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 TeamAbout the Gender Equality Division
The Gender Equality Divisionโs mission is to ensure women and girls in Africa and South Asia can enjoy good health, make their own choices, earn their own money, and be leaders in their societies. When women and girls have an equal chance to thrive and lead, everyone benefits. We know that women and girls are not a monolith. A womanโs experience and the barriers she faces are different depending on factors like where she lives, how old she is, and how much money her family hasโalongside other factors including her race, caste, and education level. We seek to address these compounding barriers through deep partnership with our grantees. As a philanthropy, our role is to listen to and learn from these experts. We take risks in new areas, prove concepts, and bring these ideas to governments, partner organizations, and private sector companies to scale. The Gender Equality Division builds off our existing strengths as a foundation in areas like global health and data, partnering closely with all our global divisions.
The Maternal, Newborn, Child Nutrition & Health (MNCNH) Team is responsible for an end-to-end approach focused on product discovery, development, introduction, and scale of novel and existing high impact products for women, adolescent girls, and children in low-resource settings. Our approach targets underlying biological vulnerability and seeks to intervene as early as possible in the life course. We fund development on a core set of products that range in type (including drugs, foods, microbes, risk algorithms, and devices), technical risk (from novel concepts to product substitutions), and development phase (from early discovery to late-stage efficacy testing and implementation research). We also support launch and introduction planning of a subset of our core products that are further in the development process to accelerate country adoption and uptake in the global architecture and drive impact at scale. These products target pregnancy risk, maternal undernutrition, prematurity, neonatal encephalopathy, child wasting, child neurodevelopment and maternal morbidity. Our team is multidisciplinary and includes physician scientists with backgrounds in obstetrics and pediatrics, perinatal epidemiologists, and professionals in neurodevelopment, nutrition research, engineering, global health, strategy development and industry-experienced market and commercialization experts. We emphasize in-country partnership to integrate the local context into research and development.
Your Role
The Officer, Strategy & Data (SO), plays a critical support role in helping the Maternal, Newborn, Child Nutrition & Health (MNCNH) team translate data into actionable strategy, clear communications, and decision-support tools. These data-led insights help inform our strategic approach to accelerate product development, introduction, and country impact. Reporting to the Deputy Director, Epidemiology, Surveillance & Data, the officer will contribute to the teamโs measurement and learning efforts through project management of data initiative efforts, data synthesis, curation of analytic outputs for visualization, and distillation of insights into compelling presentations and written products for internal and external audiences.
This role will support the operationalization of strategic learning by assisting with the development of dashboards, tracking tools, and strategy documents; preparing materials for leadership engagement; and contributing to cross-team coordination on measurement-related priorities. The ideal candidate will bring strong project management, analytical, and communication skills, curiosity about the intersection of data and strategy, and a collaborative working style.
*This position is a limited-term position for 2-Years
What Youโll Do
Strategy Development & Business Planning
- Contribute to strategy development initiatives across the MNCNH team, particularly around data integration and application of AI to augment impact potential.
- Identify opportunities for and facilitate uptake of AI applications to operational processes for our centralized data function.
- Facilitate inclusive and effective engagement with internal and external stakeholders to support strategy development and alignment.
- Create strategic materials, presentations, and updates for MNCNH and broader foundation leadership.
- Support the measurement of progress toward goals, including defining indicators, milestones, and learning questions aligned with team strategy.
- Partner with team leadership to link strategic ambition to operational business planning.
Measurement & Data Integration
- Support data initiatives through project management to improve tracking of product development and introduction progress and synthesis and curation of data and insights.
- Collaborate with grantees and internal data scientists to support effective use of data in strategic decisions.
- Help translate data into insights and identify opportunities for investment, course correction, or acceleration.
- Contribute to the design of study and monitoring and evaluation frameworks to track harmonized process and impact metrics across the portfolio.
Program and Team Enablement
- Contribute to shaping an integrated strategy/data function within the program.
- Support internal coordination to break down vertical silos and accelerate discovery, development, and downstream uptake of key products.
- Promote inclusive team culture by modeling collaborative behaviors and surfacing issues transparently and constructively.
Your Experience
- Masterโs degree or equivalent experience in data science, engineering, or related quantitative field. Focus on global health preferred.
- Prior experience at a top-tier strategy consulting firm or equivalent role within a global development, health, or social impact organization.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex strategy projects and using structured problem-solving approaches.
- Experience designing or supporting monitoring and evaluation frameworks, data systems, or insights generation in global health or development.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information and tailor messages to senior audiences.
- Familiarity with LMIC contexts and working with data, research, and/or health systems in low-resource settings is a plus.
- Interest in AI and aptitude for tracking relevant applications within the evolving field.
Other Attributes
- Demonstrated ability to work across disciplines and integrate data and strategy perspectives into cohesive plans.
- Strong interpersonal and facilitation skills, especially in cross-cultural and multi-stakeholder environments.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving landscape with shifting priorities.
- Curious, humble, and proactive learner with a deep commitment to improving outcomes for women, children, and families.
- Ability to travel up to 20% domestically and internationally.
*Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.
The salary range for this role is $154,200 to $231,400 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle and Washington D.C., where our offices are located. The range for this role in these locations is $168,200 to $252,200 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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Hiring Requirements
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Inclusion Statement
We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion โ of voices, ideas, and approaches โ and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.
All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.