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The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: that people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. By building a global and cultural workplace that supports greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — together with our employees and partners, we can help all people improve their lives from poverty and health to education. As an organization we offer full healthcare premiums coverage, generous paid time off, contribution to your retirement fund, several employee communities, and a commitment to embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion into everything we do.

The Team

The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: that people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. By building a global and cultural workplace that supports greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — together with our employees and partners, we can help all people improve their lives from poverty and health to education. As an organization we offer full healthcare premiums coverage, generous paid time off, contribution to your retirement fund, several employee communities, and a commitment to embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion into everything we do.

The Team

The Global Health Agencies & Funds (GHAF) is a newly expanded team, established to lead the strategic relationships and drive the engagements with several of the foundation’s key global health partners and funds: WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, the Global Fund, UNITAID, and through the Islamic Development Bank Lives and Livelihoods Fund and the World Bank GFF, Anchor Trust Fund (ATF), and Financial Intermediary Fund (FIF). The team works to:

1. drive internal alignment on foundation-wide strategic priorities, objectives, outcomes, and accountabilities with these global health institutions (GHIs) through individual institutional engagement strategies, and

2. increase the strategic coherence across the GHIs on topics that are priorities for the wider foundation through cross-institutional strategies. Initial cross-institutional priority topics include a focus on product access, introduction, and scale (PAIS) and health systems strengthening (HSS).

The Senior Program Officer (SPO) will join the Global Health Agencies sub-team, focusing on health agencies including WHO, UNICEF, and UNFPA, and the interconnections between them and the health funds. The position will function in a range of roles that facilitates GHAF to make investments; develop, monitor and refine strategy; measure and evaluate investments, and support critical partner relationships. Roles will include:

1. provide team with high quality analysis and decision analytics around key issues to ensure learning is embedded into strategic decision making;

2. identify, develop and manage strategic investments;

3. contribute to processes and projects that support the team’s strategy and rhythm of the business; and

4. lead engagement with key Program Strategy Teams (PSTs) and multilateral partners to strengthen relationships and accomplishment of shared goals.

Core Responsibilities

Strategy and Knowledge

• Contribute to crafting the Global Health Agencies sub-team’s strategy as it feeds into the overarching GHAF structure (with a focus on health agencies, working in tandem with each other and the health funds included in the broader team).
• Contribute to the development and refinement of Gates Foundation engagement strategies with key health agencies (WHO, UNICEF, and/or UNFPA based on candidate experience/interest and in alignment with GHAF team need).
• Identify knowledge products that would be beneficial to GHAF and PSTs in their engagement with health agencies Conduct research and/or launch and manage contracts to produce these pieces.

Investment Management

• Develop new investments (grants and contracts) with partners to advance GHAF’s strategic goals.
• Manage a portfolio of investments, including tracking results and ensuring learning shapes future investments, activities, and strategies.
• Support GHAF partners in the design of investments to ensure alignment with Gates Foundation guidelines.
• Ensure high quality interactions and clear and consistent communications with grantees and partners in the field.

Rhythm of the Business

• Manage Gates Foundation Leadership participation in high-profile events. Includes designing interactions toward efficient strategic use of voice, coordinating programmatic input, and orchestrating logistics accordingly.
• Manage relationship with one or more PSTs, and provide high quality advice to optimize work with multilateral partners and the use of multilateral channels.
• Facilitate, coordinate and manage a range of projects and activities related to team activities and the foundation’s engagement in major external events, such as the World Health Assembly.
• Represent GHAF in internal and external meetings.

Data, Analytics and Monitoring

• Conduct research, track and share global issues that are likely to have an impact on GHAF work.
• Develop briefings, presentations and other materials on key GHAF leadership and partnership meetings.
• Explore opportunities and partnerships within the foundation to improve GHAF learning.

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Applies and translates strong technical or professional knowledge in a relevant field, including public health, health programming, product development and access, and/or public health policy.
• Extensive direct experience and networks within key multilateral health partners, with an emphasis on WHO, UNICEF and/or UNFPA at the global, regional, and/or country levels.
• Strong problem-solving skills with little oversight; high energy and a positive attitude.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct detailed data analysis, review available literature and summarize complex issues in concise briefing materials (writing samples may be requested).
• Diplomacy and cross-cultural knowledge essential. Experience with leadership-level representation preferred.
• Able to effectively synthesize information to reach diverse audiences and build consensus.
• Experience in developing countries, particularly in Africa and South Asia a plus.
• Highly organized and efficient; able to prioritize work based on minimal direction and multiple competing priorities.
• Creativity, broad knowledge, and out-of-the box thinking.

Education and Experience

Advanced degree preferred in public health policy, international relations, public health programming, development or a related field (equivalent experience in international public health grantmaking and advocacy will be considered), with 7+ years of related experience.

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Hiring Requirements

As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

Depending upon your work location, we may require proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 and any recommended booster doses. All employees based in the United States are to provide proof of full vaccination upon hire and any recommended boosters, subject to applicable laws.

Accommodations

If you require assistance due to a disability in the application or recruitment process, please submit a request to hr@gatesfoundation.org.

Inclusion Statement

We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We’re committed to creating a workplace where employees thrive both personally and professionally. We also believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve—in race, gender, age, cultures and beliefs—and we support this diversity through all of our employment practices.

All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.