Senior Program Officer, Vaccine Discovery

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** 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 Discovery & Translational Sciences (D&TS) is to catalyze innovation for the discovery and translation of transformative Global Health (GH) solutions. The primary role of D&TS is to support the foundation to achieve its ambitious equity goals as articulated in the objectives of the program strategies in GH and the Women’s Health Innovations program in Gender Equality (GE).

For this, we exploit a unique advantage of the foundation in general and D&TS in particular: the ability to invest in high-risk initiatives with potential for truly disruptive change. We channel resources into creating more practical (affordable, scalable, deliverable) versions of existing tools, develop transformative new tools where none exist, and speed the translation of scientific discovery into implementable solutions, seeking better ways to evaluate and refine potential interventions before they enter costly and time-consuming late-stage clinical trials.

Key functions in support of this R&D mission include identifying and filling gaps in scientific knowledge, creating or implementing new technology platforms that can accelerate research in support of our goals, investing in potentially transformative ideas, continuous surveying of an ever-changing scientific and technological innovation space, and the fostering of an effective ecosystem of global health innovation, funding, and partnership to advance the foundation’s mission.

Our intervention areas of focus include vaccines, biologics, drugs, and microbiome, as well as reproductive and sexual health.
The Vaccines and Biologics (VxBx) team has a large and growing portfolio of investments in innovative approaches and platforms aimed at the prevention of infectious diseases whose burdens are a major source and manifestation of inequity. As a functional team, we engage deeply and in a highly matrixed fashion with all our program strategy partners (e.g., Malaria, HIV, TB, Pneumonia and Pandemic Preparedness, Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases, Neglected Tropical Diseases, and Women’s Health Innovations) and other functional teams (e.g., Vaccine Development).

Outside the foundation, we work closely with diverse external not-for-profit and for-profit partners including academia, biotech, pharma, government agencies, and other key funders.
** Your Role
** The
** Senior Program Officer, Vaccine Discovery
** in Vaccine & Biologics is a critical position focused on driving innovation and impact in global vaccine discovery and development. Reporting to the Deputy Director, Vaccine Discovery in the DTS Vaccines & Biologics Domain, you will be responsible for assisting with the development of, and executing, a comprehensive Vaccine Discovery strategy, fostering collaboration across internal teams and external partners to advance immunological research and translational science.

You contribute to a productive and collaborative culture of innovation, and you are passionate about solving problems and addressing questions relevant to our mission.
** What You’ll Do
*** Support and execute the Vaccines Discovery strategy in a creative, rigorous, innovative, data-driven, analytical manner, developing…