Reference: 77866
Date Added: 26 March 2021
Closing Date: 15 April 2021
Job Title: Senior Parliamentary Advocacy Officer (Tuberculosis)
Working For: RESULTS UK
Location: London
Salary: £33,047 per annum
Length of Contract: This is a full-time permanent position
Job Details
About RESULTS UK
There are many organisations working to fight hunger and poverty around the world. RESULTS UK’s focus is unique: we seek to make change in the world through utilising a combination of grassroots advocacy, parliamentary advocacy, and policy advocacy to create the public and political will to end poverty.
About the Role
The Senior Parliamentary Advocacy Officer will be a key part of our Parliamentary Advocacy Team. Reporting to the Head of Parliamentary Advocacy, this post-holder will take lead responsibility for delivering parliamentary advocacy on Tuberculosis (TB) and providing leadership on a sub-set of RESULTS UK’s TB workstreams / policy priorities. Someone dies of TB every 20 seconds. The world’s failure to adequately address TB and other diseases of poverty is due in large part to a lack of political will. There is therefore an urgent need to scale up advocacy capacities in both donor and low-income countries to demand greater leadership and accountability on TB.
In leading parliamentary advocacy on this issue, the post-holder will lead relationships with UK Parliamentarians on TB. They will coordinate very closely with the TB lead within the Policy Advocacy Team and with the Grassroots Advocacy Team, as well as with the Global TB Caucus – a network of over 2000 parliamentarians around the world committed to ending the TB epidemic, whose secretariat is hosted by RESULTS UK. In the UK, they will work closely with civil society organisations and other stakeholders to deliver impactful advocacy on TB and global health more broadly. Globally, they will work strategically as part of the ACTION Global Health Advocacy Partnership to mobilise greater resources and political commitment for the control of TB. The ACTION network seeks to address and reverse the global TB problem through implementing cutting-edge, results-based advocacy and communication strategies. This post-holder will also provide the secretariat function to the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Global Tuberculosis (http://www.appg-tb.org.uk/).
For more information, please go to https://www.results.org.uk/jobs/senior-parliamentary-advocacy-officer-tuberculosis
Closing Date: 15 April 2021
Interview/Start Dates
The position is available immediately.
The application deadline is 17:00 and we will contact shortlisted candidates as soon as possible. At this stage, interviews are likely to be held on 26th and 27th April 2021 via Zoom.
We will only be able to contact shortlisted candidates.
Application Details
Please apply by sending a CV (maximum 2 pages) and cover letter (maximum 2 pages) to jobs@results.org.uk by 17:00 on the closing date.
In your cover letter, please state where you saw the job advertised and describe and give examples of how you meet the requirements in the Person Specification. For more information, please go to https://www.results.org.uk/jobs/senior-parliamentary-advocacy-officer-tuberculosis
The subject of your email should be “Parliamentary Advocacy Officer TB”, followed by your Surname.
Website: https://www.results.org.uk/