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 TeamOur Malaria PST invests in innovation to reduce the burden of and eradicate malaria worldwide. Annually, malaria causes 250M+ cases and 500k+ deaths, and our strategy is to enable countries and the global community to achieve eradication in a way that saves as many lives as possible on the way. This means we 1) invest early in long-term development and deployment of new tools and capabilities to shorten the endgame, 2) partner with others to introduce innovations at-scale to drive down burden more aggressively in the short-term, and 3) support countermeasures to the evolution of biological resistance, which threatens the effectiveness of our diagnostics, drugs, and insecticides. We focus on high-burden countries and invest in the innovation to improve the performance, coverage, and targeting of interventions for all three, including โmoonshotsโ like genetically modified mosquitoes and vaccines. A fundamental enabler of interventions is accurate, timely, and geo-localized targeting. To improve this, we advocate for and support countries in their use of data, as well as invest in the roll-out of next-generation technologies, like molecular surveillance and digital transformation of country programs.
Your Role
This Strategy Implementation Officer role works with the Malaria R&D team and facilitates planning of our pipeline and portfolio. Products in the pipeline span the categories of drugs, diagnostics, vaccines, biologics, insecticidal vector control (e.g., bed nets), and genetically modified mosquitoes (e.g., gene drive mosquitoes). In this role, you will collaborate with and help the technical team to keep our product strategies current and aligned to overall malaria eradication use cases and evolving scientific data and then monitor there is 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 Malaria team, cross-functional teams, 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. You will work with and coordinate multi-disciplinary teams, including disease specialists, biopharma/AgChem functional experts [clinical, chemistry, manufacturing, and controls (CMC), regulatory, launch, etc.] toward these goals.
In addition to focusing on the aforementioned strategy implementation activities focused on our R&D investment portfolio, you will contribute to the broader Malaria Strategy, Planning, and Management (SPM) team. This will include providing structured problem solving and rapid qualitative/quantitative analytics, secondary research and synthesis of strategic and technical information for leadership and external advisory board discussions, and building and validating reasons for resource planning decisions. You will report to the Senior Strategy Officer and be guided by the Deputy Director for Strategy, Planning and Management (DDSPM), and as needed, you will function as a delegate for them within the Malaria PST and across the broader Gates Foundation. The role is based out of Seattle, WA and may involve international and domestic travel 20% of the time.
*This position begins as a limited-term position for 24 months based in our Seattle, WA office that, during that time, may be converted to 36 months total or full-time depending on performance and business needs. Relocation will be provided.
What Youโll Do
Malaria product R&D investment strategy implementation
Collaborate with the technical team (e.g., program officers with responsibilities and expertise for each of product and functional area) to:
Develop and vet long-term and end-to-end R&D portfolio optimization, product development and launch readiness plans aligned with product strategies and the overall malaria eradication strategy.
Map out and maintain