Deputy Director, Strategy, Planning and Management (NTD & VDev)

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

Our Global Health (GH) division harnesses advances in science and technology to save lives in developing countries. We focus on the health problems that have a major impact in developing countries but get too little attention and funding. Where tools exist, we support sustainable ways to improve their delivery. Where they don’t, we invest in research and development of new interventions, such as vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics. Our work in infectious diseases focuses on strategies to fight and prevent HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, neglected tropical diseases, enteric and diarrheal diseases, pneumonia, and maternal, newborn, child health, and nutrition.

Despite substantial scientific advances, bringing vaccines to market affordably and reliably remains a challenge particularly for low-income markets. The diseases of low-resource settings are also often the least attractive commercially. The Vaccine Development (VDEV) Team focuses on accelerating the development and commercialization of novel vaccines and the sustainable manufacturer of existing vaccines particularly for these markets.

More than 1 billion people are at risk from one or more Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). The NTD Team focuses on eradicating, eliminating, or controlling the diseases of the London Declaration (LD), with an emphasis on lymphatic filariasis (LF), onchocerciasis (oncho), schistosomiasis (schisto), soil-transmitted helminths (STH), trachoma, Guinea worm (GW), visceral leishmaniasis (VL), and human African trypanosomiasis (HAT). The team also works to improve non-NTD health outcomes using the NTD delivery platform.

Application Deadline: July 29, 2025

Your Role

The  VDEV and NTD Teams are recruiting a Deputy Director, Strategy, Planning, and Management (DDSPM) who will support the Director of the NTD Program Strategy Team (PST) and the VDEV Functional Team to implement the strategy and operations of the teams.  The DDSPM provides the link between the teams’ technical expertise, strategy, and business operations. You will lead the strategic, financial, operational, and human resource aspects of these teams, bringing senior business, investment, and management expertise to portfolio, domain, and investment-level decision-making. You will also lead the planning for each of the team’s annual strategy reviews, annual-planning and reporting processes, including framing and analysis of issues and investments central to strategy and execution, ongoing investment pipeline and portfolio management, business analysis, and coordination with the other business strategies of the foundation’s global health program. The DDSPM leads a team of business and operations professionals.

This is a Seattle based role reporting to the Director, NTD & VDEV.

What You’ll Do

• Strategy development, refinement and management:

  • Lead the process, set the direction and execute the process for strategic planning, including articulation of annual strategic priorities in collaboration with the Director.

  • Serve as a strategic partner and thought partner with the Director and program staff to provide ongoing strategy development, process monitoring, and evaluation of function and core processes.

  • Drive alignment of team’s work to strategy and implementation plans. Design analytical models to define strategy metrics, progress metrics and setting of targets and goals. Continuously refine data, metrics, and models.

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

  • Drive content development for engagement with foundation senior leadership and reporting in alignment with foundation governance processes.

  • Cultivate insights and stories to communicate portfolio allocation and progress.

• Team development and people management: 

  • Partner with