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Financing Alliance for Health, Senior Fellow – Partnerships and Grants Management

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About the portfolio organization

The Financing Alliance for Health (FAH) is an Africa-based, African-led, and Africa-focused entity that convenes governments, funders, philanthropy, private-sector, and communities to address systemic financing challenges to scaling primary and community health systems for delivery of integrated primary healthcare services through country, regional and global partnerships.  As trusted strategic and technical advisors, FAH acts as a bridge between the world of health and finance through long-term partnering with the Ministries of Health and Ministries of Finance teams to develop different and changing financing sources. This approach will empower/ enable them to be the lead stewards in their local health systems to reach the scale and sustainability that is needed and ultimately achieve universal health coverage.   

Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, FAH has successfully supported 22 governments at the national and sub-national levels, across 16 countries (Rwanda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mali, Ethiopia, Haiti, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Liberia, South Africa, Central African Republic, Malawi, Senegal, Kenya, and Togo). FAH works with governments in their journey of designing, scaling, and financing of primary and community health programs, with a view to strengthening national and regional health systems through embedding teams, evidence generation, designing financing solutions, and advocacy. Our longer goal is to scale up and strengthen Primary and Community Health Systems to increase access and utilization of reproductive, maternal newborn, child & adolescent child services at primary facilities and community levels. We act as a bridge between the worlds of health and finance. Our work areas include:  
  • Country government support: Long-term onsite technical and financing support on primary and community health.  
  • Analytical toolkits: Develop and offer toolkits to support country costings, investment cases, and financing pathways.  
  • Financing products/ modalities: Working with donors & financing industry to design, develop, and deploy new/modified financial products.   
  • Awareness and education: Develop investment cases, build thought leadership, and share capacity-building material.  

About the Fellowship role

The Fellow will support FAH efforts in identifying and building funding relationships with public (bilateral and multilateral) donors in Africa (in-country and regional missions) and globally and support the grants management processes at the FAH, including donor compliance and quality reporting  
   
Fellowship location: Remote, preferably within GMT+/-3 time zone 
Employment: Full-time, one-year Fellowship 
Starting Date: Preferably around July-September, but earlier or later starting dates are of course possible] 
 

Key responsibilities

The Fellow will provide support in the following key areas: 

1. Fundraising:  
  • Support the implementation of the organizational fundraising strategy in line with FAH’s growth strategy and new developments in the sector.  
  • Support in the identification of donors aligned with our strategy through prospect research and landscape analyses, build engagement strategies and   feed into FAH’s go/ no go decisions.  
  • Support in the preparation of compelling materials for donor meetings (PowerPoint presentations, research-driven talking points).  
  • Support in developing donor pitches and proposals, with ongoing coordination with internal program leaders and the Finance department.  
  • Support the mapping process for selecting strategic partners, working closely with the Program teams to identify selection criteria and establish a well-structured partners and potential funders’ database.  
2. Grant Management:  
 
    Pre-Award Support  
  • Support the entire proposal development cycle, from bid analysis to grant writing and submission and subsequent follow up.  
  • Support in the follow-up of the pipeline of potential funders.  
  • Provide ad-hoc support to the team, including managing existing donor/partner correspondence and meeting logistics.   
    Post Award Support  
  • Provide support in the grant management cycle, by ensuring that projects are monitored robustly, following-up on implementation of partner-specific compliance, programmatic monitoring work plans, procurement plans, impact tracking budget spending.  
  • Support in the preparation of reports as per funder requirements as well as for our annual progress report.  
  • Provide support with organizing post-awards close-out meetings and support the partners in the closing process, ensuring that all requirements are met. Preparation of close-out letters and ensure that all requirements have been met and that funds have been properly settled.  
3. Partnerships:  
  • Support in the co-development and implementation of FAH partnership strategy to increase FAH’s external partner engagement.  
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to structure and execute FAH’s initiatives and partnerships.  

Requirements

Experience and education:
  • 2+ years of relevant professional experience, including demonstrated experience in the global/ community health sector  
  • Professional experience in a fundraising role targeting particularly bilateral or multilateral entities  
  • Experience in research and data analysis  
  • Ability to manage multiple, complex projects simultaneously  
  • Experienced presenter, especially with executive-level audiences  
  • At ease in summarizing complex information  
  • Strong written and spoken English communications skills, knowledge of French is a plus  
  • Proactive problem solver, flexible, effective at working independently, self-starter, and able to build your own work plan.  
 

About the LGT Impact Fellowship

As part of LGT Venture Philanthropy's and Lightrock's strategic efforts to scale positive impact, the LGT Impact Fellowship was established to provide additional know-how and capacity to portfolio organisations and companies. Each year a limited number of professionals are nominated to work full-time for one year with the organisations and companies supported by LGT Venture Philanthropy and Lightrock in Africa, India and Latin America as per the above job description.
LGT Impact Fellows are part of an enriching cohort of like-minded Fellows. They benefit from various program activities, including a 1-week in-person kick-off workshop, webinars, access to the network and know-how of LGT Venture Philanthropy, etc.

How to apply

Submit your application via the "Apply" button. Please note that we only accept online applications and that multiple applications are not allowed. However, you are invited to mention additional preferences in your application.
Moreover, please make sure to read all information in the application form carefully and answer the questions accordingly (additional information about the questions are marked with "i").