Health Adviser at Help Age International

Below are the specific responsibilities for this role:

• Provide strategic leadership for the development and delivery of HelpAge’s global advocacy strategy on UHC, ensuring strong engagement of teams and network members throughout its design and implementation.
• Engage in relevant external advocacy spaces and health and care networks, using stakeholder and power-mapping to build and maintain strategic relationships with UN agencies, member states, INGOs, and health and care experts.
• Promote the meaningful participation and leadership of older people, particularly those facing discrimination and exclusion, in health and care forums.
• Provide technical support to staff and network members to strengthen quality, rights-based programming and advocacy initiatives related to healthy ageing and community-based apporaches, through tailored guidance, training, tools, and ongoing accompaniment—working in close collaboration with Regional Network Coordinators.
• 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.

Essential Experience and Knowledge

• 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 middleincome 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.