Senior Program Officer, Surveillance, East and

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Full time
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 Africa team works to enable the foundation's ambitious goals of scaling evidence-based interventions that target a range of diseases and socio-economic conditions that are endemic across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

The team drives its responsibility through direct country engagement to deploy interventions and delivery models, and by building the partner architecture to replicate successful interventions and models across multiple countries.

Your Role

Application Deadline:
April 8, 2024.


As the Senior Program Officer Surveillance, Africa you will lead on work related to advancing a stronger, more integrated disease surveillance ecosystem in key geographies across the continent.

You will work from Nairobi or Johannesburg with constant collaboration with the Pneumonia and Pandemic Preparedness team as well as other surveillance colleagues across the Foundation.

You are a creative, thoughtful, and curious thinker and implementer who identifies as a problem solver.

We are looking for people who enjoy the challenge of working on complex and impactful problems and collaboratively creating solutions that have the potential for ground-breaking change in the lives of people around the world.

The applicant must have the ability to work with flexibility, efficiency, and diplomacy in a fast-paced, challenging environment.


You will report directly to the Deputy Director, Infectious Diseases, Africa Health team, with secondary reporting to the Deputy Director, Surveillance & Epidemiology, Pneumonia & Pandemic Preparedness team.


What You'll Do- Develop, negotiate, implement, and manage grants that strengthen integrated disease surveillance in key countries on the continent in close collaboration with the Pneumonia and Pandemic Preparedness team; Enterics, Diagnostics, Genomics & Epidemiology team; Country Offices; and other teams to support better public health decision making during emergencies and to manage endemic disease.- Engage key local and global partners in integrated disease surveillance, focused on building capabilities and connections for institutional strengthening centered on national public health institutes (NPHIs) with in-country health sector actors, along with actors in the global ecosystem for technical standards and research such as the WHO, bilateral and multilateral development funders and health programs, and Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).

- Facilitate learning, adoption, and appropriate deployment of high-impact innovative bio
- and social science methods and tools (e.g. data science and analytics, wastewater/environmental approaches, serosurveillance, sample registration systems).
  • Review letters of inquiry and grant proposals and provide clear, concise, and insightful written analyses and recommendations for funding.
  • Consult with grantees and other partners to increase project impact and ensure grants are meeting strategy goals. This may include site visits, providing operational guidance, and convening meetings of key stakeholders.
  • Develop, manage, resource, and implement a program that aligns with the Foundation's strategy and is operationally integrated with other Foundation programs. Contribute to the design of new strategies, collaborations, and implementation plans to ensure longterm sustainability and impact.
  • Engage key local and global partners in integrated disease surveillance, across innovative tools, global standards, and methods; technical assistance and institutional strengthening, namely the Ethiopia Public Health Institute, Mozambique Instituto Nacional de Saúde, Zambia National Public Health Institute, and relevant subnational agencies; and across global ecosystem actors, including, for example, the Africa CDC Lusaka regional hub.
  • Inform and coordinate with the SPO, Surveillance responsible for parallel partnership with the Nigeria CDC and Senegal IRESSEF; and global actors.
  • Support initiatives, participate in setting overall goals, develop strategy, and handle and implement investments.
  • Contribute to managing partnerships in the ecosystem, including global collaborators, regulators, implementing organizations, and academic institutions.
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