Governance and Strategies Officer, Malaria

PATH is a global nonprofit dedicated to achieving health equity. With more than 40 years of experience forging multisector partnerships and with expertise in science, economics, technology, advocacy, and dozens of other specialties, PATH develops and scales up innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing heath challenges.

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PATH is home to the Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa (MACEPA) which works closely with National Malaria Control programs in Africa to strengthen data systems and data use to better inform strategies and targeting of resources to reduce burden. Key components of this work include developing and/or strengthening leadership and management structures, tools, and processes; driving partner integration; introducing policy roadmaps to enable the introduction of new tools; and supporting the development of new funding proposals and business cases to expand in-country and external financial resources.

MACEPA seeks to recruit a Governance and Strategies Officer to work with National Malaria Programs (NMPs) to develop data-driven national strategic plans that incorporate sub-nationally targeted interventions, are country-led and aligned with other existing national plans. The successful applicant will work with NMPs, donors, partners and country-based MACEPA teams to develop tools to facilitate and optimize the process of developing national and sub-national plans, including microplanning and budgeting tools to develop costed operational plans. In addition, s/he will work with NMPs and partners to support the development of funding requests that are developed according to defined timelines and are informed by relevant strategic objectives and midterm review recommendations, consider stratification and modeling outputs and maximize the impact of interventions within allocated budget envelopes. Additionally, the Governance and Strategies Officer will develop or update private-sector engagement roadmaps to address challenges and support NMPs in achieving universal coverage of malaria case management. Finally, s/he will support the development of business cases to provide evidence and success stories to build business cases for specific interventions that are under-resourced and advocate for resource mobilization, targeting new donors. S/he will report to the Governance and Strategies Program Advisor. This position will be based in Geneva.

Responsibilities:

• In collaboration with in-country MACEPA teams, NMPs, and partners, lead the development of management tools to facilitate national and sub-national malaria planning, including national strategic plans and costed operational plans.
• Work with in-country MACEPA teams, NMPs, and partners to develop roadmaps to ensure activities leading to Global Fund funding requests are planned out in advance, tracked, and carried out according to defined timelines, including identifying key programmatic bottlenecks and efficiency “pivots”, malaria program reviews and NSP development.
• Develop private sector engagement roadmaps in selected geographies to ensure private sector providers are adequately engaged to address challenges and support NMPs in achieving universal coverage of malaria case management.
• Based on evidence, success stories, MACEPA learnings and evidence from other PATH malaria investments, develop country-specific business cases for specific interventions that are under-resourced and advocate for resource mobilization, targeting new donors.
• Support the assessment of existing policy frameworks to identify gaps to new tool introduction, and work with NMPs and MOHs to implement required policy changes.
• Support consultative meetings with malaria stakeholders at all levels of the health system to share and discuss achievements, opportunities, and challenges.
• Draft key documents, reports, presentations, and other communications materials for a variety of purposes and audiences, summarizing developments and recommendations for program areas and external partners.
• Support the project’s Governance and Strategies workplans, and associated implementation, monitoring, and control processes to facilitate accomplishment of its outputs.
• Other duties as assigned by the to the Governance and Strategies Program Advisor.

Required skills and experience:

• Advanced degree in public policy, public health, science, business administration, or equivalent degree required, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Excellent oral and written French and English communication skills
• Minimum six years of professional program management experience with experience directly managing and coordinating complex projects; ideally in malaria projects.
• Experience working with ministries of health, donors, NGOs, and the private sector on infectious disease programming.
• Excellent interpersonal and diplomatic skills with ability to interact with diverse colleagues and partners, including with government representatives.
• Strong organizational, collaborative skills, prioritization and workload management skills.
• Fluency in spoken and written French and English.
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally as requested.
• Must have legal authorization to work in Switzerland.

Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Applicant must have legal authorization to work in the Switzerland .

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, caste, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, age, national origin, marital status, disability status, political ideology, military or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.