Responsibilities:

• Growing and managing a pan-African Intergovernmental Working Group – including three thematic sub-groups – to develop, champion, and operationalize a policy blueprint to fast-track the adoption of health tech innovation within the public sector;
• Organizing a Policy Blueprint Summit that will convene stakeholders from across Africa to engage in policy dialogue;
• Engaging with multi-country policymakers and enterprises to identify key innovation barriers and facilitators to inform policy action,
• Identifying and onboarding new country governments under the policy blueprint and intergovernmental working group initiative.
• Contribute to donor reporting and engagement, development of HTHA’s long-term sustainability plan, strategic partnership engagement and management, communications, and monitoring and evaluation.
• Overall planning and delivery of activities for HTHA’s Policy Blueprint pillar, while driving alignment with key regional stakeholders such as Africa CDC and the African Union.
• Minimum Requirement:

  Education and Experience:

  • Min 7 years of experience in government affairs and policy development in international development.
  • Multi-country policy and advocacy health development experience
  • Deep understanding of the Africa region’s health development policy, financing and health technology discourse
  • Previous experience inclusive of the above in similar positions or closely related such as advisor, program manager, or other work as relevant to the position
  • An experienced technical writer with high proficiency development of technical reports, presentations, policy briefs and white papers, among others
  • Understanding of needs and challenges faced by social innovators working in health technology ecosystem in Africa
  • Experience managing health policy advocacy networks, platforms, and programs in the Africa region
  • A dynamic strategist and thinker with strong problem solving and decision-making skills: identifying the problem; locating, gathering, and organizing relevant information; generating alternatives; choosing a solution; implementing the solution
  • A team player with strong teamwork skills: identifying team membership and role; establishing productive relationships; meeting team objectives; resolving conflicts
  • Experience handling program tasks (e.g., work plans, reporting, budgeting, documentation)
  • Demonstrated superior organizational skills and excellent written and oral communication skills with diverse groups; including ability to communicate with high-level stakeholders
  • Experience managing partner relationships and coordinating among multiple stakeholders.

  Language:

  • English and French bilingual speaker preferred.