Vacancies 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)

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Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary point of contact between country office leadership, global technical and operational staff, and partners
• Support the start-up of project activities, by coordinating work plan development and providing start-up operational support and backstopping
• Provide on-going facilitation for day-to-day implementation of project activities, working collaboratively with the REACH Malaria team to quickly identify and resolve challenges to successful implementation
• Support the development, review and submission of deliverables and reports to ensure high quality and timely products
• Provide financial management support to country office teams through analyzing financial data, monitoring project expenses against budgets, and forecasting, with support from the Finance and Administration Staff
• Monitor compliance with REACH Malaria contract and PATH policies, identify and effectively communicate any risks to compliance
• Collaborate with other teams in PATH including diagnostics, maternal, newborn and child health, center for data and digital health, for their technical inputs into project deliverables and activity plans
• Work closely with the relevant stakeholders, including ministries of health, universities, NGOs, civil society, and private sector partners in coordinating activity implementation
• Develop and write technical documents, such as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), tools, checklists, guidelines for training and capacity building of staff as needed
• Coordinate country buy-in level planning and review meetings to track progress of implementation of interventions and ensure coordination between program team and external stakeholders
• Document activities and field observations for program reports, support in the creation of presentations for updates and meetings

Required skills and experience:

• Master's degree with 5 years of experience or Bachelor’s degree with minimum 7 years of experience, with work experience in public health, international development or a related field
• Experience supporting USAID and/or PMI funded health projects, with preference for malaria interventions
• Familiarity with stakeholders in the malaria services space, including malaria case management, prevention of MiP, SMC, surveillance, health systems strengthening, data collection and use for service delivery
• Proven ability to multi-task and collaborate work effectively with senior staff, colleagues, donors, partner organizations, stakeholders, local institutions, and others at all levels
• Strong problem-solving, organization skills and a positive, solution-oriented approach to challenges
• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines, and an emphasis on quality
• Strong financial management skills, including experience in budgeting and tracking financials
• Excellent analytical, presentation and report writing skills
• Excellent skills in facilitation, team building and coordination
• Extremely detail-oriented, with the ability to communicate effectively and concisely, both orally and in writing
• Strong work ethic, resourcefulness, integrity, credibility, and dedication to PATH’s mission
• Professional proficiency in English required, proficiency in French preferred
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams)

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Description of the project the intern will complete

The Asset Tracker 3 Data Intern will assist on the ‘Asset Tracker’ project (see activities below).

This project seeks to explore barriers and facilitators to scale up of Maternal Newborn Child Health and Nutrition (MNCHN) interventions, essential medicines and devices, which we call ‘assets’, for women and children.

The Asset Tracker Initiative aggregates data from document reviews and relevant secondary data sources, including routine surveys.

Description of the learning objectives and goals of the internship

To refine literature review, data skills, and develop team-building skills for working across international settings in global health. Intern will improve understanding of secondary data collection processes and data management.

Proposed activities for the internship

The Asset Tracker 3 Data Intern will support the following activities on the Asset Tracker project:

• Support data team in collecting, organizing, and extracting predefined indicators across data sources including household/facility surveys, routine health systems data, logistics management information systems, and policy/training documents
• Support the review of country-level data collection sheets to identify missing or inconsistent data
• Attend data and project team meetings

Benefit to intern

The Intern will gain:

• experience working across settings in a fast-paced environment in the global health setting.
• in-depth understanding of the MNCHN indicators and secondary data sources and better understand data management processes.

Description of skills and experience the intern should have

• Currently enrolled in a graduate program (masters or PhD) in monitoring and evaluation, global health, or public policy/administration.
• Strong experience with data collection and collation.
• Attention to detail
• Experience with working with data in spreadsheet/tabular format
• Efficient and organized
• Able to work independently