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 transformative change in the face of inequities and market failures, to realize the potential of untapped markets, and to see the economic and social benefits of including everyone. We focus on the areas of Agricultural Development; Financial Services for the Poor; Global Education; Nutrition; and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene. We seek solutions that are sustainable, transformative, and inclusive with an eye toward applying technology innovations as well as data evidence to motivate change in the worldโs developing countries.
The Large-Scale Food Fortification (LSFF) focused Nutrition strategy invests in impactful solutions to produce actionable data; delivers high-quality technical assistance to millers and food producers; advances new innovations in micronutrients and food vehicles; supports quality assurance data in mills to empower industry self-monitoring; and strengthens public sector standards and regulations for LSFF programs. We work with partners across public and private sectors, to support attainment of SDG 2 -a global commitment to tackle undernutrition and hunger.
Your Role
As a Program Coordinator, you will coordinate, develop, and manage a portfolio of investments (ranging in complexity), with an emphasis on processes and systems, initial investment due diligence, and timeline management. This role requires frequent interaction with external partners across the globe and with a wide array of skillsets and levels of seniority, many of whom are unfamiliar with the foundationโs processes. This role will primarily support the Nutrition PST and R&D and Data portfolios, but this role may flex across other portfolios in the Nutrition PST and may provide flex support to other teams in the GGO Division.
In support of programmatic strategic goals, you may provide or support budget oversight and planning, financial analysis and reporting, and process management for the portfolio of investments, which may include grants, contracts, and program related investments (PRIs). You will collaborate closely with the Senior Program Coordinator on the Nutrition team, and work with program officers and business partners.
This role reports to the Senior Manager, SPM Nutrition.
What Youโll Do
Work with Program Officers, Grantees, and Business Partners during all stages of grant making (e.g. sending out requests for proposals, driving key deadlines for submissions and revisions)
Assist with grant management and evaluation by requesting and managing review of progress reports and deliverables
Assist with tracking of contracts, including requesting, tracking and reviewing of invoices.
Collaborate with business partners, grantees and vendors throughout the investment lifecycle to lead investments through internal and external processes. Monitor portfolio, drives payout progress, flags risks and connects the dots to facilitate financial and programmatic decision making across initiative portfolios. Ensures grants are closed out in our systems of record when all deliverables are finalized and reports are reviewed.
Provide thought partnership to investment owners regarding the structure and activation of complex investments with a focus on bringing together the necessary internal partners and steering towards solutions
Act as primary support for grantee/vendor initiation to foundation policies, reporting requirements and processes
Plan and participate in cross-foundation and cross-program projects as appropriate. Areas of involvement may include Investment Workflow, IT, Finance, HR, and others.
Assist program team with annual pipeline planning process and monitoring of payout targets.
Act as subject matter expert on processes, tools, systems and templates.
Your Experience
We seek a professional with a Bachelorโs degree and 3+ years of experience. Able to work with flexibility, efficiency, and diplomacy in a fast-paced, challenging environment. Open to rapid change and able to learn new things quickly. Able to distill what is needed next, even without expertise in programmatic content.
Demonstrates effectiveness influencing individuals and teams without explicit authority.
Recognizes complexity and assesses risks and alternatives in light of competing requirements and incomplete knowledge. Proactive in flagging risks and identifying issues as they arise.
Detail oriented and comfortable keeping people on track.
Understands basic investment rules, regulations, policies, processes and practices and can advise when they are applicable. Is an expert in all phases of investment-making, and engages stakeholders and decision-makers, as needed.
Excellent communication skills with both internal and external partners. Able to communicate processes in a clear, simple manner.
Demonstrates expert knowledge of, and ability to work across multiple investment-making systems, based in Access, Excel, SharePoint, and other web-based software applications. Basic SharePoint site administration skills, including metadata tagging, document view creation, archiving, and creating and maintaining confidential files.
*Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located