Senior Program Officer, Digital Public Infrastructure Innovation and Scaling

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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, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

Job Description

The Senior Program Officer, Digital Public Infrastructure Innovation and Scaling will strategically co-develop and co-manage one or more portfolios of grants and contracts requiring grant management skills, monitoring, and evaluation to support the development and scaling of DPIs in Sub-Saharan Africa and/or South Asia. As a topical expert, you will be a technical advisor to other foundation programs seeking to implement their solutions with a DPI approach. You will also work collaboratively with a global team to contribute to refine and track progress against the team’s strategic vision. The role will require working with a diverse range of internal colleagues/teams, technical and scientific partners, governments, multilateral institutions across a wide array of domains and expertise. International experience, strategy development, communications, partnership development, and deep technical expertise are crucial for success in this role.

The postholder will be based at the foundation’s ICO in New Delhi, and report to the Deputy Director, Digital, Health Innovations & AI, with a dotted line to the DPI team.

Job Responsibilities

The selected candidate will be responsible for the following tasks:

Co-develop, manage, and execute a portfolio of relationships, grants and contracts to advance DPI within the context of a globally matrixed team, contributing to economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

• Apply a rapid, ‘risk-adjusted’ approach to develop a portfolio-level strategy that supports a) the testing and development of promising DPIs; b) the scaling of proven DPIs; and c) extracts learnings that can benefit internal and external stakeholders. Ensure the strategy is aligned to the overall team goals.

• Negotiate, execute, and manage a complex portfolio of grants or performance-based contracts. Review letters of inquiry and grant proposals and provide clear, concise, and insightfully written analyses and recommendations for funding.
• Consult with internal program co-owners, grantees, and other partners to maximize project impact and ensure grants are meeting strategy goals; this may include conducting site visits, providing operational guidance, and convening meetings of key partners.
• Co-develop, manage, resource, and implement a program that aligns with foundation strategy and is operationally integrated with other foundation programs across the matrix; contribute to the design of new strategies, collaborations, and implementation plans to ensure long-term sustainability and impact.
• Advise the foundation leadership on areas related to your expertise, including writing and producing briefings, reports, updates, and other materials.

Represent the foundation to key program-related external constituencies, as appropriate, on committees related to the area of expertise and responsibilities of the position.

• In alignment with other internal program teams, work with partner organizations (e.g. technical experts, researchers) and key government partners, to support data-driven decision making and long-term capacity building efforts on inclusive digital strategy within government.
• Develop anchor partners for digital collaborations and ecosystem development, both at the national level and in the foundation’s priority states within countries, while staying aligned with the overall strategy.
• Serve as a point of contact on issues for internal and external collaborators, working within the complex matrix-style organization across the foundation.

Provide technical expertise to other foundation programs seeking to implement digital strategies aligned to a DPI approach.

• Provide input and review on all to other foundation teams and programmatic focus areas interested in implementing DPI.
• Lead the intake process, provide expertise on decisions related to digital public goods and the DPI approach, technical architecture of solutions, understanding of opensource solutions within the DPI stack.
• Manage a bench of subject matter experts that can provide deeper technical assessment.

Contribute to building a cohesive, high-impact, cross-foundation team focused on innovation and scaling of inclusive DPI in priority geographies and ensuring sustainability of the supporting ecosystem.

• Model the values and practices of a culture that promotes inclusivity, rigor, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Work closely with both the Seattle-based DPI team and the local country team to advance shared work.

Other duties as assigned.

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

We are looking for a recognized global professional with deep expertise about DPI’s in low- and middle-income countries. Additional knowledge and skills include:

• Advanced degree required, with 10+ years of demonstrated experience in a senior technical advisor role, ideally for tech companies, government, consultancy, think tanks, NGOs or similar.
• Depth of technical, economic, and political understanding of the DPI ecosystem and how it is evolving in priority geographies - including key trends, barriers, and opportunities to test high impact use cases for under-resourced and underserved populations.
• Depth of knowledge of low-and-middle income contexts, as well as the experience of historically marginalized groups (e.g. women, poor).
• Experience with social impact investing and an eye towards impact for marginalized groups, scale, and sustainability.
• Can collaborate effectively and with diplomacy to produce high-quality, high-impact outputs in a complex and highly matrixed organization.
• Excellent strategic thinker and strategy development experience.
• Experience managing grant portfolios and an understanding of the role of donors in advancing DPI efforts, is desirable
• Demonstrated ability to organize/prioritize work and meet deadlines within a fast-paced environment with multiple and competing demands.
• Innovative thinker who is hands-on and willing to go as deep or broad as necessary to achieve outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to question and challenge colleagues in a constructive manner.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, able to effectively synthesize information to reach diverse audiences and create consensus.

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