Executive Assistant, Foundation Strategy Office and Africa & India Offices

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 Team
The Foundation Strategy Office (FSO) is the primary function supporting the creation and evolution of the foundation's program-level strategies as well as exploring new paths to impact that align with its mission. This includes supporting the CEO, CFO, and Chief Strategy Officer in key accountabilities like strategy development, strategy revision, strategy performance measurement, portfolio management, and special initiatives to accelerate the impact of the foundation.

The FSO is a close-knit team that places a significant emphasis on maintaining and growing a positive, humble, and intellectually curious culture. The team believes that small groups of deeply committed members can do phenomenal things. FSO encourages debate and discussion of tough issues and is committed to the success of its clients, investing proactively in team members' personal and professional growth.

This role will sit within the Foundation Strategy Office, with a dual mandate to also support the Office of the President for the Africa and India Offices (AIO) division-an opportunity to work at the intersection of enterprise-wide strategy and regional execution.

The AIO Office of the President (AIO OOP) team partners with Regional/Country Directors and leadership teams to elevate regional priorities into enterprise decision-making, steward resources, unlock cross-portfolio opportunities, and deliver impact. The team brings strategic rigor, operational problem solving, and a service mindset to accelerate impact for the foundation's work across Africa and India.

Launched in January 2026, the Africa & India Division is a newly created division at a pivotal moment in its evolution. Joining the AIO OOP means helping the new division advance its priorities while building its operating model and ways of working-shaping the foundation's impact across two of its most important regions.

This role be based out of the Seattle, Washington office.

Your Role

The Executive Assistant (EA) provides high-level, strategic administrative support to Ankur Vora, Chief Strategy Officer and President of the AIO, ensuring seamless daily operations and alignment with organizational priorities. This role manages complex calendars, coordinates executive travel and meetings, and serves as a key liaison across internal teams and external partners. In addition, this role is responsible for overseeing logistics for division events and retreats, supporting high-level communications from the Executive's office, tracking key deliverables, and representing the assistant community in division-wide initiatives.

Where appropriate, the EA may also be included as a member of the division's leadership team, contributing perspective and insight to support divisional priorities and decision-making. Further, the EA plays a critical role in optimizing the executive's time and impact, offering sound judgment, discretion, and proactive problem-solving to support the success of both individual leaders and the broader team.

Ideal candidates are self-motivated, proactive, and dedicated to supporting their leader in everything they do-with excellent attention to detail, responsiveness, and accuracy. They bring experience in executive support, sound judgment on tough tradeoffs, and a commitment to strong team culture. Given the nature of this role, candidates must be skilled at seamlessly switching context between two teams, exercising sound judgment on prioritization, and maintaining the highest level of discretion and confidentiality across both.

Above all, they provide unwavering, dedicated support to their executive, proactively protecting their time and priorities and helping them optimize every move they make.

What You'll Do

Core Administrative Support:

• Provide executive-level administrative leadership by anticipating needs, navigating competing priorities with sound judgment, managing high volumes of complex correspondence, orchestrating travel and expense operations, driving business rhythm alignment, and building influential partnerships across internal and external networks.
• Coordinate across stakeholders to ensure executive's calendar is aligned with priorities and all preparation documents are delivered in a…