Gilberto Lontro

Employment

Current opportunities to work with the NCD Alliance and/or our partners will be listed on this page.

With a small, dynamic, passionate and skilled team, the NCD Alliance actively advocates, influences policy, brokers knowledge and good practice, and supports civil society capacity building around priority global health and development issues.

Policy and Advocacy Officer

Start Date: March 2025
Contract duration: 10 months
Location: New York, USA (note: applicants are required to have the right to work in the USA)
Reporting to: Policy and Advocacy Manager
Application Deadline: 12 January 2024
 

The NCD Alliance (NCDA) seeks a New York-based officer to support our global policy and advocacy work, with a particular focus on noncommunicable disease (NCD) financing and United Nations (UN) related activities in New York. This is an excellent opportunity for candidates interested in working for a respected civil society organisation, engaging with multilateral institutions and governments, and leading strategic advocacy and coalition building on a priority global health and development issue. The successful applicant will join our Policy, Advocacy and Accountability (PAA) unit based in Geneva and New York City.

The incumbent will:

  • Support the PAA team in elevating the importance of NCDs, in particular resource mobilisation and investment, within global health and development policy and political forums and processes;
  • Support and enhance the impact and effectiveness of NCDA’s advocacy and accountability activities at the UN including Member States and the WHO Office in NY, and in other global fora relevant to the HLM and health and development financing;
  • Support the delivery of policy and advocacy activities and deliverables for partners and members (e.g. reports, events, conference sessions, webinars etc).

Find more details in the job description and please send your applications to [email protected] and include “NY Policy and Advocacy Officer” in the subject line of your email.


Administrative Officer

Start Date: As soon as possible
Contract duration: One year with potential renewal
Location: Geneva, Switzerland (note: applicants are required to have the right to work in Switzerland)
Reporting to: Operations Manager
Application Deadline: 12 January 2024
 
The NCD Alliance has a friendly team of 26 staff and seeks an Administrative Officer (AO) to support the Operations unit in its daily office procedures. The AO will provide support to all units across various administrative tasks via email, video calls or in person. The AO will report to the Operations Manager.  The job is very much team-orientated. The AO should be able to work using their own initiative noting where there are blockages and where help is required.
 
Find more details in the job description and please send your applications to [email protected] and include “Administrative Officer” in the subject line of your email.