Advocacy Fellow
1 month ago
**Advocacy Fellow**
**Reports to**:Director of Advocacy.
**Location**:Virtual.
**Introduction**
Do you want your work to matter? Do you want to use your skills to make a **difference**, not just money? Do you want to improve millions of lives, including your own?
Living Goods works to reinvent how we improve the lives of the under-served. We think big but operate small and nimble. We train **community health workers** to bring life-saving products and healthcare to people’s doorsteps. Products like medicines, fortified foods, and modern contraceptives.
We also transform community health through **mobile phones**. We teach community health workers how to assess maternal and child health and treat common illnesses like pneumonia, malaria, malnutrition, and diarrhea. We also develop **smart phone apps** to guide community health worker visits and create predictive algorithms to make the best use of their time. And we test new cool tools like paperless referrals to clinics and biosensors to monitor infant and child growth.
Living Goods interns benefit personally, academically, and professionally through the mentorship and networking opportunities that serve as the foundation of our internship program.
**The Team**
Advocacy is essential to our mission and vision. We are charged with **raising awareness** of Living Goods and **championing community health** among local governments, international decisionmakers, and nongovernmental organizations.
**Your Charge**
You will have the opportunity to acquire work experience in advocacy, policy, and global health.
You will write, create, organize and connect both out front and behind the scenes.
Hours are flexible within normal business hours (9:00-4:00pm). **20 hours a week required.**
Monthly stipend available based on qualifications.
**Responsibilities Include**:
- Provide research for policy briefs and communications documents on community health, reproductive health, and maternal and child health, as well as pandemic preparedness in Africa
- Attend and represent Living Goods at coalition, partnership, and policy events on community health, global health security, and digital health as needed
- Assist in event preparation and organization, including social media outreach, communication with participants and creating content for event-related materials
- Provide hands-on support for advocacy campaigns including activity design, social media management and deliverable tracking.
- Assist with routine administrative tasks, including updating the team with relevant news and publications as needed, coordinating, and planning internal meetings, and note taking as requested.
**Your background**
- Interest in global health policy or international development
- Enrolled in a graduate program.
- Strong writing, research and policy analysis skills, including some experience in drafting policy briefs.
- Ability to plan, strategize, and use proficient time management skills to juggle multiple tasks at once.
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Proficiency in MS Office, particularly Excel.
**Want to join us?**
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