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PATH is a global organization that works to accelerate health equity by bringing together public institutions, businesses, social enterprises, and investors to solve the world’s most pressing health challenges. With expertise in science, health, finance, technology, advocacy, and dozens of other specialties, PATH develops and scales innovative solutions—including vaccines, drugs, devices, diagnostics, and approaches to strengthening health systems worldwide.

PATH established a central Market Dynamics program in 2015 to ensure all PATH projects have access to in-house market dynamics expertise and to share market knowledge, best practices, tools, and frameworks to further build PATH’s global markets capabilities. ​Market dynamics entails analyzing how diverse forces in a market function and interact, identifying areas of dysfunction and their root causes, and developing strategies for addressing those issues to strengthen markets and increase health impact.  In the global health field, market forces can include the actions of manufacturers, distributors, procurement agencies, regulators, donors, healthcare providers, and individual users. ​

We seek to recruit a Senior Program Officer to provide support to Market Dynamics Oxygen project and the Reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) programs. This position will be based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide support to the project team in development and execution of work plan and associated project activities in Kenya
  • Provide local context and background to the PATH project team and collect preliminary market information in advance of project team time in-country
  • Stakeholder engagement- identify, engage and serve as the local point of contact for key stakeholders in PATH’s Kenya market dynamics project activities.
  • Contribute technical insight to the Kenyan market assessment, market access strategy, and potential market strengthening recommendations for oxygen concentrators and pulse oximeters
  • Carry out initial data collection through desk research to amalgamate face to face consultations
  • Provide technical support and document review

Required Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
  • At least 7 years of relevant program experience with progressively increasing responsibility.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of Kenya’s health system at the national and subnational level, pertaining newborn and child health policies and practices.
  • Demonstrated commitment to the field of global health.
  • Familiar with medical devices and/or MNCH medical devices more specifically.
  • Familiar with the principals of Market Dynamics.
  • Proven ability to establish and maintain relationships with country level Ministries of Health and national and subnational newborn and child health program managers in Kenya.
  • Experience conducting qualitative and quantitative field research, expert informant interviews, structured observations, and experience synthesizing information to identify current needs and practices to inform project strategy.
  • Skilled in successfully working with geographically dispersed teams and working in a multi-cultural environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate (orally and in writing) complex issues in a concise, compelling, and easily understandable manner.
  • Strong interpersonal and organizational skills, with ability to prioritize deadlines and work in fast-moving environments and teams, while maintaining accuracy

Candidates must have legal authorization to work in Kenya.

PATH is dedicated to building an inclusive workforce where diversity is valued.

 

PATH is an equal opportunity employer. Every qualified applicant will be considered for employment. PATH does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or orientation, genetic information, age, national origin, marital status, disability status, political ideology, military or protected

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PATH envisions a world where innovation ensures that health is within reach for everyone.

We dare to believe that innovation can change the world

PATH is the leader in global health innovation. An international nonprofit organization, we 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.

Our commitment

PATH is driven by an unshakeable commitment to health equity and a bold belief in the power of innovation to improve health and save lives. For nearly 40 years, PATH has been a pioneer in translating bold ideas into breakthrough health solutions, with a focus on child survival, maternal and reproductive health, and infectious diseases.

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Follow our journey from innovation to impact in our 2015 online annual report. Photo: PATH/Dave Simpson.

Our expertise

PATH brings innovative solutions to bear wherever they are needed—in the laboratory or the factory, government halls or communities. We specialize in overcoming the barriers that can keep a bright idea from reaching widespread impact, especially those that arise in the middle of the journey of innovation. This is where promising projects often fail, during steps like testing and refining, gaining approvals, commercializing a product, and introducing new approaches. Through experience, creativity, and tenacity, we accelerate the pace at which innovations are transferred into the hands of the people who need them.

Our innovation platforms

PATH takes a multidimensional approach to solving health challenges. Our work spans five platforms, which we deploy strategically for greatest impact:

Vaccines to give children a healthy start in life.

Drugs to treat diseases more effectively and at lower cost.

Diagnostics to detect and track diseases.

Devices like household water filters and prefilled, nonreusable syringes.

And system and service innovations to ensure that all these tools reach the people who need them.

Our partnerships

PATH mobilizes cross-sector partnerships that radically extend our reach, making powerful tools and strategies accessible at a massive scale. We start with a country’s needs, partnering with government and civil-society institutions to develop and introduce health solutions that address the country’s highest priorities. Corporations, foundations, social entrepreneurs, individuals, as well as governments and multilateral institutions provide complementary strengths and capabilities.

 

Our impact

From devices like the vaccine vial monitor, which alerts health workers when a vaccine has been damaged by heat, to the newest science and strategies for eliminating malaria, our innovations have reached billions of people around the world.

By accelerating innovation, PATH and our partners are transforming the lives of the world’s most vulnerable women and children and helping to create thriving, self-reliant communities.

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0 USD Nairobi CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week PATH

PATH is a global organization that works to accelerate health equity by bringing together public institutions, businesses, social enterprises, and investors to solve the world’s most pressing health challenges. With expertise in science, health, finance, technology, advocacy, and dozens of other specialties, PATH develops and scales innovative solutions—including vaccines, drugs, devices, diagnostics, and approaches to strengthening health systems worldwide.

PATH established a central Market Dynamics program in 2015 to ensure all PATH projects have access to in-house market dynamics expertise and to share market knowledge, best practices, tools, and frameworks to further build PATH's global markets capabilities. ​Market dynamics entails analyzing how diverse forces in a market function and interact, identifying areas of dysfunction and their root causes, and developing strategies for addressing those issues to strengthen markets and increase health impact.  In the global health field, market forces can include the actions of manufacturers, distributors, procurement agencies, regulators, donors, healthcare providers, and individual users. ​

We seek to recruit a Senior Program Officer to provide support to Market Dynamics Oxygen project and the Reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) programs. This position will be based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide support to the project team in development and execution of work plan and associated project activities in Kenya
  • Provide local context and background to the PATH project team and collect preliminary market information in advance of project team time in-country
  • Stakeholder engagement- identify, engage and serve as the local point of contact for key stakeholders in PATH’s Kenya market dynamics project activities.
  • Contribute technical insight to the Kenyan market assessment, market access strategy, and potential market strengthening recommendations for oxygen concentrators and pulse oximeters
  • Carry out initial data collection through desk research to amalgamate face to face consultations
  • Provide technical support and document review

Required Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
  • At least 7 years of relevant program experience with progressively increasing responsibility.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of Kenya’s health system at the national and subnational level, pertaining newborn and child health policies and practices.
  • Demonstrated commitment to the field of global health.
  • Familiar with medical devices and/or MNCH medical devices more specifically.
  • Familiar with the principals of Market Dynamics.
  • Proven ability to establish and maintain relationships with country level Ministries of Health and national and subnational newborn and child health program managers in Kenya.
  • Experience conducting qualitative and quantitative field research, expert informant interviews, structured observations, and experience synthesizing information to identify current needs and practices to inform project strategy.
  • Skilled in successfully working with geographically dispersed teams and working in a multi-cultural environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate (orally and in writing) complex issues in a concise, compelling, and easily understandable manner.
  • Strong interpersonal and organizational skills, with ability to prioritize deadlines and work in fast-moving environments and teams, while maintaining accuracy

Candidates must have legal authorization to work in Kenya.

PATH is dedicated to building an inclusive workforce where diversity is valued.

 

PATH is an equal opportunity employer. Every qualified applicant will be considered for employment. PATH does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or orientation, genetic information, age, national origin, marital status, disability status, political ideology, military or protected

2018-11-03

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