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Senior Program Officer, Financing and Policy, PAC - Seattle Washington
Company: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Location: Seattle, Washington
Posted On: 05/03/2024
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 mission of the Global Policy & Advocacy (GPA) division is to understand and shape the public policy debates affecting the foundation's work, build support for its major program and policy objectives, and develop partnerships and alliances that can advance the foundation's objectives nationally and globally. Because the foundation's resources alone are not enough to solve the challenges ahead, GPA also supports advocacy efforts to engage diverse partners and promote innovative solutions that advance our program goals. We work in close partnership with grantees, our colleagues in the Global Health, Global Development, Global Growth & Opportunity, and Gender Equality programs and Foundation Communications to build the environment in which all people have the opportunity to lead healthy and productive lives. The Program Advocacy and Communications (PAC) team works in partnership with program teams and other teams in GPA 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 and managing a grant portfolio dedicated to achieving advocacy outcomes. * Directly advocating with sector leaders, influencers, media and government officials in order to achieve advocacy outcomes. * Leading issue-specific communications in service of advocacy goals. * Developing policy recommendations or proposals in partnership with programmatic and regional offices.Your Role As the Senior Program Officer (SPO) Financing and Policy, you will lead the development and coordinate the execution of a financing advocacy strategy, advocate with sector leaders, influencers, media, and government officials and diverse partners to advance impact for family planning (FP), maternal, newborn, child health (MNCH) and primary health care (PHC). This role reports to the Deputy Director, Women's health, FP, MNCH, PHC.This position will identify solutions to address the policy and financing barriers and opportunities across the RMNCH landscape, with an overarching framing on women's health, focusing on impact for FP and MNCH outcomes. The position will understand and shape financing channels, support the evidence base, and encourage sound decision-making by partners at global, regional and country levels. This includes identifying innovative financing opportunities across sectors like climate and issues like poverty and economic empowerment.The SPO will develop and manage a portfolio of grants and contracts requiring high-level grant management skills, monitoring and evaluation, focused on policy and financing advocacy. Using a financing advocacy lens, you will engage with bilateral and multilateral organizations and key partners to advocate for protecting and maintaining budgets for health and ensuring effective spending.The work will be done in close collaboration with other teams across the foundation, including the Africa Team, India Country Office, and Program Strategy Teams. It involves collaboration with a range of external foundation grantees and partners, including government advisors at both federal and subnational levels.What You'll Do - Develop and lead the execution of a policy financing advocacy strategy for women's health focused on the goals and impact outlined for FP, MNCH and PHC, with a focus on commodities and products (established and novel) in support of sector wide and issue specific goals ensuring long term sustainability and impact. This includes exploring innovative financing mechanisms and collaborative partnerships, and strong partnership with Program Strategy Teams.
- Track and analyze key global financing developments and trends relevant to FP, MNCH and PHC goals.
- Develop and manage a portfolio of strategic advocacy investments to meet the policy and financing goals within the women's health and PHC portfolio, including oversight of the portfolio budget and all related grant-making processes.
- Maintain an in-depth understanding of the global, regional and country (key geographies) financing landscape, knowing where investments are coming from, and how funding is distributed with a focus on LMICs.
- Engage with the program teams to align on policy and financing priorities and key data points for impact.
- Maintain oversight of key policy shifts/asks needed for impact on FP, MNCH, PHC, and their corresponding funding needs.
- Foster, maintain and manage existing partnerships and alliances and identify new partners, including innovative mechanisms to unlock resources to help support and advance the objectives of the financing advocacy strategy.
- Develop and manage partnerships and alliances to advance and refine policy, advocacy, and communications strategies based on field and financial data, particularly related to FP, MNCH and PHC and products and commodities.
- Represent the foundation to external constituencies. This could include formal and informal presentations such as making speeches, attending conferences, committee representation and other meetings.
- Write informative briefings and reports, and other materials on key areas and other relevant issues for foundation leadership.Your Experience
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