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Global Development Program
Department
Integrated Delivery
Location
Seattle
Foundation Overview
Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people's health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people-especially those with the fewest resources-have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, the foundation is led by CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann and co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.
Group Summary
The goal of the Global Development Program (GDP) is to increase opportunities for people in the developing world to lift themselves out of hunger and poverty and to help deliver targeted healthcare solutions in these regions. Our strategies focus on Agriculture Development; Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene; Financial Services for the Poor; and Family Health which includes Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, Family Planning, and Nutrition. These strategies are supported by functional teams that focus on Vaccine Delivery and Integrated Delivery. GDP also has Special Initiatives that focus Urban Poverty, Emergency Relief, Global Libraries and Value for the Money.
Responsibilities
The Senior Program Officer (SPO), Country PHC will be responsible for leading country work on strengthening primary care approaches. The SPO will focus primarily on Nigeria PHC strengthening and service delivery integration and scale, and also provide input on India, Ethiopia and additional countries as needed. He/she will also provide technical assistance and support in his/her specific area of expertise to other foundation teams, and potentially in other geographies. This position will work to strengthen primary care at country level; managing outreach at country level with the government and development partners to build support and leverage for the primary care strengthening strategy; identifying any overlaps and synergies in foundation portfolio of investments that touch on primary care. The SPO will also collaborate closely with Global Health, Global Development and Global Policy and Advocacy staff across the organization to coordinate, leverage, and bolster foundation efforts to understand where primary care strengthening analysis and approaches can improve the impact and lower the cost of achieving foundation health goals.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Oversee the development, implementation, and evaluation of PHC systems strengthening scale up in Nigeria and other countries as needed.
- Ensure coordination of foundation's health-focused investments in country within a PHC framework. Work closely with country-based, health-focused staff, other donors, technical agencies, and government counterparts as well as other Program Strategy Teams (PSTs).
- Support efforts to integrate multiple strategy team investments in target countries, finding synergies and co-investment opportunities. This may include integrating health and non-health (i.e. agriculture, financial services for the poor, WSH) activities, investments, and outcomes.
- Consult with grantees and other partners to maximize impact of projects and ensure optimal learning. This may include site visits, providing operational guidance and convening of key stakeholders.
- Develop, manage and implement public, NGO and private sector delivery strategies. Identify, negotiate, execute, conduct and/or manage complex, performance-based grants. This includes review of letters of interest and grant proposals and summaries of progress.
- Manage strategic relationships with other funders, governments, and shapers of the program and service delivery. This may include, negotiation of commitments, joint analytics and peer review, fostering a sense of urgency, representing a particular institutional viewpoint, convening groups to work together who have no previous experience of collaboration, defusing personal and organizational conflict.
- Manage internal processes and portfolio progress while ensuring appropriate documentation, budgeting and reporting.
- Provide “technical assistance” to PSTs, the India Country Office and foundation grantees around scaling up delivery of life saving tools and technologies, and evaluation of foundation delivery investments. Provide technical assistance in the SPO's key area(s) of expertise across the foundation and to external partners.
- Influence the PHC field through identification of PHC innovations, and keeping abreast of PHC literature and best practice.
- Participate as a core member of the Integrated Delivery strategic program team contributing to annual planning, strategy reviews and refreshes.
- This role may manage people and is responsible for hiring the talent needed to achieve goals, ensure successful on-boarding, communicate performance expectations, integrate project and change management, give and seek feedback, provide coaching, measure progress, support employee development and recognize achievement.
- This position is responsible for high quality interactions and clear and consistent communication within the foundation, with foundation leadership, and grantees and partners in the field.
Qualifications
- Advanced degree with 10 or more years' of work experience and at least five or more years living and working in developing country(s) managing or providing long term technical assistance to strengthen health systems. Real life experience and understanding of the importance of the importance of management and execution in PHC systems strengthening.
- Multi-year experience living and working in at least two low-income countries. One of these long term assignments will have been in Sub-Saharan Africa. Experience living and working in Nigeria is preferred. Evidence of self-awareness and deep cross cultural sensitivity is required.
- Concrete management experience, excellent interpersonal skills, and ability to influence a diverse set of stakeholders (internally and externally).
- History of achieving concrete results and large scale health impact. Experience leading innovation and creative thinking in primary care systems strengthening and innovations in service delivery.
- Experience with diffusion of new tools/technologies, replication and service delivery scale-up through public and/or private sectors.
- Ability to prioritize, focus and achieve results and significant ability to source and manipulate quantitative data. Understanding of operations research and implementation evaluation is a plus.
- Entrepreneurial, fast moving, decisive yet collaborative, and “business-like” in their efficiency and the way they achieve results.
- Experience in multiple diseases areas is a plus. Experience in service delivery and scale, and integrated programming across multiple sectors (i.e. health, agriculture, income generation, etc.) is also a plus.
- Adept at building, managing and maintaining relationships and partnerships with diverse stakeholders.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and is effective with a broad and diverse audience.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 40% of the time.
This position will be based in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation headquarters in Seattle, USA and will report to the Deputy Director, Country PHC on the Integrated Delivery team.
As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
Requisition Number
4943BR
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