Roving Global Health Advisor
Full Time | Reports to Global Health Advisor (for technical direction) and Director of Global Support
Location: Preferably currently based in East Africa or South East Asia but will consider based anywhere as long as reliable access to internet and can travel up to 75% of their time.
We are proud to work on borderless teams. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds and specifically encourage members of refugee, immigrant or other displaced communities to join us.
Hello Hello! So you’re interested in joining us? Welcome, we’re happy you’re here.
When you Join Alight, you’ll find…
A team with deep experience in co-designing solutions that create new value around the world. We know we need to always be better, and we believe in the power and abundance of everyday people, everywhere, to change the world with us.
A culture of radical accountability to our customers –as we help build a meaningful life for and with the displaced, we ask them what they want and then deliver on it.
An organization that refuses to settle for anything less than delivering human-worthy services.
If you are looking to be part of a living, breathing, ever-changing organization full of disrupters and doers, then read on!**
The Role
You’ll support our Global Health Advisor and our health and nutrition advisors in multiple country programs to achieve our collective global and individual country-level goals. You will use your background in public health, experience in leadership development, and strong orientation to human-centered design to help us achieve a fundamentally different model of humanitarian health programming. Simply put, your purpose will be to provide day to day support to country teams based on collective priorities and identified needs.
The Team
A collective of Alight’s health and nutrition experts in Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda, DRC, Myanmar, and Thailand. We are a horizontal team of colleagues on a continuous discovery journey of what it means to become Alight in the health and nutrition sectors, supporting each other to deliver a better experience of care and higher quality services to our customers in each country program.
Building a shared organization takes time and intention. We will always be becoming Alight, which means your work will evolve as well. For now, here’s how you could anticipate spending your time:
About You
· You are a good listener and guide, with the ability to motivate health leads and other members of the country health teams to initiate and follow through on quality improvement processes, and to design health programs and services using HCD methodology. **
Skills and experience we’re seeking
· Public Health specialist, with experience in Sexual and Reproductive Health a plus.
· Ability to work under demanding deadlines and write cohesive concepts/proposals in a quick manner, keeping high quality.
· Minimum 4 years overseas experience implementing and developing health programs in environments with limited/degraded local resources and infrastructure in insecure environments
· Familiarity or experience with Sphere Standards
· Familiarity with private, US government, UN and multi-lateral donors
· Demonstrated success in proposal development and securing donor funding (UN, USG, EU, etc.)
· You embrace ambiguity and have passion to invigorate the current state of humanitarian health programming and challenge the status quo.
· You deliver your work generously and take ownership of everything that lands in your lap.