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PATH is an international organization that drives transformative 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.

PATH is known throughout the world for its successful public-private partnerships. Succeeding at these partnerships requires lawyers who are passionate, creative, pragmatic, savvy, smart and possess excellent judgment.

The mission of the Legal Affairs Division is to support PATH’s mission by (1) collaborating with clients to provide strategic, best-practice, efficient legal counsel and education, including transactional and other legal support, and (2) providing overall guidance to enhance legal compliance and minimize risk, all with the utmost integrity. The Division currently consists of a general counsel, nine attorneys, six paralegals, and a four-person administrative support team.

Transactional Attorney, Legal Affairs  

The attorney will work primarily on transactional legal matters in support of PATH’s in-country programmatic work, as well as provide general legal counsel for the in-country programs. She/he will also support global public health program transactions. Working closely with multiple program leaders from across the geographies in which PATH implements its programs, she/he will be responsible for addressing in-country programmatic legal matters and will report to a PATH Senior Counsel.

Responsibilities:

  • 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.

Required Skills

  • 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%.

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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.

Our annual report viewed on an iPad and iPhone.

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 an international organization that drives transformative 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.

PATH is known throughout the world for its successful public-private partnerships. Succeeding at these partnerships requires lawyers who are passionate, creative, pragmatic, savvy, smart and possess excellent judgment.

The mission of the Legal Affairs Division is to support PATH’s mission by (1) collaborating with clients to provide strategic, best-practice, efficient legal counsel and education, including transactional and other legal support, and (2) providing overall guidance to enhance legal compliance and minimize risk, all with the utmost integrity. The Division currently consists of a general counsel, nine attorneys, six paralegals, and a four-person administrative support team.

Transactional Attorney, Legal Affairs  

The attorney will work primarily on transactional legal matters in support of PATH’s in-country programmatic work, as well as provide general legal counsel for the in-country programs. She/he will also support global public health program transactions. Working closely with multiple program leaders from across the geographies in which PATH implements its programs, she/he will be responsible for addressing in-country programmatic legal matters and will report to a PATH Senior Counsel.

Responsibilities:

  • 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.

Required Skills

  • 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%.
2017-12-02

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