Senior External Affairs and Communications Lead
Employer: Global Health Partnerships
Location: Hybrid - home based with regular travel to London and parliamentary / partner events
Salary: £ £36,743.40 - £48,991 dependent on hours worked (FTE: £61,239)
Closing date: 10th July 2026
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About Global Health Partnerships
Global Health Partnerships is a UK-registered charity with nearly four decades of experience connecting NHS institutions, diaspora health workers, Royal Colleges, and government partners with counterparts across Africa, Asia, and beyond. We strengthen health systems, build the evidence base for UK investment in global health, and work at the interface of domestic and international health policy. Our network includes 256 confirmed MCH health workers across 32 institutions, established relationships with RCOG, RCM, RCN, and NHS England, and a track record of supporting the APPG on Global Health and Security. We are a trusted, non-partisan intermediary between UK clinical communities and policymakers.
Why this is an exceptional opportunity
This is a rare and timely role for a senior external affairs and communications professional who wants to make a direct, measurable difference to global health. You will be joining Global Health Partnerships at a pivotal moment, as we launch an ambitious advocacy programme, with the backing of a major foundation and a network of frontline NHS clinicians and health institutions.This is not a general communications role. It is a specialist advocacy and policy influence position, focused on translating evidence and health worker experience into parliamentary and media impact. If you want to shape how UK politicians and the public think about global health and see that shift lead to real changes in funding and policy, this is the role for you.
Job purpose
Reporting to the Deputy Chief Executive, you will lead GHP’s external affairs and communications function across the full range of the organisation’s strategic priorities. This includes designing and executing GHP’s advocacy strategy for priority programmes — with the Every Mother, Everywhere MCH programme as the flagship — while also building GHP’s broader profile as the leading UK voice on NHS institutional partnerships, health workforce policy, and the mutual benefit case for UK investment in global health. You will manage GHP’s relationships with key stakeholders in parliament, government, and the media, and ensure that GHP’s full portfolio of work is visible, compelling, and connected to the policy arguments that matter most to funders and decision-makers.You will oversee GHP’s secretariat relationship with the APPG on Global Health and Security, develop and support networks of health worker and diaspora advocates, lead media and parliamentary engagement, and coordinate a coalition of civil society, clinical, and community organisations around shared advocacy priorities. With the communications team, you will also work closely with the fundraising and programmes teams to ensure GHP’s communications and public profile actively support income diversification and donor engagement across institutional, trust, and corporate funding streams.
While the immediate priority is our Maternal and Child Health Advocacy programme and its parliamentary and media objectives, this role carries wider organisational responsibility for GHP’s positioning, reputation, and voice in public discourse on global health. The postholder will line manage the Communications Manager and be accountable for the coherence of GHP’s external communications across all channels and programmes.
Main duties and responsibilities
Parliamentary engagement and advocacy
Oversee GHP’s secretariat function for the APPG on Global Health and Security, ensuring the APPG is well run, including a stream on MCH, and ensuring the programme’s evidence and health worker voices are central to the APPG’s work.
Build a visible coalition of trusted clinical voices that can shape media narratives.
Develop and maintain relationships with UK parliamentarians as active advocates on global health and MCH, cultivating champions across all parties and all four UK nations.
Facilitate direct engagement between frontline health workers and parliamentarians, potentially including Westminster briefing events and constituency visits by MPs to GHP-linked clinicians in their own areas.
Develop and place targeted parliamentary briefings, co-produced with health workers, aligned to key policy moments including the Amos final report, WHA 2027, the Spending Review, and the UK G20 Presidency 2027.
Accompany parliamentary visits to partner countries as appropriate.
Health worker network and coalition management
Together with the MCH programme manager:Manage and develop the MCH programme health worker network, maintaining active engagement with 50+ members, identifying and preparing a cohort of up to 30 advocates for external communications and parliamentary roles.
Plan and deliver two in-person convenings per year and a programme of virtual events to build community, share learning, and progress advocacy priorities.
Develop and maintain an online platform (which could be WhatsApp) for peer communication and resource sharing within the health worker community.
Coordinate GHP’s MCH advocacy coalition, managing relationships with partners, including: RCOG, RCM, RCN, AMMA, Five x More, Birthrights, the Global Centre for Maternal Health, ONE, and Save the Children Action for Global Health.
Work with coalition partners to agree a shared narrative framework and develop coordinated responses to major advocacy moments.
Media and public communications
Together with the Comms manager:Together with internal and external partners, lead proactive media engagement on MCH, securing coverage in target outlets that feature health worker voices and the mutual benefit argument.
Working with partners, develop and produce a bank of health worker-led communications assets: written case studies, short films, and social media content that project the experience of UK clinicians working in global MCH.
Support health workers to act as confident public communicators: providing media briefings, talking points, ghost-writing support, and media training as needed.
Working with GHP communications colleagues, manage GHP’s communications around key MCH advocacy moments: International Day of the Midwife, Black Maternal Health Awareness Week, World Patient Safety Day, and the UK Global Health Summit.
Coordinate GHP’s contribution to the MCH strand of the UK Global Health Summit, ensuring health worker voices, APPG findings, and case study evidence are prominently featured.
Evidence and thought leadership
Together with GHP’s Technical Director:Work on the development and publication of the APPG MCH report, including launch, parliamentary distribution, and media placement.
Oversee production of a minimum of six health worker case studies, ensuring peer review by the health worker community and open publication.
Work with GHP’s policy and programmes teams to develop the evidence base connecting UK domestic MCH challenges to global MCH investment, drawing on the APPG report, Amos findings, and MBRRACE data.
Monitoring, evaluation, and reporting
Establish and maintain the programme’s monitoring framework: baseline political audit (month 1), parliamentary engagement log, media coverage log, and network advocacy-readiness register.
Ensure all programme outputs are published openly and consistent with the Foundation’s Global Access Policy.
Prepare reports on the programmes progress to agreed internal deadlines and in line with donor reporting requirements.
Organisational positioning and brandOwn and develop GHP’s organisational narrative: ensuring that all external communications — across programmes, fundraising, and policy work — reflect a coherent, compelling account of GHP’s mission, model, and impact, rooted in the mutual benefit argument connecting the NHS to global health system strengthening.
Ensure GHP’s full portfolio is effectively communicated to external audiences, including funders, policymakers, and the media.
Work with the Chief Executive and Deputy CEO to develop and deliver GHP’s strategic communications around major UK policy moments, including Spending Reviews, FCDO strategy consultations, NHS workforce policy developments, and the UK Global Health Summit.
Support income diversification by developing compelling, evidence-led communications materials and positioning for engagement with prospective funders, including foundations, institutional donors, and corporate global health partners.
Line manage the Communications Manager, providing direction and quality assurance across GHP’s digital presence, social media, publications, and organisational marketing, and ensuring day-to-day communications activity is aligned with strategic external affairs priorities.
How to apply:Please apply with a CV and a covering letter of no more than two pages by 10th July 2026.
Your covering letter should address the following: why you are interested in this role at this moment; how your experience of external affairs is relevant to GHP’s organisational priorities; what you understand to be the strongest argument for UK investment in global health and how you would build political and public support for it.
GHP is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion in our recruitment. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of the communities and health systems our work engages with.
Benefits
Flexible and hybrid working
25 days annual leave plus three days off between Christmas and New Year
Annual learning and development allowance
Employee Assistance Programme
5% employer pension contribution when an employee contributes 3%
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