Senior Associate, Public Affairs At The END Fund

POSTING: Senior Associate, Public Affairs

LOCATION: Flexible

REPORTS TO: Vice President, Public Affairs

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS: Occasional travel required for relevant internal meetings and external events (up to 20%)

JOB POSTING DEADLINE: This position will close at 11:59 pm EDT on Wednesday, October 27th

ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW

The END Fund is the world’s leading collaborative philanthropic investment vehicle dedicated to controlling and eliminating neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). NTDs are parasitic and bacterial infectious diseases – including intestinal worms, river blindness, trachoma, schistosomiasis and lymphatic filariasis – that affect over 1.7 billion people globally. The END Fund’s vision is to ensure people can live healthy and prosperous lives free of the risk of NTDs and has set out to accomplish this by:

• Mobilizing and investing resources for maximum impact,
• Advocating for innovative, integrated and cost-effective NTD programs; and
• Facilitating philanthropic and private sector engagement to end these diseases.

By engaging a community of activist-philanthropists and taking a systems approach, the END Fund works in collaboration with governments, local and international NGOs, pharmaceutical companies, and academic partners on the global campaign to control and eliminate the most prevalent NTDs by 2030.

Since our founding in 2012 through 2020, with our partners, the END Fund has provided over 1.1 billion treatments for NTDs worth more than $1.3 billion. In 2020 alone, we reached more than 91.9 million people with more than 133.6 million NTD treatments, representing an almost 10-fold increase from 2012. The END Fund works globally in 25 countries, with a primary emphasis in Africa.

You can learn more about the END Fund and our 2020 impact story here.

ABOUT THE END FUND’S PUBLIC AFFAIRS TEAM

The Public Affairs department builds on the END Fund’s fundraising and grantmaking by using the influence of our brand, reputation, and relationships to: (1) identify and cultivate new opportunities for financing the END Fund and the NTD sector, and (2) encourage greater local ownership and sustainability of efforts to tackle NTDs. The Public Affairs team’s work is bolstered by a network of extraordinary champions for the END Fund and the NTD sector.

THE OPPORTUNITY

The END Fund is looking for a well-organized and process-oriented generalist to help the Public Affairs team drive its communications and advocacy goals, the growth of locally-driven NTD programs, and support prioritization and efficient workflow within the Public Affairs team. They will help develop and organize Public Affairs projects relating to communications and advocacy, drive event planning and production to engage external stakeholders and NTD-sector champions, and serve as a cross-team liaison to ensure that the Public Affairs team is working seamlessly across the END Fund’s global organization. A natural and collegial team player, the successful candidate will have a demonstrated track record of working collaboratively to drive successful projects and cross-team collaborations, and thrive on bringing order and prioritization to an ever-growing number of projects and timelines.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS & CORE COMPETENCIES

Cross-Team Liaison

• Interface between the Investor Relations (Fundraising), Programs, and Public Affairs teams to support internal communications and implementation of cross-team projects, such as:
• Cultivation and deepening of relationships with investors, NTD champions, and prospects
• Grant reporting
• Engaging pharmaceutical donation program leads
• Supporting engagement with country-centric advocates and governments as well as global NTD coordinating bodies
• Identifying relevant content for the END Fund’s media and social media campaigns i.e. program innovations, successes, and what voices and experiences to highlight among the communities we serve
• Participate in various cross-team meetings as an ongoing liaison to ensure that projects are brought to completion in a timely manner

Project and Event Management

• Support the VP, Public Affairs in identifying and executing strategic event opportunities (in-person and virtual) to elevate the END Fund global brand and engage key external stakeholders
• Coordinate with relevant stakeholders (internal and external) on event production, support invitee outreach and follow-up, support event and webinar participants, and organize back-end logistics
• Support administration and coordination of Public Affairs team projects: ensuring internal communications occur in a timely manner, planning agendas for team meetings, supporting the development of the Public Affairs quarterly Board report, preparing team updates for monthly full team meetings, responding to requests for information for grant reports, etc.
• Design and implement appropriate project management standards and practices to ensure that key outputs are delivered to colleagues in a timely manner
• Support content creation (e.g., marketing collateral, blogs, newsletters, other direct mail, OpEds, press releases, thought leadership opportunities, etc.) by coordinating input from the appropriate team members

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) System Development, Budgeting, Maintenance, Analysis, and Reporting

• Track actions of END Fund champions using an established Salesforce system and analyze data to inform Public Affairs strategy, relationship management/engagement, and reporting
• Building off existing CRM, support the development of a system to track and articulate link between Public Affairs’ relationship cultivation and advocacy activities and overlapping organizational outcomes
• Support the development and maintenance of team budgets

General support to and representation of the Vice President, Public Affairs as needed

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Minimum of 3 years of work experience in relevant project management/coordination, event planning, or executive assistance – preferably within the nonprofit or global health sector
• Exceptional ability to coordinate people to align around a goal and convey complex information in a clear, direct, and actionable style
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Exceptional ability to multitask and balance multiple projects
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail
• Interested in global health issues, and NTDs specifically, and/or an appetite and interest to learn
• Previous experience working with Zoom Webinars or other webinar platform preferred
• Demonstrated cross-cultural skills
• A self-starter who enjoys working in a small team environment
• Ability to work independently as well as a part of a collaborative team

OUR PHILOSOPHY AND BENEFITS

The END Fund is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. It is our policy and intent that all qualified persons be given full and equal opportunities for employment, training, promotions, wages, benefits, and all other privileges, terms, and conditions of employment.

The END Fund offers a competitive compensation package intended to motivate employees to perform at the highest level by acquiring superior skills and competenciesOur philosophy is shaped by the following guidelines: 1) understandable, 2) fair and defensible, 3) competitive, and 4) flexible.

The END Fund is at an exciting stage of organizational growth and we are rapidly expanding our global footprint in order to bring on the most talented team members to help advance our mission. Currently, the majority of our team is based in the United States. We maintain physical headquarters in New York City, and other team members work from their homes across the US, Europe, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region.

To ensure all compensation and benefits package offers are fair, defensible and competitive, the END Fund relies on external benchmarking data that is both role and country-specific. In the United States, we have a comprehensive salary structure that covers all roles, departments and functions; in other countries, benchmarking data is secured on an as-needed basis to inform offer packages. This position’s location is flexible so an offer will be informed by country-specific market data that we will commission late in the recruitment process.

Our benefits packages are also informed by local contexts to ensure appropriateness and competitiveness within specific markets. Regardless of location, all END Fund team members receive cell phone and WiFi connectivity support, flexible work arrangements, a healthy annual professional development allowance, and more. In the United States, the END Fund offers 100% employer-paid health and life insurance benefits and twelve weeks fully paid family care leave; similar benefits will vary modestly by country of residency.