Senior Manager, Strategy

Position title:

Senior Manager, Strategy

Location:

Geneva

Purpose of the position:

Support the design and implementation of key Gavi’s strategic initiatives

Department:

Strategy, Funding & Performance

Team:

Strategy

Reports to:

Head, Strategy

N° of positions supervised
(if applicable):

1-3

Career step level:

4

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance is a public-private partnership committed to saving children’s lives and protecting people’s health by increasing equitable use of vaccines in lower-income countries. The Vaccine Alliance brings together implementing country and donor governments, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry, technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private sector partners. Gavi uses innovative finance mechanisms, including co-financing by recipient countries, to secure sustainable funding and adequate supply of quality vaccines. Since 2000, Gavi has contributed to the immunisation of more than 981 million children and the prevention of more than 16 million future deaths.

THE ROLE

Gavi’s strategy for the 2021-25 (‘Gavi 5.0’) period, updated for 2023-25 as ‘Gavi 5.1’, focuses on increasing equity of immunisation programmes by reaching marginalised children in the world’s poorest countries with the objective to save millions of lives. The strategy also includes a focus on ensuring continued success of immunisation programmes in former Gavi-eligible countries, and on providing access to new Covid-19 vaccines to address the health and economic impacts of the largest pandemic in a century.

The Strategy team supports the Alliance leadership and Board in accelerating the roll-out of Gavi 5.0. This includes (i) designing and operationalising Gavi’s approach in a number of focus areas (including reaching zero dose children and marginalised communities, optimising Gavi’s portfolio management processes), (ii) supporting the Gavi country teams in designing and rolling out transformative strategies for key countries, (iii) defining Gavi’s new partnership model and partnership investments at global and regional level, and (iv) strengthening the performance management process in the Gavi Secretariat to ensure Gavi’s leadership steers the organisation towards results. The team will also lead on the development of Gavi’s 6.0 strategy starting in 2023.

Key results expected:

The Senior Manager will lead the design and launch of new approaches for delivering on Gavi 5.0 goals.

MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

Reporting to the Head, Strategy the Senior Manager will lead the development of strategies/approaches in a subset of these focus areas by both providing thought leadership and process oversight. They will coordinate project teams staffed with members across the Alliance to develop an evidence base which will inform the discussions of the Alliance leadership. They will support the development of options and recommendations for the CEO’s and Board’s consideration and help move new approaches into implementation.

As examples, the initiatives that the Strategy team is supporting tackle the following questions:

• What programmatic and financing approach to sustainably reach zero-dose children with life-saving vaccines in different country settings, for example in conflicts and emergencies? How to ensure global uptake and smooth implementation?
• How can Gavi accelerate progress in reaching unreached children with life-saving vaccines in key countries such as Nigeria and India? What are the impactful and innovative investments that Gavi should support?
• How can Gavi revamp its partner engagement approach at global/regional levels to ensure effective contribution from partners to the Alliance mission? How to manage the engagement of Alliance leadership in the process through the Partnerships Team?
• In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, the increase in fragility and conflicts, climate change, new blockbuster vaccines coming to the market and the evolving global health architecture, how will Gavi’s goals, objectives and operating model evolve in the Gavi 6.0 strategic period?
• How to optimise the performance management process within the Gavi Secretariat to ensure that Gavi is on track to deliver against its strategic priorities?

Note: The essential functions listed in this section are not exhaustive of the job responsibilities; other duties may be assigned consistently with the department needs.

QUALIFICATIONS

ACADEMIC

• University degree in business administration, public health, medicine, public policy, economics or international development. Masters highly preferred.

WORK EXPERIENCE

• At least 8 years of professional experience, including significant experience in the field of strategy development and/or in a management consulting firm;
• Experience in global health and/or the non-profit sector desired.

SKILLS/COMPETENCIES

• Excellent analytical skills, including excellent knowledge of Global Health;
• Structured strategic thinking;
• Project management skills;
• Ability to influence outside of formal hierarchical structures;
• Coaching and supervising team members;
• Excellent writing and communication skills;
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment and establish working relationships with multiple teams;
• Ability to work independently, under pressure, demonstrating initiative and flexibility.

LANGUAGES

• Fluent English;
• French is a plus.

CONTACTS

• Head, Strategy (supervisor);
• Frequent interactions with Board members, CEO, COO, Gavi leadership team;
• Collaboration with all teams in Gavi Secretariat;
• Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance partners Gavi Secretariat;
• Gavi Audit and Risk teams.

If you wish to apply, please provide a cover letter and resume through our Careers webpage and apply by clicking on “Senior Manager, Strategy*” Deadline for applications is 25 January 2023.*

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Gavi brings together the public and private sectors to save lives and protect people’s health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines against 18 infectious diseases. You will be joining an organisation at the centre of the international COVID-19 response, at the most critical time in global health in a lifetime. You will work in a culturally diverse environment with over 70 nationalities. You will collaborate with partners such as WHO, UNICEF, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank – and from business, civil society and government.