Gatesfoundation

Gatesfoundation

Deputy Director, Ending Infectious Diseases

Seattle, WA · Director · Contract

No sponsorship$238k-$304kDetected 6 days ago
AccessibilityBioinformaticsResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationAdaptabilityEpidemiology

About the role

  • The DD is responsible for shaping and overseeing a learning portfolio that generates high-quality research, analysis, and actionable insights to accelerate the Gates Foundation's Goal 2 (ending infectious diseases) progress towards 2045.
  • It will also be matrixed to Policy, Partnerships and Communications sub-team, ensuring an end-to-end approach to scale learning adoption with critical government and other external patterns.
  • It will work closely with the Women's Health & Maternal and Child Survival sub-team, given linkages.

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic leadership in synthesizing complex evidence, shaping investment and research priorities, and ensuring that research outputs meaningfully inform policy, program design, and decision-making.
  • Lead a sub-team of technical experts spanning immunization, polio, malaria, surveillance and other disease control interventions.
  • Build a high-performing, inclusive, and collaborative team culture.
  • Manage strategic relationships with key Program Strategy Teams (PSTs), Immunization, Polio, Malaria, EDGE ( Enterics, Diagnostics, Genomics & Epidemiology ), while maintaining strong connections with other teams contributing to Goal 2 outcomes.
  • Develop a deep understanding of partner strategies and serve as a thought partner in shaping future directions and identifying opportunities for collaboration.
  • Regularly assess projects and investments through an impact-focused lens, making intentional trade-offs and working across the matrix to optimize resources, leverage synergies, and strengthen overall portfolio effectiveness.
  • 5+ years in leadership roles with significant management responsibility, including building and managing senior-level teams. Track record of driving strategy and holding accountability for team performance, including budget oversight.
  • Stakeholder Influence and Partnership Building: Builds trusted relationships across foundation teams, governments, implementing partners, academia, and technology organizations to advance shared goals.
  • Interpersonal Effectiveness. Ability to build trust, influence without direct authority, and balance strategic rigor with practical execution.
  • INVESTING FOR IMPACT: builds and manages partnerships to achieve goals; evaluations and manages potential risks of investments and projects; designs and implements portfolios aligned with the strategy; gains clarity between the foundation and the partner on a shared set of outcomes.

Requirements

  • Strong proficiency in mixed-methods research, including design, analysis, and synthesis for research efforts, with particular focus on implementation research.
  • Analytic Proficiency: Strong proficiency in mixed-methods research, including design, analysis, and synthesis for research efforts, with particular focus on implementation research.

Nice to have

  • Demonstrated experience working in low- and middle-income countries, with substantial experience in Sub-Saharan Africa strongly preferred.

Skills

  • Must have unrestricted work authorization in the country where this position is located.
  • New hires salaries are typically between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint.
  • Hiring Requirements
  • Candidate Accommodations

Compensation

  • The salary range for this role is $238,400 to $303,900 USD.

Benefits

  • Working with a global network of partners, EGH identifies and studies exemplars and best practices across health outcomes, primary health care systems, and service delivery strategies.
  • 1) The study of "positive outliers"-identifying countries or regions that have achieved exceptional progress in health outcomes and analyzing the drivers behind their success;
  • 2) The study of emerging practices with global learning value, using prospective research and real-time analytics alongside implementation to meet the ambition of 'learning by doing';
  • 4) External partnerships to scale exemplary practices with governments, policymakers, global health initiatives, and multilateral development banks.
  • Develop strong relationships with academic researchers, partner organizations, and global health decision-makers, particularly in LMIC settings.
  • Deep experience leading research, learning, and knowledge-generation efforts, including familiarity with mixed-methods research, evidence synthesis, and analytical approaches.
  • People Leadership: Builds and develops high-performing, inclusive teams while fostering collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
  • Demonstrates intellectual curiosity, humility, integrity, and a commitment to collaboration, equity, and inclusion

Company info

  • The Exemplars in Global Health (EGH) program equips decision-makers with the evidence, insights, and practical "know-how" needed to accelerate and scale interventions that improve the health of the world's most vulnerable populations.
  • Through rigorous research, evidence synthesis, and timely analysis, EGH translates lessons from what works into actionable insights that help policymakers, practitioners, and funders strengthen systems, improve service delivery, and address pressing global health challenges.
  • We pursue this through:
  • The Foundation
  • We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world.

Visa & Work Authorization

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