Program Officer, Strengthening Service Delivery

**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. As an organization we offer full healthcare premiums coverage, generous paid time off, contribution to your retirement fund, several employee communities, and a commitment to embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion into everything we do.

**The Team**

The Global Development Program includes a diverse range of program areas aimed at finding creative ways to ensure solutions and products get into the hands of people in low-income countries who need them most. We focus on areas with the potential for high-impact, sustainable solutions that can reach millions of people. Our program strategies include: Emergency Response; Family Planning; Maternal Newborn & Child Health; Nutrition; Polio Eradication. A common theme across these programs is focus on innovative delivery, including an emphasis on strengthening primary health care systems. The Global Development Program also encompasses our India Country Office and Africa Team, with physical offices in Johannesburg, Addis Ababa, and Abuja. Our Program Strategy Teams work in close partnership with these Country Office Teams to align the foundation’s health and development equity agenda with the government’s broader priorities.

Our culture shapes our choices about what we do and how we do it. We believe that energized people, working well together, fueled by great leadership in an inclusive environment can do extraordinary things. We expect foundation employees to intentionally and consistently embody our values of optimism, collaboration, rigor, innovation and inclusion.

Our efforts are aligned with India’s objectives of improving the lives of its people - working closely with India’s Central and State governments, we partner with community groups, nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, the private sector, and development organizations, to achieve our shared goals. Our strong networks and ability to convene intellectual resources from many sectors and regions of the globe allows us to address complex challenges as they emerge or evolve.

Our efforts in India focus on key issues that will affect the future of India’s most vulnerable communities: reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition; urban sanitation; agricultural development; gender equality, and digital financial inclusion (DFI).

With a particular focus on Bihar and Uttar Pradesh (UP), we work with partners to develop impactful and sustainable solutions to improve the quality and coverage of key services for the poor and vulnerable. We also work in the states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and Maharashtra to support programs in urban sanitation, agricultural development, gender equality, and DFI.

**Your Role**

Located in New Delhi, the postholder will ensure that our programming in the Reproductive Maternal Neonatal Child Health and Nutrition (RMNCHN) portfolio in UP and Bihar is robust and well-positioned for the impact and sustainability we are hoping to achieve in both states. This role will involve close collaboration with technical teams and colleagues from our Family Health (FH) portfolio (Family Planning, MNCH and Nutrition) both in India and Seattle. In addition, they will use knowleddge across functions such as Health Systems Strengthening (HSS), Behavioral Insights, Advocacy, Measurement Learning and Evaluation (MLE) to design and implement a grant portfolio that is optimal for impact and sustainability.

Under the leadership of the Deputy Director - State HSS, this position will support and cultivate relevant government engagement in UP.

**What You'll Do**

**1. Contribute to conceptualizing articulating and shaping priorities in the foundation’s FH portfolio in UP and Bihar**
- Work with the broader UP and Bihar Deal/Investment Teams, FH Team and Seattle-based Program Strategy Teams in designing and implementing the FH portfolio of investments in UP and Bihar
- Jointly accountable, with the Bihar/UP Deal/Investment Teams, for ensuring the foundation’s goals related to FH (MMR, NMR, nutritional outcomes, large scale food fortification) are met in a time-bound and sustainable manner in both states
- Manage the following workstreams in the state in close collaboration with the FH Team and Bihar/UP SPOs Health System Strengthening: a) Strengthen facility-based care/service delivery - Bihar and UP: this workstream includes activities to help optimize and activate public facility infrastructure, and interventions to improve intrapar