Program Officer, Fortification Compliance - Nutrition (LTE)
Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Seattle
Posted on: October 13, 2024
Job Description:
The FoundationWe 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 TeamDo you want to
solve malnutrition with innovations for compliance? Then this
posting might be for you. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's
Nutrition team is working to increase access to adequate nutrition
through a large-scale food fortification (LSFF) focused strategy.
Food fortification means adding essential vitamins and minerals to
everyday consumed foods such as salt, flour, and cooking oil. This
is one of the most scalable, sustainable, and cost-effective tools
to reduce malnutrition worldwide. We understand the fortification
of commonly used foods as an integrated intervention within wider
food and nutrition security policies. We capture this as the "one
nutrition" approach in lockstep with the agricultural development's
food systems approach and the maternal, new-born and child health
team's focus on nutrition through health systems. The strategy will
invest in ground-breaking solutions to produce practicable data;
achieve innovations in micronutrients, food vehicles, and devices;
enable technical assistance to millers and food inspectors to
increase quality and compliance of fortified staples; promote
regulation as well as more and better standards for fortification.
Our Nutrition strategy is part of the foundation's Global Growth
and Opportunity division which focuses on creating and scaling
market-based innovations to stimulate inclusive and sustainable
economic growth. We seek to catalyze sustainable transformative
change in the face of inequities and market failures, to realize
the potential of untapped markets, and to see the economic and
social benefits of including everyone. Core areas are Agricultural
Development; Financial Services for the Poor; the Global Education
Program; and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene. We seek solutions that
are sustainable, transformative, and inclusive with an eye toward
applying technology innovations as well as data evidence to inspire
change in the world's developing countries. *This position is a
limited-term position for 11 months. Relocation will not be
provided.Your Role The Program Officer (PO), Fortification
Compliance position will support our work around effective
regulatory compliance in fortification. This is the key to
sustaining fortification programs over time and covers quality
assurance (QA) inside food production, as well as external quality
control (QC). Fortification QA/QC is often resource-constrained and
needs fresh innovation: How can fortification be piggy-backed with
low effort on food safety monitoring? What would enable
fortification monitoring to become more centered around testing in
the field than relying on laboratories? What role could third
parties play to assure fortification compliance in markets? Our
work also covers efforts on digitizing the LSFF value chain.
Reporting to one of the Deputy Directors (DD) Nutrition and with a
dotted line to a Senior Program Officer (SPO), you will support the
management of the respective body of work. This includes handling a
portfolio of investments, ensuring collaboration with colleagues
across the team (especially as regards data initiatives), across
the foundation and working with external partners and managing
grantees to enable progress. We value various perspectives from the
LMIC communities we serve. In doing so, we operate with agility -
both with program structure and grant management - and incorporate
user-centric approaches along the way. What You'll Do
- Support innovative approaches for effective fortification
compliance as a technical expert by refining strategy and execution
through providing analytic, programmatic, and scientific insights.
- Strong design and project management skills in collaboration
with team members: Drive grant results that support strategy
execution of fortification compliance systems and digitizing its
value chain. This includes identifying new grant opportunities,
managing existing grants and working closely with grantees to
ensure project objectives are aligned with plans. And that they are
being carried out in an agile manner that allows for course
corrections as needed.
- Specifically, you will contribute to multi-stakeholder
partnerships globally and locally by intentionally shaping existing
partnerships, scoping new partners, and discussing and co-creating
solutions for fortification compliance with them. This also
includes specifically collaborating with a consortium of partners
that are working on different aspects of digital fortification
traceability and quality management. The PO will be dedicated to
integrating local voices.
- Together with a project manager, drive the development and
progress of a pipeline of innovative solutions for measuring and
analyzing quality of fortified foods. This will include maintaining
existing partnerships, scoping new technology opportunities,
identifying pathways to scale promising technologies, and being
intentionally inclusive of the local partner voice in developing
solutions.
