Deputy Director, HIV Delivery

Your Role As Deputy Director, HIV Delivery, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across the full continuum of product introduction and delivery, with a focus on primary and secondary prevention, including HIV testing, treatment, and viral suppression. Your role bridges the gap between innovation and impact—ensuring new prevention and treatment technologies are introduced efficiently and effectively, and that delivery platforms are prepared to scale them in a sustainable, equitable way. You will focus on high-burden geographies, notably South Africa, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe, where the need for impact is greatest. The role is based in Johannesburg (or in another foundation office location deemed more appropriate at the time of hire). You will report to the Director, Health, Africa, with a dotted-line relationship to the Director, HIV & TB Delivery, to ensure implementation strategies are data-driven and outcome-oriented. What You’ll Do Lead the design and execution of a unified HIV product introduction and delivery strategy, focused on accelerating the uptake of innovations and achieving measurable reductions in HIV incidence and mortality through re-imagining the delivery platform for maximum efficiency and impact. Oversee the country-level introduction and scaling of new prevention and treatment technologies, such as long-acting ARVs, novel diagnostics, and digital adherence tools supported by AI applications. Align with ministries of health, implementing partners, and community actors to integrate new products into national health systems, guidelines, and service delivery platforms. Partner with the Deputy Director, Evidence Generation, to ensure that strategy development, investment planning, and implementation monitoring are anchored in robust data and modeling. Strengthen coordination across internal foundation teams (e.g., diagnostics, gender, PHC) to enable comprehensive, people-centered delivery models. Provide strategic guidance to HIV Delivery team members and assist them in executing their portfolios with discipline and impact. Shape investment portfolios that support market readiness, delivery systems, and implementation science; develop and manage grants and contracts that advance strategic priorities. Represent the foundation externally with public and private sector stakeholders; contribute thought leadership to regional and global HIV delivery dialogues. Facilitate learning and adaptation through regular portfolio reviews, partner engagement, and integration of implementation insights. Your Experience We seek a proven HIV delivery leader who brings experience in both product introduction and health system implementation, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, ideally with deep technical expertise in prevention and treatment programs. Required Qualifications PhD, MD, or equivalent in a related field. Minimum 15 years’ experience in global health delivery, preferably including HIV program management and in