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 TeamThe Gates Foundation (GF) Global Health division harnesses advances in science and technology to save lives in poor countries. We focus on the health problems that have a major impact in developing countries but get too little attention and funding. Where shown tools exist, we support sustainable ways to improve their delivery. Where they don’t, we invest in research and development of new interventions, such as vaccines, drugs, biologics, and diagnostics. Our work in infectious diseases focuses on strategies to fight and prevent HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, neglected tropical diseases, enteric and diarrheal diseases and pneumonia. These strategies are supported by functional teams that focus on Discovery & Translational Sciences, Vaccine Development & Surveillance, Integrated Development (IDev), and Innovation Introduction.
Integrated Development & The Design, Analyze and Communicate (DAC) Team
The IDev team comprises 4 technical domains: Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls (CMC), Design, Analyze, Communicate (DAC), Quantitative Sciences, and Regulatory Affairs. IDev plays a significant role in advancing the development of products and interventions that support our programmatic team strategies across Global Health and other divisions of the Gates Foundation.
The DAC Domain, launched in 2020, exists to improve the informativeness of global health clinical trials and other kinds of global health research. We do this by performing scientific design reviews of GF-funded clinical studies, by handling DAC study planning grants (SPGs), and by creating informativeness-focused tools and services.
DAC’s scientific design review services are available upon request to GF PSTs and their funded grantees. DAC’s SPGs help GF-funded grantees secure the technical resources they need to plan and implement insightful and well-designed studies. DAC’s tools and templates are publicly available at https://dac-trials.org/ (https://dac-trials.org/).
In its first five years, DAC’s Review Teams completed more than 220 reviews for more than 20 programmatic GF teams and their grantees. DAC’s review and SPG services ensure that more GF studies end with a strong outcome and that more confident decisions can be made in the shortest period of time with the least amount of human and financial resources. This means we get the clear answers we need to help improve more lives.
As the Senior Officer, DAC Review Business Operations, you will report to the DAC Deputy Director and work within our Seattle, WA office. In this role, your overarching objective will be to handle and implement DAC’s Review Services for PSTs to achieve our mission of improving the informativeness of global health research funded by the GF. You will join a small GF-internal DAC Domain responsible for handling a large (i.e., >80) and still growing investment portfolio of external consultants as well as review support innovators. Together, DAC’s consultants and review support teams are operationalized to elevate the impact of investments made by ~20 programmatic teams across four Foundation divisions.
Internally, you will play a key role liaising with GF PSTs about DAC’s Review Services. You will also contribute to the development and management of DAC’s annual budget, investment and staffing plans that are refreshed each year. Externally, you will collaborate closely with DAC contractors and grantees to ensure contract and grant deliverables are provided on time.
To ensure the ongoing delivery and scaling of high-quality reviews for programmatic teams, this role prioritizes a deep understanding and cultivation of strong relationships and operational processes across many internal programmatic teams in conjunction with DAC’s review teams of external subject matter authorities. The Senior Officer is also a member of the IDEV Team and serves as a connector with both the Global Health Integrated Development Expertise (GHIDE) program and with members of the IDEV business team to support the DAC DD consistent with IDEV’s annual strategy, budget objectives and timelines.
This is a full-time position based in Seattle, WA. Relocation will be provided.
We seek a diligent, detail-oriented, self-starter who is passionate about making GF-funded research better and more likely to save and improve lives. You will bring validated program management, prior experience with the Gates Foundation and business operations skills to DAC’s small but mighty internal GF team.
The salary range for this role is $169,700 to $254,500 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle and Washington D.C., where our offices are located. The range for this role in these locations is $185,000 to $277,400 USD. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission. New hires salaries are typically between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate’s job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.
Hiring Requirements
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Inclusion Statement
We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.
All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.