Senior Strategy Officer, Women's Health Innovations

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 of our global divisions.

The Women’s Health Innovations (WHI) team under the GE Division is a new team focused on developing and accelerating the introduction and scale of interventions that disproportionately impact health and economic outcomes for women and girls. As such, WHI prioritizes three key areas: family planning/contraceptive technology, gynecological health, and sexually transmitted infections.

Your Role

You lead high-impact projects in collaboration with directors and deputy directors to define, refine, and shape strategies including execution planning for programs, cross-delivery strategy and tradeoffs, and new area exploration. You are responsible for shaping and prioritizing strategy efforts, and providing strategic thought partnership, project management, and analytical support to clients across the program strategy team. You also provide strategy implementation support for the Data & Modeling and Ecosystem Strengthening portfolios which will include making and managing investments, use case development, and coordinating across with programmatic and functional partners internal and external to the foundation.  

What You'll Do 

• Lead strategic thinking and problem solving for a program team.
• Partner with the program leadership team to scope, lead, and execute strategy development – engage deeply in content and analyses.
• Support execution of a new program strategy.  
• partner with programmatic staff and the program leadership team to support the development of discrete, time-bound, strategic bodies of work. 
• Contribute and participate in ongoing iterative improvement of the program strategy – refine approach as learning from early execution; and respond to changes in the internal and external environment. 
• Identify, lead, and support qualitative and quantitative analyses to support strategic decision making. This includes identification and refinement of data & modeling use cases and managing the implementation across several functional teams (e.g., Data & Insights, the Institute for Disease Modeling, Integrated Portfolio Management). 
• Lead a collaborative process to develop materials for strategy reviews, learning sessions, and other informal communications with foundation leadership – partner with the program leadership team to gather content and expertise, lead synthesis and development of recommendations, and set the bar for quality and rigor in slides, memos, and other communications. 
• Work closely with the Sr. Officer of Strategy & Implementation who leads processes to develop and oversee program and portfolio strategic planning, investment, financial and operational processes which includes the full investment development process, annual planning, budget management and forecasting.  
• Provide critical support to program leadership in (a) translating strategy goals into coherent portfolio level theories of action and (b) identify and resolve decision-points impacting WHI measures of progress built into the program team’s results framework. 
• Support inclusive culture through modeling behaviors and actions; escalate issues in a timely fashion to appropriate stakeholders. 
   

Your Experience

• An advanced professional degree or equivalent demonstrated experience in a relevant technical field, preferably in life sciences, data & engineering, or business administration 
• Leading projects at a strategy consulting firm focused on strategy development and strategy implementation 
• Global health/development expertise – preferably in product development for the life sciences industry 
• Mastery-level knowledge of strategy development and end-to-end complex project management (including process design, team structure, critical thinking requirements, development of novel communication resources, and external/senior stakeholder engagement)
• Broad understanding of global health/development issues 

*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 hire salaries are typically between the range minimum and the midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate’s job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.

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Hiring Requirements

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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.