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Division Summary\u00a0
The 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 stakeholders and promote innovative solutions that advance our program goals.\u202f We work in close partnership with grantees, our colleagues in the Global Health, Global Development, Global Growth & Opportunity, U.S. and Gender Equality programs and Foundation Communications to build the environment in which all people have the opportunity to lead healthy and productive lives.\u00a0
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Group Summary\u00a0
The Program Advocacy and Communications (PAC) team works in partnership with program teams and other teams in Global Policy and Advocacy (GPA) to achieve their policy and finance goals by:\u00a0
Developing and coordinating the execution of advocacy and communications strategies.\u00a0
Developing, when required, resource mobilization strategies in collaboration with relevant teams.\u00a0
Leveraging leadership and foundation voice to implement advocacy strategies.\u00a0
Developing and managing a grant portfolio dedicated to achieving advocacy outcomes.\u00a0
Directly advocating with sector leaders, influencers, media and government officials in order to achieve advocacy outcomes.\u00a0
Leading issue-specific communications in service of advocacy goals.\u00a0
Developing policy recommendations or proposals in partnership with programmatic and regional offices.\u00a0
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Leadership & Culture\u00a0
Our culture shapes our choices about what we do and how we do it. We believe that energized people, working well together, fueled by great leadership in an inclusive environment can do extraordinary things. We expect foundation employees to embody our four agreements intentionally and consistently; show respect, offer trust, be transparent, and create energy.\u00a0
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Position Summary\u00a0
The Senior Program Officer (SPO) will serve as the PAC strategy lead for HIV and tuberculosis (TB) advocacy. This role will be responsible for leading efforts in partnership with the PAC TB & HIV team and with teams across the foundation to build, implement and evaluate advocacy and communications strategies that accelerate the decline in incidence for TB and HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia-Pacific, and other high burden countries globally. This work supports the foundation\u2019s HIV and TB strategies which focus on research and development to develop new tools and ensuring the equitable and sustainable delivery of tools and interventions that can drive down incidence in both epidemics.\u00a0 In addition, the SPO will work within an integrated team covering Infectious Diseases that includes HIV, TB, Malaria, NTDs, and their related financing entities, and will be expected to have or develop a working knowledge of advocacy related to NTDs and allocate approximately 10% of their time to advocacy beyond HIV/TB issues.\u00a0 They will also be accountable for participating in both individual and group learning and work to increase the diversity, equity and inclusion of the foundation and of our work.\u00a0
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Core Responsibilities\u00a0
Partner with the HIV & TB PAC team, programmatic leadership and teams, country and regional offices (in particular, Africa Regional Office, India and China Country Offices, North America Team), and the GPA division to update and implement HIV and TB advocacy and communications strategies that include market-specific approaches and assessments of political economies, ensure long-term sustainability and impact, and are collaborative to other strategies in the foundation.\u00a0
Serve as the initiative lead for the HIV & TB GPA initiatives, including leading all internal relationships with other internal teams.\u00a0
Develop, negotiate, and lead a portfolio of investments, including oversight of portfolio budget and all related grant making processes (e.g., investment reviews, strategic alignment, grantee engagement, etc.)\u00a0
Conduct research and analysis to strengthen investment decisions.\u00a0
Serve as a point of contact on portfolio-related issues for internal and external partners.\u00a0
Provide clear, concise and insightful written analyses and recommendations for funding.\u00a0
Form partnerships with people and organizations \u2013 in both the public and private sector \u2013 to improve implementation of advocacy strategies and tactics.\u00a0
Conceptualize and lead high impact and complex partnerships, grants, coalitions, and advocacy campaigns.\u00a0
Represent the foundation and our strategies to external constituencies. This could include formal and informal presentations such as making speeches, attending conferences, committee representation and other meetings.
This vacancy is archived.