The Foundation
We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.
The Team
The mission of the Global Policy & Advocacy (GPA) division 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 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 collaborators and promote innovative solutions that advance our program goals. We work in close partnership with grantees, our colleagues in the Global Health, Global Development, Global Growth & Opportunity, U.S. and Gender Equality programs and Communications to build the environment in which all people have the opportunity to lead healthy and productive lives.
Global Program Advocacy & Communications (GPAC) is the Foundation’s global capability for issue advocacy and communications. GPAC engages where work is cross-market, technically complex, and requires global assets and specialized expertise. Working with our program, regional, and country teams, we help mobilize the financing, policy change, and public legitimacy required for impact. GPAC’s core functions include:
• Translating program priorities into advocacy strategies and asks: Applying deep issue knowledge and policy expertise to translate technical program goals into actionable policy and financing priorities.
• Developing and synthesizing evidence to influence decision-makers: Investing in and translating research, data, and technical evidence into investment cases, policy content, and market-ready materials.
• Building and mobilizing advocacy ecosystems: Convening and aligning partners, coalitions, and champions to advance policy change, influence agendas, mobilize resources, and strengthen accountability.
• Leading global issue communications: Developing evidence-based narratives and communications assets; supporting strategic media engagement and campaigns; and anticipating and managing communications and reputational risks.
• Providing specialized advocacy expertise: Offering strategic counsel on complex advocacy challenges to build enabling policy, regulatory, and communications environments.
• Facilitating cross-team collaboration and learning: Connecting program, policy, communications, regional, and country teams; sharing intelligence on emerging risks and opportunities; and translating learnings across geographies.
GPAC partners with Foundation colleagues and external stakeholders—including governments, multilateral institutions, civil society, philanthropy, the media, and others—to ensure that global strategies strengthen country-led advocacy and drive measurable progress.
Your Role
The global health sector is being redefined. Development assistance for health has decreased significantly since its peak in 2021, major health multilaterals had difficulty meeting replenishment targets, and bilateral donors are shifting their funding approaches. At the same time, governments in Africa and Asia are raising domestic health spending and asserting leadership through the Lusaka Agenda, the Accra Reset, Africa CDC, AUDA NEPAD, the…