Senior Programme Manager, Funding Design & Review

Position title: Senior Programme Manager, Funding Design & Review

Position type: Permanent

Location: Geneva

Purpose of the position: Within the Funding Design & Review Team, transform the funding design and communication approach to ensure that funding support windows are effective, lean and well understood by countries and Gavi stakeholders

Department:Strategy, Funding and Performance

Team: Funding Design & Review

Reports to: Head, Funding Design and Review

N° of positions supervised: 2-3

Career step level: 4

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance is a public-private partnership committed to saving children’s lives and protecting people’s health by increasing equitable use of vaccines in lower-income countries. The Vaccine Alliance brings together implementing country and donor governments, the World Health Organisation, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry, technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private sector partners. Gavi uses innovative finance mechanisms, including co-financing by recipient countries, to secure sustainable funding and adequate supply of quality vaccines. Since 2000, Gavi has contributed to the immunisation of more than 1 billion children and the prevention of more than 16.2 million future deaths. 

Gavi’s strategy for the 2021-25 period (‘Gavi 5.0’, updated into ‘Gavi 5.1’ for 2023-25) focuses on increasing equity of immunisation programmes by reaching marginalised children in the world’s poorest countries with the objective to save millions of lives. The strategy also includes a focus on ensuring continued success of immunisation programmes in former Gavi-eligible countries, and on providing access to Covid-19 vaccines to address the health and economic impacts of the largest pandemic in a century. 

The Funding Design and Review Team contributes to the implementation of the Gavi 5.1 strategy by ensuring  Gavi’s resources are best positioned to achieve its strategic objectives. The team has three key areas of focus  within the grant management cycle: (i) funding design and communication, (ii) access to funding, (iii) portfolio performance review.

THE ROLE

This role leads the team’s work related to funding design and communication by designing funding windows that effectively operationalise Gavi’s strategy and which enable countries to articulate strong plans for Gavi support.  As Gavi prepares for implementation of its next strategy (“Gavi 6.0”) this role will be crucial to transforming Gavi’s approach to funding guidance and applications, ensuring tools, systems and processes are modern and effective. 

MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

•Manage team’s engagement in upstream design on Gavi support to countries, including operationalisation of Gavi’s 6.0 strategy and Vaccine Investment Strategy 2024 into development of new support windows;

•Lead upstream design and ensure delivery of high-quality guidelines, templates, processes and systems which help countries to articulate strong plans for Gavi support;

•Lead team’s engagement on re-imagining the enabling environment required to access Gavi funding in a differentiated manner, including use of national strategic plans and in-country fund governance mechanisms, working closely with the EVOLVE grant management transformation project;

•Design and implementation of a communication plan for the dissemination of information on Gavi processes, including management of the Funding Design and Communication Steering Committee;

•Focal point for selected country applications using the full portfolio plan / national strategy approach; 

•Perform other tasks as required. 

Note: The essential functions listed in this section are not exhaustive of the job responsibilities; other duties may be assigned consistently with the department needs.

QUALIFICATIONS

ACADEMIC

•Advanced degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Business Administration, Public Health, Public Policy, Economics, International Development or a related field.

WORK EXPERIENCE

•Minimum 8 years of professional experience in design, review and management of global public health programmes, thereof at least 2 years work experience in lower-income countries;

•Experience managing complex partnerships highly desirable; 

•At least two years working in grant management with a results-focused funding organisation preferred;

•Experience in working with and engaging senior leaders (C-level) essential.

SKILLS/COMPETENCIES

•Structured strategic thinking with strong knowledge of Global Health and development;

•Exceptional people skills, including relationship development with mid-level management; ability to influence outside of formal hierarchical structures;

•Experienced people manager with track record for enabling a learning culture; 

•Excellent analytical and project management skills; 

•Demonstrated capacity to manage a variety of work streams simultaneously and maintain a focus on priorities;

•Excellent writing, presentation and communication skills;

•Ability to work in a multicultural environment and establish working relationships with multiple teams;

•Proven ability to work independently, under pressure, demonstrating initiative and flexibility

LANGUAGES

•Fluency in English required; French is a plus.

CONTACT

•Funding Design & Review team, as well as colleagues from the Strategy, Funding and Performance Department;

•Head, Funding Design and Review;

•Collaboration with country-facing teams in Gavi Secretariat, and other teams involved the development of Gavi support and guidelines;

•Alliance Partnership agencies, including WHO, UNICEF, and key regional and technical working groups;

•Gavi Independent Review Committee (IRC);

•Collaboration with relevant focal points in implementing countries (e.g., EPI managers, technical partners). 

If you wish to apply, please provide a cover letter and resume through our Careers webpage and apply by clicking on “Senior Programme Manager, Funding Design & Review”. Deadline for applications is 6th October 2024.

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Gavi brings together the public and private sectors to save lives and protect people’s health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines against 18 infectious diseases. You will be joining an organisation at the centre of the international COVID-19 response, at the most critical time in global health in a lifetime. You will work in a culturally diverse environment with over 70 nationalities. You will collaborate with partners such as WHO, UNICEF, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank – and from business, civil society and government. And you will work in the first global health organisation to receive equal gender salary certification. Your unique experience, skills and talents can help us achieve our vision of leaving no one behind without the life-saving power of vaccines.