Call for Applications-Advocacy & Strategy Consultant

BACKGROUND

ITPC was birthed in 2003 in Cape Town, South Africa, by a committed group of 125 HIV activists from 65 countries who refused to accept a world in which people living with HIV were denied access to life-saving medicine. As ITPC grew into a Global Activist Network (GAN) advocating for the needs of communities affected by HIV and TB, it also laid the groundwork for community-driven work extending beyond singular diseases and addressing the systemic issues affecting people’s health and quality of life— exposing and resisting entrenched global power dynamics that consistently prioritize privilege and profit over the right to health and dignity. Today, we celebrate 20 years, highlighting progress in the fight for equitable access and affordability to treatment, amplifying community power, and building resilience within communities.

ITPC has recently launched its 2024-2026 strategic plan mapping out clear pathways to achieve its global vision for creating lasting solutions through robust community engagement. People, Planet and Policy are guiding strategic themes across three deeply interconnected and synergistic areas of focus: Watch What Matters, Make Medicines Affordable, and Build Resilient Communities.

The 2024/2025 year is rife with opportunities for ITPC to advance its visionary agenda and further build out its global advocacy, strategic positioning, and impact. The task at hand explores how to make the most of key external events in order to advance the organization’s priority policy and advocacy messages, strengthen stakeholder relationships, and weave in new(er) areas of organizational exploration including, climate-health impacts; non-communicable diseases such as dengue fever, diabetes, and cancer; and non-profit transformational social entrepreneurship through the ITPC Innovation Lab.

Service Provider Scope of Work

ITPC wishes to engage a consultant to assist with the implementation of ITPC’s advocacy strategy.

Key Outputs and Deliverables:

1. Support ITPC efforts in its work with other Key Coalition and other Major Health and Governance Working Group
2. Assist with the strategic and technical support of ITPC’s strategic advocacy by mapping and consolidating key global strategic engagement and advocacy Events in 2025
3. Participate in and support ITPC strategy and advocacy

Duration of Service Provision:

— Start date: 20 November 2024

— End date: 31 December 2024

Qualification/Eligibility Requirements to Provider:

1. Minimum 10 years of experience as a technical advisor working within advocacy
2. Strong ability to develop roadmaps for advocacy and identifying key entry points for ITPC’s strategic engagement
3. Vast experience in working with various communities, civil societies and diverse stakeholders
4. Superior verbal and written communication skills in English
5. Evidence of experience in writing for donor-funded environments specifically a public health context
6. Ability to consolidate findings and draw from multiple sources
7. Experience and/or academic training in public health, health policy, or related field is a plus
8. A postgraduate degree in a relevant field is an advantage