Health Adviser

• Support network member-led advocacy efforts on UHC and community-based approaches to health, ensuring that approaches are grounded in local contexts, shaped by network member priorities, and aligned with HelpAge’s overall approach to health and care.
• Facilitate the generation, synthesis, and use of evidence on healthy ageing by coordinating research initiatives, managing relationships with research partners, and drawing on practice and insights from across the HelpAge network.
• Produce and contribute to high-quality advocacy outputs, including policy briefs, reports, and tools, in collaboration with internal teams and members.
• Represent HelpAge and its network externally, and support and enable members to take the lead in strategic advocacy spaces to amplify their voice and influence.
• Work with the communications team to ensure timely messaging, updates, and public statements on health-related issues, aligned with advocacy goals and external developments.
• Monitor global trends and conduct horizon scanning in the health and care space to identify emerging risks, opportunities, and areas for engagement.
• Strengthen Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) related to health advocacy and programming outcomes, and promote the effective use of relevant data, evidence, and learning across the organisation and its network.

• Substantial professional experience in public health, health systems strengthening, or health advocacy, ideally within international development or humanitarian contexts.
• Proven experience working on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and community-based health approaches, including in lower- and middle-income country contexts.
• Strong track record in advocacy strategy development and policy influencing on human rights-related health issues, with direct experience engaging high-level decision-makers in national governments, UN agencies, and global platforms (e.g. WHO, UHC2030).
• Demonstrated ability to lead and contribute to evidence-based advocacy, including research design, data analysis, report writing, and dissemination.
• Deep understanding of rights-based and inclusive approaches to health, with specific attention to ageing, disability inclusion, gender equity, and ageism.
• Good knowledge of global health architecture, institutions, and current policy debates (e.g. SDG 3, Primary Health Care, NCDs, healthy ageing, and care systems).
• Experience working in an advisory capacity on health and care-related programming or advocacy at regional or global levels.

• Strategic thinker with a strong ability to translate complex global policy issues into practical advocacy goals and programming guidance.
• Strong interpersonal and networking skills, with proven ability to build and maintain relationships with diverse stakeholders including governments, INGOs, researchers, and civil society partners.
• Skilled in facilitating participatory processes, capacity-strengthening, and co-creating initiatives with local and national actors.
• Proven ability to design and deliver training, develop tools and guidance to strengthen rights-based approaches to health and care.
• Confident public speaker and communicator, capable of tailoring messages for a wide range of technical and non-technical audiences.
• High level of written communication skills, with experience producing policy briefs, position papers, and high-quality advocacy outputs.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure and respond flexibly to dynamic external environments.
• Familiarity with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) standards and the use of disaggregated data (especially SADD) for advocacy and programming.

• Master’s degree or equivalent in Public Health, Global Health, Health Policy, Social Policy, Development Studies, or a related discipline. Equivalent relevant experience may be considered in lieu of formal education.

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in cross-cultural, networked, and multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong commitment to locally led action, with experience working alongside or supporting national and community-based organisations.
• Demonstrated commitment to partner-led programming, including supporting local leadership through coaching and accompaniment.
• Familiarity with population ageing and its intersection with broader global issues such as climate change.
• Fluency in spoken and written English is essential; working knowledge of another UN or regional language (e.g. French, Spanish, Arabic) is highly desirable.
• Ability and willingness to undertake international travel, sometimes at short notice.

• Preventing harm and abuse from our people, operations and programmes to anyone that encounters our work.

• Reporting all safeguarding incidents you see, hear, hear about or suspect, using our internal reporting mechanism.

• Complying with all safeguarding framework policies and practices.

• Completing mandatory training courses relating to our safeguarding policy framework and complying with HR vetting procedures.

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