Results for Development (R4D) is seeking a highly motivated and dynamic Senior Program Officer to play an important strategic leadership role in leading the Market Shaping practice’s D.C.-based team. The Market Shaping Practice (MSP) is dedicated to transforming access to and improving appropriate use of essential and life-saving products in a holistic and sustainable manner. We develop, iterate on, and support catalytic implementation of long-lasting solutions at the global and country levels to address challenges identified by country partners and backed by rigorous analyses.  We’ve applied our expertise to achieve more than a billion dollars in savings in countries and supported improved access to high-quality products in health (spanning the HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, maternal, newborn and child health markets) as well as in nutrition and education.

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

This position is based in Washington, D.C. and will report to the Market Shaping Practice Senior Director.

As a Market Shaping Senior Program Officer on this high-impact team, you will:

Lead internal and external partner engagement

• Plan for and expertly facilitate stakeholder consultations to gain qualitative and quantitative insights, through a variety of formats including key informant interviews, working groups, or workshops
• Independently engage and manage relationships with key external partners and stakeholders (clients, funders, sub-contractors, sub-grantees, consultants, partners, national and sub-national/state government stakeholders, procurement agencies, implementing partners, manufacturers, and others)

Provide day-to-day thought and technical leadership

• Generate ideas for, and lead the commodity market analysis and development of strategic options for product introduction/scale-up via hypothesis-driven approach
• Serve as a technical resource in R4D’s market shaping engagements; propose system and process improvements for operations of work, facilitate leadership decision- making, and implement agreed changes

Effectively manage high-impact projects and Country Office operations

• Effectively manage local team and consultants, and provide guidance to team members on all aspects of project work including leading development, implementation, and monitoring of project work plans and related planning documents
• Develop knowledge management and communication strategies to promote the dissemination and uptake of our work
• Prepare and manage budgets and ensuring sound fiscal management across project work

You’re a great fit if you are:

Genuinely passionate about markets-based approaches to drive sustainable impact

• A strong communicator with excellent interpersonal skills, able to vary one’s style based on the audience and distill complex concepts into clear messaging
• Energized by managing and executing on complex projects in global contexts, specifically in low- and middle-income countries
• Highly analytical, and a structured and creative problem solver
• A culturally sensitive relationship manager who is enthusiastic about supporting team members’ professional growth
• Collaborative, approachable, and invested in enabling a positive working environment
• Willing to travel domestically and internationally, per project need

Your experience should include:

Master’s degree with 7+ years of work experience in relevant field (health commodities, pharmacy, public health, market dynamics, public/social policy, public administration, business or similar)

• Expertise and experience in one or more of the following: market shaping, health systems design and evaluation, pharmacy, supply chain, nutrition, knowledge management and translation
• Excellent analytic skills required. Demonstrated experience leading the development of high-quality qualitative and quantitative analysis from conceptualization to completion and leveraging that analysis to drive action by decision-makers for ultimate impact
• Public, non-profit, or private sector experience in health commodity supply, quantification, procurement, distribution, financing, or regulation highly desirable
• Experience conducting market analysis, developing product introduction/scale-up strategies, and/or expanding access to healthcare commodities is preferred
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to develop highly professional work products and present complicated analysis to technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to think strategically, handle ambiguity and work in a fast-paced, open-structure, multicultural environment
• Collaborative, excellent interpersonal skills, and ability to engage with a wide variety of stakeholders and managing relationships/partnerships
• Approachable management style, eager to support and mentor junior staff and peers. Able to effectively set priorities and handle competing time and resource demands for self and others

About R4D:

Founded in 2008, R4D has grown rapidly during its first decade, with a diverse set of programs in global health, education, and nutrition and funders that include bilateral donors, multi-lateral development institutions, and private foundations. The current annual budget is $30M and the organization has offices in Washington, DC in the United States (140 staff), Ethiopia, Tanzania and the UK.  Outside of the U.S., we employ 21 staff in ten countries.

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!

Results for Development is an EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled/Affirmative Action Employer committed to fostering and nurturing an energetic, collaborative and diverse workforce. R4D provides market-competitive salaries and comprehensive employee benefits.