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Title: Senior Advocacy Program Officer
Section: High Impact Programs
Location: Yaounde – Cameroon
Schedule: Full Time
Ref.: D688/DIV/2024

Background
Impact Santé Afrique (ISA) is an African non-governmental organization based in
Cameroon. Its main mission is to contribute to improving the health of
populations by implementing transformative and sustainable programs that can
save lives and strengthen the health of our communities ( www.impactsante.org ). As
part of its initiatives to strengthen the fight against malaria, ISA is looking for a
Senior Advocacy Program Officer to lead and supervise its
high-level advocacy programs.
Job description and main responsibilities:
As a Senior Advocacy Program Officer, you will play a key role in designing
and managing advocacy strategies that have an impact at the local and
regional levels. Under the supervision of the Executive Director, you will be responsible
for:
• Developing and leading high-impact advocacy strategies tailored to the
needs of communities in French-speaking Africa, ensuring their effective implementation
and regular monitoring.
• Supervising advocacy activities to ensure their quality, relevance and
compliance with ISA’s strategic objectives.
• Develop and manage innovative advocacy and communication tools to
promote ISA’s actions in the fight against malaria and for
community health.
• Coordinate and lead local and international advocacy teams, ensuring
their engagement, monitoring and professional development.
• Support and develop strategic partnerships with local authorities,
international organizations, decision-makers and other stakeholders to
optimize advocacy efforts.
• Mobilize and engage opinion leaders and high-level decision-makers in
advocacy actions and awareness campaigns, with a view to strengthening the impact
of health programs.
• Contribute to the evaluation and reporting of advocacy activities by supervising the
production of regular activity reports (monthly, quarterly and annual), in
collaboration with the relevant teams.
• Manage media relations to support advocacy campaigns,
ensuring the visibility of actions and disseminating the organization’s key messages.

• Monitor CSO commitments and contributions to
advocacy programs and campaigns for community health and
malaria control.
Required Qualifications
• Master’s degree in Communication, Advocacy, Social Sciences, Public Health,
or a related field or equivalent.
• Fluency in English
• At least 6 years of proven experience in managing
high-impact advocacy programs, ideally in the field of public health.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills (including report writing
) in English and French to produce professional documents to
national and international standards and participate in discussions and debates.
• Proficiency in computer tools (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint), as well as
online project management and collaboration tools.
• Leadership and team spirit to supervise and motivate multicultural teams,
with excellent adaptability and flexibility.
• Ability to work while managing multiple projects with deadlines while
ensuring the quality of deliverables.
• Strong partnership management skills and ability to interact with
high-level leaders and decision-makers to influence policies and actions in the
health field.
• A positive and dynamic attitude.

HOW TO APPLY
Interested candidates are invited to send their CV and a cover letter, accompanied
by three professional references, to the following address: jobsimpactsante@gmail.com
Subject: Senior Advocacy Program Officer_D688/DIV/2024
Deadline for receipt of applications extended to: February 28, 2025
Contract start date: March 2025
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the interview.
For more information, please contact:
contact@impactsante.org
Extension date: Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Impact Santé Afrique (ISA), NC: M031912772718P; RC: 0249/RDA/JO6/A2/SAAJP/BAPP
Street 1798, next to the Nigeria Ambassador Residency, Bastos
E-mail: contact@impactsante.org | Web: www.impactsante.org
P.O. Box: 35562 Yaounde – Cameroon | Tel: (+237) 699 038 004

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