Global South-based Strategic Scaling within Systems Lead

The Global Parenting Initiative (GPI) is a collaboration of universities, NGO partners, and donors across the world, which seeks to develop and test new methods for delivering parenting programmes and take them to scale. We are seeking expressions of interest for a Strategic Scaling within Systems Lead to support on the development and coordination of our advocacy work in the Global South. The Strategic Scaling within Systems Lead will be a central member of the GPI team working in collaboration with the Universities of Oxford, Cape Town, Makerere and other academic, NGO, and government partners. They will have extensive amounts of independent work and responsibility within the project as part of an international research team with wide policy and programming impact. The post will be based in the Global South with the potential to travel internationally subject to pandemic restrictions. The ideal candidate is an excellent networker and relationship builder and possesses a strategic mind, knowledge and experience of influencing government and decision makers particularly in the Global South, as well as experience in working with media organisations, donors, UN agencies, and inter-governmental organisations. They will have excellent research and public speaking skills; project management skills; skills in developing and implementing strategic campaigns and delivering high-quality social media, web, and print products and tools; strong knowledge of global affairs and the development of interorganizational relationships; and experience of working with coalitions and delivering high-impact and creative global advocacy strategies at national and/or regional level, both digitally and in person.