Associate Officer, Projects.

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, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The Team

The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Center of Excellence (CoE) is a central functional team made up of experts, specialists and enabling partners (i.e., analytics, communications, project managers, and external consultants) to provide foundation-wide direction, governance, tools, and resources to drive DEI commitment, change and results.
In order to fulfill our vision of helping all people lead healthy, productive lives, including the lives of our employees, we are committed to practicing:
• Representation and Acceptance of all forms of visible and invisible difference
• A sense of Belonging and being respected, valued, and seen for who we are as individuals
• Fairness in creating opportunities for all to have equal access to development, resources, and pay

Application Deadline: 27/ 5/2025

Your Role

The associate officer - Projects will help provide project management support, manage roadmaps, co-ordinate, report and partner with various teams across different countries to ensure projects deliver the expected scope and business value timeously.

The position reports to the Regional DEI Lead for Africa and EMEA. It is a 12-month limited-term employment position based in Kenya. The ideal candidate must be legally authorized to work in Kenya without visa sponsorship.

What You'll Do

• Provide project support on execution job on projects, programs, and processes to deliver business value, including maintaining responsibility for planning, managing, and tracking progress of the execution approach.

• Identify opportunities to operate more efficiently and better serve the division, propose potential projects, and partner with stakeholders to execute projects and make improvements.

• Support with the development of country -level DEI priorities and monitor status, including document and communications creation, presentation preparation, logistical support, and SharePoint management.

• Monitor progress and impact and partner with different country teams to assess course corrections and plan adjustments.

• Build and manage project management infrastructure needed to support team.

• Serve as front-line customer support to triage and resolve issues.

• Serve as a point of contact for communications-related efforts.

• Ensure projects are executed in line with foundation guidelines, processes, and policies

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

Your Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.

• An MBA or a PMP certification is an added advantage

• Excellent written, visual, and verbal communication skills effective with broad and diverse audience.

• Ability to track and manage formal and informal intersections and interdependencies, upstream/downstream effects, and identify future implications across the end-to-end system to support roadmap management and strategic prioritization.

• Advanced knowledge of succinctly communicating key strategic objectives and performance goals and consistently building momentum for a project across teams in a dynamic environment with competing priorities.

• Understanding of the business benefits of projects and operational processes and the linkage between project/program goals and organizational strategy and drivers.

Other Attributes

• This position is a limited-term position for 12 months based in Kenya. Relocation will not be provided.

• Excellent stakeholder engagement, particularly across different regions and cultures

• Ability to travel 25 - 30% of the time.

• 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.

Candidate Accommodations

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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 — of voices, ideas, and approaches — 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.