Results for Development (R4D) is a leading non-profit global development partner. We collaborate with change agents around the world — government officials, civil society leaders and social innovators — to create strong systems that support healthy, educated people. We help our partners move from knowing their goal to knowing how to reach it. We combine global expertise in health, education and nutrition with analytic rigor, practical support for decision-making and implementation and access to peer problem-solving networks. Together with our partners, we build self-sustaining systems that serve everyone and deliver lasting results. Then we share what we learn so others can achieve results for development, too.
We have a unique and vibrant culture at R4D. Diversity, equity and inclusion are at the heart of our work environment and help advance our mission. Diversity—of ideas, identities, perspectives and backgrounds—is vital to who we are and what we do. We seek people who embrace these values and will help reinforce them. Our work culture is collaborative, creative and entrepreneurial. We operate based on trust and respect. Teams across the organization frequently collaborate on programmatic work and support each other in continuously building a better R4D.
About the Market Shaping Practice:
How do we increase access to a cheap drug that could save millions of children’s lives yet remains widely unavailable in certain markets? This is among the unique and powerful questions R4D’s Market Shaping practice answers on a daily basis. Using practical and business-driven approaches — from increasing market transparency to increase manufacturers’ engagement, to improving demand forecasting to prevent stockouts, to increasing competition to lower prices, to developing purchasing and value chain strategies, and to crafting cost-effectiveness and financing gap analyses — our work ensures that millions of lives are saved and improved in a sustainable manner through more efficient markets essential health, nutrition and education products.
If our work ignites your imagination, we’d love to tell you more and explore how we can work together!
MSP projects include:
• Transforming markets for maternal, newborn, and child health medicines and devices
• Identifying underlying market challenges and opportunities to address severe acute malnutrition
• Co-creating advocacy and market shaping roadmaps to scale up multiple micronutrient supplements (MMS) for improved maternal nutrition and reduced risks of adverse birth outcomes.
• Institutionalizing market shaping capacity in Ethiopia through a novel systemic approach identifying and addressing market inefficiencies and working to promote improved access to essential health and nutrition products
• Increasing access to pneumonia treatments in high-burden countries by addressing the underlying causes of the lack of effective access to amox DT
A successful Associate Director will be a strategically minded, highly motivated, and creative problem solver; have strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills; and have a commitment to excellence and producing results. You are keen to play a key role in shaping the strategic and operational direction of the Market Shaping practice and new business development. We are a team that is resourceful, responsible, tenacious, high-energy, and always has a positive attitude. We hope you that you value these personality traits as much as we do!
This position is based in Washington, D.C., and will report to the Market Shaping Senior Director.
Responsibilities
As an Associate Director on this high-impact team, in close partnership with the Senior Director, you will:
Provide strategic thought leadership, technical direction and effective management of a portion of the current MSP portfolio of projects and new areas of impact
- Lead the strategic design and execution of market shaping approaches for introduction or scale up of lifesaving products, including developing frameworks to analyze bottlenecks to uptake, and crafting strategies to transform access, such as through
- ensuring supply security; improving affordable pricing; structuring innovative financing options; maximizing efficiency in product development, manufacturing and procurement practices
- Oversee the development of analytic deliverables, effectively managing the inputs of project team members and consultants, ensuring high quality and technical accuracy
- Draw new and insightful conclusions from analysis, translating these into actionable government, donor, and partner-facing documents
- Conceptualize new strategic areas of impact, including in collaboration with other practice areas at R4D, and successfully lead mobilizing funding for new opportunities.
Lead internal and external partner engagement
- Effectively represent MSP’s portfolio of work externally and communicate our impact clearly and compellingly
- Actively cultivate new relationships and effectively manage key ongoing partnership with a wide range of stakeholders around the world, across country leaders, technical experts, procurement agencies, wholesalers, manufacturers, donors, financiers, etc.
- Conceptualize knowledge management and communication strategies to promote the dissemination and uptake of our work and oversee the implementation thereof.
- Provide people management, by providing direction, input, coaching, and mentoring to current team members; lead the hiring of new staff as needed
- Contribute to the continued evolution of a positive and collaborative team culture that affirms diversity, equity and inclusion.
- Actively collaborate with R4D colleagues, including as part of R4D’s management team
Oversee MSP finance and operations
- Oversee program spending and financial reporting, including decision making on resource allocations and investments in growth in close collaboration with MSP Operations and program staff
- Provide strategic leadership on the execution and continuous improvement of MSP operations, knowledge management initiatives, communications, as well as recruitment and onboarding, including ensuring compliance with R4D policies and procedures.
- Oversee process streamlining and efficiency improvement initiatives within the team.
Your experience should include:
- Advanced degree in public health, business/management, public policy/administration, or other related fields
- Minimum 9 years of relevant experience, at least 2 of which included supervision responsibilities. Preference is given to candidates with experience leading market analysis, developing product introduction / scale-up strategies, and/or expanding access to healthcare
- Familiarity with global health and nutrition strongly desired
- Demonstrated track record of leading, conceptualizing, operationalizing, and executing complex programs and projects
- Structured thinker with excellent qualitative and quantitative analytical skills
- Significant experience leading the development of high-quality deliverables, including presentations and written reports
- Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated success in cultivating and managing relationships across public and private sector actors, as well as philanthropic donors
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including demonstrated ability to deliver compelling presentations with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to set priorities, handle competing time/resource demands, solve problems and work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment as part of a team
- Highly collaborative and approachable leadership style
- Experience managing teams and enthusiastic about supporting team members’ professional growth
- High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally, per project need
How to apply
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