Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is a public-private partnership committed to saving children's lives and protecting people's health by increasing equitable use of vaccines in lower-income countries. The Vaccine Alliance brings together developing country and donor governments, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry, technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and other private sector partners. Since 2000, Gavi has contributed to the immunisation of over 800 million children, currently backed by donor pledges totalling over US$ 10 billion.

Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Gavi’s new 2021-2025 strategy (‘Gavi 5.0’) will entail critical shifts of the Alliance’s goals with equity and sustainability becoming the core focus of all support, with enhancements of its operating model to better support countries going forward and maintaining, restoring and strengthening immunisation systems in the context of COVID-19 .

The Strategy Team leads the development and operationalisation of Gavi 5.0 Strategy. This includes, for instance:
• Developing a strategy for Gavi’s approach to financial management to ensure a higher share of funds are channelled through governments rather than Alliance Partners and to build financial management capacity in countries;
• Developing investment cases for Gavi’s engagement with strategically important countries, such as Nigeria and India;
• Supporting and coordinating various workstreams across Gavi aimed at reaching zero-dose children across Gavi supported countries;
• Designing a new model for portfolio management, introducing a simpler and more differentiated approach that is fit-for-purpose to deliver on Gavi’s priorities;
• Working with the Alliance leadership and Gavi country teams to identify immunisation bottlenecks and develop specific country investment approaches to deliver on the Alliance’s strategic goals;
• Coordinating various Gavi 5.0 operationalisation workstreams together with the Deputy CEO; and
• Supporting Gavi’s performance management process to ensure it is fit-for-purpose. Main Duties/ResponsibilitiesGuided by a Senior Manager, Strategy, Performance and Transformation, the intern will support a subset of these initiatives by providing the analytical basis and generate key content elements. The intern will be an integral part of the project team with members across Gavi to develop an evidence base to inform Gavi’s management and will support the development of options and recommendations for the CEO’s and Board’s considerations, and support moving approaches into implementation.

As examples, the initiatives that the intern will support will tackle the following questions:
• How can the Alliance accelerate immunisation progress and reach zero-dose children in fragile operating environments such as Nigeria? What are the implications for Gavi’s operating model?

• What are the impactful and innovative investments that the Alliance should support to accelerate reaching marginalised children, and how to create the enabling environment in country to identify needs and scale them up?
• What innovative interventions could we use to build financial management capacity in countries?
• How can Gavi streamline its approach to portfolio management while achieving maximum programmatic impact and managing fiduciary risk?
• What should be Gavi’s performance management approach to ensure smooth operationalisation of the new strategy and provide transparency on corporate and team level performance?

Note: The essential functions listed in this section are not exhaustive of the job responsibilities; other duties may be assigned consistently with the department needs.
Work Experience• Prior work experience in management consulting a requirement;
• Experience in immunisation programmes or health systems a strong asset;
• Experience in bilateral and multilateral aid environments an advantage.
Skills/Competencies• Critical thinking, problem-solving and creative mindset;
• Excellent analytical skills, including financial modelling using Excel;
• Excellent writing and communication skills;
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment and establish working relationships with multiple teams. Languages Academic Qualifications• A degree in business administration, public health, medicine, public policy, economics or international development. Contacts Additional InformationFor more information on the Gavi Internship Programme please visit:
http://www.gavi.org/careers/internship-programme/

Gavi is committed to diversity within its workforce and encourage applications from all qualified candidates.

If you wish to apply, please provide a cover letter and resume through our Careers webpage and apply by clicking on “Intern, Applications & Review”. Deadline for applications is 7 October 2022.
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