Senior Vice President, External Affairs

The head of External Affairs primary goal is to lead, strategically and operationally, a broad, multi-faceted resource generation program to enable the TB Alliance to achieve its long-term goals, while working with other senior leaders to identify and evaluate opportunities, to establish and facilitate external relationships, and oversee execution to achieve desired results.

The head of External Affairs is also responsible for establishing the TB Alliance’s external positioning and advancing its reputation through strategic communications with funders/prospective funders, media, and all other constituencies, building engagement with stakeholders, advocating for supportive public policies, and ensuring strategic and operational leadership.

This individual will be knowledgeable about a wide range of funding sources globally, across the public and private sector. They will be well-versed in the public health policy making process and will conceptualize and implement plans to influence decision-making and advocacy in support of resource mobilization.

A candidate must have or develop a broad understanding of the organization’s activities in discovery, development, and delivery of improved treatments for tuberculosis and adjacent disease areas. The head of External Affairs must be able to effectively optimize both traditional and novel resource generation channels including but not limited to:

• Public sector sources, including but not confined to:
  • Development agencies such as the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (UK), Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia), Global Affairs Canada (GAC), Global Health, Security & Diplomacy/US State Department (US). Scientific/medical research agencies such as the Chinese Academy of Medicine, US National Institute of Health (NIH), and the Indian Council of Medical Research (India).
  • Health ministries in target countries.
• Private sources of relevant funding such as foundations e.g. Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust.
• Public-private partnerships such as Innovative Health Initiative (IHI).
• Multi-lateral organizations such as UNITAID and the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trial Partnership (EDCTP).
• Resource and infrastructure sharing partnerships, such as the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG), and other leveraged or in-kind contributions.
• Corporate and individual philanthropic sources.

The ideal candidate will have had experience across many, if not all, of the above channels with the ability to quickly develop mastery within each. In addition, she or he must have significant leadership expertise, ability to establish effective relationships internally and externally, and marshal resources across the organization as well as directly manage an effective team.

• Oversee resource generation, grant management and funder relationships.
• Define and quantify the organization’s short- and long-term funding needs in collaboration with other senior leaders.
• Develop TB Alliance resource generation plans, with emphasis on long term sustainability, and ensure the plans reflect a balanced and diverse set of sources, including direct income e.g. grants, and indirect sources of funding such through leveraging and resource-sharing initiatives.
• Identify and develop relationships with networks and multi-party consortia to increase funding and influence, such as public-private initiatives, clinical trial consortia and/or product introduction networks e.g. Innovative Health Initiative (IHI).
• In concert with other leaders, identify innovative financing mechanisms and structures for new bilateral and multi-party relationships to financially support development and introduction of new TB drug regimens.
• Oversee management of existing donor relationships, including reporting and grant compliance.
• Oversee proposal development including strategizing, writing, and submission.
• Influence public health policy and generate political and financial commitments for TB drug regimen development and product introduction, through advocacy, communications, and stakeholder engagement.
• Raise awareness about the need for R&D for new TB drug regimens among national and…