Portfolio and Platform Lead, Discovery & Translational Sciences
Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Washington
Posted on: October 18, 2024
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Job Description:
The FoundationWe are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty,
disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple
premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or
circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive
lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity
of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an
exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which
include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no
premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave,
foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and
opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a
workplace, we're committed to creating an environment for you to
thrive both personally and professionally.The TeamThe mission of
Discovery & Translational Sciences (DTS) is to catalyze innovation
for the discovery and translation of transformative solutions to
global health and development inequity. As such, the primary role
of DTS is to enable the foundation to achieve its ambitious global
health equity goals as articulated by the disease-specific strategy
teams (Program Strategy Teams; PSTs). For this, we exploit a unique
advantage of the foundation in general and DTS in particular: the
ability to invest in high-risk and/or long-timeline initiatives
with potential for truly disruptive change. We channel resources
into creating more practical (affordable, scalable, deliverable)
versions of existing tools, develop transformative new tools where
none exist, and speed the translation of scientific discovery into
implementable solutions, seeking better ways to evaluate and refine
potential interventions before they enter costly and time-consuming
late-stage clinical trials. Key functions in support of this
R&D mission include identifying and filling gaps in scientific
knowledge, creating or implementing new technology platforms that
can accelerate research in support of our goals, investing in
potentially transformative ideas, continuous surveying of an
ever-changing scientific and technological innovation space, and
the fostering of an effective ecosystem of global health
innovation, funding and partnership to advance the foundation's
mission. Our areas of focus include vaccines, biologics, drugs,
microbiome interventions, and reproductive and sexual health.This
role will report to the Deputy Director, Translational
Sciences.Your RoleWe are currently seeking a Portfolio and Platform
Lead (PPL) for the Discovery & Translational Sciences (DTS) team
within the Global Health Division. The candidate will help put
together and apply integrated product development plans, as well as
bring deep platform implementation and management experience to the
DTS portfolio. The PPL will apply relevant technical and execution
expertise to best suit the complex ecosystem in which Global Health
works with various partners (academic institutions, biotechs, PDPs,
Pharma). The candidate will work with the DTS team and its partners
to ensure that: (a) the portfolio of investments related to product
development have robust implementation plans that ultimately result
in effective, impactful, deliverable interventions; and (b) the
portfolio of investments in cross-cutting platforms have robust
development, implementation and tracking plans that facilitate the
de-risking, advancement and/or termination of product/intervention
concepts and candidates in a rational, expedited manner. The PPL
will leverage relevant subject matter and execution expertise
relevant to drugs, vaccines, biologics, and microbiome
interventions, and novel technological platforms, and apply
rigorous methodology to assist DTS in assessing, managing, and
continuously refining the portfolios to achieve optimal global
health impact through our partners and grantees.What You'll Do
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