Team Summary
The Integrated Delivery team was established in 2012 with a mandate to enhance the impact of delivery investments made by the foundationarious program teams in the health and development sectors. We provide technical support to those teams and their partners to help speed the delivery and improve the effectiveness of life-saving and life-improving interventions. We also make investments to improve delivery systems more broadly.
Our team is guided by the following priorities:
- Integrate systems and coordinate investments where it makes sense
- Focus on measurable results
- Start by understanding the customersple, families, and communities consider their needs in the design of products, programs, system improvements, and investments
Position Summary & Responsibilities
The Deputy Director of Strategy, Planning and Management (DDSPM) will be responsible for developing the strategic, management, financial, and operational aspects of the Integrated Delivery functional and program areas, bringing to bear senior business, investment, and management expertise on portfolio, initiative, and investment-level decision-making. The DDSPM will lead the annual planning and reporting cycle processes for the Integrated Delivery team, including ongoing pipeline and portfolio management, business analysis, the identification and implementation of improvements to team policies and procedures and the coordination of business strategies across the Foundation. The DDSPM is critical member of Integrated Delivery management team, guides efforts to evolve and improve team culture, performance management, internal communications and cross-team working. The DDSPM will manage a team to support this set of responsibilities. The DDSPM will report to the Director of Integrated Delivery
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 1. Strategy and Investment Definition
- Work with Director and program staff to define and clearly articulate program strategy and investment priorities and ensure that these are supported by team and initiative structures.
- Ensure strategies and prioritization of support for specific program and functional teams is aligned and additive wherever possible.
Partner with Deputy Directors to develop sub-initiative strategies. * Lead or co-lead complex strategic projects that are often cross-functional and cross-foundation in nature.
2. Strategy Implementation and Operations
- Identify success metrics for overall strategy and portfolio. Develop processes/instruments to ensure alignment of activities with strategy results.
- Lead the annual strategy review process and articulation of strategic priorities. Develop the process to ensure that strategy review materials effectively portray and support the continuation or adjustment of the strategy.
- Provide feedback and advisory support on development/management of major grants.
- Develop and manage budgets and forecasts. Partner with Finance on the development and maintenance of Division's grant, Direct Charitable Expenses (DCE) and contracts pipeline.
- Advise team on business-related decisions. Lead effort to improve Grantee Perception. This includes developing and implementing process improvements and other efforts.
3. Business Team Guidance
- Guide, recruit, develop and train the team of Senior Program Manager and Program Coordinators who support the activities needed to plan, implement and achieve the strategic plan as well as Strategy Officer to support full range of strategy projects.
- Ensure effective employee onboarding, communicate performance expectations, create goal alignment, integrate project and change management, give and seek feedback, provide coaching, measure progress and hold people accountable, support employee development, and recognize achievement and lessons learned.
4. Trusted Advisor to Director and critical member of Integrated Delivery management team (MT)
- Act as nding boardd thought partner to Director on a broad set of topics impacting the overall management of the team (e.g., program and partner strategy, HR and team fulfillment, management issues, addressing broader Foundation requests, relationships with other teams, etc.) and of the team (e.g., communications, collaboration, morale)
- Co-lead Integrated Delivery management team to encourage the team forward, prioritize team activities, ensure MT is a high-functioning team, guides efforts to improve culture and IntDel-wide team performance.
- Lead, support and role model our ture of impactrk on the IntDel team and across the organization
5. Cross-foundation Continuous Improvement
- Contribute to design of processes, policies, and organization to improve efficiency and impact of foundation activities
- Attend division leadership team meetings on a quarterly basis
- Cultivate innovation and support simplification of processes across the foundation
Qualifications - 10+ years of experience in international business strategy, business development and/or general management (including negotiations with collaborators) desired. 15+ years of experience highly preferred.
- MBA or Masters in a relevant field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience working in developing countries highly preferred.
- Demonstrated strength in systems thinking, structured problem solving and strategic business planning, with the ability to synthesize disparate information and critically analyze any situation
- Excellent people manager and coach with demonstrated ability to lead teams to effectively achieve clear, yet complex goals
- Demonstrable passion for international development and mission-driven work
- Skilled in group problem solving and collaboration to resolve problems with complex concepts in a dynamic setting
- Masterful at project management, including critical path thinking, detail orientation, setting priorities and planning
- Excellent communicator, always seeking information pertinent to the issues being dealt with in the strategy, on the team or across the Foundation
- Experience in working effectively with decision-makers as it pertains to strategy development and operations
- Deep technical and financial knowledge, including the ability to use or create complex financial models and effectively communicate data and results to inform sound strategic and tactical decisions
- Experience developing, evaluating, managing, and monitoring business plans, budgets and financial reports
- Knowledge of strategy development and implementation, design of performance management systems of goals, targets and monitoring process.
- Ability to work well with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to incorporate new information and drive to appropriate decisions with and for the team.
- Ability to navigate operational issues including, legal, IT, financial, and HR.
As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. Wecommitted to creating a workplace where employees thrive both personally and professionally. We also believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serverace, gender, age, cultures and beliefs we support this diversity through all of our employment practices.
All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve the mission of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to:
