ABOUT SALIENT ADVISORY
Health markets are shifting rapidly. We help clients accelerate transformational change.
Salient Advisory is a boutique healthcare consulting firm founded in 2020, with staff in Nigeria, Kenya, Morocco, South Africa, and Canada. We seek to reconstruct systems and approaches that are no longer fit for purpose in today’s global health environment. We conduct analyses and support partnerships to drive technology and innovations, adapt policy and financing, and elevate unheard voices to change global conversations and transform access to care.
Our work has been featured in TechCrunch, CNN, Al Jazeera, Quartz, Bloomberg, CNBC, Devex, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Center for Global Development, the Brookings Institution, and more. We pride ourselves on excellence in our thinking and execution. We tackle complex challenges, operate with trust and accountability, embrace diversity and equality, and pursue growth.
OUR EVOLUTION
We are on a mission to build a leading healthcare advisory team focused on Africa, anchored in Kenya and Nigeria. We have grown in our first 4 years since we launched into a consulting team of 16, who provide advisory and strategy support to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, The Global Fund and more. We have also established innovative partnerships with leading industry actors such MSD, Cencora, and more.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Director of Communications & Advocacy is a part-time role that will start with a 1-year contract. This role will be the driving force behind demonstrating the impact of our clients’ work and building the Salient brand and our global presence. Success for this role will be to help change the global narrative on the power of African health tech and the future of African innovators.
We are looking for a strategic, creative, and versatile Communications & Advocacy professional who will advance our mission through strategic messaging and advocacy, media relations, and stakeholder engagement. A core element of this role will be to partner with our consultant teams and clients to showcase their research and findings.
RESPONSIBILITIES
REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
The diversity of our team is a core driver of the depth, nuance, and quality of our work. We recognize the historical exclusion of African leaders and women in the arena of global health and are working to develop systems, processes, and approaches to consistently advance equity within our company, partnerships, and our client work. Highly qualified candidates of all races, ethnicities, cultures, ages, genders, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, languages, social class, marital status, religions, veteran status, and disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
We are a fully distributed global team. We do not have a head office and most staff work remotely. This role is a remote position.
Travel up to 10% of the time may be required.
All Salient staff, regardless of location, have salaries benchmarked against role categories equivalently. This is a part-time role. Compensation will be linked to experience and time.
Salient is a diverse, fully distributed company, with team members collaborating virtually from locations across Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Morocco and Canada.
Salient offers competitive compensation and benefits including:
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