Vacancy: Vice President, Strategic Advocacy and Communications at Co-Impact

Location flexible; Nairobi or Johannesburg preferred

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Who is Co-Impact

Co-Impact is a global philanthropic collaborative that supports locally-rooted coalitions in the Global South to transform underlying systems and achieve impact at scale, with a core focus on advancing gender equality and women’s leadership. We bring together funders from around the world to invest in initiatives that are working to improve education, health, and economic opportunity for millions of women, men, and children, addressing underlying conditions that perpetuate social inequities so that systems better serve everyone.

Building on our experience to date, as well as that of civil society, government, market actors, and philanthropic partners, we are now developing a second fund focused on advancing gender-equitable systems change at scale and women’s leadership globally. For more information, please visit www.co-impact.org and take a look at our Handbook. Co-Impact currently operates as a fiscally-sponsored project of the New Venture Fund (NVF). Over the next year, Co-Impact will be expanding to build a second fund focused on gender equality and women’s leadership and changing our operating structure so that we spin out from NVF and build an independent institution.

Where You Fit

Co-Impact seeks an experienced professional to lead on all aspects of Co-Impact’s strategic advocacy and communications during an exciting new phase of our work. Reporting to the CEO, the VP Strategic Advocacy and Communications will be a member of Co-Impact’s leadership team and be responsible for setting the overall advocacy and communications strategy for the organisation, which is focused on supporting systemic change in the areas of health, education, and economic opportunity, with a focus on advancing gender equality and women’s leadership.