Manager, Strategy Design and Delivery

Position title: 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): N/A
Career Step: 3

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 Manager will develop high-quality, evidence-based options and recommendations, 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

Responsibilities include:

• Strategic analysis and option development: Prepare robust evidence bases, actionable options and recommendations, and implementation plans aligned with Gavi’s strategic priorities, working closely with cross-Secretariat project teams
• Senior decision-making support: Contribute to high-quality, insight-driven deliverables—including strategy documents, presentations and decision memos—for Gavi’s CEO, executive leadership, and Board
• Stakeholder engagement and alignment: Engage stakeholders across the Alliance and broader global health ecosystem at technical and leadership levels, facilitating transparent, inclusive processes and fostering alignment
• Implementation planning and delivery follow-through: Translate strategic priorities into practical implementation plans, including facilitating integration into Gavi Secretariat guidelines, processes, and programmes

As examples, the questions that the Manager may work on include:

• 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 adapt the Gavi 6.0 Strategy in light of shifting resource availability? What are the implications for strategy roll-out?
• How should Gavi’s approach to engaging the private sector 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?
• How will Gavi drive the deployment of 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:

• At least 5 years of professional experience, including at least two years of experience in a top tier management consulting firm and/or at least two years of experience in the private sector required
• Significant experience in the field of strategy development is essential
• Experience in global health and/or the non-profit sector is an asset

Education and Qualifications:

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

Technical and Functional Skills:

• Excellent analytical skills, including excellent knowledge of global health
• Structured strategic thinking
• Excellent project management skills
• Ability to manage stakeholders and influence outside of formal hierarchical structures
• Excellent writing, communication and presentation skills
• Confidence when dealing with senior leadership
• Ability to work independently, under pressure and with resilience, demonstrating initiative and flexibility

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, navigating sensitive dynamics and influencing outcomes across a wide range of stakeholders
• You operate with a high degree of autonomy, taking ownership of your scope of work and driving it forward with structure and energy
• You thrive in complex, fast-evolving environments, demonstrating agility and judgment in the face of ambiguity and shifting priorities
• You demonstrate initiative 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