Senior/Program Coordinator, Discovery and Translational Sciences

About the Team

The mission of Discovery and Translational Sciences, within the Global Health division, is to catalyze innovation for the discovery and translation of transformative solutions to global health inequity. We pursue this by accelerating the discovery and translation of products that will help achieve the foundation’s global health impact goals.

Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert on investment tools, systems, and templates and provide training and coaching to program team and external partners when needed.
• Partner with investment makers by supporting the development, management, and maintenance of a portfolio of investments. Independently manage complex investments and partnerships to shape and optimize successful investments, ensuring alignment with strategies and intended outcomes.
• Perform initial investment due diligence, including the collection of portfolio data, identification of trends, and management timelines. Accountable for portfolio analysis and risk identification, as well as providing a perspective on portfolio performance and delivering thorough readouts to leadership.
• Advise on complex investments, budgets, and financial analysis to maximize impact and identify risks.
• Build, develop, and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to facilitate the investment lifecycle, including engagement with and management of external grantee and partner relationships. Steward complex partnerships.
• Partner with investment makers to operationalize and shape key business processes, including pipeline planning, forecasting, and deliverable management.
• Provide in-depth project management to the investment team, including tracking timelines, deliverables, and communications.
• Maintain file organization, team sites, data and records, and a system for tracking, monitoring, and prioritizing tasks and projects.
• Support deputy directors with monthly domain meetings.
• Manage funding envelope for the GH Collaboratory Platforms grantees and internal teams funding the platform.
• Support an inclusive culture through modeling behaviors and actions; raise issues in a timely fashion to appropriate stakeholders.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent demonstrated experience, preferably in business administration or program management.
• Experience in project management, portfolio management, financial reporting, or the non-profit/related industry.
• Practical understanding of all stages of the investment lifecycle and investment rules, mechanisms, regulations, policies, processes, and practices.
• Proficiency in Excel, PowerBI, investment systems and tools, and ability to learn internal systems.
• Experience in financial planning and budgeting.