The Senior Program Officer (SPO) is responsible for contributing to the HIV Drug Initiative strategy, to develop and manage a portfolio of grants and contracts requiring high-level grant management skills, grantee engagement, monitoring, evaluation, and follow up. The SPO will guide both scientific and partnership aspects of the program strategy as well as be expected to stay abreast of technology and trends within drug development that can be used to accelerate the development of new HIV prevention products.
- Support the cross-functional HIV Drug Initiative, participate in setting overall goals, development of strategy, as well as manage and implement investments.
- Contribute to managing partnerships in the HIV ecosystem including PDPs, grantees, pharmaceutical companies and academic partners.
- Negotiate, execute, and manage complex grants and performance-based contracts.
- Review letters of inquiry and grant proposals and collaborate with colleagues to provide clear, concise and insightful written analyses and recommendations for funding within the areas of HIV drug pre-clinical and clinical development.
- Consult with grantees and other partners to maximize impact of projects by ensuring grants align with and drive toward meeting strategy goals. This may include: site visits, providing operational guidance and convening meetings of key stakeholders across all phases of the drug development process.
- Develop, manage, resource, and implement a program that aligns with foundation strategy and is operationally integrated with other foundation programs.
- Contribute to the design of new strategies, collaborations and implementation plans to ensure long-term sustainability and impact.
- Represent the foundation to key program-related external constituencies, as appropriate, on committees related to area of expertise and responsibilities of the position.
- This role will include, communicating performance expectations, creating goal alignment, integrating project and change management, giving and seeking feedback, providing coaching, measuring progress and holding people accountable, possibly supporting team development, and recognizing achievement and lessons learned.
- Be a product development subject matter expert to other programs and colleagues in the TB&HIV program team.
We believe that energized people, working well together, fueled by great leadership in an inclusive environment in which they thrive, will do phenomenal things.
Core Knowledge & Skills
We are looking for people who enjoy the challenge of working on complex projects and collaboratively create solutions that have the potential for transformational change. We seek an experienced leader with knowledge of drug development, organizational leadership, and ideally experience in HIV. This would include: evaluation of projects, management of strategies and programs.
Education and Experience
- Experience with Clinical Sciences and Clinical Development highly preferred.
- Scientific experience within HIV and/or anti- infectives drug development
- Must have led cross-functional teams, preferably in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry covering the R&D value chain.
- Experience with R&D Alliance management or external partnerships desirable
- Demonstrated outstanding written and oral communication skills in positions requiring communications in a broad and diverse audience on a range of complex technical issues.
- Experience in a role requiring collaboration as well as a demonstrated ability to work with flexibility, efficiency and diplomacy both individually and as part of a complex team effort; ability to work in a cooperative and collegial fashion.
- Demonstrated ability to successfully assemble, coordinate, and manage complex inter-group collaborations and partnerships, guiding such programs to meet programmatic and strategic goals.
- Experience in the execution, conduct and/or management of performance-based contracts or cooperative agreements.
- Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills with the ability to solve problems with energy and a positive attitude.
- Ability to organize/prioritize work and meet deadlines within a fast-paced environment with multiple and competing demands.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and build relationships to gain the respect and trust of others.
- Solid understanding of the realities and complexities of matrix-based organizations.
- Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally.
- Demonstrated passion for the foundation’s values with a commitment to deliver results against the foundation’s mission.