Associate Director, Global Health Initiatives-Health System Strengthening

Location: US: Indianapolis IN Corporate Center

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Organization/ Role Overview

The Lilly Change the Course Commitment is a global health initiative focused on diabetes and obesity in resource-limited settings, including low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). One of its focus areas is helping strengthen primary health systems, working with global health organizations to train community health workers, use digital tools, and improve disease awareness, prevention, diagnosis, and care.

As part of the Social Impact Global Health Initiatives team, the Associate Director helps lead health system strengthening, by collaborating with global health organizations and other collaborators to strengthen health systems' capacity to prevent, diagnose, and manage noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), with a focus on diabetes and obesity in resource-limited settings, including LMICs. The role focuses on primary healthcare capacity (including training community health workers), policy and governance, digital and data infrastructure, and outcomes measurement.

The individual manages relationships with global health organizations, NGOs, and other collaborators, and helps ensure all initiatives contribute to meaningful impact and outcomes, while also providing strategic guidance and support to other Lilly teams, as needed.

Key Responsibilities

Primary healthcare capacity: Support global programs that help train and equip frontline health workers, including community health workers, to prevent, screen, diagnose, and manage NCDs with a focus on cardiometabolic conditions like diabetes and obesity in resource-limited settings, using community health workers and other frontline delivery models to drive measurable increases in capacity and reach; check in regularly on progress against agreed goals and key indicators.

Policy, governance, and communications: Support International Corporate Affairs and Global Public Policy, who lead policy engagement with governments, and regional leaders and teams to help mobilize the policies and governance needed for sustainable NCD care, with a focus on cardiometabolic conditions; coordinate internal and external communications on health system strengthening projects with Communications, through standard review.

Digital and data infrastructure: Ensure digital health tools and data systems that support better care and measurement are included, working with legal and privacy teams as needed.

Outcomes, impact, and continuity of care: Track program and health-system measures, such as health workers trained, facilities and referral pathways supported, people screened and linked to care, and continuity of care across the care pathway, using aggregated, partner-reported data; metrics are product-neutral (not tied to the use of any Lilly medicine).

Measurement, evaluation, and progress monitoring: Evaluate whether each project is directly driving impact through a robust measurement and evaluation framework; monitor progress against key milestones and performance indicators, escalating and course-correcting where projects are off-track.

Manage contracts for health system strengthening projects.

Engage Legal, Ethics & Compliance, Privacy, and Tax early on each project, initiate required reviews (including anti-corruption due diligence on new partners) and carry the resulting requirements into contracts and project execution, such as conflict-of-interest safeguards, guardrails for interactions with government officials, use-of-funds controls, keeping activities non-promotional, and data privacy requirements.

Look for new collaborations with multilateral/ global health organizations, NGOs, and other organizations, and new opportunities that fit the commitment priorities.

Represent the work in external meetings and conversations, including key global health forums, as needed, and contribute health system strengthening program data to Lilly’s annual Sustainability Report, using approved materials and messaging and established review processes.

Provide strategic health system strengthening guidance, best practices and support to other Lilly teams, as needed.

Other responsibilities as assigned.

Basic Qualifications

• Masters degree required in public health, global health, health policy, health economics, epidemiology, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in global health, health systems, or social impact work.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to operate independently.

Additional Skills/ Preferences

• Advanced degree required in public health, global health, health policy, health economics, epidemiology, or a related field
• Understanding of global health and how health systems are strengthened; familiarity with cardiometabolic or other non-communicable diseases.
• Experience working with NGOs, multilateral organizations, or universities in resource-limited settings.
• Knowledge of health financing, such as how health programs and systems are funded and sustained, domestic resource mobilization, and blended or innovative financing models.
• Experience in a complementary discipline, such as health informatics, international development, or the social and behavioral sciences.
• Skilled at tracking and evaluating program performance with training or experience in monitoring and evaluation or implementation science.
• Knowledge of theory of change frameworks and experience designing and implementing measurable delivery models.
• Understanding of compliance issues in global health work, such as conflicts of interest, anti-corruption rules, and data privacy.
• Strong writing and speaking skills; able to explain complex ideas simply.
• Strong project management skills and experience working across teams and countries.
• Maximize efficiency using AI tools such as Copilot and/or Claude.
• Takes ownership of their work and follows through.

Additional Information

Location: US, Indianapolis IN or US, remote

Travel: 10-30%, some international travel, including resource-limited settings (LMICs).

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Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is

$136,500 - $200,200

Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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