Position title: Programme Manager, Funding Design and Review
Position type: Temporary until December 2025
Location: Geneva
Purpose of the position: Contribute to the strategic design, operationalisation and continuous improvement of Gavi’s application and review processes to ensure they are fit-for-purpose to achieve Gavi objectives
Department: Strategy, Funding and Performance
Team: Funding Design and Review
Reports to: Senior Specialist, Access to Funding
N° of positions supervised (if applicable): N/A
Career step level: 3
The Funding Design and Review Team contributes to the implementation of the Gavi’s strategy by ensuring Gavi’s resources are best positioned to achieve its strategic objectives. The team has three key areas of focus within the grant management cycle: (i) funding design and communication, (ii) access to funding, (iii) portfolio performance review.
THE ROLE
This role
sits within the Access to Funding sub-team of the Funding Design and Review
Team and is responsible for ensuring that the design and operationalisation of
Gavi’s application and review processes is strategic and fit-for-purpose to
achieve Gavi objectives. The role also supports the design, continuous
improvement and operationalisation of selected funding support windows of
strategic priority in achieving Gavi’s 5.1 agenda, including Malaria vaccine
introductions and HPV revitalisation efforts.
MAIN
DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
· Support
design and implementation of a streamlined overall application and review process
of selected funding support windows, including on Malaria and HPV. This
includes establishing clear goalposts and simplified, differentiated review processes,
with clear roles and responsibilities for the Gavi Independent Review Committee
(IRC) and Gavi Secretariat;
· Support
development of clear, consistent and differentiated review guidance for the IRC
together with Gavi business leads, and ensure it is understood, applied,
consistently quality controlled and improved;
· Support
development and implement innovative, engaging formats of IRC meetings that
contribute to quality reviews, further strengthening stakeholder engagement and
transparency;
· Ensure
transparency into country applications received through development of a
reporting and learning framework and regular communication within Gavi
Secretariat, including senior management, and with partners; and implementation
tracking of portfolio level IRC recommendations;
· Analyse
and disseminate cross-cutting lessons from the IRC reviews within Gavi
Secretariat and the Alliance to facilitate a learning culture, incorporation
into Gavi strategies and policies, and ensure key areas are actioned;
· Conduct
analytical reviews for vaccine and cash allocations and disbursements across
the spectrum of selected funding support windows, including assessment of
funding decisions against key programmatic criteria, to inform the Alliance
learning agenda;
· Support
the roll-out and implementation of improvements with key partner agencies (e.g.
WHO, UNICEF), developing and managing relationships at working level.
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
· University
degree in health-related area, public policy, international development or a
related field.
· Minimum 5 years of professional experience in designing and implementing
transformative strategic-programmatic projects in
international development, public health, healthcare or private
sector;
· At
least 2 years of experience (re)designing funding windows and grant application
processes for multi-million-dollar funding opportunities in large international
grant making organisations;
· Strong
change management expertise with proven track record of instituting new
business processes, ensuring that changes are understood and owned by the key
stakeholders;
· Previous
health programme management experience in low resource settings.
· Structured
strategic thinking with strong knowledge of Global Health and development;
· Exceptional
people skills including relationship development with mid-level management;
ability to influence outside of formal hierarchical structures;
· Excellent
analytical and project management skills;
· Excellent
writing, presentation 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
· Fluency
in English and working knowledge of French is required.
· Collaboration
with all country-facing teams in Gavi Secretariat;
· Head,
Funding Design and Review;
· Gavi
Independent Review Committee (IRC);
· Alliance
Partnership agencies, including WHO, UNICEF and key alliance regional and
technical working groups;
· Collaboration
with relevant focal points in implementing countries (EPI managers, other
technical partners).
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 developing 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 nearly 822 million children and the prevention of more than 14 million future deaths.
Gavi’s strategy for the 2021-25 period (‘Gavi 5.0’, updated into ‘Gavi 5.1’ for 2023-25) 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. Gavi is currently preparing for the roll-out of the Alliance’s 2026-2030 strategy (‘Gavi 6.0’). Gavi 6.0 will be centered around Gavi’s core mandate: driving new, impactful vaccine introductions and their scale up, and reaching more zero-dose children contributing to the ambitious Immunisation Agenda 2030 targets.
