Senior Program Officer, Data & Insights, Nutrition

The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The Team

The Global Growth & Opportunity division works to catalyze sustainable transformative change in the face of inequities and market failures, to realize the potential of untapped markets, and to see the economic and social benefits of including everyone. We focus on the areas of Agricultural Development; Inclusive Financial Systems; Water, Sanitation & Hygiene; Nutrition; Global Education; and Digital Public Infrastructure. We seek solutions that are sustainable, ground-breaking, and inclusive with an eye toward applying technology innovations as well as data evidence to lead change in the world’s developing countries.

Nutrition Team
Within the GGO division, the Nutrition program strategy team (PST) is focused on addressing micronutrient deficiencies at the population level through the development, implementation, and scaling of large-scale food fortification (LSFF). The team’s portfolio includes investments to produce actionable data & insights to inform our strategy and support countries in the design, monitoring & evaluation of LSFF to achieve population impact; delivers high-quality technical assistance to millers and food producers; advances new innovations in micronutrients and food vehicles; supports quality assurance data in mills to empower industry self-monitoring; and strengthens public sector standards and regulations for LSFF programs. We work with partners across public and private sectors to support the attainment of SDG 2: A global commitment to end hunger, achieve food security and improve nutrition.

Your Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Program Officer, Data & Insights to join our Nutrition Team. In this role, you will use your expertise in developing and managing investments that translate data into actionable insights to inform strategic decisions and understand impact.

You will bring a mixture of domain knowledge in undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, epidemiology, surveillance, modeling (including AI/ML), and, how policymakers use data to improve programs to this role. You will work in close partnership with our other programmatic teams, including regional country office (RCO) colleagues, QA/QC, public-private partnerships (PPP), and R&D, as well as our strategy, planning & management (SPM) function. You will help drive innovation in the assessment of nutritional vulnerability, including the measurement of nutrient inadequacies and micronutrient deficiencies, helping to fill data gaps to guide evidence-based decisions at global and country levels, as well as inform approaches to modeling impact and tracking progress across core components of our strategy.

This position will directly support the team’s data portfolio, which is grounded in assessing the risk of nutritional “vulnerability” and supporting countries to strengthen the collection, analysis, and use of data to inform decisions to optimize LSFF programs and achieve public health impact.  This includes the development of dynamic, novel approaches which will enable countries to generate insights to inform program strategies.

This position is located in Seattle, WA and domestic or international relocation assistance is available.

What You'll Do

• Develop, implement, and monitor activities focused on understanding and documenting institutional transformation to develop supports to engage in change processes.

• Engage with external partners to provide statistical and evaluation design expertise to help them produce relevant, high-quality work to improve strategy execution and to support the field.

• Analyze, synthesize, and report findings from funded and other research to internally inform the foundation’s strategy evaluation, planning, and development.

• Develop appropriate evaluation models and support monitoring, learning, and evaluation activities related to program work, including