Position title: Senior Manager, African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator (AVMA) Market Shaping Operations. Contract type / duration: As soon as possible until 31 December 2030. Location: Geneva. Department: Vaccine Programmes Markets & Health Security. Team: Market Shaping. Reports to: Senior Specialist, Future Supplier Base Strategy and Regional Manufacturing. Career Step: 4.
About the Role: This role sits within Gavi's Market Shaping team in the Vaccine Programmes Markets & Health Security department. It works closely with internal teams including Resource Mobilization, Finance, Legal, Risk & Compliance, Governance, Policy, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL), and Country Support, as well as external stakeholders such as UNICEF Supply Division, vaccine manufacturers, donors, WHO, CEPI, CHAI, Africa CDC, and the African Medicines Agency. The role leads the operationalization, monitoring, evaluation, and continuous improvement of Gavi's African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator (AVMA). Through evidence generation, stakeholder engagement, reporting, and strategic analysis, the role helps ensure AVMA achieves its objectives, informs regional manufacturing strategy, supports governance and donor accountability, and enables data-driven course corrections.
Key Responsibilities: Lead the operationalization and ongoing implementation of AVMA, ensuring delivery against programme objectives and alignment with Gavi's regional manufacturing strategy; drive monitoring, evaluation and learning activities generating evidence that informs programme performance and course corrections; coordinate cross-functional collaboration across Gavi teams and Alliance partners for effective governance, implementation, risk management and stakeholder alignment; develop high-quality reporting, analyses, annual updates and periodic reviews for Gavi governance bodies and donors; provide strategic and technical input into AVMA course corrections, reviews and governance processes; manage engagement with vaccine manufacturers and other external stakeholders, including AVMA Manufacturing Forums; lead ecosystem analyses, manufacturing landscape reviews and learning agendas that strengthen regional manufacturing planning.
Experience and Skills: Typically 8-12 years of professional experience in pharmaceuticals, biologicals, health commodities or related healthcare sectors, with at least 3 years in vaccine markets required. Experience in life sciences consulting, financing, investment, business development, commercial operations, procurement, tendering, R&D or manufacturing-related functions; in monitoring, evaluation and learning; in producing high-quality analytical and presentation materials for senior stakeholders; and in working with multilateral organisations, Alliance partners, donors or global health stakeholders. Experience in developing-country contexts is advantageous. Essential education: degree in Life Sciences, Public Health, Business Administration, Economics or a related field; MBA or equivalent is good to have. Advanced vaccine and health commodity market knowledge, vaccine industry economics, monitoring/evaluation/learning, analytical reporting, cross-functional consensus-building, multi-stakeholder collaboration in global health, and communication of complex technical information are required. Fluent English written and verbal; French would be an asset.
Closing date: 2026-09-06
HOW TO APPLY:
Apply online via the Gavi applicant portal using the vacancy link (Vacancy No. VN2524).
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