Job Description
About MSIMSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world’s leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to safe abortion and life‑saving post‑abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high‑quality services for all.
Today, our organisation has around 10,000 team members working in 36 countries across the world. Our success lies in the fact that MSI teams are locally led, entrepreneurial and results‑driven, and are passionate about delivering high‑quality, client‑centred care in their own communities. As a social business, we focus on sustainable delivery, efficiency, and funding models that are built to last, so that the women and girls we serve today will have a choice in the future too.
We know that access to reproductive choice is life changing. For some, it can mean the ability to complete an education or start a career. For others, it means being able to look after the family they already have. For everyone, it means the freedom to decide their own future, creating a fairer, more equal world.
About the Role
The External Relations and Advocacy Advisor will support delivery of MSI’s External Relations and Advocacy strategy within the Chief Executive Office, working closely with fundraising and communications departments. The role contributes to MSI’s advocacy, thought leadership, fundraising, partner engagement, communications, and events to ensure MSI effectively influences global policy and funding decisions, and shares political and situational analysis, evidence and data as a generous and strategic partner to governments, donors, and the wider sector.
Responsibilities
- Co‑ordinate MSI’s external representation in key sector spaces, strengthening MSI’s visibility, reputation and influence in global and regional fora.
- Build and nurture strong relationships with key sector and donor stakeholders.
- Provide high‑quality policy analysis and translate complex information into clear recommendations for diverse audiences.
- Support smooth running of the team’s work: manage reporting processes, build and manage budgets, raise and track purchase orders, coordinate travel and logistics, support events, and work across internal functions such as finance, operations, donor compliance and IT.
Qualifications
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; fluent in English.
- Ability to organise large‑scale events.
- Strong collaboration across the global team and ability to manage a high level and diverse workload and meet tight deadlines across time zones.
- Excellent analytical and research skills, with ability to provide concise summaries of complex documents and to translate complex information into clear recommendations.
- Multitasking and working under pressure when needed.
- Team player, self‑starter with high levels of initiative.
- Highly advanced knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite, PowerPoint and Canva.
- Familiarity with SRHR, highly desirable.
- Fluency in French, desirable.
Experience
- Demonstrated experience of working and supporting diverse priorities across varied teams.
- Experience of analysing and synthesising complex documents.
- Experience of representing an organisation externally.
- Experience of initiating and maintaining support systems in an office environment.
- Experience in administrative functions including managing budgets, purchase orders, and logistics for external events.
Formal Education/Qualification
No formal educational requirement; qualification through experience is sufficient for the role.
Location & Contract
London, UK (minimum of two days per week in the office) or any MSI country programme where MSI operates.
Full‑time: 35 hours a week, Monday to Friday.
Contract type: Permanent.
Salary: £34,200 – £42,750 for UK candidates. For other countries, the salary will be banded within the national context. Salary band: BG 7.
Closing date: 30th July (midnight BST). Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates.
We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone can participate and contribute meaningfully. We value open‑mindedness, curiosity, resilience, and a solutions‑oriented mindset, alongside a commitment to promoting equality and safeguarding the welfare of both team members and clients.
Please apply via our website at https://jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-GB/msichoices/CANDIDATEPORTALINT/jobs/9029
External Relations and Advocacy Advisor employer: Withinhere
MSI Reproductive Choices is an exceptional employer, dedicated to empowering its team members through a supportive and inclusive work culture that prioritises professional growth and development. With a focus on delivering high-quality, client-centred care, employees are encouraged to engage in meaningful advocacy and external relations efforts that directly impact global reproductive health policies. Located in London, the role offers the unique advantage of working within a dynamic international organisation, where collaboration and innovation thrive, ensuring that every team member can contribute to creating a fairer, more equal world.
