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 mission of the Global Policy and Advocacy (GPA) division is to understand and shape the public policy debates affecting the foundation's work, build support for its major program and policy objectives, and develop partnerships and alliances that can advance the foundation's objectives nationally and globally. Because the foundation's resources alone are not enough to solve the challenges ahead, GPA also supports advocacy efforts to engage diverse stakeholders and promote innovative solutions that advance our program goals. We work in close partnership with grantees, our colleagues in the Global Health, Global Development, Global Growth & Opportunity, U.S. and Gender Equality programs and Foundation Communications to build the environment in which all people have the opportunity to lead healthy and productive lives.Application Deadline: Monday, June 15, 2026
Your Role
As an anchor member of GPA’s cross-cutting Health R&D initiative, the Senior Officer, Financing Partnerships will report to the Deputy Director for health R&D and infectious diseases, PAC, with a dotted line to the Coordinated Finance Lead in the Resource Mobilization Hub, GPA Office of the President. You will work with financing experts and relationship managers across GPA and other foundation teams to initiate, develop, coordinate, and accelerate bilateral co-financing partnerships for priority health innovations involving select donors, Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), as well as philanthropic and private sector investors. You will convene and lead GPA’s health R&D bilateral financing coordinating group; facilitate knowledge sharing and appropriate prioritization across co-financing efforts and with central GPA strategy functions; provide supplementary financing expertise among collaborative deal teams; and help directly develop and structure external financing opportunities as needed. You will also work closely with technical leads in foundation program teams to translate health impact data and financial needs into business cases that enable external engagement.
This role serves as a strategic coordinator and central integrator in a highly matrixed team, responsible for supporting rigor, transparency, and consistency across R&D financing dialogues even as other colleagues who manage partner relationships retain direct authority for guiding specific efforts. You will closely collaborate with PAC issue leads who provide day-to-day support to technical strategies; regional partnership leads and country engagement staff who manage dialogue with public funders; the Philanthropic Partnerships Team who leads our relationships with many private funders; business development leads in our program teams; the GPA Resource Mobilization Hub working across foundation financing strategies; and other GPA program management and strategy staff.
*This is a limited-term position through December 2027.
What You’ll Do
Opportunity Acceleration:
Convene the GPA Health R&D bilateral financing coordinating group — a cross-functional forum that supports prioritization of relevant opportunities and sets the cadence for collaboration among individual leads working on external financing for health R&D.
Serve as an expert voice on select deal teams alongside other technical GPA leads and partner relationship managers: shape opportunities, help size financing requirements, define ideal capital structures, lead or support outreach as needed, help negotiate terms, and help conclude and secure new partnerships.
Support strategic engagement with potential co-investors where gaps exist.
Support timely R&D deal-structuring (capital stacks, guarantees, concessional tranches, first-loss solutions), coordinating with all relevant internal operations leads, business partners, financial decision-makers, and advisors.
Strategy Coordination:
Translate the technical profiles of novel health innovations into funder-facing narratives, KPIs, and investment cases.
Standardize templates, materials, and processes for R&D deal teams (pitch decks, meeting cadences, master funder tracker, investable one-pagers).
Partner with PST technical leads, PAC advocacy specialists, and other R&D initiative leads to ensure co-financing strategies align with impact goals and advocacy strategies.
Engage regional teams, other partnerships leads, and country offices as appropriate to ensure in-market feasibility and alignment of financing opportunities to technical needs.
Leadership Support:
Oversee development and consistency of internal business cases: use-of-funds, costings, ROI/impact framing, and risk analysis.
Manage data-driven assessments and tracking to support funder engagement and trade-offs.
Prepare and write briefs for foundation leadership and wider circulation, synthesizing complex topics and making clear recommendations.
Your Experience
Deep experience with financial strategy, partnership development, and/or funder engagement in matrixed and collaborative settings focused on health R&D, including experience strategizing, pitching and working/partnering with key health R&D institutions.
Demonstrated deal-structuring expertise (capital stacks, blended instruments, guarantees, catalytic capital), with global health R&D-specific expertise ideal.
Track record managing or supporting complex structured financing deals (bilateral donors, MDBs/DFIs, blended finance, and/or major philanthropic transactions).
Experience coordinating with legal and finance teams through planning and negotiations.
Ability to translate technical program requirements into funder-relevant investment cases and KPI frameworks.
Experience in global health R&D, pharmaceutical/biotech transactions, or health innovation commercialization preferred.
Familiarity with impact investors and philanthropic ecosystems beyond major donors.
Proven ability to convene, lead, and sustain multidisciplinary teams. Experience in developing and managing strong partnerships and relationships with senior decision makers, and in building consensus.
Demonstrated critical and creative thinking, excellent writing, framing and structuring, business/data analytics and public presentation skills – across technical topics.
Comfortable operating in a matrixed, fast-moving organization and building credibility with senior stakeholders.
Willingness to travel up to 25%.
** Must have unrestricted work authorization in the country where this position is located. The Foundation does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. This includes direct company sponsorship and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (eg: H-1B, O-1, L-1, E, OPT, STEM-OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.).
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The salary range for this role is $190,100 to $294,700 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 $209,100 to $324,100 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 candidate’s job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.
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
We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring experience for all candidates. If you have a disability or medical condition and need an accommodation at any stage of the application or interview process—such as an ASL interpreter, alternative interview format, or physical accessibility support—we’re happy to help. Please contact HR@gatesfoundation.org with the position number and a brief description of your accommodation needs. Requests will be handled confidentially.
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.