Senior Program Officer

Your Role 

The IPM team is looking to hire a Senior Program Officer, Modeling & Quantitative Science for its Integrated Portfolio Management efforts. By executing health impact and cost effectiveness analyses, this role enables Program Strategy Teams, Functional Teams, and Leadership to have the right information at the right time to make decisions about Target Product Profiles, individual product investments, portfolios of investments, as well as tradeoffs within and across portfolios. In addition to improving the way that the foundation makes prioritization and performance management decisions, this role will drive adoption of improved portfolio management practices. This role will collaborate with Program Strategy Teams, Functional Teams, and external researchers to gather and continuously improve critical data and inputs needed to execute health impact and cost effectiveness modeling of interventions.

The role offers a unique opportunity to have an impact by using experience with epidemiological modelling to shape our portfolio of product development investments that will save lives and reduce suffering in the world’s low- and middle-income countries

What You’ll Do 

• Apply expertise in health impact and cost effectiveness modeling to design and execute so-called product valuations using the foundation’s methods and software modeling tools.
• Identify and integrate current academic research to advise teams on suitable models and model assumptions as part of the health impact and cost effectiveness analysis.
• Present modelling results to Program Strategy Teams and Global Health Division leadership to inform product development decision making.
• Collaborate with external world-leading modelling groups and integrate results from their models and expertise into the foundation’s analysis where relevant.
• Collaborate with internal disease modelling experts and other subject matter experts to ensure high quality results.
• Managing and administering grants/contracts with grantees, partners, and vendors.
• Work closely with foundation vendors to translate model methodology improvements into modeling software requirements and ensure successful implementation of modelling software improvements.
• Analyze the portfolio/sub portfolios of product development investments and make recommendations for how to maximize their impact.
• Help evolve the foundation’s portfolio management approaches and tools.
• Identify and evaluate opportunities for continuous improvement of team, division and broader foundation strategy and operational processes.

Your Experience 

• Ph.D., Masters or MBA with 6-10 years of experience including 5 years of experience designing epidemiological and/or health economic models.
• Demonstrated quantitative and analytical skills including experience assembling, organizing and analyzing information, extracting insights and presenting findings.
• Proficiency with modelling in R and/or Python, spreadsheet modeling, simulation, data analysis, statistics/econometrics and other quantitative skills. Capability to quickly learn new software programs and new analytical methods.
• Knowledge of infectious diseases, epidemiology and biostatistics techniques used in global health.
• Strategic problem-solving skills to structure the analysis needed to address a sophisticated and ambiguous question, within the resources and time constraints provided.
• Excellent listening, verbal and written communication skills to effectively calibrate input and synthesize information to connect with multifaceted and diverse audiences.

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