The Senior Strategy Officer is a strategic partner to the Deputy Director, Strategy Planning and Management (DDSPM) and the Communications Leadership Team in their collective efforts to build trust in the Gates Foundation and inspire more people to care about our three goals: ending preventable maternal and child death, eradicating infectious diseases, and getting millions of people out of poverty.
Requirements
- Master's degree or equivalent experience, preferably in management consulting, strategy development, or marketing strategy.
- 7+ years of experience in strategy development roles.
- Mastery-level knowledge of strategy development and ability to coalesce groups around common goals and priorities to drive work forward.
- Significant experience leading projects at a premier strategy consulting firm is preferred but not required.
- Significant experience leading marketing campaign strategy development is preferred but not required.
- Exceptional design and material development skills in PowerPoint and other tools (e.g. LLMs).
- Experience leading program design, results frameworks, measurement, learning & evaluation, scorecards and performance management is a plus, but not required.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and support a wide array of projects to successful conclusion while operating in a dynamic and sometimes ambiguous environment.
- Strong presentation skills (both oral and written), with proven ability to adapt tone and style for broad and diverse audiences.
- Proven track record working with diplomacy, flexibility, efficiency, cultural sensitivity and savvy across multiple global, matrixed contexts.
- A record of getting things done, of driving clarity amid ambiguity, and finding a mutually agreeable path forward out of complicated priorities.
- Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to be creative and successful, both collaboratively and as an independent problem solver.
- Ability to identify, assess, and develop creative solutions to complex strategic and operational challenges.
- Knowledge of communications and advocacy in donor and developing countries contexts for global health and development issues preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums
- Generous paid time off
- Paid family leave
- Foundation-paid retirement contribution
- Regional holidays
