PATH is an international organization that drives trans-formative innovation to save lives and improve health, especially among women and children. We accelerate innovation across five platforms—vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, devices, and system and service innovations—that harness our entrepreneurial insight, scientific and public health expertise, and passion for health equity. By mobilizing partners around the world, we take innovation to scale, working alongside countries primarily in Africa and Asia to tackle their greatest health needs. Together, we deliver measurable results that disrupt the cycle of poor health.
We seek to recruit a Regional Gender and Research Advisor who will serve as a technical matter advisor for global PATH projects for gender-based violence, gender integration, reproductive health (RH) literacy and empowerment, and research. The Advisor will work on specific projects, business development related to gender, RH literacy/empowerment, research and evaluation, and efforts related to strategic development of a PATH-wide gender approach and related guidance documents. This position will be based in Uganda.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Manage and provide oversight for a reproductive health literacy and empowerment project. Including:
- Adaptation of a curriculum for use with women’s groups.
- Design and oversight of the process evaluation for the pilot.
- Support Uganda project coordinator with implementation.
- Liaise with reproductive health project staff in Uganda to incorporate lessons learned from the pilot into other RH-related projects.
- Develop a strategy for introduction and replication of the pilot in other locales in Uganda as well as elsewhere in Sub Saharan Africa.
- Contribute to new business development efforts to grow the RH Literacy and Empowerment activity beyond the initial pilot.
- Advise and work with project teams on TB and gender strategy implementation, data monitoring and analysis, and gender module development in a national health care worker
- Advise and work with project teams on HIV-related gender strategies and activities, including contributing to workplanning and report writing.
- Participate as member of PATH’s Research Ethics Committee; conduct scientific merit reviews of studies.
- Contribute to business development by:
- providing strategic design and technical gender/GBV and/or research inputs to PH and ID concepts and proposals across technical areas and lead gender/GBV specific concept and proposal design and response efforts.
- organizing a gender and TB experts meeting building on the successful meeting from 2014 to continue to demonstrate PATH’s leadership around gender and TB.
- Respond to requests for gender and GBV-related technical assistance and input from projects and programs across Africa and globally, including gender assessment planning and implementation, contributing to curriculum development and/or project implementation, reviewing research designs, assisting with qualitative analysis, or developing case studies.
Required Experience
- Master’s degree in health or social sciences or a related advanced degree, with at least 10-15 years of experience conducting research/implementing gender programs in a variety of low and middle income countries and settings. A minimum of one year of research experience in Uganda.
- Demonstrated strong writing and presentation skills.
- Demonstrated project management and leadership skills.
- Familiarity with the Ugandan, Zambian, and DRC health systems.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English required.
- Ability to travel nationally, regionally and internationally 30% of the time.
- In-depth knowledge of gender principles and practices as they pertain to health.
- Demonstrated experience with gender integration related to HIV, TB, and RH programs.
- Substantial demonstrated experience in gender-based violence, reproductive health, and gender integration-related research and design.
- Proven interpersonal skills and ability to work in a multi-site cross-cultural team-based organizational structure, including partners and other collaborators.
Must have legal authorization to work in Uganda.
PATH is dedicated to building an inclusive workforce where diversity is valued.
Job Location
Jinja, , Uganda
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