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:

• You recognize that the global humanitarian crisis requires new ways of addressing persistent challenges. It’s going to be your job to promote and engage Alight’s model of health programming which is higher quality and more relevant, human, and impactful, specifically because it has been designed for and with the end-user: the patient. You are not afraid to challenge the status quo or test bold solutions. You enjoy co-creating with others within and outside the health sector to drive innovation, ensure that the patient is always our “North Star”, and that our quality is always a cut above the rest.
• You understand how to continually improve the household-to-hospital continuum of care in humanitarian settings, as well as the importance of country teams to design and deliver person-centered health programs. Much of your day will be spent engaging with our country health teams virtually or in person to collaborate on health and nutrition program design, developing and iterating systems to improve the quality of health service delivery, and mentoring staff to learn and grow both technically as well as in leadership skills.
• You provide merit and leadership in working with country programs to find improved ways to “bring in” the patients and health users, into the design, implementation, assessing, and evaluation of the health programs
• You value the importance of context and like being on the go. You will spend a lot of time in our country offices and country sites working directly with clients, direct service providers, health and nutrition sector leadership and country leadership, to ensure shared purpose, strategy alignment, and human-worthy services.
• You know the requirements for USG and UN donors and also bring with you knowledge of foundations and private sector organizations with an interest in health and will share this information with teams in easily digestible and workable concepts and proposals.
• You will provide SURGE capacity if needed, to country teams that need extra support for an extended period of time.
• You will work with country programs to adapt long standing COVID-19 prevention in addition to further pandemic planning.

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. **

• You embrace entrepreneurial approaches; have an infectious enthusiasm for public health; and are devoted to refugees, internally displaced people, migrants, and communities affected by or recovering from conflict and emergency.
• You’ve previously used human-centered design approaches to develop and implement health innovations in humanitarian and/or developing country settings.
• You enjoy being involved in health program design, managing quality improvement processes, and are talented at managing expectations and your own time. You love co-creating across teams and are personable, helpful, and incredibly organized.
• You work well with a lot of freedom and do you best work in a culture that does the doable with whatever resources we have.
• You have an optimistic core and are joyful to the people you serve and work beside. **

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.