Senior Strategy Implementation Officer

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) program harnesses advances in science and technology to save lives in poor countries. We focus on the health problems that have a major impact in developing countries but get too little attention and funding. Where proven 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 and other infectious diseases, enteric and diarrheal diseases and pneumonia. These strategies are supported by functional teams that focus on Discovery and Translational Sciences, Vaccine Development, and Integrated Development.

The goal of the Vaccine Development Team is to advance public goods for global health through technological innovation. We do this by accelerating the development and commercialization of novel vaccines and the sustainable manufacture of existing vaccines, developing platform technologies to reduce the barriers to immunization and reducing the threat of epidemics through the development and use of innovative tools.

*This role is a limited-term position for 12 months. Relocation will not be provided.

Your Role

As a key member of the Vaccine Development team, the Senior Strategy Implementation Officer is accountable for supporting the execution and management of key initiative areas – HPV and Clinical, as well as supporting overall team operations. Reporting to the Deputy Director, Strategy, Planning and Management, you will partner closely with the Deputy Director (DD), Vaccine Development Clinical and Deputy Director, Strategy Planning and Management (DDSPM) to contribute to the continued development of the team’s strategic vision including participating in the setting of the overall strategy and goals for the group, grant management, and initiative management. You would engage in key portfolios such as our HPV vaccine product development portfolio and management of our relationship with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). You would also support the overall rhythm of the business, including managing team meetings, management team meetings, and business team meetings, as well as supporting with annual planning and strategy review deliverables for the annual foundation chair meeting in Fall 2025.

What You’ll Do
 

HPV and Clinical Initiative Support

• Partner with Deputy Director (DD), Vaccine Development (VDev) Clinical, as well as other Clinical and HPV team members and experts across disciplines, to drive strategy development for new bodies of work and strategy refinement/refresh of existing bodies of work as needed.
• Provide day-to-day management of a portfolio of grants, tapping into technical expertise across team as needed.
• Partner across our legal, finance, and business support teams to expedite investment workflow process for investments in overall initiative scope.
• Support facilitation, project management, stakeholder management, and follow-up on action items for cross-cutting initiatives.
• Support ongoing internal engagement with foundation leadership as it relates to initiatives.
• Manage initial content development during annual planning/strategy review for relevant initiative areas.
• Flex across the team to take on new projects as needs arise.
• Contribute to the integration of strategies and execute plans across VDev, GH and other foundation teams (e.g., Global Development), including the management of “WeST” Meetings that bring together all the teams working on HPV at the foundation on a quarterly basis.
   

Team Operations

• Partner closely with DDSPM, Vaccine Development Deputy Directors, Senior Program Officers, Portfolio and Platform Lead, and Program Officers, to communicate and implement the overall team strategy. 
• Coordinate monthly team, management, and business team meetings and work with the S/POs and DDs to develop agendas, track follow up items and work with internal partners to provide input and assist in developing presentation material.
• Manage interdependencies across initiatives, tracking progress, working with the program officers to identify and mitigate risks and resolve conflicts and issues. 
• Manage and support Program Coordinators in grant execution and management on an as-needed basis. 
• Drive communication, facilitation, project management, stakeholder management, and follow-up on action items.  
• Support content development during annual planning/strategy review.  
   

Engagement with External Partners

• Work with internal partners to identify and cultivate partners to build coalitions and achieve objectives; manage partnerships to achieve impact.
• Attend internal meetings to represent Clinical and VDev as well as being a representative of the foundation at external meetings.
• Work with internal partners to actively search for and create opportunities for partners and solutions to leverage available resources.
• Work with internal partners to search for and create opportunities to develop new partnerships and between external partners that will advance GH programs.
• This role is accountable for high quality interactions and clear and consistent communications with grantees and partners in the field.
• This role will require the ability to travel up to 30% domestically and internationally.

Your Experience

We are looking for people who enjoy the opportunity of working on complex projects and collaboratively creating solutions that have the potential for transformational change. We seek a self-starter who can integrate a diverse set of perspectives to build consensus, structure and drive forward progress on complex topics, and provide both strategic and operational capacity to the Vaccine Development team.

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Master’s degree (MPH or MBA) plus 2+ years of management consulting experience highly preferred.
• Experience with the vaccine industry a plus.
• Experience working in LMIC settings a plus.
• Demonstrated experience in data analysis, written and oral communication skills, and experience advocating and communicating with a broad and diverse audience.
• Ability to synthesize technical and commercial information toward strategic decision making.
• Tolerance for ambiguity and ability to apply structure to simplify complex problems.
• Intellectual quickness, curiosity, discipline, resourcefulness and resilience.
• Proven program and stakeholder management skills; ability to coordinate inputs from many people; to track progress against targets and identify barriers to progress; to plan agendas and facilitate meetings; and to organize, evaluate, and communicate information.
• Strong judgment with a demonstrated ability to handle complex issues, multiple tasks, confidential information, and competing priorities with skill, discretion, a strong attention to detail, flexibility, and diplomacy.
• Experience working on teams with diverse cultural and professional backgrounds.
• Excellent interpersonal and diplomatic skills. You must possess excellent relationship management skills to develop trusting and productive relationships with a wide range of colleagues, dignitaries, leaders, grantees, consultants and other partners.
• Ability to work with flexibility, efficiency, enthusiasm, and diplomacy both individually and as part of a team effort.

**Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.

The salary range for this role is $169,700 to $254,500 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle and Washington D.C., where our offices are located. The range for this role in these locations is $185,000 to $277,400 USD. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission. New hires salaries are typically between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate’s job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.

Hiring Requirements

As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

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Inclusion Statement

We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.

All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.