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 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. 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.

Your Role

Based in the GPA Office of the President, you will lead high-impact, high-priority projects in collaboration with the GPA President as well as with GPA directors and deputy directors to define, refine, and shape strategies including execution planning for programs, cross-delivery strategy and tradeoffs, and new area exploration. You are responsible for shaping and prioritizing strategy efforts, and providing strategic thought partnership, project management, and analytical support to leaders and teams across GPA.

The deadline for applications is October 23, 2024.

What You’ll Do

  • Scope, develop, and implement GPA-wide strategy projects as directed by the OoP leadership. Provide oversight and advice to ensure projects aimed at answering key strategic issues are analytically grounded, account appropriately for the division’s comparative advantage and resources, and have the appropriate stakeholder input. Ensure translation of new foundation-wide priorities into the design and setting of strategies and organization.
  • Provide support to ensure successful translation of strategy development into organizational implementation. Be able to see and complete the multi-step process required to go from white board idea to clear accountability and resources for execution. Understand stakeholder perspectives with empathy and a problem-solving lens. Establish effective relationships with key partners both within GPA and across the organization to ensure pivotal initiatives are operationalized successfully and troubleshooting happens effectively. Ensure feedback loop to Chief of Staff and other colleagues on strategy matters is operating with trust and efficiency.
  • Lead projects and implementation of initiatives that are sponsored by the President and Chief of Staff and initiatives that the division undertakes on behalf of the CEO and ELT. This will include engaging with GPA and organization-wide stakeholders while demonstrating empathetic understanding and effectively navigating stakeholder perspectives.
  • Conduct and/or oversee analysis, reviews, and provide advice on cross-divisional strategy matters to the GPA President and Chief of Staff as requested. Deliver advice, analysis and perspectives for decision support via memos, presentations, and quantitative reports.
  • Build effective partnerships to be a valued member of the Office of the President team, e.g., by contributing to learning and evaluation methodologies that enable the division to improve the performance of our existing strategies; partnering on culture and engagement initiatives; supporting President communication and engagement efforts.
  • Regularly contribute to team development such as team vision and goal refinement, professional development, training, recruiting, onboarding, team social events and retreats, etc.
  • Participate in Division-wide activities (e.g., learning sessions, all staff meetings, performance reviews).

    Your Experience

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