Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation : Senior Program Coordinator, Global Health Agencies and Funds (GHAF)-Washington DC
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Location:
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Salary:negotiable / YEAR
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Job type:FULL_TIME
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Posted:12 hours ago
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Category:Healthcare, Programme and Project Management, Treasury and Investment
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Deadline:04/12/2025
JOB DESCRIPTION
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.
The Global Health Agencies & Funds (GHAF) team leads the strategic relationships and drives the engagements on governance, strategy, operational effectiveness and programmatic impact with key global health institutions (GHIs): UNICEF, WHO, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB & Malaria (Global Fund), UNITAID, and through the Islamic Development Bank’s Lives & Livelihoods Fund, and through the World Bank, the Global Financing Facility (GFF) and Anchor Trust Fund (ATF). We engage with leaders of these institutions, participate in governance through membership on boards and committees and in advisory groups, and make investments to improve the operational effectiveness of the institutions and the impact of their programs. While many teams within the foundation work with these GHIs, the GHAF team specifically works to:
1. Bring deep knowledge of the strategic, governance, operational and programmatic approaches of and across the GHIs to inform foundation strategies and engagements;
2. Drive internal alignment on foundation-wide strategic priorities, objectives, outcomes, and accountabilities with these GHIs; and
3. Increase the strategic coherence across the GHIs on priorities for the wider foundation through cross-institutional strategies for topics like health systems strengthening, product access, introduction, and scale (PAIS) and surveillance.
This Senior Program Coordinator (SPC) position sits on the Strategy, Planning and Management team and supports investments across the team. We are seeking a candidate that is comfortable with ambiguity, is flexible and is energized by taking on new areas of work. The Senior Program Coordinator serves a crucial coordinating function for investment making/handling by partnering closely with Program Officers and Grants and Contract Services.
The Senior Program Coordinator will support the GHAF Team’s work by being responsible for the management, coordination, implementation, and maintenance of a range of projects and activities throughout the life cycle of grants and contracts. In support of programmatic strategic goals, the SPC provides budget oversight and planning, financial analysis, financial reporting and/or portfolio and operations process management for a portfolio of investments including grants, contracts, and other projects. The SPC acts as a primary investment process advisor and contact for grantee/vendor initiation, reporting and closure, and serves as a primary liaison across multiple internal teams throughout the lifecycle of an investment. Beyond investment management, this role supports the development of team and GD division process improvements and roll-out efforts of new internal processes, in support of the efficient operations of the team.
The Senior Program Coordinator will support a significant portfolio of investments for the Global Fund and will work closely with our internal Global Fund Coordination Team as well as the Global Fund Secretariat. Occasional travel to Global Fund Headquarters in Geneva will be required.
What You’ll Do
- Act as a subject matter authority on investment tools, systems, and templates and provide training and coaching to program team and external partners when needed.
- Partner with investment makers by supporting the development, management, and maintenance of a portfolio of investments.
- Independently handle sophisticated investments and partnerships in service of shaping and optimizing successful investments, as well as ensure alignment with strategies and intended outcomes.
- Perform initial investment due diligence, including the collection of portfolio data, identification of trends, and management timelines. Accountable for portfolio analysis and risk identification, as well as providing a perspective on portfolio performance and delivering detailed readouts to leadership.
- Advise on sophisticated investments, budgets, and financial analysis to enhance impact, identify risks, and propose mitigation plans.
- Build, develop and manage relationships with key internal and external partners to facilitate the investment lifecycle, including engagement with and management of external grantee and partner relationships.
- Partner with investment makers to operationalize and craft key business processes, including annual planning, forecasting, regular portfolio reviews, financial planning, and budget.
- Provide in-depth project management to investment team, including tracking timelines, deliverables, communications, and change management. Also includes development of the non-technical portion of the project framework and working on special projects.
- Lead implementation and change efforts for the team, which may include developing new processes, sharing standard methodologies, analyzing workloads, and providing business updates.
- Maintain file organization, team sites, data and records, and a system for tracking, monitoring, and prioritizing tasks, and projects.
- Support inclusive culture through modeling behaviors and actions; raise issues in a timely fashion to appropriate partners.
Your Experience
- Grant-making knowledge and experience as a Program Coordinator at BMGF strongly preferred.
- Communicates clearly with team members, Deputy Directors, manager, and partners.
- Project management, portfolio management, financial management, financial reporting, non-profit or related industry and business experience is preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree and 3+ year of experience or equivalent.
- Willing to take action: Able to work with flexibility, efficiency, and tact in a fast-paced, exciting environment.
- Open to rapid change and able to learn new things quickly. Able to distill what is needed next, even without expertise in programmatic content.
- Builds trust, influences individuals, and teams without explicit authority, and cultivates collaboration and conflict resolution across colleagues, with partners, and among impacted groups.
- Learnsnew content quickly.
- Handles Complexity: Recognizes complexity and assesses risks and alternatives considering contending requirements and incomplete knowledge.
- Optimizes Work Processes: Understands basic investment rules, regulations, policies, processes, and practices and can advise when they are applicable. Is knowledgeable in all phases of investment-making and engages partners and decision-makers. Sees and acts on improvement opportunities (process, self, etc.).
- Demonstrates knowledge of, and ability to work across multiple investment-making systems, based in INVEST, Excel, SharePoint, and other web-based software applications. Basic SharePoint site administration skills, including metadata tagging, document view creation, archiving, and creating and maintaining confidential files.
Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: No requirements
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