Deputy Director, High Impact Countries Cluster

The Foundation

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The Team
The Global Development Division (GD) includes a diverse range of program areas focused on finding creative ways to ensure solutions and products get into the hands of people in low-income countries. We focus on areas with the potential for high-impact, sustainable solutions that can reach millions of people. Our strategies include Emergency Response, Immunization, and Polio Eradication. A common theme across these programs is focus on innovative delivery, including an emphasis on strengthening primary health care systems.

Our teams work in close partnership with these Country Office Teams to align the foundation's health and development equity agenda with the government's broader priorities.

Vaccines are a core priority of the Gates Foundation and can save millions of lives a year when delivered effectively. The mission of our Immunization Program Strategy Team (PST) is to urgently reach children, adolescents, and adults -- no matter where they live -- with the vaccines they need. Our goal is a world free of vaccine-preventable diseases, and we do this by working with countries, development partners, and civil society organizations, to make sure that vaccines and immunization are effectively prioritized and delivered.

Robust and resilient immunization programs are critical to achieving the promise of vaccination and are a cornerstone of primary health care, and we work to ensure that there are sufficient, affordable supplies to meet demand. We seek to bring new perspectives to challenging problems as we focus on results that can be delivered  our work on vaccines and immunization contributes to Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030), which is a vision and commitment by the global community to extend the full benefits of immunization to all by 2030.

Your Role

The Deputy Director, High Impact Countries, you will lead a team to support implementation of Foundation strategies to strengthen routine immunization systems, reach missed communities, and increase immunization coverage in one or more priority countries (Nigeria, Ethiopia, Pakistan, India). This will require working closely with the Africa, Polio, and other Gates Foundation Program Strategy Teams (PSTs) to ensure successful management of financial and human resources, priorities, strategy, execution, and reporting for the foundation's immunization efforts.

You will need to advance the strategy through collaboration, influence, and strategic allocation of resources. The DD will lead a sub-team of program officers whose work primarily focuses on outcomes in these settings. You will need to ensure connection of these geographically focused efforts to other parts of the Immunization PST and other relevant teams beyond the PST. The DD will be a member of Immunization PST leadership team.

In this capacity, the DD is expected to engage in the development of the Immunization PSTs strategic vision, setting overall strategy, goals and expectations, and leading the team to meet impact goals and objectives.

What You'll Do

• The DD will ensure that our priority geographies have sound investment portfolios grounded in contextually relevant, country specific targets. The DD will need to engage other PSTs and country office teams, where relevant, to develop synchronized plans and opportunities for engagement across teams. This effort will require close collaboration with Polio PST,…