Health Impact Coalition Executive Coordinator

Health Impact Coalition Executive Coordinator (m-w-x)

The Health Impact Coalition (HICO) brings together eight Belgian NGOs committed to strengthening health systems and advancing the universal right to health through collaborative action, policy influence, innovation and shared learning. From 2027, HICO will implement a joint DGD programme for 2027-2031 while deepening institutional partnerships, developing joint funding opportunities, strengthening advocacy and external positioning, and progressively building shared services and common functions where these create clear added value for members and partners. To strengthen its coordination structure in Belgium, HICO is recruiting an Executive Coordinator. HICO is committed to non-discriminatory recruitment and encourages applications from all persons regardless of origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion.

Position and reporting lines

The Executive Coordinator is HICO’s central executive coordination and accountability role. Reporting functionally to the rotating Chair of the HICO Board of Directors, the Executive Coordinator participates in the Board in a consultative, non-voting capacity and is a member of the weekly Coordination Cell. The role ensures that HICO’s strategy, governance decisions, institutional commitments and cross-cutting priorities are translated into coordinated action and effective follow-up.

The position combines senior-level coalition leadership, programme and operational oversight, institutional funding, advocacy and external relations with hands-on executive secretariat and operational delivery. The Executive Coordinator coordinates HICO’s main bodies and functions, including the Programme Steering Committee, Finance Cell, Operations, Quality & Learning, Communication & Advocacy Team and Shared Services teams, while working closely with the eight member organisations, donors and institutional partners.

This is a senior, hands-on coordination role within a lean coalition structure, complemented by expertise and staff contributed by member organisations. The post holder must be comfortable moving between strategic leadership and detailed execution, from representing HICO in senior institutional settings to drafting Terms of Reference, institutional funding proposals, policy papers, Board documents, agreements or amendments and ensuring their follow-up. HICO coordination works through agreed mandates and does not replace the legal, financial, employer or operational responsibilities of member organisations. The composition and resourcing of HICO’s support functions may evolve in line with future Belgian Cooperation budgetary decisions. As a result, the allocation of responsibilities and the reporting arrangements of those functions may also evolve. The Executive Coordinator will remain responsible for ensuring that HICO’s essential obligations are covered, which may require responsibilities and priorities to be reallocated as available support capacity changes.

Tasks and responsibilities

1. Programme & Operational Oversight, Quality, Learning and Accountability

• Provide overall supervision of HICO’s joint DGD programme and ensure that the governance, management and operational framework required for high-quality implementation is established and functioning effectively, with clear roles, responsibilities, decision-making, escalation, procedures, planning, monitoring and reporting arrangements.
• Functionally supervise and coordinate the Quality & Learning function and Country Leads / Focal Points, ensuring clear mandates, priorities and working arrangements and that programme-level issues are identified, followed up and resolved or escalated as required.
• Maintain an overall view of programme implementation, quality, progress, results, risks and compliance, ensuring that agreed standards, commitments, deadlines and corrective actions are consistently followed and intervening where significant gaps or concerns emerge.
• Guarantee the quality, coherence and timely delivery of programme accountability and reporting requirements, including reporting to DGD and other relevant stakeholders, coordinating contributions from members and HICO functions and contributing directly where necessary.
• Ensure effective follow-up of HICO’s shared digital monitoring platform and joint indicator framework, working with the Quality & Learning function and member organisations to support timely data collection, consolidation, quality assurance and use of results for reporting, learning and decision-making.
• Ensure that programme results, evidence and learning are translated into clear and credible external communication, in coordination with the Quality & Learning and Communication & Advocacy functions, so that HICO can demonstrate its results and contribution to partners, donors and wider audiences.
• Design and oversee HICO’s