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Group Summary
The mission of the Global Policy & Advocacy (GPA) program is to understand and shape the public policy debates affecting the foundation's work, build support for its major program and policy objectives, and develop partnerships and alliances that can advance the foundation's policy objectives nationally and globally. Because the foundation's resources alone are not enough to solve the challenges ahead, GPA also supports advocacy efforts to engage diverse stakeholders and promote innovative solutions that advance our program goals. GPA is composed of our Regional Offices in India, China and Africa; our Donor Government Relations (DGR) teams, one for Europe and the Middle East, based in London, and another for the United States, Canada and Asia-Pacific region, based in Washington, DC; a Program Advocacy & Communications team; a Development Policy & Finance team; and our Philanthropic Partnerships team. We work in close partnership with grantees, our colleagues in the Global Health and Global Development Programs, the Executive office, and foundation Communications to build the environment in which all people have the opportunity to lead healthy and productive lives.
Responsibilities
The Africa Engagement Team within GPA focuses on managing our relations with governments and other key partners in our high priority African countries. The team includes three Country Representatives, based in Ethiopia, South Africa and Nigeria as well as Program Officers based in our country offices and Seattle.
The Senior Program Officer (SPO) Health, Nigeria will be one of the senior positions within the Africa Team and will be based in Nigeria (after orientation in Seattle). This role will partner with the Integrated Delivery Team and other foundation teams on health issues and also engages in high-level government relations to further foundation programmatic work in Nigeria. They will help lead the foundation's Policy & Advocacy work in Nigeria as well as support and drive the foundation's engagement in Africa. Drawn from the priorities set out by the foundation's program strategy teams, this role is focused on maximizing the health and development outcomes of the foundation in Nigeria.
Key Responsibilities Include
• Support the development and implementation of the foundation's strategic approach in Nigeria for key health programs and advocacy goals.
• Collaborate closely with Integrated Delivery on the development and implementation of the Nigeria PHC Systems Strengthening, and other foundation health teams to support and advance strategic goals and cross-cutting efforts.
• Support foundation teams to accelerate Nigeria's progress on health goals identified by the government and the foundation by facilitating the work of foundation teams active in the health sector.
• Serve as the main point of contact for the foundation with the technical staff of the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) and state health agencies, as well as other health focused development partners.
• Contribute to developing a foundation for the Health Sector Plan for Nigeria. Development of this plan will serve to bring a broad health sector perspective to the foundation's portfolio of investments and identify synergies across existing areas of work and gaps that need to be addressed via foundation support...
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