Head of Advocacy and Communications

About Us

Every year, millions die from preventable diseases because vital services do not reach them. A root cause is broken data: missing or unreliable IDs, fragmented records, and inflated reporting. Without accurate data on who receives services, governments and NGOs cannot deliver care effectively, track impact, or target life-saving resources.

Simprints is a nonprofit tech company that partners with ministries and funders to verify identities, digitise workflows, and enable evidence-based decisions so the right services reach the right people at the right time. We co-design end-to-end digital solutions with the people who use them, from the frontlines to national dashboards. Our biometric products integrate with health records to drive accuracy, accountability, and insights. We build for scale with privacy-first, open-source, and cost-effective technology that strengthens national digital public infrastructure. Studies have shown that Simprints increases impact through real-time, precision data, for example, increasing maternal health visits by 38% in Bangladesh or accurate HIV tracing by 62% in Malawi. To date, we’ve worked in over 17 countries, helping deliver health, aid, and finance to over 3.5 million people.

Our mission is simple: make sure every vaccine, every dollar, and every public good reaches the people who need them most.

Job Details

• Job Title: Head of Advocacy and Communications
• Reporting To: Chief Strategy Officer
• Grade: UK Grade M7 - £70,000 - £80,000 - For candidates based outside the UK, salary will be adjusted to reflect local cost of living and employer costs in their country of residence.
• Location: Remote - Our ideal candidate will have experience working within Africa with a preference for Ghana. This is a remote role so we will consider candidates from other countries as long as they can demonstrate a high level of advocacy & communications ideally with examples in these regions.

About the Role

Own Simprints’ external voice to help close the data gap in health programs so more people get the services they are entitled to. Lead advocacy that positions identity verification and reliable data as essential to coverage, accountability, and better decisions. Run a high-performing communications function that turns evidence into influence and influence into funding, partnerships, and adoption. Clearly define our role in the market for strengthening national digital public infrastructure.

Department Overview

Primary Function: The Partnerships team at Simprints is responsible for building and managing key relationships with global health, development, and technology partners. They ensure Simprints’ biometric solutions are effectively integrated into impactful programs, while expanding the organization’s reach into new markets.

Key Goals:

• Build and maintain strong, strategic partnerships to drive business development and expand market presence.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver scalable solutions that meet partner needs.
• Secure new partnerships and ensure long-term success through strong client engagement.

• Key Responsibilities:
• Set and execute an advocacy strategy that closes data gaps and increases verified coverage, aligned with ministries and funders.
• Own our voice and narrative across channels, keeping messages clear, consistent, and evidence-led across media, web, campaigns, decks, and long-form content.
• Lead and develop high-stakes content (e.g. proposals, white papers), that convert influence into partnerships, funding, and adoption, and provide toolkits and coaching that help leaders and partners tell the story well.
• Build and mobilise a portfolio of external advocates by identifying influential voices and securing interviews, case studies, podcasts, and testimonials, then equipping them with the evidence and stories to endorse our work.
• Run the communications engine and measure what matters: maintain the editorial calendar, website, announcements, media relations, and track reach, engagement, policy mentions, and conversion to meetings, funding, and agreements.
  
• What success looks like in the first 12-18 months:
• Priority partners reference our materials in briefings or decisions, with at least two joint statements or op eds that center on closing data gaps and increasing verified coverage.
• Demonstrable gains in pipeline and impact from communications: stronger conversion from website and campaigns to senior meetings, and a clear link from advocacy to funded work.
• A reusable advocacy and communications toolkit that shortens proposal and press cycles, improves quality, and helps partners explain how identity verification and reliable data improve program coverage.
• Skills:
• Senior advocacy and communications leadership in global health or international development, with a record of strategies that shift policy or practice.
• Direct engagement with ministries of health, global health initiatives, and major donors, such as The Global Fund or Gavi the Vaccine Alliance.
• Experience managing end-to-end media initiatives, serving as a spokesperson when needed, and securing coverage that supported advocacy goals.
• Editorial authority across formats: writing and editing op-eds, briefs, speeches and web content; shaping narrative and message discipline for senior audiences.
• Evidence-led advocacy: translating program data into clear stories, setting and tracking campaign metrics and policy mentions, and iterating based on results.
• Optional plus: Familiarity with digital health systems and national digital public infrastructure, and experience turning service-delivery data into coverage and targeting insights.
• Competencies:
• We confront the grey - We practise transparency and radical candour, listen deeply, share information openly, and speak up when our ethical compass is challenged, so that psychological safety is real and everyone can do their best work.
• We leave our egos at the door - We bring curiosity, kindness, and a positive attitude, seek first to understand, and remember to laugh together. We stay humble about our small part in big global problems, and we remain bold about our ambition to drive change.
• We find a way - We plan with clear strategies, deliverables, deadlines, and metrics, step out of our comfort zones, and make it happen. When a plan is not working, we learn from the data, adapt quickly, and keep moving in service of the mission.
• We remember why we are here - Impact for people comes first. We act like owners, hold ourselves to high standards, and work across teams to close data gaps and increase coverage, so the right services reach the right people at the right time.
• We celebrate the differences - We treat every person with compassion, empathy, and respect, build inclusive spaces where diverse perspectives are welcomed, involve people in important decisions, and share credit generously, because our best ideas can come from anywhere.