Senior Program Officer, AI Innovations Advocacy

Responsibilities

• Align with the work of other GHI PAC colleagues and the foundation’s overall AI-related strategies, develop, implement and refine a comprehensive advocacy and communications strategy that defines the best opportunities for programmatic advocacy and communications to advance AI-related goals, and that enables financing, policy, and scale for AI-enabled health and development interventions.
• Lead implementation of programmatic advocacy/communications strategies and tactics to advance cross-cutting AI innovation goals. These may include: market-specific coalition building around AI systems outcomes; supporting policy analysis and political/economic assessments of regional AI ecosystem issues and equity challenges; and/or evidence-based grant-making that drives policy and resources outcomes in support of cross-cutting AI innovation and scale goals.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive view of cross-foundation AI, AI-for-health, and AI systems and programmatic priorities, as well as relevant external partnerships and opportunities; serve as an internal go-to expert on cross-cutting AI innovation needs.
• Develop partnerships with people and organizations in the public and private sectors, including in civil society, industry, and research institutions – relevant to foundation AI systems and innovation goals.
• Lead policy and resource coordination workstreams of the foundation’s cross-cutting AI work and core team.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues in the foundation’s global government relations function responsible for defining the foundation’s global policy, governance and regulatory perspectives on AI, to ensure that agenda is consistently informed by AI innovation goals.
• Develop and manage a portfolio of investments that support AI financing and regional/innovation policy outcomes, including all related grant making processes.
• Lead key relationships with other internal teams across the AI Task Force and Core Team, as well as the Global Health, Global Policy and Advocacy, and other Divisions. Engage with regional teams in Africa and Asia, global government relations teams, and program colleagues managing AI-related partnerships.
• Represent the foundation to external constituencies, including AI-for-development funder platforms and coalitions. This could include formal and informal presentations, attending conferences, committee representation, and other meetings.
• Produce high-quality and informative written briefs, reports, and other materials for foundation leadership on key AI systems topics, AI innovation challenges, and other relevant issues.

Skillset

• Experience as a leader in leveraging AI to enable and accelerate health and development goals, whether in the public, private, or NGO sector; experience in the conception, design and management of AI and technology-related advocacy strategies, initiatives, and programs.
• Familiarity with the bi-lateral and multi-lateral finance institutions and mechanisms, and the major private sector and public sector players, that fund AI-related global health and development programs and other relevant research and technology programs at global, national, and regional levels.
• Demonstrated understanding of and passion for how AI innovations and targeted innovations systems and policies can advance impactful and more equitable health and development outcomes; and/or how AI could enable accelerated health R&D within national and regional health systems.
• Demonstrated understanding of the role of advocacy and communications efforts to increase awareness of issues and to inform political and financial support for health and development and/or technology related goals.
• Connection and networks within the AI, global health technology, and/or tech communities; and/or some in-country experience relevant to AI outcomes in Asia-Pacific and/or on the African continent.
• Experience interacting with senior level policy makers, civil society organizations, coalitions, and governments.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate within fast-paced, dynamic, and matrixed teams across many time zones; and to provide vision and influence others in a constructive, optimistic manner, while forming and sustaining key relationships.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to effectively synthesize information to reach diverse audiences and build consensus.