The Director of Advocacy, Financing, and Sustainability (AFS) is responsible for leading MEI's work to advance political and financial action with districts, countries, regions, and the global community toward malaria elimination and eradication. The AFS Director oversees the MEI's porfolio of work supporting countries around the world to build a resilient and sustainable malaria response by increasing subnational ownership for malaria elimination, expanding capacity for budget advocacy and domestic resource mobilization, planning for transition or reduction of donor financing, and generating evidence on sustainability solutions. The AFS Director serves as Principal Investigator on a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide donor transitions and budget advocacy support to countries in Southeast Asia in collaboration with the Asia Pacific Malaria Leaders Alliance and is responsible for expanding partnerships for MEI sustainability support in other regions of the world, including sub-Saharan Africa and Central America. The AFS Director manages a remote team of MEI staff and is responsible for ensuring high quality and timely program delivery. The AFS Director is also responsible for high-profile global engagement and developing and maintaining relationships with senior officials from Ministries of Health and Finance, the World Health Organization, Regional Economic Communities, senior executives from donor agencies, including the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria (GFATM) and the US Government, and other leading malaria and global health partners. The AFS Director represents the MEI at key forums and among partners to help influence global and regional agendas on malaria elimination, elimination financing, and eradication, and leads high-profile events, products, and projects as necessary to support the MEI, regional, and global goals. As a member of the MEI Executive Team, the AFS Director will support and contribute to MEI strategy and management of the MEI team of staff, faculty, fellows, and students. The AFS Director will set the long-term vision and agenda for the MEI AFS team and is responsible for developing and funding a future AFS portfolio in collaboration with the MEI Director and MEI Executive Team. As UCSF is a pre-qualified supplier for GFATM for sustainability technical assistance, the AFS Director will lead responses to malaria-related opportunities as well as those that are jointly released for malaria, HIV, and TB as appropriate. Through this mechanism among others, the AFS Director will scope opportunities to extend the MEI's malaria-related expertise, tools, and approaches for sustainability to NTDs, HIV, and TB, among other health areas, internally across UCSF and externally with partners and donor.
**Note: This is 1 year contract with fully remote opportunity. Additionally, full-benefits (including medical, dental, vision) and retirement/pension plans are available.
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and high-quality patient care. It is the only UC campus in the 10-campus system dedicated exclusively to the health sciences.
