Senior Program Officer, Surveillance
3 hours ago
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to join our team as a Senior Program Officer, Surveillance. This role will play a critical part in advancing our vision for a global architecture for disease surveillance, where countries have the surveillance tools they need for timely, accurate information for public health decision-making.
Key Responsibilities- Steer the foundation's support around Collaborative Disease Surveillance efforts across WHO, including collaboration with the WHO Berlin Hub.
- Lead foundation's engagement with the Global Fund on disease surveillance, including the support for collaborative surveillance and investments.
- Support WHO, Global Fund and other GHI efforts to provide normative guidance on collaborative surveillance, staffing required, and technical assistance needed, particularly at regional and country levels, to strengthen collaborative surveillance.
- Provide advice to and collaborate with the foundation's Africa Team and program strategy teams on opportunities with GHI to support disease surveillance.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with institutional partners and governments, ensuring clear and consistent communication and representing the foundation as required.
- Provide input into work on cross-foundation activities important to our disease surveillance programming in Africa, including the development of implementation plans to ensure impact.
- Work with internal foundation teams, including co-development of investments, such as PPP, EDGE, GPA, ARO, and vertical disease teams to advance the foundation's priorities on collaborative disease surveillance.
- Design, execute, monitor, and assess complex, performance-based contracts/grants with consultants and grantees.
- Maintain high-quality interactions and oversight of grantees and consultants, providing course correction.
- Contribute to writing background documents, briefs, articles, and presentations, including relevant literature reviews, landscape analyses, and data analysis; organize and prepare for high-level foundation leadership trips.
- Participate and learn from team, division and foundation Gender, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion efforts.
- Other special projects as assigned.
We are looking for a senior level professional with deep technical and sector expertise coordinating surveillance efforts for low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) across GHIs. Additionally, we seek:
- An advanced degree in public health, global health, epidemiology, or similar fields (e.g. MSPH, MPH, MD, PhD), with demonstrated experience in disease surveillance and global health.
- Significant experience working closely with partners to achieve health goals, including bilateral and multilateral donors and agencies (especially WHO and Global Fund); governments in LMIC (especially countries within Africa); implementing agencies; non-governmental organizations; think tanks; academic institutions.
- Professional experience managing or implementing complex disease surveillance programs and strategies, and/or providing technical cooperation to national surveillance programs in emerging economies (preferably in Africa), including supporting bilateral and multilateral fund flows to LMIC governments.
- Experience navigating complex relationships between multiple governmental, non-governmental and private sector partners, with tact and diplomacy.
- Excellent written and oral communications skills and experience communicating with broad and diverse audiences. Ability to communicate in French and/or Portuguese will be an advantage.
- Demonstrated experience working in cross-team programs and proven track record to adapt to a fast-paced environment and the networking and coalition-building demands of a highly matrixed organization. Ability to influence without authority.
- Ability to see ahead to future possibilities, understand political economy, and develop strategies, concrete theories of change and actions taking these things into consideration.
- Demonstrated ability to work with flexibility, efficiency, and diplomacy in a complex, fast-paced environment.
We are the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - UK Office, a global leader in the fight against poverty, disease, and inequity. Our mission is to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. We are committed to creating an environment for our employees to thrive both personally and professionally.
What We OfferWe offer a comprehensive benefits package to employees and their families, including 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.
How to ApplyIf you are a motivated and experienced professional looking to make a difference in the world, please submit your application. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from diverse candidates.
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