The Senior Program Officer (SPO) will serve as the PAC strategy lead for both TB and HIV. In this role they will be responsible for guiding and partnering with the PAC TB and HIV team and with teams across the foundation and the globe to create, implement and evaluate advocacy and communications strategies that advance the fight against TB and HIV. This work supports the foundation’s TB (https://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Health/Tuberculosis) and HIV (https://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Health/HIV) strategies which cover the spectrum from research and development to develop new tools to ensuring the delivery of tools and interventions that can drive down incidence in both epidemics now.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Partner with the TB and HIV PAC team, programmatic leadership and teams, and the GPA division to update and implement advocacy and communications strategies that include market-specific approaches and assessments of political economies, ensure long-term sustainability and impact, and are synergistic to other strategies in the foundation.
- Collaborates with PAC TB and HIV team and other teams to manage and present portfolio progress and grant budget information.
- Serves as a point of contact on portfolio-related issues for internal and external stakeholders, working within the complex matrix style organization across GPA and Global Health.
- Serve as the initiative lead for the TB and HIV GPA initiatives.
- Conducts research and analysis to strengthen investment decisions.
- Negotiate, execute, and manage portfolio of investments.
- Provide clear, concise and insightful written analyses and recommendations for funding.
- Represents the foundation to external constituencies. This could include formal and informal presentations such as making speeches, attending conferences, committee representation and other meetings. May serve on boards and working groups.
- Forms key partnerships with people and organizations – in both the public and private sector – to enhance implementation of advocacy strategies and tactics.
- Conceptualizing and managing high impact and complex partnerships, grants, coalitions, and advocacy campaigns.
- This role may manage employees and be responsible for hiring the team members needed to achieve our goals, ensuring effective employee onboarding, communicating performance expectations, creating goal alignment, integrating project and change management, giving and seeking feedback, providing coaching, measuring progress and holding people accountable, supporting employee development, and recognizing achievement and lessons learned.
- Writes and produces informative briefings, reports, email updates, and other materials on key HIV and TB and other relevant issues for foundation leadership.
Educational Background:
Advanced degree in public policy, international relations, public health, development or a related field
Skills/Experience:
- Demonstrated understanding of the role of advocacy and communications efforts to increase awareness of global health and development issues and shape political and financial support for health and development goals in the developing world with governmental and non-state organizations.
- Hands-on experience with advocacy efforts focused on international development – this will include personal interaction with senior level policy makers, civil society organizations, coalitions, and governments.
- Experience working on advocacy in sub-Saharan Africa and middle-income countries with high TB and HIV burden, ideal.
- Has connection and networks within the global TB and HIV communities, desirable.
- Understanding of the key issues driving the TB and HIV epidemics (ideal) or broader global health and development areas.
- Results supporting resource mobilization strategies and initiatives.
- Understanding of bi-lateral and multi-lateral finance institutions and mechanisms including how they fund development programs at national and regional level.
- Demonstrated ability to provide vision and influence others in a constructive, optimistic manner, while building and sustaining collaborative relationships.
- Exceptional project and team management skills including demonstrated ability to lead teams and organizations from strategy development through execution, develop shared goals and execution plans, facilitate meetings, manage budgets, developing stakeholder buy-in, and work both autonomously and collaboratively.
- Ideally, candidate will have experience managing a grants portfolio; either as a grantee - receiving and reporting on a grant or as a grant manager - with direct responsibility for grant making and management.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to effectively synthesize information to reach diverse audiences and create consensus.
- Experience working in a constantly changing environment with ambiguity and productively helping teams manage change.
Education and Experience
- 7+ years leading teams and advocacy initiatives in global health or development (preferably with a mix of service in either the public or non-profit sectors.
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Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Mar 22 2018
Active Until:
Apr 22 2018
Hiring Organization:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
industry:
Nonprofit