Program Associate at PATH

Responsibilities:

Project Management

• Support project planning, work plan development and implementation, and reporting to ensure effective communications between donors, country teams, program partners, and the PATH MNTD team. 
• Coordinate procurements across multiple geographies ensuring compliance with PATH and donor policies and procedures. 
• In close coordination with the Project Director and Project Administrator, identify challenges in meeting objectives including budget constraints, and other operational challenges.
• Coordinate routine donor reporting and deliverable development.
• Provide domestic and international travel and meeting support, including processing travel concurrence requests, arranging meals, hotel and transportation for participants, conference set-up, and participant tracking.
• Attend and note take during meetings with key stakeholders, both internal and external to PATH. 

Strategic communications and stakeholder coordination

• Package information from research, stakeholder conversations, and thought leadership into high-quality and clear presentations, reports, and publications. 
• Contribute to the proofreading and editing of project findings, publications, guidance documents, presentations, and donor reports.  
• Develop reports and presentation decks for sensitizing internal and external stakeholders to the projects/programs.  
• Engage closely with MNTD country teams and in-country partners to develop a deep understanding of the project objectives and delivering on key project outcomes. 
• Collaborate closely with MNTDs Leadership and PATH communications colleagues to develop regular and ad hoc project/program communications for external and internal audiences, including PATH leadership and donors. 

Required skills and experience:

• Master's degree with 1-3 years of work experience (MBA/ MPH/ MPA preferred) or Bachelor’s degree with 3-5 years of work experience. 
• Strong problem-solving, analytical capabilities, and organization skills and a positive, solution-oriented approach to challenges 
• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced environment 
• Strong writer of both formal and informal communications to internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to work both independently and with teams across time zones and locations
• Flexibility and a willingness to take on a variety of assignments
• Ability to think creatively to help organize information, manage workflow, and improve systems and processes.
• Proven ability to collaborate and work effectively with senior staff, colleagues, donors, partner organizations, stakeholders, local institutions, and personnel at all levels.
• Strong work ethic, resourcefulness, integrity, credibility, and dedication to PATH’s mission
• Professional proficiency in English
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams)