Senior Program Officer, Development Policy

6 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa 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**

Division Summary: The mission of the Global Policy & Advocacy (GPA) division is to understand and shape the public policy debates affecting the foundation's work, build support for its major program and policy objectives, and develop partnerships and alliances that can advance the foundation's objectives nationally and globally. Because the foundation's resources alone are not enough to solve the challenges ahead, GPA also supports advocacy efforts to engage diverse stakeholders and promote innovative solutions that advance our program goals. We work in close partnership with grantees, our colleagues in the Global Health, Global Development, Global Growth & Opportunity, U.S. and Gender Equality programs and Foundation Communications to build the environment in which all people have the opportunity to lead healthy and productive lives. In particular, this position will also work closely with our Africa regional office located within the Global Development Division.

Group Summaries:

- The Development Policy & Finance (DPAF) team is the foundation’s development economics and finance team, accountable for ensuring GPA’s work - and by extension the foundation’s work - is informed by strong economic and financial analysis and viewpoints, resonant with economic trends, and connected with key decision-makers at major multilateral development banks (MDBs), development finance institutions (DFIs) and think tanks focused on development economics and finance. This is not a research team but a group of economists, grant makers and development finance experts accountable for using economic analysis and perspectives to strengthen foundation policy and advocacy strategies, and for growing the community of economic policymakers engaged in foundation issues such as global health, human capital, and gender equity.
- The Africa team works to enable the foundation’s ambitious goals of scaling evidence-based interventions that target a range of disease and socio-economic conditions which are endemic across Sub-Saharan Africa. The team implements 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**

The SPO, DPAF will offer expertise, network and passion to advance practice in one and preferably more of the following areas:

- Resource mobilization in developing countries with a focus on: i) domestic resource mobilization and equitable taxation at national and sub-national levels, ii) accessing and optimizing the use of international donor and DFIs funding towards key development priorities.
- Public financial management in developing countries with a focus on: i) optimal formulation and allocation of budget resources to key development priorities (e.g., health, agriculture), ii) timely release and execution of allocated budget resources, and iii) effective tracking and management of budget expenditure.
- Budget analysis, advocacy, and debt management in developing countries.
- Engagement with country finance ministries/budget authorities, regional economic bodies, and DFIs, initiatives, and actors in Africa.
- Design, implementation, and management of special development financing funds and facilities
- Experience in international development finance practice around country-centered development aid allocation, quality, and equity.
- Development economics analysis focused on Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, especially macro-fiscal issues including debt, capital markets development, and other salient issues related to fiscal space and public finance.
- Applied economic policy analysis supporting foundation sector work, especially connecting our micro work (in health, agricultural productivity, financial inclusion, sanitation) to macro policy and economic growth questions.
- Evidence to policy in developing countries.

This position will also work closely with our Africa teams to cultivate and manage critical in-country relationships (e.g. Ministries of Finance, Planning, in-country influencers), as well as with our program strategy teams to align on how

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