Team Lead, Women's Health, and Project Director, Future Injectables Market Steward

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PATH is deeply committed to implementing our strategic vision focused on strengthening people-centered primary health care (PHC) to help countries and health systems adapt and respond to a changing world, move toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC), and achieve the health-related Sustainable

Development Goals. The PHC program focuses on advancing integrated people-centered care and systems through a life course approach, and includes capabilities in health systems, integrated maternal and child health and development, nutrition, sexual and reproductive health (SRH), HIV, viral hepatitis, and other STIs, tuberculosis, noncommunicable diseases, and more. Women's health is a cross-cutting focus.

The
Women's Health Team Lead
will serve on the PHC leadership team, the Global Health Programs Extended Leadership Team, and as the primary leader for women's health at PATH. In addition, the Women's Health Team Lead will serve as the
Future Injectables Market Steward (FIMS) Project Director
. In these dual roles, they will report to PATH's PHC Director.

The Future Injectable Market Steward (FIMS) project is a multi-country effort to facilitate the sustainable availability of injectable contraceptive options, including self-injection of DMPA-SC, as part of an expanded range of family planning methods delivered through informed choice programming. DMPA-SC offers a safe and effective injectable contraceptive that clients can, once trained, inject themselves if they choose. At the core of the FIMS mission is the belief that when women and adolescents have access to a variety of contraceptives, including those they can manage themselves, they are more likely to find and consistently use a method that meets their needs and ultimately realize their reproductive intentions.

The Project Director will drive the strategic direction for the Future Injectable Market Steward (FIMS) project and oversee activities and staff to achieve project milestones. They will coordinate closely with PATH and partner staff, including the FIMS consortium leadership team, finance lead, market function leads, regional Resource Teams and Country Coordinators in Africa and Asia to ensure that project activities are implemented efficiently and in alignment with work plans and budgets.

As
FIMS Project Director (~75% time)
, the person in this role will have the following responsibilities:

Lead and manage the FIMS project

• Provide visionary leadership and strategic direction to ensure the success of the FIMS project, while ensuring alignment with principles of choice and equity.
• Apply cultural agility to manage a multi-partner, multi-country, multi-lingual project team to ensure activities are accomplished on time and within budget.
• Leverage partnerships, information and real-time intelligence across the FIMS consortium and broader family planning ecosystem, including with donors, governments, manufacturers, to rapidly diagnosis market-related barriers to injectable contraceptive access in priority geographies.
• Lead efforts to strategically and rapidly address barriers to country access to DMPA-SC, including introduction in new countries and scale-up in current countries, to ensure countries are progressing efficiently along market phases toward sustainability.
• Ensure timely and complete submission to donors of all deliverables, performance and financial reports, and responses to donor requests.
• Participate in Market Function workstream meetings, identifying implementation bottlenecks, and working with relevant project staff, partners, and other stakeholders to develop solutions.
• Convene regular coordination meetings (e.g., bimonthly consortium meetings) and biweekly leadership team meetings, and supervise 5-7 members of a globally dispersed PATH team

As
Women's Health Team Lead (~25% time)
, the person in this role will also have the following responsibilities:

Lead and build the capacity of a global team with strong connections across PATH

• Ensure that PATH's women's health portfolio is at the forefront of global innovation by championing integration with PHC, human-centered design, and equity in health access, with a life course approach and particular focus on adolescents and other underserved populations.
• Lead the Women's Health team within the PHC Program at PATH, including supervising, coaching and mentoring staff in different geographic locations and advancing a transparent and respectful global team culture.
• Build the team's technical capacity in women's health, develop cross-PATH collaborations, and recruit talent, including at country level
• Provide and oversee women's health inputs to relevant opportunities led by other teams within PATH; identify opportunities to elevate women's health within other health area bids and projects, in coordination with other PATH leaders. Foster connection through various innovations that promote the larger PHC program across PATH.
• Provide leadership consistent with PATH's mission, values, and policies.
• Model cultural and organizational agility internally and externally, as well as clear, open, and collaborative communication approaches in a dynamic environment.
• Leverage synergies between the FIMS project and other women's health initiatives to advance women's health through PHC and promote the self-care agenda globally.

Ensure high quality implementation of projects

• Provide in-depth technical expertise (especially in the areas of women's health self-care, method choice, cervical cancer, contraceptive method introduction) to Women's Health team to inform project implementation and evaluation, and to other PATH teams working on projects with women's health components.
• Proactively problem-solve technical issues; identify technical strengthening priority areas together with staff and regional and country partners; manage provision of women's health technical assistance and expertise across organization.
• Reinforce application of continuous quality improvement approaches and partner capacity development strategies.
• Structure and coordinate activities of staff, contractors, and consultants to meet deliverables and ensure that projects are on track.
• Contribute to, review, and approve project deliverables.
• Serve as project director for select projects within the portfolio as appropriate.

Represent PATH externally

• Engage with ministries of health, regional bodies, donors, and other partners, serving as a technical/scientific expert and external representative for global advocacy and policy efforts, including through webinars and presentations at international conferences.
• Lead the development of thought pieces and publications, and write, and support women's health staff to author thought pieces and publications that align with PATH's PHC strategy.
• Lead the operationalization of women's health strategy across PATH's global and country programs, as part of PATH's overall PHC strategy and ensuring collaboration with other health areas and programs.

Generate new revenue across geographies

• Foster innovative ideas through co-creation with country programs, the PHC program, PATH overall and external partners.
• Develop, identify, and secure partnerships to advance innovation and equitable access to women's health.
• Create a diversified and sustainable portfolio by understanding donor priorities and cultivating relationships that lead to new opportunities.
• Oversee tactical business development (BD) planning to effectively position women's health for new opportunities and secure new funding.
• Serve as either proposal team leader or technical lead for proposals as appropriate and oversee and support leadership of women's health new business opportunities by other staff.
• Review and provide constructive feedback on draft proposals to ensure quality and alignment with PATH's PHC and overall strategic goals.

Required Experience

• Master's degree in public health, public policy, or a related field plus a minimum of ten years of progressively responsible professional experience in global women's health, or a Bachelor's degree in a related field plus a minimum of thirteen years of progressively responsible professional experience in global women's health.
• Excellent team player with the ability to obtain results from dynamic teams and consistently obtain updates from initiatives across the PATH women's health portfolio, including skill with creating connections across health and functional areas (e.g., digital health, diagnostics, advocacy) within a matrixed organization.
• Extensive experience in global SRH programming; familiarity with self-care approaches highly desired; strong family planning and/or reproductive health market-shaping expertise; demonstrated experience in new family planning product highly desired.
• Proven experience in developing market-based solutions that address the needs and challenges for private sector distributors and providers in delivering health products and services, including experience working with private sector commercial distributors or social marketing organizations to introduce and/or develop Global South markets for health products. Experience with women's health and/or contraceptive products is a plus.
• Deep understanding of data systems, availability, and use of data to inform decision-making in resource-scarce countries is desired.
• Experience implementing supply chain strategies to ensure the availability of stock and supply of health commodities in Global South health systems is desired.
• Proven ability to lead cross-cultural teams, demonstrate cultural sensitivity, and manage people with a commitment to building a shared vision and positive team culture across multiple country sites. At least three years of management or supervisory experience is required, along with above-average emotional intelligence and the ability to give and receive constructive feedback
• Experience building and managing relationships at global, regional, and national levels, including with donors, multilateral organizations, implementing partners, governments, local organizations, academic institutions, and the private sector.
• Proven proficiency and success in business development of multimillion-dollar awards, including shaping new ideas into compelling proposals, building a pipeline of prospects, and managing partnerships. Successful business development with CIFF, the Gates Foundation, Packard Foundation, and other donors is highly desirable, with a proven track record in meeting business and implementation targets
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, with the ability to address a variety of technical and non-technical audiences and make presentations to and facilitate meetings of small and large groups.
• Fluency in English required; working knowledge of other languages (e.g., French) is an advantage
• Available to travel nationally and internationally up to 20 percent, with flexibility for virtual leadership and management across different time zones.
• Must have legal authorization to work in an African country where PATH has registration (DRC, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda Zambia).

As you submit your CV, please ensure you attach a cover letter demonstrating how you meet the requirements outlined in the job description.
Please Note: Eligibility for this position is limited to candidates who are currently based in Africa, in a country where PATH is legally registered and authorized to employ staff directly. . Remote work arrangements are acceptable for this role.