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The Foundation
We are the largest nonprofitfighting 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 Program Advocacy and Communications (PAC) team works in partnership with program teams and other teams in the Global Policy and Advocacy (GPA) division to achieve their policy and finance goals by:*Developing and coordinating the execution of advocacy and communications strategies.
*Using leadership and foundation voice to implement advocacy strategies.
*Developing policy recommendations or proposals in partnership with programmatic and regional offices.
*Developing and managing a grant portfolio dedicated to achieving advocacy and policy (AP) outcomes.
*Directly advocating with sector leaders, influencers, media, and government officials in order to achieve advocacy and policy outcomes.
*Leading issue-specific communications in service of advocacy goals.
Within the PAC team, the Global Health Innovations cluster supports efforts to accelerate development of, access to, and initial uptake of innovations with the highest potential global health impact by 1) addressing cross-cutting health R&D policies and funding challenges, while supporting innovation systems that respond to the needs of low and lower-middle income countries; and 2) advancing innovative platform interventions and functions - such as collaborative disease surveillance - that support across the foundation's more specific global health goals.
Your Role
The Senior Program Officer will lead advocacy and agenda setting to support global coordination on disease surveillance, and align global funding sources to enable countries to build and maintain surveillance systems that address both long-standing global health challenges and potential pandemic needs. You'll help to build a shared vision for strengthening disease surveillance across key internal partners, global health agencies, governments and other collaborators; align funding and incentives to implement key technical elements of this vision including foundational health metrics, multi-pathogen platforms; and lead investments in data integration & use that help make surveillance information integrated, timely, and actionable for public health decisions. In addition, the post holder will be the primary focal point for external engagement on pandemic preparedness policy and funding, with a particular focus on the intersection of pandemic preparedness and surveillance. This is a full-time role with benefits located in the foundation's headquarters in Seattle, WA. Domestic or international relocation package is available for candidates with US work authorization.
What You'll Do
Develop and implement an agenda setting and engagement strategy that strengthens alignment of donor and global health agency funding and policies to support stronger disease surveillance systems that provide integrated, timely, and actionable information for public health decision-makers.
Develop, negotiate, and lead a portfolio of investments to support national, regional and global agenda setting and partner engagement around surveillance, including all related grant making processes (e.g., research and analysis, investment reviews, strategic alignment, grantee engagement, etc.).
Conceptualize, support, or lead high impact coalitions and policy-related partnerships, e.g. supporting the foundation's involvement in the Global Wastewater Surveillance Consortium.
Develop policy positions and engage in global policy discussions on surveillance, pandemic preparedness, and global health security on behalf of the foundation as relevant.
Represent the foundation to external constituencies in both the public and private sector, including in civil society, governments, and global health institutions. This could include formal and informal presentations such as making speeches, attending conferences, committee representation and other meetings.
Produce high-quality and informative written briefings, reports, email updates, and other materials on key issues for foundation colleagues and leadership.
Serve as the GPA lead for the Surveillance and Pandemic Preparedness initiatives, including leading key relationships across GPA and with other internal teams across the foundation working on integrated disease surveillance, including the Pneumonia and Pandemic preparedness team (PPP); Enterics, Diagnostics, Genomics and Epidemiology (EDGE); relevant disease-specific technical teams, like our Polio team; the Global Health Agencies and Funds (GHAF) team; and our Africa Regional Office (ARO).
Ability to travel up to 25% domestically and internationally.
Your Experience
Advanced degree in a relevant subject coupled with relevant work experience in the field.
Extensive knowledge of global health ecosystem, public health surveillance specifically, and global health financing.
Strong and demonstrated understanding of the role of advocacy and communications efforts to increase awareness of global health and development issues and shape political and financial support for health and development goals in the low- and middle-income countries with governmental and non-state organizations, ideally with some experience in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Demonstrable experience and networks within the global health sector.
Political savvy and clear track record of devising and implementing advocacy campaigns.
Strong analytical and writing skills for communicating with a broad and diverse audience.
Excellent communication and relationship management abilities enabling work with multiple internal and external collaborators.
Comfort in a wide range of cultural, geographic, and operational situations, demonstrating culturally sensitive behavior with a diverse range of people.
Comfort with working in a dynamic context with a level of ambiguity.
Effective collaboration in complex internal and external organizations and partnerships.
Extensive project contribution and management experience.
English language required.
*Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.
The salary range for this role is $204,600 to $317,100 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle, WA and Washington D.C., where our offices are located. The range for this role in these locations is $222,900 to $345,500 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.
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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.