The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: that people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. By building a global and cultural workplace that supports greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — together with our employees and partners, we can help all people improve their lives from poverty and health to education. As an organization we offer full healthcare premiums coverage, generous paid time off, contribution to your retirement fund, several employee communities, and a commitment to embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion into everything we do.

The Team

The Global Growth & Opportunity (GGO) division works to catalyze sustainable and transformative socio-economic change. In the face of inequities and market failures, GGO seeks to realize the potential of untapped markets, and ensure that economic and social benefits reach everyone. We focus on the areas of Agricultural Development; Financial Services for the Poor; Nutrition; Global Education; and Water, Sanitation & Hygiene. We seek solutions that are sustainable, transformative, and inclusive with an eye toward applying technology innovations as well as data evidence to drive change in the world’s developing countries.

Your Role

The GGO Office of the President seeks a Senior Officer, Strategy, Planning & Management to support the strategic and operational aspects of an integrated program area. You will be responsible to lead strategic planning, annual planning, and budgeting, change management initiatives, measurement and evaluation, business analysis and the leadership of priority divisional initiatives, both programmatic and operational (particularly DEI).

This position reports to: Chief of Staff / Director, Strategy Planning & Management, Office of the President

What You’ll Do

• Lead processes to develop and coordinate divisional annual planning and strategy review, investment, financial and operational processes which may include the full investment development process, annual planning, strategic cycle, and divisional progress tracking. Provides critical support to division and program leadership in translating strategy goals into coherent portfolio level theory of action.
• Support the development and play a key implementing role of divisional goals, translating goals to execution plans and working as a catalyst for division change. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives is a key area of focus.

• Consult/strategize with division leadership to maximize the impact of investment and financial processes and ensure optimal learning, decision making, and collaboration across the division.
• Promote efficiency and productivity on the team by providing leadership and support in process development and improvement, implementation and improvement of tools, analysis, reporting and change management as needed in consultation with the Chief of Staff/Director.
• Support division leadership in overseeing programmatic progress and execution and providing strategic counsel across the division’s work.
• Support division leadership in foundation initiatives and exploratory work, including strategic counsel and implementation design. Examples of current projects include digital learning and climate change.
• This role may manage people and may be responsible for hiring the talent needed to achieve our goals, ensuring successful employee onboarding, communicating performance expectations, creating goal alignment, integrating project and change management, giving, and seeking feedback, providing coaching, measuring progress, and holding people accountable, supporting employee development, and recognizing achievement and lessons learned.

Your Experience

• Strong portfolio and team leadership skills.
• Demonstrated complex project management skills and a successful track record of leading or managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Program management of complex strategy development, execution planning and business process redesign projects.
• A preference for rigor, purpose driven measurement and cost-effective use of resources.
• Ability to act independently to determine methods and procedures on assignments.
• Ability to create structures and develop frameworks to increase clarity and transparency of decisions, trade-offs, and impact on financial and organizational resources.
• Ability to effectively alternate between thinking strategically and high-quality execution.
• Demonstrated ability to implement change management initiatives.
• Strong listening and facilitating skills, including on sensitive or critical topics.
• Bachelor’s or other advanced degree with 7+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.

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Hiring Requirements

As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

Depending upon your work location, we may require proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 and any recommended booster doses. All employees based in the United States are to provide proof of full vaccination upon hire and any recommended boosters, subject to applicable laws.

Candidate Accommodations

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Inclusion Statement

We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We’re committed to creating a workplace where employees thrive both personally and professionally. We also believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve—in race, gender, age, cultures and beliefs—and we support this diversity through all of our employment practices.

All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.