Senior Program Officer, Surveillance

2 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - UK Office Full time

About the Role

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - UK Office is seeking a highly experienced professional to serve as a Senior Program Officer, Surveillance. This role will play a critical part in advancing the foundation's vision for a global architecture with a common goal of collaborative surveillance.

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.

Requirements

  • 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.

Additional Attributes

  • Comfortable in a wide range of cultural, geographic and operational situations, demonstrating culturally sensitive behaviour with a diverse range of people and a deep commitment to development issues and high standards of personal integrity.
  • Ability to travel up to 30% domestically and internationally.


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