Program Officer - New Vaccine Introduction Support (9-month LTE)

The Program Officer - New Vaccine Introduction Support, will support Foundation's efforts to enable a broad group of partners towards evidence-based decision-making regarding introduction, scale-up, product switch, optimization of schedule and evaluating effectiveness/impact of available/novel vaccines of public health importance. The postholder will work in the infectious diseases and vaccine delivery cluster of the ICO's Health Team to develop and implement strategies for the above. They will work in close coordination with the Foundation's Seattle based Immunization, Vaccine Development, Program Advocacy & Communication, Program Strategy Teams (PST), as well as teams based in the ICO. This is a limited-term position (LTE) for nine months, based at the Foundation's ICO office in New Delhi, and report to the Deputy Director, Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Delivery. Relocation will not be provided. What You'll Do: - Establish collaborations with child health policy makers and program managers in government at central and state levels to provide critical input around informed decision making regarding introducing available/novel vaccines of public health importance into the universal immunization program. - Build strategic alliances and collaborative relationships with other partners including donors, multilateral and bilateral agencies, international and national academic and research organizations and implementing organizations. - Provide strategy inputs to ICO and Seattle based teams in a matrix organizational setting, including approaches and/or studies that would facilitate introduction, scale-up and sustenance of available/novel vaccines, in India's Universal Immunization Program (UIP). - Facilitate generation, synthesis and utilization of critical evidence related to vaccine issues related to optimization of schedules, switch to newer products, evaluation of vaccine effectiveness/ impact. - Understand the regulatory environment for new vaccines and related products and develop appropriate support on behalf of the Foundation. - Work closely with the ICO's immunization team to achieve coverage and equity goals for these vaccines in India. - Facilitate development and management of a portfolio of Foundation investments (grants and contracts) in support of the immunization strategy, including reviewing letters of inquiry, soliciting proposals, selecting grantees, and preparing proposal summaries to submit to Foundation leadership. - Lead, plan, manage and perform a wide range of activities in support of strategy planning, prospect and develop sophisticated investment opportunities, grant management and external relationship management. This would include - prioritizing work to highest impact activities, ensuring evidence for policy changes. - Review letters of inquiry and grant proposals; provide clear, concise, and informative written analyses and recommendations for funding, including drafting and editing proposal summaries and progress reports for existing grants for review by foundation leadership. - Consult with grantees to achieve desired impact of grants; conduct site visits, provide technical mentorship, convene meetings and apply and evaluate performance objectives. - Manage internal processes and portfolio progress while ensuring documentation, grant budgeting and reporting. Improve operational efficiency and effectiveness to have the greatest time and health impact. - Assist in providing project briefings and updates to Foundation leadership. - Represent the Foundation in government and partner meetings, conferences, and workshops.

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