{"id":79146,"date":"2019-10-11T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T19:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistnigeria.com\/?p=79146"},"modified":"2019-10-11T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T19:22:10","slug":"bill-melinda-gates-foundation-recent-job-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistnigeria.com\/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-recent-job-opportunity.html","title":{"rendered":"Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Recent Job Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation \u2013 Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people\u2019s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty.<\/p>\n

In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people- especially those with the fewest resources \u2013 have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, the foundation is led by CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann and co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett. We are recruiting to fill the position below:<\/p>\n

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Job Title: Senior Program Officer \u2013 Country Engagement, Malaria<\/strong>
\nLocation<\/strong>: Abuja, Nigeria
\nRef Id:<\/strong> B013895
\nJob Type:<\/strong> Full time<\/p>\n

Program Summary<\/strong>
\nOur Global Health Program (GHP) harnesses advances in science and technology to save lives in poor countries. We focus on the health problems that have a major impact in developing countries but get too little attention and funding. Where proven tools exist, we support sustainable ways to improve their delivery. Where they don\u2019t, we invest in research and development of new interventions, such as vector control, vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics. Our work in infectious diseases focuses on strategies to fight and prevent HIV\/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, neglected and other infectious diseases, enteric and diarrheal diseases and pneumonia. These strategies are supported by functional teams that focus on Discovery and Translational Sciences, Vaccine Development, and Integrated Development.<\/p>\n

Our Malaria Program Strategy Team (PST) aims to improve existing tools and discover and develop new ones to reduce and prevent malaria transmission, and in the long term, eradicate malaria worldwide. The strategy is based on our assumption that preventive and curative tools which are currently available are not sufficient to achieve eradication everywhere, especially in areas of high transmission, and that emerging resistance to drugs and insecticides present additional challenges. With eradication as the aim, our strategy focuses both on improving current approaches and on intensive research and development toward the creation of new drugs, vaccines, vector-control tools, and diagnostics to prevent and interrupt transmission of the two major species infecting humans \u2013 P. falciparum and P. vivax.<\/p>\n

The foundation works with bilateral and multilateral partners to drive the discovery, development and delivery of improved and new tools; demonstrate and document impact, especially of integrated interventions; and improve surveillance, monitoring, and evaluation needed to achieve and document eradication. We also engage in modeling to better understand the potential impact of new tools and the optimal combination of such tools to achieve eradication in different settings. Underlying these efforts is our ongoing analysis of financial needs and advocacy for sustained commitment, funding and supportive policies that are needed in the long-term fight against malaria.<\/p>\n

Position Summary & Responsibilities<\/strong><\/p>\n