Senior Program Officer - REACH Malaria

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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. 

Applications from Burundi and Burkina Faso are also being considered for this position

PATH seeks a Sr. Program Officer for the USG-funded Reaching every at-risk community and household with malaria services (REACH Malaria) global project. REACH aims to provide implementation support services and technical assistance to countries to accelerate progress in comprehensive delivery of facility and community-based malaria services, including malaria case management, prevention of malaria in pregnancy (MiP), seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC), health systems strengthening, data collection and use for service delivery, and other malaria prevention interventions. 

The Sr. Program Officer will report to the Country Operations Director and assist with helping introduce and implement malaria support services, and coordinate with relevant ministries of health, PATH technical teams and other implementing partners globally.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary point of contact between country office leadership, global technical and operational staff, and partners.  

• Support the start-up of project activities, by coordinating work plan development and providing start-up operational support and backstopping.  

• Provide on-going facilitation for day-to-day implementation of project activities, working collaboratively with the REACH Malaria team to quickly identify and resolve challenges to successful implementation.  

• Support the development, review and submission of deliverables and reports to ensure high quality and timely products.  

• Provide financial management support to country office teams through analyzing financial data, monitoring project expenses against budgets, and forecasting, with support from the Finance and Administration Staff.  

• Monitor compliance with REACH Malaria contract and PATH policies, identify and effectively communicate any risks to compliance.  

• Collaborate with other teams in PATH including diagnostics, maternal, newborn and child health, for their technical inputs into project deliverables and activity plans.  

• Work closely with the relevant stakeholders and partners in coordinating activity implementation. 

• Develop and write technical documents, such as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), tools, checklists, guidelines for training and capacity building of staff as needed. 

• Coordinate country buy-in level planning and review meetings to track progress of implementation of interventions and ensure coordination between program team and external stakeholders. 

• Support in the creation of presentations for updates and meetings.  

Required Skills and Experience: