Responsibilities:
Project Management
- Support project planning, work plan development and implementation, and reporting to ensure effective communications between donors, country teams, program partners, and the PATH MNTD team.
- Coordinate procurements across multiple geographies ensuring compliance with PATH and donor policies and procedures.
- In close coordination with the Project Director and Project Administrator, identify challenges in meeting objectives including budget constraints, and other operational challenges.
- Coordinate routine donor reporting and deliverable development.
- Provide domestic and international travel and meeting support, including processing travel concurrence requests, arranging meals, hotel and transportation for participants, conference set-up, and participant tracking.
- Attend and note take during meetings with key stakeholders, both internal and external to PATH.
Strategic communications and stakeholder coordination
- Package information from research, stakeholder conversations, and thought leadership into high-quality and clear presentations, reports, and publications.
- Contribute to the proofreading and editing of project findings, publications, guidance documents, presentations, and donor reports.
- Develop reports and presentation decks for sensitizing internal and external stakeholders to the projects/programs.
- Engage closely with MNTD country teams and in-country partners to develop a deep understanding of the project objectives and delivering on key project outcomes.
- Collaborate closely with MNTDs Leadership and PATH communications colleagues to develop regular and ad hoc project/program communications for external and internal audiences, including PATH leadership and donors.
Required skills and experience:
- Master’s degree with 1-3 years of work experience (MBA/ MPH/ MPA preferred) or Bachelor’s degree with 3-5 years of work experience.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical capabilities, and organization skills and a positive, solution-oriented approach to challenges
- Demonstrated ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
- Strong writer of both formal and informal communications to internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to work both independently and with teams across time zones and locations
- Flexibility and a willingness to take on a variety of assignments
- Ability to think creatively to help organize information, manage workflow, and improve systems and processes.
- Proven ability to collaborate and work effectively with senior staff, colleagues, donors, partner organizations, stakeholders, local institutions, and personnel at all levels.
- Strong work ethic, resourcefulness, integrity, credibility, and dedication to PATH’s mission
- Professional proficiency in English
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams)
