, communications and policy analysis to advance issues and power campaigns that improve health and well-being worldwide. Our services blend creative communications - messaging, media and digital - with strategic advocacy - leadership voice, champion engagement, policy research and events.

GHS is headquartered in the United States (New York) with country offices that serve as regional hubs:
Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) / Latin America; United Kingdom (London) / Europe and the Middle East; Senegal

(Dakar) / West Africa; South Africa (Johannesburg) / Southern Africa; Kenya (Nairobi) / East Africa; India

(New Delhi) / Southeast Asia. Across regions, we have strong relationships with government, industry,

media, academia and civil society stakeholders.

**About the Role**

We are in search of a Communications & Advocacy Senior Associate, reporting to one of our offices in Africa. Our Senior Associates work closely with managers for the successful execution of client deliverables.

Specific responsibilities include:
**Communications**
- **Making complex concepts accessible and actionable** to a wide audience by creating and polishing key messages, fact sheets, social media posts and creative digital materials
- **Getting journalists excited** about an issue or announcement by identifying the right media contacts, drafting compelling pitches and press releases and building relationships with reporters and major outlets
- **Elevating the voice and expertise of high-level influencers** by polishing opinion pieces at key moments, prepping them for interviews and drafting speeches and talking points for events
- **Following and tracking trends** in media coverage, key announcements, new evidence and high-level conversations that may impact priority global health challenges

**Advocacy**
- **Identifying strategic moments and new champions** to influence target stakeholders and amplify our clients’ strategic goals
- **Getting partners on the same page** through careful coordination, relationship management and message alignment
- **Getting partners, influencers and decision-makers in the same place** by owning major deliverables within high-level events, including identifying invitees and speakers, and developing agendas or presentations
- **Building new coalitions of support for an issue** with dedicated outreach, organization and relationship management
- **Following and tracking trends** in global health policies and funding opportunities

**Client/Project Management**
- **Owning critical deliverables** by developing a vision and strategy and quickly mobilizing teams to bring it to fruition
- **Leading** critical components of client calls and meetings
- **Over-communicating** with managers on progress and challenges, bringing solutions to problems before they arise
- **Understanding** background and nuance across global health and development to form compelling arguments and provide strategic counsel to clients
- **Attending** events and meetings with senior management on behalf of clients

**Required Qualifications**
- Fluent proficiency in English and French (written and spoken)
- Bachelor’s degree
- 3-6 years of work experience
- Microsoft Office proficiency
- Excellent writing skills
- Understanding of public health challenges and socio-economic landscape across Africa
- Ability to work remotely

**Valuable Qualifications**
- International work experience, preferably on the African continent
- Communications, public relations or journalism experience
- Public health, global development or campaign experience
- A degree in a related field
- Experience with Adobe Suite of creative tools (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop) or Canva

Applications without a cover letter will not be considered. Due to the high volume of expected applicants, only those meeting GHS requirements will be contacted. GHS is an equal-opportunity employer and encourages people of diverse backgrounds to apply.



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