Senior Officer, Resource Mobilization Hub

Gates Foundation • Seattle, WA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Foundation is the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity globally. This role is within the Global Policy and Advocacy (GPA) division, specifically supporting the GPA Office of the President (OOP). The OOP provides support to the president and the entire GPA division, ensuring effective representation of GPA strategies, directing external engagements, and managing division-wide communications and employee engagement. The Senior Officer, Resource Mobilization Hub will be a central coordinator for capital use/demand within GPA, responsible for building and maintaining a pipeline of costed capital stacks, investable opportunities, and fund mechanisms. This is a new, high-visibility function critical to GPA's resource mobilization efforts, translating program priorities into investment-ready opportunities. The role requires strong problem-solving, project management, and financial structuring skills, operating at both strategic and detailed levels. The position is a limited-term appointment through December 2027.

Requirements

• Experience building, managing, and prioritizing complex investment pipelines — including structured finance, blended capital, fund mechanisms, and/or multilateral replenishments — ideally in a global health or development context.
• Demonstrated ability to assess and structure financing opportunities across a range of capital types (grants, concessional lending, guarantees, catalytic co-investment, DFI instruments, philanthropic tranches).
• Strong analytical and financial modeling skills; ability to cost capital stacks at a portfolio level and translate program priorities into investment-ready business cases.
• Experience coordinating across complex, matrixed organizations working with program teams, relationship managers, finance and legal functions, and senior leadership simultaneously.
• Proven ability to develop and maintain shared systems and processes for knowledge management across distributed teams; experience with CRM platforms or pipeline management tools a plus.
• Track record of translating technical program requirements into funder-relevant narratives, KPIs, and investment cases.
• Familiarity with the global health financing landscape — including bilateral donors, MDBs/DFIs, major philanthropies, impact investors, and multilateral fund structures.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; comfortable preparing and presenting materials for senior decision-makers.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment; able to build credibility with senior team members across functions and geographies.
• Must have unrestricted work authorization in the country where this position is located.
• The Foundation does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with CRM platforms or pipeline management tools.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain GPA's single source of truth on live costed capital stacks, fund mechanisms, investable opportunities, and other capital uses across and beyond Mission Priorities.
• Work with PSTs and MPs to create and maintain comprehensive long-lists of investables and funds for each priority area.
• Develop and apply a readiness framework to assess investable readiness and triage/sequence opportunities.
• Propose and maintain prioritization of funds and investables based on strategic salience, readiness, and GF/GPA additionality.
• Create and maintain processes to input pipeline data and updates into DealFlow (GPA’s AI-enabled intelligence system).
• Work closely with MP dealmakers and others in the RM Hub to facilitate matchmaking between prioritized funds & investables and potential financing partners.
• Provide investments expertise as a member of deal teams, helping to articulate deal components, size financing requirements, define ideal capital structures, and support pitch development and negotiation.
• Coordinate with MPs, PSTs, and Legal on deal structuring questions.
• Support timely knowledge management by surfacing findings about investable development, funder preferences, and deal structures back into DealFlow.
• Translate the technical profiles of investable opportunities into funder-facing materials, KPIs, and investment cases.
• Standardize templates, materials, and processes for pipeline management and investable development.
• Prepare and present at ALT RM Review meetings on pipeline status, investable readiness, and financing gaps.
• Contribute to RM Hub coordination mechanisms, ensuring the investments function is integrated into GPA's resource mobilization rhythm of business.
• Partner with the Data & Insights team on performance tracking of financing outcomes.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums
• Generous paid time off
• Paid family leave
• Foundation-paid retirement contribution
• Regional holidays
• Opportunities to engage in several employee communities
• Base compensation plus a generous and competitive benefits package (for limited-term position)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed