The IMCHD program officer will have the following primary responsibilities:
- Retain current knowledge and understanding of up to date research and policies related to feeding of the small and sick newborn;
- Support the creation, adaptation, and piloting of newborn nutrition implementation materials, embedding specialized lactation support requirements;
- Provide hands on specialized lactation support training to health care workers in key geographies;
- Ensure high quality technical direction and input for all materials related to specialized lactation support for small and sick newborns and their mothers, including:
- Training and curriculum resources;
- Policy and advocacy resources;
- Communications resources;
- External and internal reports, blogs, manuscripts;
- Implementation science research protocols and planning.
- Provide nutrition/lactation technical expertise to the IMCHD team to inform integration across the life cycle, project planning, implementation and evaluation, and strategic expansion;
- Assist in guiding gender integration within IMCHD and specialized lactation support activities;
- Contribute to partnerships development, proposal writing, and grant management;
- Work as collaborative multi-country, diverse team;
- Coordinate stakeholder engagement, regional learning sessions, and policy advancement.
Required Experience:
- Master’s degree or higher in public health, public policy, or related technical/clinical field
- 5+ years of working in breastfeeding support/maternal and newborn health
- International Board Certified Lactation Consultant certification, or proven experience and knowledge in lactation support for mothers of preterm infants
- Clinical experience in provision of hands-on specialized lactation support, with experience in supporting mothers of newborns in the neonatal intensive care
- Strong technical expertise in newborn or early infant nutrition/ maternal lactation; experience in both preferred
- Previous experience in developing technical training materials; experience conducting training preferred
- Experience collaborating with technical and policy experts
- Skilled in proposal writing and concept development
- Fluent in English; additional languages a plus
- Available to travel internationally estimated at 20 percent per PATH’s travel and safety guidelines
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