Platform & Portfolio Lead, Enterics, Diagnostics, Genomics & Epidemiology (12-Month LTE)

Tags: Global Health language Environment
  • Added Date: Thursday, 02 October 2025
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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, weโ€™re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The TeamOur Global Health Program harnesses advances in science and technology to save lives and prevent disease. We focus on the health problems that have a major impact in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) but get too little attention and funding. Where proven tools and interventions exist, we support sustainable ways to improve their delivery and implementation in populations. Where they do not, we invest in research and development of new interventions, such as vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics. Our work in infectious diseases focuses on strategies to fight and prevent HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis (TB), neglected tropical diseases, enteric and diarrheal diseases, pneumonia, and polio. The objective of the Enterics, Diagnostics, Genomics, & Epidemiology (EDGE) Team is to improve health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) through advancing products, tools, and platforms designed for in-country implementation, and improving quality of and access to data and information for public health decision making. The team is a trifecta of strategic initiatives that include the Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases (EDD), Genomic Epidemiology & Modeling (GEM), and Diagnostics & Devices programs. Guided by the burden of disease and the threat of outbreaks, we develop vaccines, diagnostics, and tools for detection and surveillance of pathogens for delivery to our target populations. This position within EDGE team is in support of our broader strategy focused on end-to-end product and platform development for diagnostics, devices and vaccines with a clear throughline to patient impact in LMICs.

Your Role

This Platform & Portfolio Lead role works with Enterics and Diagnostics domains within the EDGE team and facilitates planning of our pipeline and portfolio. These include our broad spectrum of diagnostics and devices in development in support of various program strategies across the foundation and our portfolio of vaccines targeted at reducing burden from enteric and diarrheal diseases. In this role, you will collaborate with and help the technical team to keep our product strategies current and aligned to overall program strategy use cases and evolving scientific data. You will be responsible for ensuring a healthy portfolio/pipeline of product candidates in place to balance timeline, probability of technical & regulatory success (PTRS), launch readiness & deliverability, and internal and external funding considerations. Throughout, you will synthesize information around and facilitate end-to-end roadmap discussions on product candidates and portfolio mix needed over the next 10-12 years. To facilitate these functions, you will work with the internal enterics and diagnostics & devices domains, cross-functional teams, and external partners to maintain target product profiles (TPPs) and integrated product development plans (IPDPs) across the R&D portfolio, build data packages and leadership communication materials to drive stage-gate decisions, and ensure R&D portfolio management data systems stay current.

*This is a 12-month LTE backfill position.

What Youโ€™ll Do

Collaborate with the technical team (e.g., program officers with responsibilities and expertise for each of product and functional area) to:

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