GPP Manager - Gates Programmes (Francophone)

01About MSI

MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world’s leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all.

Today, our organisation has around 10,000 team members working in 36 countries across the world. Our success lies in the fact that MSI teams are locally led, entrepreneurial and results-driven, and are passionate about delivering high quality, client-centred care in their own communities. As a social business, we focus on sustainable delivery, efficiency, and funding models that are built to last, so that the women and girls we serve today will have a choice in the future too.

We know that access to reproductive choice is life changing. For some, it can mean the ability to complete an education or start a career. For others, it means being able to look after the family they already have. For everyone, it means the freedom to decide their own future, creating a fairer, more equal world.

02About the Role

MSI seeks a Global Programmes & Philanthropy Manager - Gates Programmes (project manager) to support implementation of a range of SRHR grant-funded projects by the Gates Foundation. Reporting to the head of the portfolio, the Manager will be responsible for supporting newly approved projects, with multicountry and bilateral investments, from the Gates Foundation (and other donors as assigned such as the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office) to advance sexual and reproductive health services and increase modern contraceptive prevalence in LMICs.

Working in the Global Funding, Innovation and Impact team and sub-teams, the Manager will actively support Country Programmes and partners’ implementation, ensuring delivery of agreed deliverables (including payment by results KPIs) for multiple grants. In addition, the Manager will work very closely with other relevant donor teams, operations, finance, and technical services departments to ensure MSI and donor priorities are reflected in project delivery and learning agenda.

The Manager will play a critical role in donor relationship management including effective and timely reporting and serve as an important internal resource.

This role and programme team is part of the broader team supporting donor/grant-funded investments. The team oversees the technical design and execution of donor-funded investments and is responsible for stewarding and advancing MSI’s relationship with the Gates Foundation and other donors as a key contributor to achieving MSI’s mission.

The team provides organizational leadership to ensure that MSI’s strategy, policy, systems, and capacities are responsive to donor priorities and investments, and that Gates-funded programming advances the MSI2030 strategy.

This is an exciting role that requires excellent financial and data analysis skills, strong communication and facilitation skills, analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent ability to work across teams (in both English and French) to deliver results, and great attention to detail.

03About You

For us, it’s vital that every MSI team member believes in and is committed to our organisational mission, vision and values.

This means that we will only accept applications from candidates who are unequivocally pro-choice.

Our values act as guiding principles, providing us with a clear direction. They set the tone for how we approach our work, interact with others and align ourselves as ‘One MSI’. It’s important that our team members truly resonate with our values and demonstrate them consistently, in all that they do.

We recruit talented, dynamic individuals with diverse backgrounds who share our mission and are focused on delivering measurable results. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone can participate and contribute meaningfully. We value open-mindedness, curiosity, resilience, and a solutions-oriented mindset, alongside a commitment to promoting equality and safeguarding the welfare of both team members and clients.

We seek exceptional communicators who are self-motivated, solutions-driven, and aligned with MSI’s mission and entrepreneurial mindset. You should be dedicated to driving social change in an environment focused on sustainable impact, both locally and globally, and comfortable working with diverse teams in an ambiguous setting.

04To perform this role, you’ll need the following skills

• Fluent English and French (essential) oral and written communication skills required.
• Proven ability to liaise effectively with and collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including global, regional, national, local, public, and private partners.
• Excellent skills in communicating evidence, excellent facilitation skills with proven ability to synthesize complex technical component into easy-to-understand briefs or presentation.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective relationships across cross cultural settings to achieve mutual objectives and maximise opportunities.
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities and demonstrated confidence in handling difficult situations.
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines, perform under pressure and reputation for consistently delivering results to a high standard.
• Be data-literate with an attention for details. Able to analyse and interpret datasets, articulate trends, and generate charts and graphs.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint proficiency.

05To perform this role, you’ll need the following experience

• Experience of managing Gates donor-funded projects preferable, or large restricted foundations/government/institutional donor (multi-country desirable), including project monitoring and reporting against deliverables, proactive risk management and escalation (essential)
• Experience in writing and editing reports, or externally facing project information for donors or other external stakeholders (essential)
• Financial management experience including budgeting, budget tracking and financial performance analysis at the multi-million dollar level (essential)
• Program design and proposal experience (essential), with the Gates Foundation (preferred).
• Demonstrable experience managing complex relationships across organisations and across countries (essential)
• Experience in delivering capacity building support and skills development of others in either a technical area or project management skills, in order to meet project deliverables (essential)
• Understanding of the sexual and reproductive health and family planning fields (essential)

06Formal education/qualification

• Master’s degree in public health or other social sciences desirable.

Please email [email protected] for the full job description.

Location: London, UK (minimum of 2 days per week in the office) or any country programme where MSI operates in.

Full-time: 35 hours a week, Monday to Friday.

07Contract type: 2 year fixed term contract

Salary: £48,900 - £56,300 per annum for London applicants. For country programme applicants, the salary will be strictly banded within the local national context.

08Salary band: BG 9

Closing date: 5th November 2026 (midnight GMT). Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates.

For internal employees applying from an MSI country programme, the role will be positioned within the existing salary structure of the country. Local terms and conditions of the country will apply.