Located in New Delhi, India, the Strategy Officer (SO) will lead high-impact projects in collaboration with program leadership. Potential projects span strategy development and execution planning for current initiative areas; portfolio strategy development and the facilitation of associated prioritization and tradeoff discussions; identification of thematic challenges and strategic options; strategic partnership support; and the strategic application of innovation to our work. The SO will provide leadership, strategic thought partnership, project management, and analytical support to key strategy projects. This role will report to the Deputy Director, Strategy Planning & Management. Note that on a project by project basis, this role will occasionally report (in an indirect capacity) to other Team members who lead key program areas (Director, Deputy Director, Senior Program Officers).
Areas of Responsibility:
- Support strategy development process for defined projects
- Collaborate with DDSPM and programmatic staff to design the overall process for strategy development
- Act as day-to-day manager of strategic process
- Oversee development of materials to drive project execution – e.g. analyses, project plans, meeting materials, ultimate strategy document outputs
- Facilitate discussions with internal team, external experts, and other global health/development partners
- Employ strategic tools to develop and assess options, ensure logical reasoning, and challenge assumptions
- Manage strategy development process with a customer-focus orientation – e.g., effective communication – and emphasis on relationship management
- Bring creative solutions to manage group process – e.g., managing conflict and driving alignment
- Provide recommendations to improve overall foundation strategic planning and management process based upon experience supporting teams and/or projects.
- Support strategy execution planning
- Collaborate with ICO leadership and other foundation strategy staff to support process for strategy execution planning
- Oversee development of materials to drive the strategy execution planning process – e.g. analyses, project plans, meeting materials, ultimate execution plan outputs
- Manage the strategy execution planning process that is focused on enabling program teams to align the investments, staff resources and voice/influence necessary to implement their strategies and achieve their impact goals.
- Design and perform analytical work in support of strategy development and execution planning process
- Identify and design required analytical work
- Develop analytical methodology and analyze data to support decision-making - collating information required from literature and existing public databases on finance, health, and development
- Participate in the development and use of tools to facilitate strategy development and processes associated with budgeting, portfolio management, and other areas as needed
- Perform problem-solving work in support of strategy projects
- Provide project management and analytical support to cross-cutting strategy projects
- Develop, execute, and manage external partnerships and contracts as needed
- Contribute and participate in ongoing improvement of the ICO’s strategy work regarding overall approach, tools and processes, resource allocation, continuous improvement, linkage with program operations, linkage with other programmatic teams, etc.
- Participate in foundation-wide activities (e.g., learning sessions, all staff meetings, performance reviews)
Educational Background:
MBA or other advanced degree in a relevant field such as Business, Engineering, or Sciences preferred.
Skills/Experience:
- A minimum of seven + years of professional experience with three years of experience in strategic planning functions preferably at a top tier strategy consulting firm.
- Broad understanding of global health/development issues and some global health/development experience is preferable.
- Experience with strategy execution, measurement, review and adjustment is preferable
- Excellent oral, facilitation, and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to function successfully in a politically demanding environment
- Excellent quantitative/financial knowledge, including experience creating complex models, with a demonstrated ability to extract appropriate data to convey complex information using supporting tables, graphs and other visual representations.
- Excellent organizational skills, demonstrated ability to lead teams through a complex and ambiguous task
- Ability to be independent and work effectively and with sensitivity across barriers such as language, culture and distance
- Excellent software skills with Microsoft Office applications. Ability to quickly learn new software modules
- Commitment to the foundation’s core values, mission, and programs with an approach that is consistent with the foundation’s guiding principles and holding self to the highest ethical standards.
- Experience working in a matrix environment preferred
- A sense of humor.
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Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Feb 7 2018
Active Until:
Mar 7 2018
Hiring Organization:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
industry:
Nonprofit