Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, we work with partners to create impactful solutions so that people can take charge of their futures and achieve their full potential. In the United States, we aim to ensure that everyone—espe...
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Associate Officer, Projects
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND , MBA/MSc/MA
- Experience4 years
- LocationNairobi
- Job FieldProject Management 
What You'll Do
- Provide project support on execution job on projects, programs, and processes to deliver business value, including maintaining responsibility for planning, managing, and tracking progress of the execution approach.
- Identify opportunities to operate more efficiently and better serve the division, propose potential projects, and partner with stakeholders to execute projects and make improvements.
- Support with the development of country -level DEI priorities and monitor status, including document and communications creation, presentation preparation, logistical support, and SharePoint management.
- Monitor progress and impact and partner with different country teams to assess course corrections and plan adjustments.
- Build and manage project management infrastructure needed to support team.
- Serve as front-line customer support to triage and resolve issues.
- Serve as a point of contact for communications-related efforts.
- Ensure projects are executed in line with foundation guidelines, processes, and policies
- Support inclusive culture through modeling behaviors and actions; escalate issues in a timely fashion to appropriate stakeholders.
Your Experience
- A Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- An MBA or a PMP certification is an added advantage
- Excellent written, visual, and verbal communication skills effective with broad and diverse audience.
- Ability to track and manage formal and informal intersections and interdependencies, upstream/downstream effects, and identify future implications across the end-to-end system to support roadmap management and strategic prioritization.
- Advanced knowledge of succinctly communicating key strategic objectives and performance goals and consistently building momentum for a project across teams in a dynamic environment with competing priorities.
- Understanding of the business benefits of projects and operational processes and the linkage between project/program goals and organizational strategy and drivers.
Method of Application Interested and qualified? Go to Gates Foundation on gatesfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com to apply
