Senior Program Officer, Product Delivery Enablement (LTE)

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

As part of the Global Development Division, the Global Health Agencies and Funds (GHAF) team leads the strategic relationships and drives the engagements on governance, strategy, operational effectiveness and programmatic impact with several of the foundation’s key global health institutions (GHIs): UNICEF, WHO, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB & Malaria (Global Fund), UNITAID, and through the Islamic Development Bank the Lives & Livelihoods Fund and through the World Bank, the Global Financing Facility (GFF). We engage with leaders of these institutions, participate in governance through membership on boards and committees and in advisory groups, and make investments to improve the operational effectiveness of the institutions and the impact of their programs. While many teams within the foundation work with these GHIs, the GHAF team specifically works to:

1. Bring deep knowledge of the strategic, governance, operational and programmatic approaches of and across the GHIs to inform foundation strategies and engagements;

2. Drive internal alignment on foundation-wide strategic priorities, objectives, outcomes, and accountabilities with these GHIs; and

3. Increase the strategic coherence across the GHIs on priorities for the wider foundation through cross-institutional collaboration.

Your Role

The SPO for Product Delivery Enablement is responsible for supporting the program and product delivery and managing a portfolio of grants and contracts designed to ensure that progress is monitored and that program outcomes are achieved. You act as a key connection point between other technical areas and manage critical aspects of engagement, maintain relationships, ensure that support is prioritized against the highest strategic opportunities, and provide value to GHAF and Program Strategy Teams. You lead and participate in team initiatives, particularly around our support to UNICEF's supply division and relevant program areas. You also will work with WHO and other GHIs on supporting their roles in product development, launch, introduction and scale activities using a product life cycle approach.

This position is a limited-term position for 11 months. Relocation will not be provided.

What You’ll Do

• Support foundation engagement with WHO and partners on strengthening evidence based guidelines to improve efficiency, timelines and quality. Develop and support implementation of cross-institutional frameworks and workplans that facilitate improved GHI collaboration to accelerate equitable access, introduction, and scale of quality, affordable products.
• Drive interventions along the product life cycle in collaboration with multiple GHIs to bring new products to market, assuring quality, affordability, timely availability and fostering rational use in LMIC.
• Work with WHO and relevant partners in their efforts for accelerating access and country adoption of quality health products through quality assurance, guideline development and other normative tools.
• Strengthen the foundation's understanding and engagement with relevant regional procurement agendas, mechanisms and other localization efforts for non-vaccine products and delineate the risks and opportunities that procurement trends may bring to GHI’s procurement facilitation and functions
• Contribute expertise within the foundation on the role of GHIs, particularly WHO and UNICEF, in product introduction and markets to improve cross-functional and coordinated product development planning for specific medical products within the foundation.
• Work with foundation Program Strategy Teams and Regional and Country Offices to partner with WHO and UNICEF for efficient product introduction at national level, including national product introduction prioritization and alignment across GHIs.
• Drive internal processes and work on cross-foundation activities important to product development priorities with development partners