Purpose

The Strategic Engagement Program Manager supports the Strategic Engagement team in driving the WHO Foundation’s investment blueprint for key Health Programs and Impact Areas among the priorities listed above. This role focuses on developing investment opportunities, conducting research and analysis, and producing high-quality content to guide strategies and engage stakeholders. The Program Manager also helps shape partnerships with WHO, donors, and external partners, while contributing to portfolio development, proposal preparation, grant making, and project management. The role will demand a combination of strategic and operational tasks with strong ability to identify and cultivate relationships, in a rapidly evolving context.

Reports To

The Strategic Engagement Program Manager will join a team of four heads of Strategic engagement and one SE Program Manager, that is part of the Development department. S/he will report to one but will regularly work with all of the four Heads of Strategic Engagement. S/he will work across WHO Foundation (Europe/APAC, MENA, US development teams), business operations, impact finance and communications.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic programme management and engagement: Support the SE Team in identifying and monitoring investment opportunities through collaboration with the prospect researchers.
• Data quality monitoring, assurance and management: Design and oversee processes for data related to the opportunities the Foundation is fundraising for: data collection, quality control, transfer, management, and reporting.
• Support development of investment portfolio: Support the SE Heads in developing the WHO Foundation’s investment portfolio.
• Support to proposal development, grant making and project management: Support proposal development and reporting by providing data, and technical inputs for specific opportunities.
• Internal capacity building and cross-team coordination: Assist in training and communicating on WHO’s programs, impact and approaches across the SE team and the wider WHO Foundation.

Profile

Essential:

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in public health, international development, humanitarian action or related field.
• Strong skills in quantitative data analytics, particularly using secondary data for building impact analysis and investment cases.
• Experience in managing and cleaning data sets and systems, and using statistical software.
• Fluency in English.

Desirable:

• Previous working experience in Latin America, Africa, Middle East or Asia.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience working in the health sector (NGOs, private sector, consultancy firms, UN Agencies, etc.)