Senior Manager, Donor Relations Dose Sharing, COVAX (until Dec 2022) x 2

Position title: Senior Manager, Donor Relations Dose Sharing, COVAX (until Dec 2022) x 2

Location: Geneva

Purpose of the position: Negotiate, manage, and ensure efficient delivery of COVID19 vaccine dose sharing initiatives in support of COVAX, in order to amplify and accelerate COVAX’s impact.

Department: Resource Mobilisation, Private Sector Partnerships & Innovative Finance

Team:

• Sovereign & Private Sector Engagement, Donor Rel. & Campaigns
• New Investors, Private Sector Partnerships & Innovation

(2 positions)

Reports to:

• Director, Sov. & Priv. Sect. Engagement, Donor Rel. & Campaigns /
• Director, New Investors, Private Sector Partnerships & Innovation

(2 positions)

N° of positions supervised (if applicable): N/A

Career step level: 4

Duration: ASAP until December 2022

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance is a public-private partnership committed to saving children’s lives and protecting people’s health by increasing equitable use of vaccines in lower-income countries. Gavi brings together developing country and donor governments, the World Health Organisation, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry, technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and other private sector partners. Since 2000, Gavi has contributed to the immunisation of over 888 million children and the prevention of more than 15 million future deaths.

Over the past year, the crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic has taken hold. Through the ground-breaking COVAX Facility and the Gavi COVAX Advance Market Commitment (Gavi COVAX AMC), Gavi is working with the international community to take urgent action in accelerating access to COVID-19 vaccines for populations no matter where they live.

As Gavi and COVAX seek to safeguard global health security through helping put together the world’s response to the global COVID-19 crisis, this is the moment where more resources are required. Financing must be leveraged strategically, while an ambitious dose sharing programme – whereby donors with excess COVID19 doses donate them to COVAX – is needed to unlock the greatest possible impact and save more lives.

THE ROLE

As part of its response to COVID-19, Gavi continuously engages with donor countries that have surplus doses in an effort to maximize impact through dose sharing; accelerating the COVAX Facility’s goal of ensuring participating countries to achieve high coverage, as soon as possible, and protect millions of lives.

The Senior Manager, Donor Relations Dose Sharing will help negotiate, manage, and ensure efficient delivery of COVID-19 vaccine dose shared by donors in support of COVAX as part of the Resource Mobilisation team’s leadership of the dose sharing effort. S/he will play a hands-on role at the interface between multiple donors in a position to share doses, and Gavi and COVAX teams working with implementing countries’ governments and manufacturers to ensure fast and equitable distribution of these vaccines.

Notably the Senior Manager, Donor Relations Dose Sharing will drive the agenda forward by leading discussions with donors; collating information and learning; conducting analyses; developing and reviewing proposals; working closely with internal and external stakeholders to expedite delivery; monitoring the roll-out, anticipating potential issues and slowdowns and proactively proposing practical ways to address them.

The successful candidates will work in the teams of either the Director Strategic Innovation and New Investors (where dose donors are mainly from Asia-Pacific and the Middle East), or the Director Private Sector & Sovereign Engagement, Donor Relations and Campaigns (where dose donors are from Europe and Canada) but will respond flexibly to demand including from US dose sharing as part of an integrated dose sharing team which reports to the Managing Director of Resource Mobilisation, Private Sector Partnerships & Innovative Finance.

KEY FUNCTIONS AND DELIVERABLES

• Enable fast and successful shared doses negotiations, allocation and roll-out;

• Bridge external and internal stakeholders and collaborate with team members to deliver;

• Contribute to the COVAX Facility’s Principles for Dose-Sharing, which provided a framework for higher-income economies to make volumes secured via their own bilateral deals, available through COVAX, on an equitable basis.

MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

The Senior Manager, Donor Relations Dose Sharing’s specific duties include:

• Engage in, and prepare, negotiations with donor governments on modalities for dose sharing;

• Negotiate or support negotiation with donors, including by developing the key positions for the agreements to fulfil the COVAX dose-sharing objectives;

• Support and facilitate tripartite dialogue and contracting between vaccine manufacturers, donors and COVAX;

• Help coordinate efforts between Resource Mobilisation and other teams (including Country facing staff, Legal, Finance and Deals Team) to allocate and expedite dose deliveries on the ground;

• Draft documents and presentations to support the engagements with internal and external stakeholders;

• Facilitate mutual understanding between government and technical teams on dose sharing agreements and subsequent allocations, ensure fast turnaround and proactive problem-solving to keep momentum and delivery;

• Track and support the donation of doses from informal commitment right the way through to their shipment to the country, working with COVAX, legal, deal team, country, finance, and communications colleagues to contribute to a smooth process, providing critical information from and to the donor where needed;

• Support the sequencing of dose donations engaging with COVAX and country colleagues to ensure that recipient countries are prepared for timely receipt of doses;

• Work with COVAX Office colleagues to ensure that donated doses are shipping on time according to shared order notices;

• Track dose donation offers and acceptances and keep an organised file;

• Prepare succinct memos for senior-level decision making required for dose donation offers and other critical decisions;

• Engage, obtain alignment and support from senior stakeholders. Collaborate with internal teams and external partners (for example, CEPI, UNICEF, WHO);

• Serve as a thought partner to countries that want to share doses with COVAX, the Resource Mobilisation team, Directors and Managing Director.

Note: The essential functions listed in this section are not exhaustive of the job responsibilities; other duties may be assigned consistently with the department needs.

QUALIFICATIONS

ACADEMIC

• Master’s degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Economics, Government or Public Affairs, or equivalent professional experience.

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience, including and not limited to previous experience in pharmaceutical, professional services/consulting/government sectors;

• Ideal candidate has experience both with private & public sectors; understanding of vaccines advantageous;

• Previous experience in public policy, government engagement/negotiations and dealing with international organisations in either public or private sector organisations;

• Proven experience in leading projects and business process management, including managing multiple projects within complex, fast-moving environment;

• Proven record in developing and executing large transactions, projects, investments;

• Demonstrated excellent stakeholder management across various functions and sectors;

• Familiarity with political and technical governmental decision-making processes;

• Extensive experience of engaging with executives and senior level stakeholders and diplomacy and political acumen is required.

SKILLS/COMPETENCIES

• Entrepreneur spirit, problem-solving skills and result-orientated is a must;

• Excellent analytical and synthesising capabilities;

• Ability to influence and negotiate among diverse stakeholders;

• Ability to work in a multicultural environment and establish working relationships with multiple teams;

• Effective relationship-building skills both within and outside the organisation;

• Ability to work independently, under pressure, demonstrating initiative and flexibility;

• Good understanding of Gavi’s strategic objectives or capability and willingness to acquire this knowledge quickly;

• Strategic facilitation, negotiation, political acumen; representation, advocacy, diplomacy;

• Proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Teams, and data management capabilities.

Note: short-listed candidates may be asked to complete a timed test to demonstrate their data management, analysis, and communication skills.

LANGUAGES

• Excellent command of English with proven writing and editing skills is required;

• Developed command of another international language is highly desirable;

• Knowledge of French is a plus.

CONTACTS

• Donor managers;

• Country programmes and Country facing staff;

• Finance;

• Design and Operationalisation team;

• Allocation teams;

• UNICEF;

• WHO;

• Vaccine manufacturers;

• Donors.

If you wish to apply, please provide a cover letter and resume through our Careers webpage and apply by clicking on “Senior Donor Manager, Donor Relations Dose Sharing, COVAX (Temporary)”. Deadline for applications is 25 November 2021.

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Gavi brings together the public and private sectors to save lives and protect people’s health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines against 18 infectious diseases. You will be joining an organisation at the centre of the international COVID-19 response, at the most critical time in global health in a lifetime. You will work in a culturally diverse environment with over 70 nationalities. You will collaborate with partners such as WHO, UNICEF, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank – and from business, civil society and government.

And you will work in the first global health organisation to receive equal gender salary certification. Your unique experience, skills and talents can help us achieve our vision of leaving no one behind without the life-saving power of vaccines.

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