Job Description

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. Through our work in more than 70 countries, PATH and our partners empower people to achieve their full potential.

The Subcutaneous DMPA (DMPA-SC) Technical and Market Lead (TML) is a three-year project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation. The TML is led by PATH in collaboration with John Snow, Incorporated (JSI). The TML team collaborates with ministries of health and country-level implementing partners to provide technical assistance for preparation of country-led, total-market, costed plans for introduction, integration, and scale-up of subcutaneous DMPA. The TML team also provides support to coordinate and track plan implementation. The TML’s technical assistance and coordination support is tailored to each country’s situation and requirements, with scopes of work developed in conjunction with ministry of health leaders and local family planning technical working groups. The TML will also enable ministries of health and partners to participate in multi-country/global level monitoring, and evaluation of DMPA-SC uptake, troubleshoot challenges, mobilize resources by alerting donors to funding gaps, and support learning and information sharing at the country, regional and global levels. The TML expects to collaborate with ministries of health and partners in up to nine west and central African Francophone countries and Madagascar.

The TML will establish a technical assistance and information hub in Dakar, Senegal to support Francophone countries; this hub will also be the base for a Francophone DMPA-SC Learning and Action Network (LAN). The TML Francophone hub will include a small team responsible for providing technical assistance and general backstopping to TML coordinators in Francophone countries introducing/scaling-up DMPA-SC. The Francophone LAN will promote country-to-country information exchange to disseminate research data and country experience through a peer network, and thereby accelerate adoption of DMPA-SC introduction and scale-up strategies among multiple countries concurrently, including innovative practices such as community-based delivery of injectable contraception and DMPA-SC self-injection. The LANs will Contribute to the TML’s Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation (MLE) agenda by serving as a platform for actively sharing and reviewing regular progress reports on DMPA-SC introduction and scale-up activities across multiple countries among the DMPA-SC donors and country partners.

Regional Team Coordinator. PATH is recruiting a Regional Team Coordinator for Francophone Africa to be based in PATH’s Dakar, Senegal office. The Regional Team Coordinator will be responsible for tracking the work of a small, Dakar-based technical assistance team supporting the introduction planning and implementation work of counterparts in up to ten west and central African Francophone countries and Madagascar. The Regional Team Coordinator will also be the lead technical and management resource for the establishment and operation of the Francophone LAN.

The Regional Team Coordinator responsibilities will be as follows:

Team leadership:

Coordinate the activities of the Dakar-based TML team providing technical assistance to countries in the region. The team will include one full-time Regional Technical Advisor, one full-time Program Officer, one part-time finance/admin officer and one part-time project assistant.
Convene regular team meetings to track activities, coordinate schedules, and ensure optimal use of TML team time and resources. Work with team members to routinely update the work plan; bring issues and challenges to the attention of the relevant TML technical team for resolution.
Serve as the Dakar-based team’s key point of contact with the global TML technical team based in Seattle, WA and Washington, D.C., ensuring the completion of regular reporting and/or coordinating regular communication with global team members..
Ensure that monitoring inputs from the participating TML technical countries are aggregated and shared with the TML’s MLE system.

Managing the LAN community:

In collaboration with the TML technical team, develop a strategy and work plan for the Francophone LAN.
Establish and implement mechanisms for recruiting country LAN participants and maintaining LAN participation among key stakeholders and partners in priority countries in the region.
Identify and manage the use of virtual information-sharing and learning platforms, e.g., online meeting platforms, webinars, Google groups, and social media forums.
Establish mechanisms for routinely engaging with the LAN participants with relevant, timely, and engaging information by identifying their information needs and interests and by proactively offering innovative ways for them to engage in the network.
Work with the LAN participants, the regional technical advisor, and the global TML technical staff to develop and implement a program of information-sharing and learning activities. As opportunities for face-to-face interactions arise (dependent on funding), lead the organization of such convenings among Francophone LAN members; develop meeting agendas, identify speakers/presenters, and lead the group exercises to facilitate cross-country exchange and engagement.
Work with the TML global technical team to ensure that new and evolving evidence, information and materials are proactively and effectively disseminated to LAN members through a variety of virtual systems and to document the activities and outputs of the LAN.

Engage regularly with the TML’s Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation (MLE) technical team to ensure optimal interface between the global and national level MLE activities and the LANs.
Required Experience

Required Qualifications:

Demonstrated ability to coordinate/lead small technical teams.
Experience organizing, convening and facilitating stakeholder groups; adept at bringing diverse opinions together to achieve consensus and drive results.
Demonstrated experience using virtual/online tools and systems to facilitate communication, information-sharing and exchange; strong working knowledge of online tools and ability to identify technical needs to support their use.
Skilled at creating structure and developing a new program of activities within a larger project.
Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to interact culturally, linguistically, and diplomatically with diverse internal and external individuals.
Takes initiative, self-motivated, resourceful, dependable, with strong attention to detail.
Able to work collaboratively in a cross-cultural and team environment.
Excellent verbal and written skills required; advanced knowledge of and proficiency in the MS Office Suite.
Excellent written and oral communication skills in French; bilingual English-French strongly preferred.
Ability to conceptualize and prepare presentation materials; diplomacy in communicating with a broad and diverse audience.

Required Experience:

Master’s degree required, in public health, public policy, international development, health management, or other fields related to information technology or telecommunications; or documented equivalent experience in related field.
Minimum of five years of experience working in international development in a team leadership capacity preferably in the health or family planning field;
Minimum 2 years of work involving learning network or related activities, including country collaborative, or peer-network learning/exchange functions using virtual tools.
Excellent communications, writing, and stakeholder engagement skills.