Career Opportunities at PATH International - 2 Positions

Job Desciption

• Build strong relationships with client teams and serve as strategic advisor on recruiting matters.
• Advise hiring managers on networking and recruiting strategies and provide recommendations for attracting diverse applicants.
• Recruit and hire talent for Eastern Africa region, including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia.
• Source candidates utilizing cutting edge technology, social media, targeted outreach and networking.
• Take initiative to provide innovative solutions to challenges and ensure timeliness and efficiency throughout search.
• Review resumes, interview candidates, lead post interview discussions, and manage candidate communications and expectations.
• Partner with the Regional HRBP in developing recruiting and talent management strategies to ensure critical projects are appropriately staffed.
• Guide hiring managers to identify a balanced interview team, design an efficient and professional interview process, and prepare interviewer.
• Negotiate job offer, coordinate reference and background checks, and ensure candidate records are accurate and complete.
• Guide hiring managers to make fair hiring decisions.
• Develop competitive offers following PATH practices.
• Ensure compliance with PATH policies and practices and applicable local labor laws.
• Participate in the development and optimization of recruiting processes and best practices.
• Contribute to the larger Africa HR and Global HR teams, bringing regional perspective and best practices to the global team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree. A higher national diploma in HR would be an added advantage
• A minimum of five years’ HR experience with experience in life-cycle recruiting.
• Experience recruiting senior level professionals in the Eastern Africa Region.
• Proven effectiveness leading talent searches while demonstrating professionalism, discretion, fairness, and confidentiality.
• Demonstrated success driving recruitment efforts and influencing clients to adopt best practices in all aspects of recruiting.
• Track record of working well in a team environment with highly technical staff.
• Demonstrated effectiveness working efficiently, productively, and with urgency in a fast-paced, high-volume work environment.
• Proven ability to prioritize competing demands and keep others apprised of progress.
• Demonstrated success exercising sound judgment, applying effective analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills, and acting and thinking independently.
• Proven success using online recruiting tools and strategies to identify talent.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office and working knowledge of applicant tracking systems and online sourcing techniques.
• Membership in a professional HR body is an added advantage

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Job Description

• Draft a wide range of agreements including memorandums of understanding with government agencies and other project stakeholders, public-private partnership collaboration agreements, collaborative research and development agreements, clinical study agreements, manufacturing and supply agreements, license agreements, commercialization agreements, services agreements and other technology-supportive third party agreements.
• Provide legal consultation for PATH’s Office of Grants and Contracts team regarding grants/awards and subordinate agreements managed and prepared by that group.
• Collaborate with program team members and the Office of Grants and Contracts to negotiate agreement terms that align with PATH’s mission, policies and effective stewardship of PATH’s resources.
• Work with program teams to establish strong public-private partnerships serving the mission of PATH.
• Manage scope and interaction with outside counsel in coordination with PATH Senior Counsel and program leaders as appropriate.
• Ensure cost-effective provision of legal services in a timely and effective manner.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Laws and Postgraduate Diploma in Laws (or equivalent degrees), with license to practice law in Kenya preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal skills, particularly in English (French desirable).
• Minimum of five years of experience, preferably including with multinational or international organizations, regarding technology or life sciences collaborations (involving pharmaceutical, biotech, or biomedical firms preferred).
• Substantial transactional experience drafting and negotiating agreements involving complex collaborations and technology.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Proven ability to provide sound practical legal advice.
• Ability to solve problems creatively with aptitude for addressing ambiguity.
• In depth understanding of intellectual property driven transactions (related to the pharma/life science practice preferred).
• Self-starter who collaborates effectively and efficiently within and across groups.
• Ability to synthesize and clearly convey legal concepts and language to non-lawyers.
• Ability to work in fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work effectively in multi-cultural environment.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 5 to 10%.