• Job Description

  Req#: B020168

  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 Goal of the Inclusive Financial Systems (IFS) team is to expand access to digital financial services so people in the lowest-income communities around the globe can build security and prosperity for themselves, their families, and their communities.
  
  We work to broaden the reach of low-cost digital financial services for the poor by supporting what we and our partners believe are the most catalytic approaches to financial inclusion. These include promoting the development of digital payment systems that can help spread use of digital financial services quickly, advancing gender equality to ensure that women share in the benefits of financial inclusion, and supporting the development of national and regional strategies that accelerate progress for the poor and can serve as models.

  Your Role

  We are seeking a Senior Program Officer, Women’s Economic Empowerment & Financial Inclusion (WEE-FI) to play a leadership role in leveraging the foundation’s resources to close the financial inclusion gap for women. This will include serving as a leader with a point of view internally and externally on WEE-FI, making and managing strategic investments, and supporting other teams to make their investments more gender intentional and transformative.

  This role reports to the Deputy Director, Usage, Gender, and Distribution. The role does not have people management responsibilities, but does work across a complex matrix of internal and external collaborators.

  This role is a full-time position based either in Seattle, WA or Washington, DC.

  *Applications accepted until 5 PM PT on Thursday, March 21, 2024.

  
  What You'll Do

  Strategic Investing (60%)

  • Implement IFS’s WEE-FI strategy in a way that is collaborative, innovative, actionable, and measurable and drives impact at scale for low-income women globally.

  • Manage the current portfolio of investments for completion of projects on time, on budget, and on strategy.

  • Take a collaborative approach with partners to implementation, finding opportunities for improvements or strategic pivots where required.

  • Identify key risks in the portfolio and proactively mitigate those risks.

  • Develop and manage new investments that are aligned to the updated WEE-FI strategy.

  • Actively seek opportunities for co-investment within IFS and with other teams, such as the Gender Equality and Agricultural Development teams.

  • Manage the annual budgets to avoid over/underspending while ensuring impact.

  • Work with foundation leadership as requested to address cross-cutting issues and improve functions and performance.

  • Lead the preparation of WEE-FI materials for the annual planning process, strategy reviews, learning sessions, briefings, and submissions to the GGO President, CEO, and Co-Chairs as needed.

  Gender Mainstreaming (20%)

  • Work closely with IFS leadership to establish and monitor team-wide gender commitments.

  • Identify and implement approaches to integrate gender across the IFS portfolio from the early design stage and throughout the life cycle of investments.

  • Develop a practical MLE approach for gender intentional investments and support the roll-out of the approach in collaboration with IFS leadership.

  • Create and maintain a WEE-FI knowledge management database for existing and future investments.

  • Continuously improve our approach to gender mainstreaming within IFS over time.

  Thought Leadership & Relationship Building (20%)

  • Provide intellectual leadership to continuously challenge and sharpen IFS’s thinking about the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of women’s financial inclusion by monitoring current trends related to women’s financial inclusion and identifying and sharing opportunities for innovation in our approach with our colleagues and partners.

  • Represent IFS’s interests as they relate to WEE-FI both internally and externally, including continuing to position BMGF as a leader with a point of view in women’s financial inclusion in the industry.

  • Play a leading role in championing our approach to WEE-FI in a way that influences other partners such as donors and implementers and leads to greater collaboration, including but not limited to co-investment and shared advocacy efforts.

  • Build and maintain key relationships with other internal BMGF teams as well as external partners and collaborators. Serve as liaison to key teams outside of IFS, especially Gender Equality and Agricultural Development, and with embedded gender leads in other teams.

  Additionally

  • Ability to travel ~30% domestically and internationally.

  
  Your Experience

  • Proven expertise in closing gender divides, preferably in financial inclusion but experience in other fields is also welcome.

  • Extensive experience gained in the field with our target populations, especially in Africa or South/Southeast Asia, strongly preferred.

  • Proven ability to develop a coherent strategy and implement it in a highly leveraged, partnership model.

  • Results-oriented with an ability to prioritize, make tough decisions, focus, and get things done within a complex organizational structure.

  • A highly data-driven approach to problem solving.

  • Demonstrated experience in building partnerships of cross-sectoral, cross-functional teams to tackle complex and multi-faceted problems.

  • Exceptional communication skills – ability to translate complex ideas into a coherent, digestible synthesis for diverse audiences.

  • A highly cultivated sense of resilience. You can accept and recover from setbacks quickly, adapt well to change, and drive forward in the face of adversity with a positive demeanor and sense of humor.

  • Operational experience in retail finance (e.g., mobile money, payments, credit) is a plus.

  • Advanced degree in Economics, Business, Finance, or related field preferred.

  • 10+ years of relevant experience.

  • Demonstrated commitment to the foundation’s core values and mission.

  *Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.

  The salary range for this role is $166,300 to $249,500 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences where our offices are located, in Seattle, WA & Washington, D.C. The range for this role in these locations is $181,200 to $271,800 USD. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission and new hires are typically brought into the organization at a salary range between the minimum and the midpoint salary range. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate’s job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.

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  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.

• About the company

  We seek to unlock the possibility inside every individual. We see equal value in all lives. And so we are dedicated to improving the quality of life for individuals around the world. From the education of students in Chicago, to the health of a young m...

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