Deputy Director

2 weeks 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**

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 (SSA). The team executes 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.

Application deadline - 14th April 2023

**Your Role**

The Deputy Director, Health -Africa will lead the development and implementation of the Africa team’s regional health strategy and work collaboratively with programmatic, functional, and cross-division partners across the foundation to develop and manage a portfolio of grants at the country, regional and global level to achieve results. The focus of the Africa team is to enable the work of foundation teams that are involved in the development, testing and scale-up of high impact and cost-effective solutions, including in health and nutrition, to achieve sustained impact at scale across Africa. The Deputy Director, Health will ensure alignment with the foundation’s HIV and TB work in Africa, our work on strengthening routine immunization in high-risk polio countries and our work on reproductive health and MNCH and supervise staff placed in the continent to drive these program strategies. The Deputy Director, Health will be based in the Johannesburg, South Africa office and will report to the Director, Health - Africa.

**What You’ll Do**
- Lead the development and implementation of a regional health strategy for the Africa team in partnership with the Ethiopia and Nigeria Country Office health teams as well as Seattle-based health teams across the Global Development and Global Health divisions.
- Provide leadership and people management for Africa Team health roles that support our regional health portfolio.
- Facilitate development of annual investment plans and budgets, develop, modify, and implement strategy under the overall leadership of the Director, Africa. Work with foundation leadership as requested to address cross-cutting issues and improve functions and performance.
- In partnership with other Deputy Directors and relevant program officers in charge of country impact at the foundation, design and oversee the implementation of integrated strategies to accelerate the achievement of joint (foundation and others) health and nutrition goals in priority countries and with scaling partners across the continent.
- Provide guidance and input into the foundation’s health program and function strategies, investments, and an advocacy agenda that will lead to improvements and impact in key health and development indicators across the continent.
- Identify, negotiate, implement and/or manage complex, performance-based contracts/grants to accelerate increase in health outcomes. This includes development and review of MoUs, letters of interest and grant proposals and summaries of progress.
- Manage partnerships and grantee relationships to ensure learning and impact, for example, by conducting site visits, convening meetings of key partners, monitoring and evaluating components of grants.
- Participate in the coordination of partnerships with regional organizations such as Africa CDC, AUDA-NEPAD, WHO AFRO.
- Identify and assess key health, innovation and scientific portfolio risks, and develop and manage mitigation/contingency plans at the portfolio level.
- Effectively manage people and be responsible for hiring the talent needed to achieve foundation 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.
- Ensure high quality interactions and clear and consistent communications with government officials, foundation staff, leadership, grantees, and partners.

**Your Experience **(i.e., Qualifications and Education)
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