Senior Officer, Integrated Portfolio Management, MNCNH

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 Gender Equality Division’s mission is to ensure women and girls in Africa and South Asia can enjoy good health, make their own choices, earn their own money, and be leaders in their societies. When women and girls have an equal chance to thrive and lead, everyone benefits. We know that women and girls are not a monolith. A woman’s experience and the barriers she faces are different depending on factors like where she lives, how old she is, and how much money her family has—alongside other factors including her race, caste, and education level. We seek to address these compounding barriers through deep partnership with our grantees. As a philanthropy, our role is to listen to and learn from these experts. We take risks in new areas, prove concepts, and bring these ideas to governments, partner organizations, and private sector companies to scale. The Gender Equality Division builds off our existing strengths as a foundation in areas like global health and data, partnering closely with all our global divisions.

The Maternal, Newborn, Child Nutrition & Health (MNCNH) Team is responsible for an end-to-end approach focused on product discovery, development, introduction, and scale of novel and existing high impact products for women, adolescent girls, and children in low-resource settings. Our approach targets underlying biological vulnerability and seeks to intervene as early as possible in the life-course. We fund development on a core set of products that range in type (including drugs, foods, microbes, risk algorithms, and devices), technical risk (from novel concepts to product substitutions), and development phase (from early discovery to late-stage efficacy testing and implementation research). We also support launch and introduction planning of a subset of our core products that are further in the development process to accelerate country adoption and uptake in the global architecture and drive impact at scale. These products target pregnancy risk, maternal undernutrition, prematurity, neonatal encephalopathy, child wasting, child neurodevelopment and maternal morbidity. Our team is multidisciplinary and includes physician scientists with backgrounds in obstetrics and pediatrics, perinatal epidemiologists, and professionals in neurodevelopment, nutrition research, engineering, global health, strategy development and industry-experienced market and commercialization experts. We emphasize in-country partnership to integrate the local context into research and development.

*This position is a limited-term position for 3 years.

Your Role

We are seeking a strategic integrator and operational anchor to join our MNCNH team as Senior Officer, Integrated Portfolio Management. This role will provide leadership in orchestrating strategy execution, enabling team alignment, supporting grant oversight, and fostering systems integration across our expansive portfolio. You will work closely with Program Officers, Senior Program Officers, and Deputy Directors to ensure high-impact delivery of a wide range of innovations. This position will report to the Deputy Director, Drugs & Clinical Development.

This is an ideal role for a mission-driven systems thinker with strong product development experience and a passion for improving maternal and child health outcomes. If you thrive in complex, cross-functional environments and enjoy turning vision into execution, we’d love to hear from you.
 

What You’ll Do

Strategic Portfolio Integration and Planning

• Act as a strategic thought partner to team leaders, surfacing trends, risks, and opportunities across a rapidly evolving global health innovation ecosystem.
• Shape and update execution plans aligned with MNCNH strategy and goals (e.g., maternal mortality reduction, improved nutrition outcomes).
• Coordinate annual planning processes, portfolio reviews, and strategic course corrections.
• Synthesize technical and operational insights fo