Senior Program Officer, Program Advocacy and Communications, HIV & TB at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

What You’ll Do

• Partner with the HIV & TB PAC team, programmatic teams, country and regional offices (in particular, Africa Regional Office, India and China Country offices, and North America Team), and the GPA division to update, implement, and evaluate HIV and TB PAC strategies that include market-specific approaches and assessments of political economies, ensure long-term sustainability and impact, and are collaborative to other foundation strategies.
• Serve as the initiative lead for the HIV & TB GPA initiatives.
• Work individually and with other program officers to develop, negotiate, and handle a portfolio of investments, including conducting research and analysis to strengthen investment recommendations, oversight of portfolio budget, and all related grant-making processes (e.g., investment reviews, strategic alignment, grantee engagement, etc.)
• Serve as a point of contact on strategy and portfolio for internal and external partners.
• Form partnerships with people and organizations – in the public and private sectors – to improve the strategy.
• Conceptualize and lead high-impact and complex partnerships, grants, coalitions, and advocacy campaigns.
• 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. May serve on boards and working groups.
• Writes and produces clear, concise, and insightful briefings, reports, email updates, and other materials on key HIV and TB and other relevant issues for foundation leadership.
• Participate in and learn from the program strategy team, and GPA and PAC Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) efforts to ensure that we are continuing to make progress towards realizing our commitments.
• Participate in cross PAC efforts to enhance our integration, accelerate impact, and maintain a cohesive and dynamic culture
•  The SPO will report to the Director, Program Advocacy and Communications, Africa Team, based in Johannesburg, with a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Deputy Director, Program Advocacy and Communications, Infectious Diseases, based in Seattle.

Your Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in public policy, international relations, public health, development, or a related field with 7+ years of progressive senior-level experience leading advocacy initiatives in global health and development.
• Understand the role of advocacy and communications efforts to increase awareness of global health/development issues and shape political and financial support for these issues with governmental and non-state organizations.
• Experience working on advocacy globally and in sub-Saharan Africa and South & Southeast Asian countries with high TB burden, including interaction with senior-level policymakers, civil society organizations, coalitions, and governments.
• Understanding the issues driving the TB and HIV epidemics or broader global health and having connections and networks within the global TB and HIV communities is desirable.
• Experience supporting resource mobilization strategies and initiatives.
• Understand bilateral and multilateral institutions and mechanisms (e.g., PEPFAR, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria, the World Health Organization) including how they make policy and fund development programs at the national and regional levels.
• Proven track record of providing vision and influencing others in a constructive, optimistic manner, while building and sustaining collaborative relationships.
• Outstanding project and team leadership skills including the ability to lead teams and organizations from strategy development through execution, develop shared goals and execution plans, prioritize, facilitate meetings, manage budgets, develop consensus, and work both autonomously and collaboratively.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to effectively synthesize information to reach diverse audiences and build consensus, ideal.
• Experience handling a grant's portfolio either as a grantee, receiving and reporting on a grant, or as a grant manager, with direct responsibility for grantmaking and management.
• Experience developing and leading complex projects and/or grants in support of policy initiatives, advocacy programs, and events at the global, regional, and national levels.
• Experience working in an environment with ambiguity while helping teams adapt to change.
• A keenness for bringing to bear technology, and/or competence in using generative AI tools, for task efficiency is desired.

Other Attributes

• Ability to work with flexibility and a high level of rigor, collaboration, and diplomacy, both individually and as part of a complex team effort.
• High standards of personal integrity.
• Willingness to travel up to 30% of the time when health and safety protocols allow.