financial reporting and/or portfolio and operations process management for a portfolio of investments including grants, contracts, and other projects. The SPC acts as a primary investment process advisor and contact for grantee/vendor initiation, reporting and closure, and serves as a primary liaison across multiple internal teams throughout the lifecycle of an investment. Beyond investment management, this role supports the development of team and GD division process improvements and roll-out efforts of new internal processes, in support of the efficient operations of the team.
The Senior Program Coordinator will support a significant portfolio of investments for the Global Fund and will work closely with our internal Global Fund Coordination Team as well as the Global Fund Secretariat. Occasional travel to Global Fund Headquarters in Geneva will be required.
What You’llDo
- Act as a subject matter authority on investment tools, systems, and templates and provide training and coaching to program team and external partners when needed.
- Partner with investment makers by supporting the development, management, and maintenance of a portfolio of investments.
- Independently handle sophisticated investments and partnerships in service of shaping and optimizing successful investments, as well as ensure alignment with strategies and intended outcomes.
- Perform initial investment due diligence, including the collection of portfolio data, identification of trends, and management timelines. Accountable for portfolio analysis and risk identification, as well as providing a perspective on portfolio performance and delivering detailed readouts to leadership.
- Advise on sophisticated investments, budgets, and financial analysis to enhance impact, identify risks, and propose mitigation plans.
- Build, develop and manage relationships with key internal and external partners to facilitate the investment lifecycle, including engagement with and management of external grantee and partner relationships.
- Partner with investment makers to operationalize and craft key business processes, including annual planning, forecasting, regular portfolio reviews, financial planning, and budget.
- Provide in-depth project management to investment team, including tracking timelines, deliverables, communications, and change management. Also includes development of the non-technical portion of the project framework and working on special projects.
- Lead implementation and change efforts for the team, which may include developing new processes, sharing standard methodologies, analyzing workloads, and providing business updates.
- Maintain file organization, team sites, data and records, and a system for tracking, monitoring, and prioritizing tasks, and projects.
- Support inclusive culture through modeling behaviors and actions; raise issues in a timely fashion to appropriate partners.
Your Experience
- Grant-making knowledge and experience as a Program Coordinator at BMGF strongly preferred.
- Communicates clearly with team members, Deputy Directors, manager, and partners.
- Project management, portfolio management, financial management, financial reporting, non-profit or related industry and business experience is preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree and 3+ year of experience or equivalent.
- Willing to take action: Able to work with flexibility, efficiency, and tact in a fast-paced, exciting environment.
- Open to rapid change and able to learn new things quickly. Able to distill what is needed next, even without expertise in programmatic content.
- Builds trust, influences individuals, and teams without explicit authority, and cultivates collaboration and conflict resolution across colleagues, with partners, and among impacted groups.
- Learnsnew content quickly.
- Handles Complexity: Recognizes complexity and assesses risks and alternatives considering contending requirements and incomplete knowledge.
- Optimizes Work Processes: Understands basic investment rules, regulations, policies, processes, and practices and can advise when they are applicable. Is knowledgeable in all phases of investment-making and engages partners and decision-makers. Sees and acts on improvement opportunities (process, self, etc.).
- Demonstrates knowledge of, and ability to work across multiple investment-making systems, based in INVEST, Excel, SharePoint, and other web-based software applications. Basic SharePoint site administration skills, including metadata tagging, document view creation, archiving, and creating and maintaining confidential files.
*Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.
The salary range for this role is $44.70 to $67.02 USD per hour. We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle and Washington D.C., where our offices are located. 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.
Hiring Requirements
As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
Candidate Accommodations
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Inclusion Statement
We 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.
