Senior Manager, Strategy Design & Delivery

Position title:    Senior Manager, Strategy Design & Delivery 
Contract type / duration:    5-year fixed-term contract
Location:    Geneva
Department:    Strategy, Policy & Foresight
Team:    Strategy Design & Delivery Team 
Reports To:    Head, Strategy Design & Delivery
N° of positions supervised (if applicable):    1-3
Career Step:    4

1. About the Role

The Strategy, Policy and Foresight Department serves as Gavi’s strategic compass – guiding the organisation through complexity with clarity, credibility, and collaboration. The department focuses on four work areas:

• Foresight: Ensuring the Alliance remains fit-for-purpose over the long term by anticipating trends, navigating uncertainty, and helping reshape the global health ecosystem.
• Strategy: Leading the development of Gavi’s five-year strategies (e.g. Gavi 6.0) and sub-strategies and getting them ready for roll-out, grounded in evidence, and responsive to country needs.
• Policy: Crafting evidence-based programmatic, funding and vaccine policies and investment cases that are country-driven, impactful, equitable, and resource-efficient.
• Delivery Acceleration: Accelerating the implementation of strategy delivery where cross-functional collaboration is essential to drive impact (e.g. programmatic ‘must wins’).

Through its two teams - Strategy Design & Delivery Team (SDD) and Policy - the department operates with a structured, data-driven, and solution-oriented approach.

The core objective of the role is to design and deliver high-impact strategic programmatic initiatives that shape Gavi’s future direction. The Senior Manager will manage the development of high-quality, evidence-based options and recommendations for senior decision-makers, facilitate stakeholder engagement across the Secretariat, Alliance and broader global health ecosystem, and ensure strategic priorities are translated into practical implementation plans. 

2. Key Responsibilities

The Senior Manager develops and delivers high-impact strategic programmatic initiatives that shape Gavi’s future direction. Responsibilities include:

• Manage the delivery of robust evidence bases, actionable options and recommendations, and implementation plans aligned with Gavi’s strategic priorities, working closely with cross-Secretariat project teams.
• Develop high-quality, insight-driven deliverables—including strategy documents, presentations and decision memos—for Gavi’s CEO, Senior Leadership Team, and Board.
• Manage stakeholder engagement across the Alliance and broader global health ecosystem at technical and leadership level, facilitating transparent, inclusive processes and fostering alignment.
• Translate strategic priorities into practical implementation plans, including facilitating integration into Gavi Secretariat guidelines, processes, and programmes.

As examples, the initiatives that the Senior Manager will manage cover the following questions:

• What are the implications of key trends in the multilateral, global health and immunisation ecosystem for the Alliance’s long-term value proposition and operating model? 
• How will Gavi recalibrate the Gavi 6.0 Strategy factor in the outcome of its replenishment? What are the implications for strategy roll-out? 
• How should Gavi’s approach to Fragile and Humanitarian settings evolve in Gavi 6.0?
• How will Gavi’s collaboration with the Global Fund and other global health institutions evolve in the context of the reshaping global health architecture? 
• What is Gavi’s approach to a more effective, sustainable, and integrated model for delivering immunisation campaigns? 

Note: The essential functions listed in this section are not exhaustive of the job responsibilities; other duties may be assigned consistently with the department's needs.

3. Your Experience and Skills

Professional Experience:

• Typically, 8 to 12 years of professional experience, including at least three years of professional experience in programmatic strategy and/or policy design required.
• At least two years of experience in global health, global development and/or the non-profit sector required.
• At least two years of experience as management consultant in a leading management consulting firm and at least two years of experience in the private sector (healthcare, impact investment or management consulting) required.
• Experience working with vaccines, immunisation or infectious diseases, understanding of epidemiology and work experience in developing countries a plus.

Education and Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in business administration, public health, epidemiology, medicine, public policy, economics, international development or equivalent required.

Technical and Functional Skills:

• Global Health Expertise: Deep understanding of global health institutions and the dynamics in the broader global health and development ecosystem.
• Strategy & Policy: Proven ability to design and refine large-scale strategies, policies, and investment cases, translating evidence and trends into actionable recommendations aligned with organisational goals.
• Analytical Problem-Solving: Strong capacity to break down complex issues, apply qualitative/quantitative methods (including health economics and epidemiology), and deliver evidence-based options for senior decision-makers.
• Executive Communication: Advanced skills in producing clear, rigorous, decision-ready documents and presentations for senior audiences (CEO, Board, Leadership Team).
• Stakeholder Engagement: Experienced in facilitating alignment among diverse technical and executive stakeholders, with confidence in engaging C-suite leaders.
• Political Acumen: Ability to navigate politically sensitive and complex situations effectively.
• Influencing: Skilled at building trust, fostering alignment, and driving outcomes across organizational levels in multicultural settings.
• Change Leadership: Track record of operationalising strategic and policy priorities, developing implementation plans, overcoming resistance, and embedding sustainable new ways of working.

Languages Needed:

• Fluent in English. 
• Other languages desirable, particularly French.

4. How You Work (Behaviours and Mindsets)

• You are highly collaborative, building trust-based relationships across diverse teams, departments, and partner organisations to drive progress on complex, cross-cutting initiatives.
• You communicate with clarity, confidence and diplomacy, navigating sensitive dynamics and influencing outcomes across a wide range of stakeholders, including at senior leadership and Board levels.
• You operate with a high degree of autonomy, taking full ownership of your scope of work and driving it forward with structure, energy and accountability.
• You thrive in complex, fast-evolving environments, demonstrating agility and sound judgment in the face of ambiguity and shifting priorities.
• You consistently demonstrate strategic initiative, critical thinking, and resilience under pressure, proactively identifying risks and proposing solutions to keep work on track.
• You are able to work in a multicultural environment and establish harmonious working relationships with multiple teams.
• You are mission-driven and delivery-oriented, maintaining focus on achieving tangible impact while upholding the highest standards of excellence.