Senior Program Officer, Digital Payments Usage
Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Seattle
Posted on: May 18, 2024
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 TeamFrom the
foundation's inception, the Global Growth & Opportunity division
(GGO) has focused on addressing the problems that most seriously
imperil the health and well-being of the world's poorest people.
GGO advances this mission by helping to improve the financial,
sanitation, agricultural and education systems so that the poor -
especially the poorest women and girls - to more fully participate
in their economy and society. We seek solutions that are
sustainable, transformative, data-driven, and inclusive.Inclusive
Financial Systems (IFS) - We work to broaden the reach of low-cost
digital financial services for the poor by supporting what we and
our partners believe are the most catalytic approaches to financial
inclusion. These include promoting the development of digital
payment systems that can help spread use of digital financial
services quickly, advancing gender equality to ensure that women
share in the benefits of financial inclusion, and supporting the
development of national and regional strategies that accelerate
progress for the poor and can serve as models.Your RoleThe IFS team
has worked extensively to digitize government-to-person (G2P)
payments as well as wage payments for low-income employees (e.g.,
garment workers) around the world. We are continuing to build on
that work by expanding the use cases of digital payments among
low-income people, including merchant payments and payments in the
agriculture sector.We are seeking a Senior Program Officer, Digital
Payments Usage, to drive uptake of digital payments - both inflows
and outflows - among unbanked and under-banked customers in
low-income countries. Your role will be to lead our work on
digitizing merchant payments and to support the other payment use
cases. In this role, you will work across the foundation and the
industry to develop and manage a portfolio of investments that
align to our new strategy, pushing the bounds of our thinking on
how to solve seemingly intractable problems that hinder the
adoption of digital payments among our target population. In
addition, you will serve as an internal and external expert on
scaling digital payments among low-income users, especially
merchant payments, continuing to build the foundation's role as a
leader with vision in the industry.This role reports to the Deputy
Director, Usage, Gender, and Distribution. The role does not have
people management responsibilities, but does manage relationships
across a matrix of internal and external collaborators.This role is
a full-term position with comprehensive benefits, ideally based in
either our Seattle, WA, Washington, DC, or London, UK
offices.Applications will be accepted until 5 PM Pacific Time (US)
on Tuesday, April 16, 2024.What You'll Do
- Continue to iterate and improve upon the existing payments
strategy in a way that improves our potential for impact; balances
learning, innovation, and scaling; and integrates a gender
lens.
- Develop and manage a portfolio of investments that align to the
strategy and that result in measurable financial inclusion impact,
especially for women.
- Exercise thought leadership within the IFS team and actively
partner with colleagues leading work on policy and regulation,
consumer protection, digital infrastructure, and focus country
programs.
- Collaborate beyond IFS with other foundation program strategy
teams - especially Gender Equality, Digital Public Infrastructure,
and Agricultural Development - to co-design investments aligned to
each team's strategies.
- Establish and manage an ambitious but achievable road map for
your portfolio.
- Set and meet or exceed clear, measurable critical metrics for
the portfolio.
- Manage the portfolio of investments for on-time completion of
targets and deliverables.
- Manage the annual budgets to avoid over/underspending while
ensuring the highest impact return on investment.
- Identify key portfolio risks, and develop, communicate, and
implement mitigation strategies.
- Lead a process of systematic learning from successes and
failures in the portfolio.
- Continually hone your expertise in digital payments, especially
merchant payments, by monitoring and sharing out emerging evidence,
innovation, and trends.
- Serve as a spokesperson and represent IFS's interests as they
relate to payments to achieve financial inclusion both internally
with other teams and externally with partners, peers, and other
collaborators.
- Work with foundation leadership as requested to address
cross-cutting issues and improve functions and performance.
- Lead the preparation of materials for the annual planning
process, strategy reviews, learning sessions, briefings, and
submissions to the GGO President, CEO, and Co-Chairs, and other
deliverables as required.
- Ability to travel -30% domestically and internationally.Your
Experience
- Proven expertise in the design and/or delivery of innovative
digital payment solutions, ideally gained as an operator, investor,
or consultant. A minimum of 12 years of experience is
preferred.
- Practical experience working with the foundation's target
populations to achieve impact in the form of increased incomes and
resilience; extensive operational experience gained in the field
with our target populations, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa or
South/Southeast Asia, is strongly preferred.
- Experience managing ambitious targets, preferably with P&L
responsibility.
- Ability to develop a coherent strategy and implement it;
results-oriented with an ability to prioritize, make trade-off
decisions, focus, and get things done within a complex
organizational structure.
- Demonstrated capacity to use data and evidence as a tool for
problem solving.
- Experience building partnerships with cross-sectoral,
cross-functional teams to tackle complex and multi-faceted
problems, including with the private sector, government agencies,
and civil society.
- Exceptional communication skills - ability to translate complex
ideas into a coherent message for diverse audiences. In addition to
general communication skills, the ability to communicate in a local
language in any of our focus countries is highly valued.
- A highly cultivated sense of resilience. You can accept and
recover from setbacks quickly, adapt well to change, and drive
forward in the face of adversity with a positive attitude and sense
of humor.
- An advanced degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or related
field is preferred.
- Demonstrated commitment to the foundation's core values and
mission.*Applicants for this role will only be considered if they
are able to legally work in the country where this position is
located without visa sponsorship.The US salary range for this role
is $166,300 to $249,500 USD. We recognize high-wage market
differences where our offices are located, in Seattle, WA &
Washington D.C. The range for this role in these locations is
$181,200 to $271,800 USD. As a mission-driven organization, we
strive to balance competitive pay with our mission and new hires
are typically brought into the organization at a salary range
between the minimum and the midpoint salary range. Actual placement
in the range will depend on a candidate's job-related skills,
experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview
process.Hiring RequirementsAs part of our standard hiring process
for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful
completion of a background check.Candidate AccommodationsIf you
require assistance due to a disability in the application or
recruitment process, please submit a request .Inclusion StatementWe
are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We
strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever
greater diversity, equity, and inclusion - of voices, ideas, and
approaches - and we support this diversity through all our
employment practices.All applicants and employees who are drawn to
serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair
treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy,
sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender
expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status,
marital status, and prior protected activity.
Keywords: Disability Solutions, Lacey , Senior Program Officer, Digital Payments Usage, Accounting, Auditing , Seattle, Washington
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