Advocacy Coordinator (South Africa) - Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

The Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI), a program of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK), provides strategic advocacy assistance on global public health issues to drive policy change campaigns around the globe to improve health. As part of the Obesity Prevention Program (OPP), GHAI works with partners to improve the nutrition policy environment, in countries including Barbados, Brazil, Colombia, Jamaica, Mexico and South Africa. The OPP focuses on the passage and implementation of four key policies:

• Banning advertising of junk food and sugary beverages to children;
• Implementing taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages;
• Regulating the supply of unhealthy foods and beverages in public sector institutions, particularly schools; and
• Improving front of package labelling on packaged or processed foods and beverages.

A full job description may be found here.