Position Title:Partnerships and Advocacy Specialist

Department: Policy and Partnerships (P&P)

Reports to: Director for Policy and Partnerships

Location: Monrovia, Liberia with regular travel to Maryland County

Organizational Profile

Partners In Health (PIH) is an international health organization relentlessly committed to improving the health of the poor and marginalized. PIH partners with local governments to build local capacity and works closely with impoverished communities to deliver high-quality health care, address the root causes of illness, train providers, advance research, and advocate for global policy change.

PIH currently has implementation programs in Haiti, Rwanda, Lesotho, Liberia, Kazakhstan, Malawi, Peru, Mexico, Russia, Sierra Leone, and Navajo Nation. Through our partnership with Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, we support a wide range of programs in dozens of other countries around the world.

Position Overview:

The Partnerships and Advocacy Specialist is a strategic role within PIH Liberia’s Policy and Partnerships department. Reporting to and working in close support of the Director for Policy and Partnerships (P&P), the Specialist helps advance PIH Liberia’s advocacy agenda and strategic partnerships in pursuit of strengthening Liberia’s public health system. They will contribute expertise to the design and delivery of advocacy initiatives, assessing the local and global landscape, identifying windows of opportunity for high impact advocacy, and supporting the development and use of advocacy networks and coalitions that reinforce PIH Liberia’s mission and the Liberian Ministry of Health’s (MOH) strategic priorities. Working alongside national and international collaborators, they will help identify shared interests, activities, and strategic directions, and support the P&P Director in cultivating and stewarding relationships and coalitions on which this work depends. They will also serve as a key relationship manager with MOH and civil society partners, supporting resource mobilization across the full business development lifecycle, from prospect research and donor intelligence to the development of high quality technical proposals and concept notes, in support of both internal PIH and government led funding efforts. This position is critical for interdepartmental coordination and for mentoring PIH staff in strategic partnership development, advocacy, and coalition building.

Specific Responsibilities:

Advocacy (60%)

• Develop and implement, in collaboration with the PIH-Liberia communications team and/or coalition partners, an advocacy strategy aligned with national health priorities and PIH’s mission.

• Lead the prioritization of advocacy initiatives in collaboration with technical teams, donors, and advocacy groups, applying SWOT analysis and power mapping to sequence campaigns for maximum influence.
• Translate local insight and experiences into contributions to OnePIH advocacy campaigns, and engage in regional and global advocacy work.
• Lead the development and utilization of advocacy networks for the organization to achieve relevant advocacy goals.
• Serve as the technical resource for advocacy across PIH Liberia, advising officers and managers on integrating advocacy as a cross cutting function throughout the organization’s work.

• Support the P&P Director in managing PIH-Liberia’s strategic relationships, through speaking credibly to PIH-Liberia’s impact and responsive stewardship.
• Build strong relationships with all stakeholders and partners through transparency, flexibility, and mutual respect, for collaboration, information sharing, joint advocacy, and funding partnerships.
• Coordinate donor visits and meetings with current and potential partners, working across departments to effectively present PIH’s impact to external audiences.
• Champion best practices in donor stewardship, including responsive, proactive communication alongside formal reporting.
• Design advocacy results frameworks using Theory of Change and MEAL approaches, and track the uptake and impact of advocacy efforts to refine strategy over time.
• Mentor and build the capacity of PIH and partner staff in strategic partnership development, advocacy, and coalition building, serving as the department’s subject-matter resource.

Partner Engagement and Resource Mobilization (40%)

• Lead partner and donor mapping, maintaining a structured, continuously updated pipeline of donors and partners to guide outreach, positioning, and engagement strategy.

• Systematically track public sector funding priorities and bilateral and multilateral funding trends, translating donor intelligence into actionable recommendations for new business development; and lead the design of a comprehensive resource mobilization strategy, strengthening PIH Liberia’s institutional readiness, internal capacity, and systems.
• Assess the alignment of funding opportunities (RFPs) with government priorities and PIH needs, gathering competitive intelligence on which partners are positioning to prime, and lead consortium formation and the development of capacity statements.
• Support the P&P Director negotiating and structuring teaming and consortium arrangements, defining prime/sub roles, partner scopes, and value propositions, to strengthen the competitiveness of joint bids.
• Represent PIH in government led proposals (e.g. Pandemic Fund, and Global Fund): providing program design and technical writing support to help the Government of Liberia (GoL) write winning proposals and secure additional funding, in partnership with the Policy Specialist and other relevant PIH-Liberia team members.
• Develop opportunity briefs, and prepare materials for Restricted Funding Forum (RFF) processes and participate in grant launches and closeout.
• Secure letters of support from the GoL and in country partners.
• Lead and manage the proposal lifecycle, including setting timelines, coordinating cross-functional team inputs, and overseeing logistics to ensure on time submissions. Draft, copy edit, and assemble final versions of high quality technical and non-technical proposals, concept notes, capacity statements, program briefs, and other external facing materials that clearly communicate PIH’s vision and impact through clear and compelling narratives.
• Establish and maintain a structured funding pipeline and donor intelligence system, tracking opportunities, win rates, and lessons learned to inform forecasting and prioritization decisions.

Qualifications and Experience:

Required

• Advanced Degree in Public Health, Social Sciences, International Development, or related fields.
• At least 8 years of experience, with demonstrated depth of expertise in advocacy campaign development, resource mobilization, strategic partnership development, and the development of funding proposals.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to adapt written communication styles to a range of donor and partner audiences.
• Exemplary interpersonal communication skills required to interact effectively with senior leadership, partners, and clinicians on sensitive and confidential issues.
• Skilled at generating insights, documenting lessons learned, and driving evidence-based programme improvements.
• Strong knowledge of MEAL frameworks, log frames, and Theory of Change.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with culturally diverse staff across departments and country.
• Passion for social justice and the ability to function as both a teacher/learner.

Preferred:

• Experience in global health advocacy, UHC, or disease-specific programs (TB, NCDs, mental health, and maternal health).
• Familiarity with donor landscapes, resource mobilization strategies, and proposal development.
• Experience mentoring or capacity-building government or NGO staff.

Commitment to Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Sexual Harassment:

At Partners in Health, we are committed to ensuring that those who benefit from our work- including our patients, families and community members – as well as our staff are treated with dignity and respect and protected from sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment. A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Partner in Health’s PSEAH policy. Partner in Health will request information from applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.

Application instructions:

All interested candidates are encouraged to send their functional resume and cover letter to GrpHumanResourceTeam@pih.org on or before June 19th, 2026, by 4:30 pm. All open positions with PIH are also posted on our employment website: https://www.pih.org/pages/employment