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, weโre committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.
The TeamThe Global Growth & Opportunity (GGO) division works to catalyze sustainable and transformative socio-economic change. In the face of inequities and market failures, GGO seeks to realize the potential of untapped markets, and ensure that economic and social benefits reach everyone. We focus on the areas of Agricultural Development; Digital Public Infrastructure; Inclusive Financial Services; Global Education, Nutrition, and Water, Sanitation & Hygiene. We seek solutions that are sustainable, transformative, and inclusive with an eye toward applying technology innovations as well as data evidence to drive change in the worldโs developing countries.
Digital public infrastructure (DPI) is defined as foundational, re-usable digital building blocksโsuch as digital payments, ID, and data sharingโdesigned for the public benefit. The DPI team in GGO focuses on enabling a model for digital transformation that is inclusive, equitable, collaborative and helps accelerate the sustainable development goals. Like roads and railways, DPI enables countries to deliver essential services and create economic opportunity across many sectors, including finance, health, and agriculture.
Across the foundation, digital is a core component of many global strategies. As a strategy, we seek to ensure that digital development in LMICs follows the DPI approach (e.g., interoperable, safe, inclusive, sustainable, scalable) as the default methodology. More consistently applying this approach across the foundationโs relevant digital investments can improve efficiencies internally by replacing development of bespoke, siloed tools and platforms with reusable, horizontal assets. Our functional team efforts can also reinforce the DPI approach for the external ecosystem by developing exemplar assets across the sectors we work in.
Your Role
As the Officer, Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) Functional Team, youโll work closely with the Senior Officer, Functional Team Lead and play a key role in coordinating subject matter advisory support and collaborations with other teams across the foundation, with the aim of improve efficiencies internally by replacing development of bespoke, siloed tools and platforms with reusable, horizontal assets.
Your primary responsibilities will be to manage short-term and ongoing collaboration projects from lead generation through execution, synthesize learnings for continuous improvement of the DPI teamโs internal advisory service offering, and coordinate advisory resourcing between internal and external experts. As a secondary responsibility, you will leverage this roleโs cross-foundation visibility and skillset to support team-wide strategy projects. These responsibilities will involve engaging with DPI team members, other colleagues across the foundation, external experts, and occasionally also public and private stakeholders within low- and middle-income countries. The role will require the ability to communicate effectively and manage multiple complex projects with diverse stakeholders.
You will be expected to identify interdependencies, communicate execution requirements, track progress, make decisions, and identify and mitigate risks. You will partner with the DPI program policy advocacy and communications team to ensure the insights from your portfolio are integrated into advocacy and communications opportunities to achieve our goals. Meticulous organization, strategic thinking, relationship management, and clear communication are crucial for success in this role. Technical expertise in the digital public infrastructure domain and international experience is highly desired.
*Applicants for this role will only be considered if they are able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.
*Applications will be accepted until 5 PM Pacific Time on Friday, October 31, 2025.
What You'll Do
Support the team in building and maintaining an understanding of the foundationโs digital investment landscape and identify areas across global health, global development, global growth and opportunity, and gender equality strategies where DPI approaches can accelerate individual program impact and/or generate cross-foundation efficiencies.
Leverage internal resources, foundation processes, and relationships to increase foundation-wide understanding of DPI, generate demand, and identify high-impact opportunities for collaboration and support.
Support the team to establish an approach to test and collate DPIs and other assets that can be reused across varying programs; register such assets in relevant public databases and help teams discover how to apply them in relevant use cases.
Plan and track progress of internal advisory collaborations in support of the Senior Officer, Functional Team.
In collaboration with the Senior Officer, Functional Team gather and synthesize feedback and impact evidence from internal advisory collaborations.
Develop content for team-wide strategy projects in support of the DPI Strategy, Planning, and Management team.
Provide clear, concise, and insightful written analyses and recommendations for investments and team strategy, writing and producing briefings, reports, email updates, and other materials to inform foundation leadership.
Support interrelated work efforts, partner relationship management opportunities, and interconnected investments across the strategy.
Understand and improve operational efficiency and effectiveness 'in between' key workstreams and their expected results.
Conduct ongoing research, provide background data and information, and prepare analytic models in support of program teams.
Provide seamless project management, planning, coordination, and preparation for multiple deliverables and work streams.
Support inclusive culture through modeling behaviors and actions; escalating issues in a timely fashion to appropriate stakeholders.
Your ExperienceProgram & Portfolio Management: Proven portfolio and project management skills. Deep program management knowledge, including execution planning, and business process redesign projects.
Strategic Framework Development: Demonstrated ability to create structures and frameworks that clarify decision-making, highlight trade-offs, and increase transparency around resource allocation and impact.
Project Coordination: Skilled at managing multiple projects simultaneously and leading initiatives involving multiple stakeholders.
DPI Ecosystem Knowledge: Strong understanding of the digital public infrastructure (DPI) ecosystem in low resource settings, including technical, economic, and political dimensions. Demonstrated familiarity with key trends, barriers, and opportunities to test and scale high impact use cases that benefit under-resourced and underserved populations. Depth of knowledge of low-and-middle income contexts, as well as the lived experiences of historically marginalized groups.
Global Perspective: Professional or lived experience in low-income (LIC) and lower-middle-income countries (LMIC), with a nuanced grasp of their challenges and opportunities is strongly preferred.
Entrepreneurial Mindset: Innovative, hands-on thinker capable of going as deep or broad as necessary to build new programs or functions within complex organizations and driving outcomes amid high ambiguity. willing to go as deep or broad as necessary to achieve outcomes.
Communication Skills: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex concepts, engage diverse audiences and build consensus.
Travel: Willingness and ability to travel up to 30% of time, both domestically and internationally.
Education: Bachelorโs degree or equivalent demonstrated experience.
*Applicants for this role will only be considered if they are able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.
The salary range for this role is $140,200 to $210,200 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle, WA and Washington D.C., where our offices are located. The range for this role in these locations is $178,266 to $229,200 USD. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission. New hires salaries are typically between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidateโs job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.
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