Deputy Director, Strategy, Planning, and Management, Family Planning (12-month 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

The Gender Equality Division’s mission it 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.

This role is a part of the Gender Equality Division’s Family Planning (FP) team, which works to bring access to high-quality contraceptive information, services, and supplies to women and girls in the world’s poorest countries. The FP team’s work spans the spectrum from innovation, advocacy, and data, to supporting delivery and scale in localized and global contexts.

*This is a 12-month limited-term role reporting to the Director, Family Planning. Relocation will not be provided.

*The application deadline for this role is November 24, 2025, at 11:59pm Pacific Time.

Your Role:

As Deputy Director, Strategy, Planning and Management (DDSPM) on the Family Planning (FP) team, you are responsible for supporting strategic and operational aspects for the FP portfolio, including oversight of 2026 Strategy Review and Annual Planning deliverables, ongoing pipeline and portfolio management, progress tracking via FP Dashboard, an investment portfolio on building the landscape on cost-efficiency of FP delivery, and ad hoc cross-cutting strategy/strategy implementation projects. You are responsible for developing a 10+ year vision and strategy for the Family Planning team and aligning it with foundation leadership and the FP team. You are the leader of the Business Team and manage the Strategy Team within it. You play a critical Chief of Staff / strategic advisor role to the Director of the team.

What You’ll Do

Portfolio Definition   

• Work with portfolio Directors and team to define and clearly articulate the program and policy and advocacy strategies, Bodies of Work (BoW), and investment priorities.  Ensure that these are supported by team and strategy structures.

• Partner with Division Directors and Deputy Directors to develop sub-initiative strategies, execution plans and ensure effective strategy prioritization and refinement.

• Ensure overall prioritization of activities needed to plan, implement and achieve the strategic plan are aligned and additive.

• Lead or co-lead complex strategic projects that are cross-functional in nature.

• Develop strong, cross-functional relationships across the foundation to ensure appropriate engagement, expertise, sharing of information, and co-development of joint opportunities for impact

Strategy Implementation and Operations

• Drive alignment of portfolio work to strategy and implementation plans; including the development of processes and/or instruments to ensure alignment of activities with strategy results. 

• Lead the annual strategy review process and articulation of strategic priorities; including the process to define and assess portfolio bodies of work. Partner with Directors and teams to ensure that strategy review materials effectively portray and support the continuation and/or refinement of the GE Division and strategy.

• Develop and execute a portfolio management approach that fosters effective stewardship, strategic planning, and resource allocation.  Cultivate insights to communicate portfolio allocation and progress.

• Responsible for framing portfolio progress including working with the relevant functional partners to define strategy metrics, progress metrics, and setting of targets and goals for each portfolio. Continuously refine data, metrics and models.

• Accountable for strategy hierarchy; including developing and implementing process improvements and other efforts.

• Oversee overall rhythm of business across the teams; including cross-team communication.

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