The Foundation
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, weโre committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.
The TeamOur Malaria PST invests in innovation to reduce the burden of and eradicate malaria worldwide. Annually, malaria causes 250M+ cases and 500k+ deaths, and our strategy is to enable countries and the global community to achieve eradication in a way that saves as many lives as possible on the way. This means we 1) invest early in long-term development and deployment of new tools and capabilities to shorten the endgame, 2) partner with others to introduce innovations at-scale to drive down burden more aggressively in the short-term, and 3) support countermeasures to the evolution of biological resistance, which threatens the effectiveness of our diagnostics, drugs, and insecticides. We focus on high-burden countries and invest in the innovation to improve the performance, coverage, and targeting of interventions for all three, including โmoonshotsโ like genetically modified mosquitoes and vaccines. A fundamental enabler of interventions is accurate, timely, and geo-localized targeting. To improve this, we advocate for and support countries in their use of data, as well as invest in the roll-out of next-generation technologies, like molecular surveillance and digital transformation of country programs.
Your Role
As the Senior Program Officer Malaria Modeling & Quantitative Science, you will not only directly perform rapid analytics but also manage partnerships (including grants and contracted staff) with the purpose of enhancing quantitative rigor for both internal strategy and investment decisions, as well as partner decisions across the spectrum of malaria biomedical and vector control product development and delivery. This will include conducting and/or managing mathematical modeling and other advanced analytics approaches (e.g., stratification and risk analysis, epidemiological impact assessment, cost/budget-constrained optimization, cost-effectiveness analysis, geospatial targeting of interventions, and more). This work will inform how the foundation defines its malaria eradication strategy, including for product R&D and target product profiles. You will also apply these quantitative approaches to facilitation of product development stage-gate decisions, preparing key data for the stage gates and providing thought partnership and analysis to our internal product development experts and to our grantees.
Beyond product development, you will support the team in applying quantitative analysis to significant science, global policy, and local operational questions related to malaria eradication efforts. Additionally, you will manage grants to modeling and software technology partners to improve the ability of local decision-makers and analytics partners to understand current and future intervention performance and make data-informed decisions for intervention prioritization and targeting. You will expand a portfolio focused on embedding quantitative analysis closer to decision makers in national programs. Your work will help identify and close gaps in primary data collection, to strengthen the analytical tools and methods used by the malaria community, and to advance best practices in packaging and disseminating data and insights. You will also provide support converting analytical work products into compelling visualizations, persuasive narratives, and novel insights to inform decision-making and/or policy-setting.
This work will require a broad range of internal and external collaborations, and working with the Malaria PST, you will interface with the internal Institute for Disease Modeling, the broader malaria modeling community, country programs and foundation country offices, and internal foundation functional teams, such as the Integrated Portfolio Management team.
What Youโll Do
- Make and manage investments in malaria quantitative sciences teams around the world.
- Inform the foundation's malaria eradication strategy, including product R&D and target product profiles (TPPs).
- Support malaria product R&D efforts with mathematical modeling and quantitative analytics of interventions between and within product classes.
- Facilitate product development stage-gate decisions, prepare stage gate dossiers, and provide thought partnership and analysis to internal product development experts and grantees.
- Utilize your technical expertise and the talents of the malaria quantitative sciences community to address the most impactful issues.
- Develop and use innovative quantitative approaches to explore scenarios for the optimal delivery of malaria interventions
- Approach problem-solving using innovative framing and cross-disciplinary approaches to simplify your work and focus on the most essential issues
- Work closely with internal and external partners to understand and prioritize current policy and programmatic problems and questions.
- Clearly communicate sophisticated methods and results to diverse audiences.
- Identify knowledge or data gaps in settings in which we work and propose solutions to strengthen the analytical tools and methods used by the malaria community, advancing best practices in packaging and disseminating data and insights.
- Support an inclusive team and community culture through modeling foundation values, escalating issues in a timely fashion to appropriate stakeholders, and working with the Malaria PST and the internal Institute for Disease Modeling.
Your Experience
We are looking for team members who enjoy working on complex problems and collaboratively designing and conducting analytics that inform the strategies and investments we make in approaches that transform lives of people around the world. Candidates must be excellent team players who are excited to work across the spectrum of malaria product development and delivery.
- Master's degree required, preferably in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics/Biostatistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Epidemiology, Computational Biology), PhD in a quantitative field is a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaborative and efficiently as part of a team.
- Demonstrated experience in modeling (e.g., stochastic processes, compartmental models, or agent-based models) applied to infectious disease or other health topics, coupled with strong data analysis skills.
- Experience in statistical inference preferred (e.g., maximum likelihood, Bayesian statistics, optimization).
- Proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g. R, Python, etc...)
- Knowledge of disease control and public health issues in LMICs a plus; knowledge of malaria modeling and eradication principles desired.
- Excellent communication skills required to ensure product profiles and delivery settings we work in can be parameterized into disease models, and outputs can feedback to product developers and decision makers.
- Knowledge of the product development process and the importance of Target Product Profiles desired.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a self-guided manner, in highly unstructured and ambiguous situations, and can multitask across priorities.
- Ability to question and challenge colleagues including managers and partners in constructive manner.
Other Attributes
- Commitment to our core values, mission, and programs with an approach that is consistent with the foundationโs guiding principles and holding self to the highest ethical standards.
- Self-starter with a bias for action, thought partnership, efficiency, humility, intellectual curiosity, and investing in relationships.
- Excellent listening skills and empathy
- Ability to learn new content quickly, identify connections and second-order implications, and establish credibility with internal/external teams.
- Ability to travel up to 20% domestically and internationally
*Must be able to legally work in the US without visa sponsorship.
The salary range for this role is $186,400 to $288,800 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle and Washington D.C., where our offices are located. The range for this role in these locations is $203,100 to $314,900 USD. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission. New hires salaries are typically between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidateโs job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.
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Inclusion Statement
We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion โ of voices, ideas, and approaches โ and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.
All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.