Our Global Health program (GH) harnesses advances in science and technology to save lives in poor countries. We focus on the health problems that have a major impact in developing countries but get too little attention and funding. Where proven tools exist, we support sustainable ways to improve their delivery. Where they don’t, we invest in research and development of new interventions, such as vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics. Our work in infectious diseases focuses on strategies to fight and prevent HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, neglected tropical diseases, enteric and diarrheal diseases and pneumonia. These strategies are supported by functional teams that focus on Discovery and Translational Sciences, Vaccine Development, and Integrated Development. Enteric and diarrheal diseases kill about 550,000 children under age 5 each year, primarily in the developing world. The focus of the Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases (EDD) strategy is to advance the development of safe, affordable, and effective vaccines to protect children from infection by specific pathogens.
- Portfolio management, ensuring strategic and financial objectives are met: provide management support to key initiatives/domain areas, facilitate and monitor progress against milestones and decision points; manage stakeholder interactions; consult with program leadership to maximize impact of investment processes and ensure optimal team learning, decision making, and collaboration.
- Business operations: drive the rhythm of the business, managing and supporting team-wide meetings; assess progress, identify risks, resolve or escalate issues when necessary; support planning and analysis of investment portfolio in collaboration with business team colleagues; manage team roll out of new foundation systems and processes (e.g. investment migration into INVEST); support team knowledge management system and practices.
- Annual planning and strategy review: facilitate the annual planning process and preparation of materials for strategy reviews, portfolio reviews, and other key leadership meetings to President, CEO, and Co-Chairs
- Strategic communication and reporting: support for the development and articulation of the program strategy in a logical framework that relates our vision to our goals and activities develop and maintain strategy dissemination materials; support updating of performance measurement tools; disseminate foundation and team processes and tools; document key activities and decisions
- Team representation: Coordinate programmatic and operational work across teams, divisions, and regional office staff in Washington, DC, London, Africa, India, and China; represent the team in division and foundation forums and special projects
Other responsibilities may include:
- Design and implementation of key strategy projects
- Partner relationship management
- Analytical and research support
- Planning and facilitation support for annual team retreat
- Secondary support for executing and managing investments
- Self-starter with an ability to work with flexibility, efficiency, and enthusiasm in a fast-paced and complex internal and external environment
- Proven program and partner management skills: ability to coordinate inputs from many people; to track progress against targets and identify barriers to progress; to plan agendas and facilitate meetings; and to organize, evaluate, and communicate information
- Demonstrated ability to build trusting relationships with diverse stakeholders and organizations, with a genuine spirit of outreach, diplomacy, and collaboration
- Tolerance for ambiguity and ability to apply structure to simplify complex problems
- Ability to get up to speed quickly on new content areas, build new relationships and effectively alternate between thinking strategically and executing at high quality
- Exceptional listening, verbal, and written communication skills, able to effectively calibrate input and synthesize information to connect with diverse audiences
- Outstanding analytical skills and ability to structure analyses and support strategic initiatives and investment evaluations
- Professional experience with progressive responsibility in management consulting or demonstrated program or project management
- Advanced degree in public health, business administration, public affairs or other relevant area, or equivalent additional professional experience is preferred
- Passion for the mission and alignment with the core values of the foundation
- Sense of humor