Senior Officer, Philanthropic Partnerships – India

The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofitfighting 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 were committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The Team

Your Role

The Senior Officer Philanthropic Partnerships India will support the development execution and management of select strategic philanthropic partnerships across India. The role combines hands-on partnership execution external partner engagement support and internal coordination working closely with senior partnership leads and program teams. This will also involve managing a portfolio of grants aligned to these partnerships.

A core aspect of the role is supporting philanthropists CSR leaders and domestic foundations in navigating opportunities to engage meaningfully in global health and development helping translate interests into well-structured high-impact partnerships over time. This role will contribute to building long-term relationships that advance shared goals and deepen partners engagement.

Beyond shaping high-impact partnerships this position plays a key role in creating informed champions - partners who not only give but lend their voice convene and inspire others to join in accelerating impact at scale.

The role will report to Deputy Director Policy Communications and Partnerships within the Gates Foundation India office and will work very closely with a peer Senior Officer - Philanthropic Partnerships to advance teams and foundations goals in India. This role is based in the New Delhi office.

What Youll Do

Partnership Development & Partner Engagement

• Lead the cultivation structuring and stewardship of partnerships with India-based philanthropists corporate and private foundations CSR leaders and peer institutions.

• Participate in partner meetings learning engagements site visits and convenings supporting follow-through and relationship continuity.

• Prepare high-quality briefs background notes partnership concepts and engagement materials to support partner interactions.

Collaborative Platforms & Partnership Execution

• Support the design and operationalization of collaborative platforms pooled initiatives and partnership vehicles aligned with Gates Foundation priorities.

• Help translate partner interests into concrete engagement pathways partnership structures and shared objectives.

Portfolio & Investment Support

• Manage a select portfolio of partnership-related grants including proposal drafting progress reviews budget tracking and assessment of results.

• Maintain accurate pipeline and portfolio tracking and related systems to support planning and reporting.

Cross-Sector & Ecosystem Engagement

• Contribute to efforts that strengthen Indias philanthropic ecosystem including landscape analyses of philanthropies intermediaries and networks working on global health and global growth and opportunity.

• Support convenings knowledge products and partnerships that promote learning coordination and effective philanthropic practice.

Internal Alignment & Coordination

• Work closely with India Country Office teams regional strategy leads and global program teams to align partnership opportunities with program priorities.

• Coordinate across PPT functions (Outreach Events Communications Data & Insights) to ensure partner engagement is timely coherent and well executed.

Analysis Learning & Communication

• Monitor trends in Indian philanthropy CSR and social impact to inform engagement approaches and partnership strategy.

• Prepare clear written and verbal updates for internal stakeholders on progress risks and emerging opportunities.

• Support priority initiatives and special projects led by senior PPT leadership.

Your Experience

• Masters degree or equivalent experience in public policy business development finance or a related field.

• Approximately 10 years of relevant experience in philanthropy partnerships strategy development consulting or adjacent fields.

• Experience working with Indian philanthropists CSR leaders foundations intermediaries or social impact organizations.

• Understanding of global health and/or development issues strongly preferred.

• Experience engaging multiple stakeholders across sectors in India.

Preferred Skills & Attributes

• Strong relationship-management and partnership-execution skills.

• Ability to and successful track record of translating complex challenges into effective multi-partner/funder partnerships.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Comfort operating in fast-paced ambiguous environments with multiple stakeholders.

• Strong contextual understanding of Indias philanthropic and CSR landscape.

• Willingness to travel up to 30% primarily within India.

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Hiring Requirements

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Candidate Accommodations

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Inclusion Statement

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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.