The TB and HIV Alliance Management team works across the different initiatives and is responsible for:
- Design, planning, and monitoring of multilateral alliances involving a diverse group of partners, e.g. pharma industry, product development partners, academic institutions and multinational public-private partnerships.
- Being a thought leader in developing alliance management approaches and frameworks that foster strong multi sector alliances.
- Provide strategic operational alliance management support and alliance management advisor to the TB and HIV team.
- Ensuring alliance management capabilities and know-how are well understood and efficiently embedded into the TB and HIV Team’s organizational and operational approach.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Thought partner to TB and HIV team in developing alliance models.
- Design and implement business processes required to operationalize complex multi-stakeholder alliances.
- Ensure organizational alignment on alliance goals.
- Project manage alliance driven projects across different organizations and multiple teams in the foundation and at the Gates Medical Research Institute.
- Representation of the TB and HIV alliance management team on division and foundation teams and special projects.
- Partner relationship management and stakeholder management.
- Conflict resolution.
- Define and monitor alliance performance metrics.
- Review and contribute to drafting of alliance agreements such as memorandum of understandings, non-disclosure agreements, collaboration agreements.
- Information and knowledge management related to alliance management.
Role may include:
- Up to 20% planning and project management support as part of the TB & HIV Strategy, Planning, and Management team.
- Manage consultants and interns
Educational Background:
Advanced degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, MPH required ideally combined with MBA or business degree.
Skills/Experience:
We believe that energized people, working well together, fueled by great leadership in an inclusive environment in which they thrive, will do phenomenal things.
We are looking for people who enjoy the challenge of fostering a collaborative culture and working complex problems creating solutions that have the potential for transformational change in the lives of people around the world. The Program Officer must have a genuine passion and enthusiasm for addressing inequities in global health coupled with an ability to develop and manage high-level multi-stakeholder relationships and alliance programs.
Qualifications
- More than five years of regulated product development experience combined alliance management and/or business development is required.
- Experience with cross-functional team management and stakeholder management.
- Ability to see the big picture, as well as paying close attention to details.
- Must possess excellent relationship management skills to create trusting and productive relationships. Specific experience with peer level industry counterparts to cultivate partnerships on their company’s behalf critical.
- Understanding legal aspects of alliance work.
- Possess formal training or demonstrated experience in alliance management, change management, project and/or process management.
- Demonstrated ability to influence others without authority.
- Feel comfortable in a wide range of cultural, geographic and operational situations, demonstrating culturally sensitive behavior with a diverse range of people.
- Demonstrated ability to achieve results and drive complex work to conclusion, including delivering results through others.
- Possess excellent analytical, writing and verbal skills for communicating with a broad and diverse audience.
- Interested in and willing to master the issues and priorities within global health.
- In-depth understanding of the pharmaceutical industry global health ecosystem, market dynamics, company organization and investment decision making is desirable.
- Ability to travel up to 20% domestically and internationally.
- Ability to bring an entrepreneurial spirit, positive energy and a healthy sense of humor.
- Demonstrated passion for the foundation’s values with a commitment to deliver results against the foundation’s mission.
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jul 27 2018
Active Until:
Aug 27 2018
Hiring Organization:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
industry:
Nonprofit