This Limited Term Employment (LTE) Program Officer will support the newly formed Global Implementation team within Vaccine Delivery. This is a three-year assignment to work across the Global Implementation team portfolio but to focus on establishing three critical aspects of the work: 1) our renewed focus on implementing immunization system improvements at scale; 2) a revitalized monitoring and accountability framework for our vaccine delivery goals with a specific focus on the coverage and equity agenda; and 3) providing key support on initiatives on scaling data use/management approaches and financial sustainability.
Areas of Responsibility:
Key Responsibilities
- Work across team and especially with our strategy focal points to revitalize our efforts to have a strong measurement approach and indicators for the team with an emphasis on enhancing our theory of change for coverage and equity
- Contribute to our immunization system implementation work in the areas of data use and management and financial sustainability and working with others on our team and on other foundation teams
- Manage a portfolio of grants related to systems improvement, impact measurement, and/or financial sustainability
- Contribute to efforts on in-country coverage measurement
- Support and influence Gavi’s data strategy and investments
- Represent foundation in related Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) forums
- Assist deputy directors in maintaining efforts to make Gavi engagement as effective as possible through internal meetings, planning, and information sharing
Educational Background:
Graduate degree in public health, public policy, business preferred
Skills/Experience:
Qualifications
- 8-10 years overall experience in a health-related or global development related field
- Familiarity, and preferably working experience, with global health organizations such as Gavi, UNICEF, and WHO. Immunization and vaccine knowledge desired.
- Knowledge or experience working in or with public health systems preferably in a low income setting
- History of developing and implementing measurement systems
- Strong analytical skills and work experience that has proven dexterity with quantitative tasks
- Proven ability to bring disparate activities together into a coherent narrative or theory of action
- Ability to learn issues and technical areas quickly. Comfortable working with technical counterparts at global and local level.
- Skilled communicator with ability to prioritize multiple projects simultaneously. Highly-organized and efficient.
- Demonstrated initiative to solve unstructured problems with high energy, and persistence. Not afraid to explore different options for problem solving.
- Demonstrated ability to build effective working relationships even in complex environments
- Superior oral and skilled written communication skills will be necessary for success in this role
- Experience in developing countries a strong plus
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Aug 26 2017
Active Until:
Sep 26 2017
Hiring Organization:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
industry:
Nonprofit