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Senior Program Officer, Disease Surveillance and Pandemic Preparedness - Seattle Washington
Company: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Location: Seattle, Washington
Posted On: 05/10/2024
The FoundationWe 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 TeamThe 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 RoleThe 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
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