As the employment agency hiring temporary workers to be assigned to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, we are responsible for direct hiring and seeking candidates for the following temporary role at the Foundation.

AgileOne designs and develops global workforce and procurement solutions for Fortune 1000 companies. Our focused and consultative approach provides solutions that streamline business processes and deliver efficiencies to human resources, procurement, and suppliers.

The Foundation
We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: that people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. By building a global and cultural workplace that supports greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — together with our employees and partners, we can help all people improve their lives from poverty and health to education. **

Group Summary**
The Maternal, Newborn, Child Nutrition & Health (MNCNH) Team is responsible for an end-to-end approach focused on product discovery, development, introduction, and scale of novel and existing high impact products for women, adolescent girls, and children in low-resource settings. Our approach targets underlying biological vulnerability and seeks to intervene as early as possible in the life course. We fund development on a core set of products that range in type (including drugs, foods, microbes, risk algorithms, and devices), technical risk (from novel concepts to product substitutions), and development phase (from early discovery to late-stage efficacy testing and implementation research). We also support launch and introduction planning of a subset of our core products that are further in the development process to accelerate country adoption and uptake in the global architecture and drive impact at scale. These products target pregnancy risk, maternal undernutrition, prematurity, neonatal encephalopathy, child wasting, child neurodevelopment and maternal morbidity. Our team is multidisciplinary and includes physician scientists with backgrounds in obstetrics and pediatrics, perinatal epidemiologists, and professionals in neurodevelopment, nutrition research, engineering, global health, strategy development and industry-experienced market and commercialization experts. We emphasize in-country partnership to integrate the local context into research and development.
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Leadership & Culture**
Our culture shapes our choices about what we do and how we do it. We believe that energized people, working well together and having fun, fueled by great leadership in an inclusive environment can do extraordinary things. We expect foundation employees to intentionally and consistently embody our four agreements: show respect, offer trust, be transparent and create energy.
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Position Summary**
This Program Coordinator (PC) position sits on the Strategy, Planning and Management team on Maternal Newborn, Child Nutrition & Health (MNCNH). MNCNH is part of the Gender Equality (GE) Division – a new and growing division, and so we are seeking a candidate that is comfortable with ambiguity, is flexible and is energized by tackling new areas of work. The Program Coordinator serves a crucial coordinating function for investment making/handling by partnering closely with Program Officers and Grants and Contract Services.

The Program Coordinator will support the MNCNH team's work by being responsible for the management, coordination, implementation, and maintenance of a range of projects and activities throughout the life cycle of grants and contracts. In support of programmatic strategic goals, the PC provides budget oversight and planning, financial analysis, financial reporting and/or portfolio and operations process management for a portfolio of investments including grants, contracts, and other projects. The MNCNH PC acts as a primary investment process advisor and contact for grantee/vendor initiation, reporting and closure, and serves as a primary liaison across multiple internal teams throughout the lifecycle of an investment. Beyond investment management, this role supports the development of team and GE division process improvements and roll-out efforts of new internal processes, in support of the efficient operations of the team. **

Key Duties & Responsibilities**

• ****Grant and Contracts Coordination: Shepherd the development, management, and close out of grants. Coordinate contracts, including tracking of invoicing and deliverables, receipt of required reports and supervising expenditures. Coordinate the end-to-end contract and grant processes with internal parties (contracts, grants & legal business partners) and external parties (vendors & grantees) within the INVEST system.

• Shapes and analyzes portfolio of investments to align to goals and priorities and to balance investments across risk, time horizon, partner types, and other portfolio factors, in partnership with deputy director, program manager and team of program officers.

• Facilitates planning and alignment for team priorities, and portfolio execution progress including supporting the Execution Meetings, Concept Review Meetings, Annual Planning and body of work reviews.

• Collaborates with business partners, grantees and vendors throughout the investment lifecycle to lead investments through internal and external processes. Collects portfolio data, identifies trends and communicates issues to program team.

• Responsible for high-quality interactions and clear and consistent communications with grantees and partners in the field.

• Acts as subject matter authority on processes, tools, systems and templates and provides training, ongoing coaching and process change support to program team and external partners to ensure successful adoption and sustained use.

• Plans and participates in cross-foundation and cross-program projects as appropriate. Areas of involvement may include Investment Workflow, IT, Finance, HR, and others. **
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Core Knowledge & Skills

• Willing to take action: Able to work with flexibility, efficiency, and tact in a fast-paced, exciting environment. Open to rapid change and able to learn new things quickly. Able to distill what is needed next, even without expertise in programmatic content.

• Builds trust, influences individuals, and teams without explicit authority, and cultivates collaboration and conflict resolution across colleagues, with partners, and among impacted groups.

• Learns new content quickly.

• Communicates clearly with team members and partners.

• Handles Complexity: Recognizes complexity and assess risks and alternatives considering contending requirements and incomplete knowledge.

• Optimizes Work Processes: Understands basic investment rules, regulations, policies, processes, and practices and can advise when they are applicable. Is knowledgeable in all phases of investment-making and engages partners and decision-makers. Sees and acts on improvement opportunities (process, self, etc.)

• Demonstrates knowledge of, and ability to work across multiple investment-making systems, based in INVEST, Excel, SharePoint, and other web-based software applications. Basic SharePoint site administration skills, including metadata tagging, document view creation, archiving, and creating and maintaining confidential files.
  Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree and 3+ year of experience or equivalent.

• Project management, portfolio management, financial management, financial reporting, non-profit or related industry and business experience is preferred.

• Grant-making knowledge a plus and/or experience as a Program Coordinator at BMGF preferred.

*Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.

Hiring Requirements

As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

NOTIFICATION: All opportunities listed are temporary in scope, and your employer would be AgileOne. These assignments are temporary and “at will.” There is no guarantee of on-going employment with AgileOne or any promise, express or implied, of conversion to employment with the Foundation.