Vacancies at PATH

PATH is currently recruiting for an experienced, resourceful, and energetic Communications Officer to support Digital Square’s efforts to share its learning and expertise, to tell its story more broadly, and to convey the impact of Digital Square’s work. The Communications Officer is an integral member of the Digital Square team who will work with team members across the initiative to fine-tune and implement Digital Square’s communications strategy and workplan for primarily an external audience. This position will be filled by a highly competent communications professional who has excellent writing skills in English, sophisticated decision-making abilities, and an open and collaborative attitude. The Communications Officer will join a robust multi-country team and will report to Digital Square’s Senior Communications Officer.

Responsibilities:

• Execute and support Digital Square’s communications workplan, including the development of key messaging and content to share insights, contributions, and learning. This includes the production and/or dissemination of briefs, reports, case studies, presentations, fact sheets, talking points, infographics, videos, blog posts, social media posts, success stories, and other digital content.
• Partner with team members to identify areas of learning, expertise, impact, and success, and translate this content into compelling communications materials for a variety of external audiences—ranging from global digital health innovators to public health officials in low- and middle-income countries.
• Collaborate with Digital Square country implementation teams to develop a core suite of collateral about their digital health work, including success stories, presentation decks, and other overview materials.
• Support communications about Digital Square’s portfolio of COVID-19 activities, including our partnership with the UNICEF/WHO Digital Health Centre of Excellence (DICE) and sharing best practices for adapting and scaling digital health global goods for COVID-19 response and the post-pandemic context.
• Plan, draft, implement, and monitor social media content and campaigns with the goal of optimizing reach and engagement. Using a strong understanding of various social platforms (including Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube), create and execute on a social media strategy that is tailored to each platform and fits into Digital Square’s broader audience strategy and goals.
• Ensure that all external communications products and activities are in-line with PATH’s and Digital Square’s communications policies; review content to ensure it is on-brand, consistent in style, quality, and tone of voice, and in compliance with donor branding and marking requirements, e.g., USAID.
• Develop, review, and edit content for Digital Square deliverables, including copyediting and formatting as necessary, to produce high quality documents.
• Manage external projects or collaborate on production processes and work with designers, editors, and other vendors on materials requiring professional involvement.
• Support implementation of a communications training plan for Digital Square’s team and partner organizations, enhancing the collective ability to tell the Digital Square story.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with PATH colleagues, donors, public and private partners, and the digital health global goods community.

Required Experience

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of five (5) years working in communications and/or advocacy fields, with a substantial amount of writing and a strong track record of making highly technical content accessible to lay audiences while maintaining credibility with the technical community.
• Experience developing and implementing versatile and creative external communications strategies and campaigns for global, regional, and national audiences, including policymakers, implementers, governments, and funders.
• Experience developing multimedia and online communications, including social media, websites, knowledge management and storytelling platforms, etc.
• Excellent writing and editing skills in English and a demonstrated capacity to translate sophisticated health and development issues into compelling, persuasive writing.
• Solid graphic design skills including document layout and producing social media graphics and PowerPoint slides.
• Strong interpersonal communication, presentation skills, and relationship-building skills demonstrating a client-centered approach to opportunities.
• Able to work with flexibility, entrepreneurship, and diplomacy both individually and as part of a complex team effort.
• Balances being extremely detail-oriented with thinking about the big picture in a strategic and creative way.
• Knows and cares about engaging and growing audiences, reaching them where they are and in ways that meet their needs.
• Thrives in an environment in which taking charge of initiatives and targets is key, while getting the support needed.
• Experience in global health communications is required, and experience with USAID projects is highly preferred.
• Enthusiasm for digital health is important.
• French language skills are desirable.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 15% time annually.
• Must have legal authorization to work in the country of PATH location.

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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