Senior Strategy Officer, Immunization

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 focus of the Global Development (GD) division is to help deliver targeted healthcare solutions in the developing world. Our strategies focus on Polio Eradication, Immunization, Primary Healthcare, Global Health Agencies and Funds, Emergency Response, as well as the country work on the African continent and in India.
Vaccines, a core priority of the Gates Foundation and the Global Development division, can save millions of lives a year when delivered effectively. The mission of our Immunization Program Strategy Team (PST) is to urgently reach children, adolescents, and adults - no matter where they live - with the vaccines they need.
Our goal is a world free of vaccine-preventable diseases, and we do this by working with countries, development partners, and civil society organizations, to make sure that vaccines and immunization are effectively prioritized and delivered. Robust and resilient immunization programs are critical to achieving the promise of vaccination and are a cornerstone of primary health care, and we work to ensure that there are sufficient, affordable supplies to meet demand. We seek to bring new perspectives to challenging problems as we focus on results that can be delivered at scale. All our work on vaccines and immunization contributes to IA2030, which is a vision and commitment by the global community to extend the full benefits of immunization to all by 2030.

Your Role

We are looking for a Senior Strategy Officer, Strategy, Planning and Management to support critical strategic aspects for the Immunization Team. You will drive and support multiple workstreams in support of the Immunization PST’s impact goals, including

• Conduct analyses and prepare executive level presentation materials on topics as requested by our leadership team.
• Defining strategic questions/options, framing analyses, and developing recommendations.
• Both lead and contribute to strategy refinement and refreshes, as well as annual strategy review processes.
• As necessary, refresh sub-strategies for portfolio areas within the Immunization PST with focus on defining objectives and priorities.

This role reports to the Deputy Director, Strategy Planning and Management (DDSPM), for Immunization.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with Strategy staff to design the overall process for strategy development.
• Act as day-to-day manager of strategic projects.
• Facilitate strategy development and processes associated with budgeting, portfolio management, and other areas as needed.
• Develop monitoring rhythm of business for overall Immunization goals and measurement, partnering with data and modeling experts on analyses.
• Drive critical thinking and clarity across the Immunization PST.
• Conduct learning sessions for the Immunization Team on strategy topics.
• Develop analytical methodology and analyze data to support decision-making - collating information desired from literature and existing public databases on finance, health, and development.
• Cultivate a stable of external strategy resources for ongoing and surge efforts.
• Bring creative solutions to develop group process – e.g., managing conflict and encouraging alignment.
• Perform problem-solving work in support of strategy projects.
• Facilitate discussions with internal team, external experts, and other global health/development partners.
• Support a learning agenda for introducing new concepts to the team using external resources and case examples.
• Support strategy development and strategy execution planning.
• Guide strategy development process with a customer-focus orientation – e.g., effective communication – and emphasis on relationship management.
• Employ strategic resources to develop and assess options, ensure strong reasoning, and challenge assumptions.
• Shape and drive an agenda for strategy development for Immunization as a whole, balancing the cross-team and individual team demands.
• Provide recommendations to improve overall foundation strategic planning and management process based upon experience supporting teams.
• Develop and manage a coordinated approach to workstreams and deliverables related to strategic questions, strategy refinement and leadership presentations.
• Oversee development of materials to facilitate project execution – e.g., analyses, project plans, meeting materials, ultimate strategy document outputs.
• Design analytical work in support of strategy development and execution planning.

Your Experience

• We seek a professional with a Masters in Business, Engineering, Sciences, Planning or equivalent experience/advanced degree, with a minimum of 10+ years of professional experience with 5 years of experience in senior strategy and planning functions preferably at a top tier strategy consulting firm.
• You are a creative, thoughtful, and curious professional who has an excellent track record of achievement in roles of increasing responsibility. You should be prepared to work across a diverse set of subject areas, bridging a wide range of expertise, with a demonstrated ability to work with agility, efficiency, and diplomacy in a dynamic environment.

Additional Experience:

• Comfort with ambiguity: Comfortable with highly unstructured and ambiguous situations and able to proactively resolve them.
• Quick learning: Able to learn new content quickly, identify connections and implications, and communicate them effectively.
• Structured problem-solving: Skilled at building frameworks and plans to increase clarity and transparency of decisions, trade-offs, and impact on financial and organizational resources.
• Travel: Able to travel up to 20% domestically and internationally.
• Interpersonal skills: Excellent at building trusted advisor relationships with senior leadership, and able to question and challenge colleagues constructively.
• Global health/development: Knowledgeable about global health and development issues, with some experience in the field preferred.
• Strategy development: Knowledgeable about developing and implementing strategies and using strategic tools to assess options, ensure logical reasoning, and challenge assumptions.
• Commitment: Committed to the foundation's core values, mission, and programs, with an ethical approach consistent with the foundation's guiding principles.
• Process design: Experienced in end-to-end complex project management, including process design, team structure, critical thinking requirements, development of novel communication resources, and external/senior stakeholder engagement.
• Last, but not least, a good sense of humor.
• Financial planning and analysis: Comfortable developing multi-year budgets with a high degree of uncertainty.
• Software skills: Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, with the ability to convey complex information using supporting tables, graphs, and other visual representations.
• Self-starter: Able to work independently and with flexibility, efficiency, and enthusiasm in a fast-paced and complex environment.
• Communication skills: Excellent organizational, facilitation, oral, and written communication skills, with the ability to work across language, culture, and distance barriers.
• Project and program management: Experienced in leading or managing multiple projects, coordinating inputs from many people, tracking progress, identifying barriers, planning agendas, and facilitating group problem-solving.
• Performance management: Experienced in designing performance management systems for goals and targets and monitoring processes.

The typical salary range for this role is $158,620 to $294,580. The exact offer will be determined by a variety of factors such as the candidate’s individual skills, qualifications, and experience relative to the requirements of the role.

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Hiring Requirements

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

Depending upon your work location, we may require proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 and any recommended booster doses. All employees based in the United States are to provide proof of full vaccination upon hire and any recommended boosters, subject to applicable laws.

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Inclusion Statement

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