Technical Lead, Maternal Newborn Child Health at PATH

PATH is currently recruiting a Kenya-based Maternal Newborn Child Health (MNCH) Technical Lead to provide strategic direction and to lead technical and advocacy work in integrating a nutrition package of care into models of care for the small and sick newborn. This MNCH Technical Lead will guide implementation and manage critical relationships with stakeholders, leading business development activities with the goal of expanding these efforts across the Africa region. Engagement with Ministries of Health and relevant departments or government structures is critical in the success of this role.

This MNCH Technical Lead will report directly to the MNCHN team lead and will have a “dotted line” of reporting to the East Africa Regional Hub and Kenya Country Director to ensure effective integration into PATH’s regional presence in Kenya and throughout the East Africa region and beyond; close collaboration with the Africa Division leadership is expected.

The MNCH Technical Lead has the following primary responsibilities:

• Ensure high quality implementation of projects:
  • Serve as technical point of contact for all Africa related newborn nutrition engagements
  • Support the creation, adaptation, and piloting of newborn nutrition implementation materials, including training materials
  • Provide technical and tactical newborn nutrition expertise to the MNCHN team to inform project planning, implementation and evaluation, and strategic expansion
  • Assist in guiding gender integration within RMNCH activities
  • Lead or contribute to all project deliverables
• Generate new strategic opportunities and revenue across key African geographies:
• Foster innovative ideas and opportunities through co-creation with MNCHN and country programs
• Support development of regional Africa newborn nutrition strategy
• Work with MNCHN and Africa leadership to develop strategic partnerships to advance innovation and access to newborn nutrition
• Identify donor priorities and cultivate relationships that lead to new opportunities
• Lead or contribute to proposal development for expansion of newborn nutrition programming in Africa Division
• Coordinate stakeholder engagement, regional learning sessions, and policy advancement

Required Experience

• Master’s degree or higher in public health, public policy, or related technical/clinical field
• 10+ years of working in maternal and newborn health
• Clinical experience in newborn care, with specific experience in neonatal intensive care
• Strong technical expertise in newborn or nutrition/lactation; experience in both preferred
• Previous experience in developing technical training materials
• Experience collaborating with or embedded within technical and policy experts, ie, Ministry of Health, Pediatric Associations, and relevant government structures
• Skilled in proposal writing and concept development
• Strong clinical research skills preferred
• Fluent in English; additional languages a plus
• Available to travel nationally and internationally estimated at 20 percent per PATH’s travel and safety guidelines
• Must have legal authorization to work in Kenya