Senior Director, Global Access

Position Description

Job Title: Senior Director, Global Access

Location: New York City

Reporting to: Head, Global Access

Position Summary: 

IAVI is seeking an exceptional Senior Director, Global Access who will develop and execute global access strategies to help ensure timely and broad access to IAVI supported innovations for those populations who need them the most by collaborating with the Head of Global Access and internal and external partners. The successful candidate will be responsible for convening key stakeholders, organizing consultations, and leading and commissioning research to understand the market landscape, feasibility considerations, and access needs, while working to facilitate the development of strategies to address key access barriers. In addition, this role will lead key aspects of access related efforts, ranging from developing proposals, work plans and budgets, leading execution of access initiatives, and monitoring progress and re-directing efforts as needed. To secure support and resources for planning and implementation, the Senior Director will engage with potential partners and funders to identify areas of mutual interest and collaboration, representing IAVI’s mission, access strategies, network and value internally and externally. 

Key Responsibilities: 

Strategy and Planning 

• Develop global access plans for product candidates supported by IAVI, in collaboration with the Global Access team, R&D teams, and regional teams in Africa and India.
• Support development of access-related policy recommendations, and pricing and affordability strategies. 
• Ensure integration of access objectives throughout product development by contributing to strategies and documents including Target Product Profiles, Product Development Plans, Clinical and regulatory strategies, etc. 
• Support in developing access approaches and terms for new partnerships, including with commercial partners, where applicable. 

Evidence Generation and Project Oversight

• Identify evidence needed for effective public policy adoption and explore pathways to accelerate access to IAVI’s innovations.
• Lead research including on health economic impact, end user and stakeholder preferences, pricing and willingness to pay, landscape assessments, market analytics, and value proposition research for pipeline products, working in close collaboration with socio-behavioral research colleagues, regional teams, and external partners.
• Oversee contractors, consultants, and other staff, as applicable. 
• Develop and oversee work plans, budgets, and reporting and/or monitoring and evaluation systems (both internal and donor-specific). 

Resource Mobilization

• Identify and cultivate funding opportunities to support access objectives. 
• Lead access contributions and content development for expressions of interest, proposals, work plans, and other opportunities to secure resources for access planning and implementation.
• Represent access activities in engagement with donors. Support donor relationship management and reporting for Access projects, as applicable. 

Stakeholder Engagement and Communications  

• Convene key stakeholders and/or consultations to identify access needs and facilitate solutions. 
• Strengthen existing relationships with leading global health organizations that share IAVI’s access goals. 
• Seek and channel inputs into access activities from internal and external engagement.
• Advance IAVI’s access objectives at the regional and national levels in collaboration with Communications, Advocacy, and Regional/Country offices.
• Champion IAVI’s mission, scientific strategy, network, value and positions on access internally and externally.

Education and Work Experience:

• Advanced degree in Public Health, Global Health, International Policy, Health Economics or a related field is required.. 
• Minimum 15 years of professional experience with at least 7 of those years in global market access, public policy or global health is required. 
• Experience with vaccines or other biomedical prevention products and HIV/AIDS, TB or emerging infectious diseases is desirable.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Demonstrated experience engaging private and public sector organizations (e.g. pharmaceutical industry, global health organizations, funders, procurement agencies national governments, civil society and technical partners) to formulate and execute access strategies for health innovations is required.  
• Proven track record working on access-related issues and solid knowledge of current situation/trends are required.
• Strong track record of managing multi-disciplinary projects, and ensuring that key activities are completed within deadlines and budgets is required.
• Ability to think strategically and drive quickly to a clear and concise synthesis of complex issues and concepts is required; 
• Strong research and writing skills, and experience with manuscript development is required. 
• Expertise working in or with Low / Middle Income Countries (LMICs) is desirable. 
• Excellent verbal communication and presentation skills are required.
• Diplomacy and strong organizational skills with proven experience fostering collaborations are required.   
• Strong interpersonal and intercultural skills and experience, and ability to work collaboratively with colleagues from a wide range of disciplines, countries and cultures are required.
• Market research, product introduction planning, and health economics expertise are highly desirable.
• Non-profit product development, product introduction, or Industry experience is desirable.

Organizational Overview:

IAVI is a nonprofit scientific research organization dedicated to addressing urgent, unmet global health challenges including HIV and tuberculosis. Our mission is to translate scientific discoveries into affordable, globally accessible public health solutions. Through scientific and clinical research in Africa, India, Europe, and the U.S., IAVI is pioneering the development of biomedical innovations designed for broad global access. We develop vaccines and antibodies in and for the developing world and seek to accelerate their introduction in low-income countries. IAVI programs and partnerships are grounded in the regions of the world where the disease burden is the greatest, and our approach emphasizes sustainability. Our network of clinical research center partners in Africa and India helps strengthen in-country research capacity and supports the training and education of the next generation of scientists. The global impact of our science includes fundamental contributions to understanding the biology of HIV infection, which IAVI and others are applying toward advancing vaccine science and immunology. IAVI accelerates scientific discovery and development by fostering unique collaborations among academia, industry, local communities, governments, and funders to explore new and better ways to address public health threats that disproportionately affect people living in poverty. Our global reach, including a clinical research network in five countries in sub-Saharan Africa and in India, has allowed us to make fundamental contributions to understanding the epidemiology, transmission, virology, and immunology of HIV. This work played a key role in facilitating the design of promising HIV vaccine candidates, as well as the discovery of broadly neutralizing antibodies that are now being advanced as promising approaches for HIV prevention. Our integrated capabilities in vaccine and antibody discovery, development, and clinical research take advantage of bio-pharmaceutical industry expertise to accelerate the development and testing of prevention methods for HIV and other diseases. Through the Product Development Center, we support external researchers with technical and scientific expertise to accelerate the development of their own products.

 
Disclaimer: Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required of personnel so classified. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at-will” relationship. IAVI is an equal opportunity employer and applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. 

IAVI IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER actively committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive global organization. IAVI believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a representative candidate pool. At IAVI, we celebrate the spectrum of colleagues’ experiences and believe that dedication to our mission above all is essential to our success as a scientific global non-profit. IAVI upholds these principles through IAVI’s Global Diversity and Inclusion Committee.  

IAVI has zero tolerance for discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, caste, national origin, home language, ancestry, religion, marital or civil partnership status, age, physical or mental disability, HIV status and any other medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and veteran status, in addition to any other status protected under the law in any of our locations worldwide.