Financing Alliance for Health, Evidence, Policy & Advocacy Fellow
About the portfolio organization
Financing Alliance for Health partners with African governments “to focus financing to achieve improved health for all”. We do so through focusing on five key outcomes: 1) Mobilizing more funding for health 2) Direct More Funding to primary and community health, which have the highest returns on investment 3) Ensure Money is Spent Effectively, efficiently 4) Build Government Capacity & Ownership and 5) Shape the Regional Health Financing Environment.
Our work aims to increase access to and utilization of quality primary health services for every household, ultimately reducing morbidity and mortality. We believe in the transformative power of community health workers (CHWs), who not only improve health outcomes but also create thousands of jobs, primarily for women, marginalized individuals, and youth. We see primary health care (PHC) and community health as the “Double Helix” of Universal Health Care: like DNA, PHC and CHW are two strands that are interdependent, each supporting and strengthening the other, forming the foundational structure for a healthy population.
FAH plays a critical role in the Africa Frontline First (AFF) Initiative, a collaborative Catalytic Fund and network of technical assistance providers to scale and strengthen integrated and sustainable community health delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa. AFF support 17 countries in building high-functioning, resilient, country-led community health service delivery systems, including an expanded and institutionalized workforce of 200,000 CHWs by 2030.
About the Fellowship role
The EPA Fellow will play a driving role in advancing Financing Alliance for Health’s evidence, policy, and advocacy agenda. Working closely with the leadership, the Fellow will help shape FAH’s ideas, influence policy conversations, and strengthen FAH’s position as a leading voice on financing community-led primary health care systems.
This role is designed for someone who wants to lead analytical and policy workstreams, contribute to thought leadership, engage with stakeholders, and help set the agenda on health financing. The Fellow will work across research, tools, advocacy, and policy engagement, with a strong emphasis on ownership, initiative, and judgment. The Fellow will also support FAH’s external positioning by packaging technical work into policy-ready outputs and ensuring that research is timely, actionable, and tailored to key decision windows
Employment: Full-time, one-year Fellowship
Starting Date: July-September, but earlier or later starting dates are possible
Key responsibilities
- Co-develop research across Financing Alliance for Health, focused on health financing, primary health care, and community health systems.
- Design and support research questions, literature reviews, analytical frameworks, and data analysis for country and cross-country work.
- Support journal manuscript development (co-authoring, structuring arguments, responding to reviewer comments) and ensure alignment with FAH’s research agenda.
- Maintain clear methods notes, assumptions logs, version control for models, and reproducible analytic files to improve credibility and ease of review. Conceptualise and lead the development and execution of the advocacy agenda.
- Lead and co-author cross-country policy briefs, research reports, investment cases, and thought leadership pieces that translate evidence into clear financing options and recommendations.
- Develop and apply Excel-based financial models, public financial management toolkits, and decision-support tools (including dashboards, frameworks, guides) to support how governments plan, allocate, and execute funding for PHC and community health.
- Work closely with in-country teams to ensure that the evidence, analysis, and tools are not only developed with governments but are consistently used to inform policy dialogue, reform processes, and advocacy across FAH focus countries.
- Engage with government counterparts, technical partners, and donors to support evidence-informed financing discussions and decisions.
- Prepare presentations, briefing notes, and discussion materials that support research-to-action and decision-making.
- Drive workshops, consultations, and learning events where evidence is used to inform policy and financing choices.
Requirements
Experience and education:
- Bachelor’s degree in public health, economics, public policy, development, or a related field; a Master’s degree in health financing, health economics, public policy, or a related discipline is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience across research and analysis, financial or policy modelling, advocacy, and stakeholder engagement.
- 2+ years of relevant professional experience in health financing, primary health care, community health, climate and health, or related areas
- Strong analytical skills, including comfort working with Excel-based models and structured problem-solving
- Working knowledge of quantitative analysis and data handling (e.g., Excel advanced functions; and/or R/Stata/Python is an advantage).
- Experience with data visualisation and reporting (e.g., Power BI/Tableau or equivalent is an advantage)
- Excellent writing skills, with the ability to synthesise complex technical and policy issues into clear, compelling narratives
- Ability to take initiative, exercise judgment, and manage work independently
- Experience engaging with government counterparts, technical partners, donors, or research institutions
- Highly collaborative, with the ability to work across teams, countries, and partners while taking ownership of deliverables
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, flexible, and ambiguous environments, with the ability to adapt and exercise judgment
Must Haves:
- Eligible to work in their location for the full Fellowship period (work authorisation / visa requirements).
- Able to work across multiple time zones and travel occasionally, as needed.
- Strong professional English writing ability.
- Comfort working with real-world, incomplete datasets and producing decision-ready outputs under time pressure.
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