Senior Global Health Grants & Portfolio Manager

Gates Foundation; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Gates Foundation in Seattle seeks a Senior Program Coordinator to support the Exemplars in Global Health (EGH) program within the Global Development Division. You will coordinate grants, contracts, and non-funded research projects, with budget oversight and reporting.

You'll work with Deputy Directors, program officers, grantees, vendors, Finance, Legal, and Grants and Contracts teams to manage a portfolio of 40–50 investments totaling about $25 million, mainly through grants with some

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Experience in strategy development, project management and portfolio management.
• Budgeting, financial analysis and information synthesis knowledge.
• Forecasting and financial planning experience.
• Ability to analyze data across multiple tools and databases.
• Understanding of investment rules, regulations and processes.
• Expertise in all phases of investment-making.
• Experience with investment-management tools (Access, Excel, SharePoint).
• Strong project management and execution skills.
• Experience managing multiple investments, deadlines and stakeholders.
• Senior Program Coordinator experience preferred.
• Gates Foundation experience preferred.
• Experience managing a high-volume grants/contracts portfolio preferred.
• Experience working with grantees, vendors, internal teams and senior stakeholders preferred.
• Portfolio-analysis experience preferred; flexibility considered.
• Advanced program coordination with grant, contract, financial, and portfolio-management.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate end-to-end investment processes with internal and external partners.
• Manage investment deadlines, invoices, deliverables and expenditures.
• Perform due diligence and review reports, grant summaries and analyses.
• Coordinate activities within internal investment systems.
• Track non-funded research projects from start to finish with milestones.
• Provide a complete view of funding and staff time across the team.
• Plan, manage and implement portfolio-management and analysis processes.
• Analyze portfolio performance and report risks to leadership.
• Serve as a subject-matter resource on tools and templates.
• Provide training and coaching to program teams and partners.
• Contribute to annual planning, forecasting, budget cycles and reviews.
• Support grant payment schedules and related financial analysis.
• Build and maintain relationships with grantees, vendors and Finance/Legal teams.
• Support process improvements and rollout of new internal processes.
• Raise issues to appropriate partners in a timely manner.
• Foster an inclusive team culture through professional behavior.

Skills

Budgeting

Financial analysis

Portfolio management

Project management

Forecasting

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Access

Excel

SharePoint

Job description

Gates Foundation in Seattle seeks a Senior Program Coordinator to support the Exemplars in Global Health (EGH) program within the Global Development Division. You will coordinate grants, contracts, and non-funded research projects, with budget oversight and reporting.

You'll work with Deputy Directors, program officers, grantees, vendors, Finance, Legal, and Grants and Contracts teams to manage a portfolio of 40–50 investments totaling about $25 million, mainly through grants with some