Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Senior Program Coordinator - Africa Team

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation$88K — $105K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in business administration or program management.
  • Project and portfolio management experience in the non-profit or related industry.
  • Understanding of the investment lifecycle and relevant regulations.
  • Proficiency in investment systems and tools with a capacity to learn new internal systems.
  • Experience in financial planning and budgeting.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate, develop, and manage a portfolio of investments.
  • Support and manage complex investments to ensure alignment with strategic outcomes.
  • Perform investment due diligence, including data collection and portfolio analysis.
  • Advise on budgets and financial analysis to maximize investment impact.
  • Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders that facilitate project execution.
  • Operationalize business processes related to annual planning and portfolio reviews.
  • Provide comprehensive project management support, including tracking and change management.

Benefits

  • Collaborative working environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Opportunity for professional development through training and coaching.
  • Experience working with diverse stakeholders and complex partnerships.
  • Involvement in shaping and optimizing investment strategies.
  • Chance to contribute to the improvement of operational and investment management processes.
Full Job Description

Your Role

You coordinate, develop, and manage a portfolio of investments, including the implementation and maintenance of a range of activities associated with the lifecycle of grants and contracts. You manage projects in support of programmatic and strategic goals, while contributing to the continuous improvement of resource allocation, operational, and investment management processes. You provide oversight and support for budget planning, financial reporting, portfolio monitoring, and related analysis, and apply expertise in internal and external processes, systems, and tools to inform sound decision-making.

You also work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, including grantees, vendors, and local implementing partners, to facilitate effective execution across the investment lifecycle. In this role, you provide operational guidance, training, and capacity-building support to strengthen partner readiness, compliance, and implementation quality. The role requires strong cross-functional coordination, relationship management, and the ability to help translate strategy into effective, timely, and well-managed execution.

What You’ll Do

  • 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. Able to independently manage complex investments and partnerships in service of shaping and optimizing successful investments, as well as ensure 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, identify risks, and propose mitigation plans.

  • 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. Overall ability to steward highly complex partnerships.

  • Partner with investment makers to operationalize and shape key business processes, including annual planning, forecasting, regular portfolio reviews, financial planning, and budget.

  • Provide in-depth project management to investment team, including tracking timelines, deliverables, communications, and change management. Also includes development of the non-technical portion of the project framework and working on special projects.

  • Lead implementation and change efforts for the team, which may include developing new processes, sharing best practices, analyzing workloads, and providing business updates.

  • Maintain file organization, team sites, data and records, and a system for tracking, monitoring, and prioritizing tasks, and projects.

  • Support inclusive culture through modeling behaviors and actions; raise issues in a timely fashion to appropriate stakeholders.

Your Experience

  • A bachelor’s degree or equivalent demonstrated experience preferably in business administration or program management.

  • Experience in project management, portfolio management, financial reporting, non-profit or related industry

  • Practical understanding of all stages of the investment lifecycle and investment rules, mechanisms, regulations, policies, processes, and practices.

  • Proficiency in investment systems and tools, and ability to learn internal systems.

  • Experience in financial planning and budgeting.

Other Attributes

  • Must have unrestricted work authorization in the country where this position is located.

  • The Foundation does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role.

  • Ability to commit 10 - 15% to domestic & International travel.

Hiring Requirements

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

About Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a private foundation founded by Bill and Melinda Gates. The foundation was launched in 2000 and is based in Seattle, Washington. The primary goals of the foundation are to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology. The foundation is one of the largest charitable organizations in the world, with an endowment of over $50 billion. The foundation has made significant contributions to global health, including the eradication of polio in India and the development of new vaccines for malaria and tuberculosis. The foundation also supports a variety of educational initiatives, including the development of new technologies for teaching and learning.
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