The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has posted a job opening for a Program Officer in sanitation innovation market readiness in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene team of the Global Development Program.**** ** ** The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WSH) initiative focuses its efforts on supporting effective, sustainable and scalable ways to assist the 2.5 billion people who lack access to adequate sanitation. The WSH team launched its new strategy in July 2011 under the banner “Let’s Reinvent the Toilet” and is developing an ambitious research and development program to turn this vision into a reality.**** The science and technology initiative within the WSH strategy invests in the development of new technologies and innovative business models. The initiative has made a series of initial investments to support radical technological innovation aimed at step-changes in the sustainability and profitability of sanitation. Our future investments to reinvent the toilet aim to expand and build on these with the objective of making safe and affordable toilets available to many millions of low income consumers and making neighborhoods and cities cleaner and safer. The focus will increasingly support market readiness for uptake of innovation and early stage development and prototyping.**** ** ** The new Program Officer will support the WSH team in making the reinvented toilet a reality.**** ** ** The job description is at this link: Gates Program Officer in Seattle<http://careers.gatesfoundation.org/job/Seattle-Program-Officer-Sanitation-Innovation-Market-Readiness-Job-WA-98101/1839239/>