- Concretely, also support impactful fortification compliance
delivery partnerships and alliances by forming relationships and
scaling solutions to strengthen LSFF in LMICs, via on site and
remote / digital training tools and content by co-creating with
partners. Engage in multi-stakeholder meetings and workshops,
ideally including ease and experience with high-level events with a
focus on local implementation impact in LMICs.
- Partner closely within the nutrition team and across multiple
foundation teams including those focused on maternal, newborn and
child health, food systems, digital public infrastructure, program
advocacy and communications and in our foundation offices -
ensuring a coordinated and collaborative effort. Constantly seek
feedback, integrate approaches, and cross-fertilize results within
the foundation.
- Support learning efforts and ultimately impact tracking by
preparing briefs, synthesizing existing materials, and providing
critical input for improvements about our investment portfolio
(areas that need further support vs. areas that we could reduce our
support), including around gender and diversity. Monitor and
evaluate components of grants through milestone-based performance
objectives.
- Contribute to internal processes and portfolio progress
oversight while ensuring appropriate documentation, grant budgeting
and reporting, to achieve operational efficiency and effectiveness.
Support development of annual investment plans and budgets. Plan,
manage, and implement a wide range of activities in support of
internal strategic planning including preparation of presentations,
responding to specific requests for information on progress,
presenting to the team and leadership on this strategic component.
Your Experience
- Preferably advanced degree and / or equivalent experience in
nutrition / food technology or related fields such as agriculture.
Ideally, also business, governance, or sustainability
qualifications.
- Proven experience leading effective compliance projects, local
implementation, (digital) monitoring, ideally with a relation to
food security, nutrition, food processing, agriculture etc.
- Experience working with partners from different sectors
(public, private, social), ideally to achieve nutrition
outcomes.
- Are you creative and do you have an entrepreneurial approach?
We seek people who enjoy working on sophisticated projects in a
multicultural environment. We have great respect for varied
experiences and points of view while collaboratively seeking
solutions that have the potential to achieve ground-breaking
innovations in the global LSFF sector.
- Experienced in strategic project management, ideally including
multiple partners, LMICs, (regulatory and digital) monitoring, and
/ or nutrition / food technologies. Committed to, or with
demonstrated experience in embedding tools to address gender gaps
and "diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)."
- Manage complexity: Build and support high impact,
multi-stakeholder networks for LSFF compliance and collective
impact approaches including through digital data. Understanding the
complexities in implementing field-based programs and document
findings, translating them into even more effective programs -
ideally having applied agile methods to development projects
before.
- Be a solid teammate, with a demonstrated ability to work with
optimism, patience, flexibility, efficiency, tenacity, and
diplomacy in a fast-paced, ambitious environment, using a
hypothesis-driven approach and an analytical mindset to develop
sound strategies and implementation plans.
- Communication and facilitation: We are looking for someone who
thinks user-centrically and communicates in multi-stakeholder
meetings, workshops, and convenings.
- Ability to travel internationally and domestically up to 30% of
the time. Additional Experience
- Previous LSFF experience or experience with related
interventions.
- Highly specialized skills for this position such as analytical
chemistry or digital applications welcome
- DEI and gender awareness and openness to learn, embrace and
implement it, working with ease across different cultural contexts
and based upon mutual trust. Experience working in LMIC and similar
cross-cultural exposure, ideally including linguistic diversity.
Candidates from LMICs would be preferred. *Must be able to legally
work in the country where this position is located without visa
sponsorship.Please note that the below compensation detail applies
only to US-based employeesThe salary range for this role is
$137,500 to $171,850 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 $149,800 to $187,200 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.#LI-AD1Hiring RequirementsAs part of our standard hiring
process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon
successful completion of a background check.Candidate
AccommodationsIf you require assistance due to a disability in the
application or recruitment process, please submit a request
.Inclusion StatementWe 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.
Keywords: Disability Solutions, Auburn , Program Officer, Fortification Compliance - Nutrition (LTE), Other , Seattle, Washington
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