Program Officer, Nutrition, Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program

Tracking Code

5369

Job Description

PATH is an international nonprofit organization that transforms global health through innovation. We take an entrepreneurial approach to developing and delivering high-impact, low-cost solutions, from lifesaving vaccines and devices to collaborative programs with communities. Through our work in more than 70 countries, PATH and our partners empower people to achieve their full potential.

The goal of PATH's Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN) Strategic Program is to apply effective, innovative approaches to broadening access to and use of key MCHN interventions that address the most pressing causes of maternal and child deaths and poor health and nutritional status. Our approach includes: an emphasis on community-level action; a focus on improving the quality of existing health services, as well as improving preventive and curative care provided at home; a commitment to reaching underserved communities; a focus on working to understand and remove existing barriers to high-quality care; and mobilization of social and political support at all levels to create and sustain an enabling environment for the delivery of key interventions. Where appropriate, the MCHN Program strives to establish public-private partnerships to advance our goals.

MCHN is the nutrition lead for the USAID-funded, Jhpiego-led Maternal and Child Integrated Program (MCHIP) which is USAID’s flagship project on maternal and child health. Nutrition work on MCHIP consists of core activities focused specifically on maternal anemia control using an integrated package that addresses the major causes of maternal anemia and country activities that support both maternal and child nutrition improvement. This job supports MCHIP nutrition activities. There may be other nutrition-related activities at PATH that will also be supported but the majority of the position will be to support MCHIP. The position is based at the PATH MCHIP office in Washington, DC.   

The Program Officer will provide technical assistance in nutrition to include:

• Assist with core-funded MCHIP nutrition activities to promote and strengthen an integrated package to control maternal anemia in 2-3 countries.
• Assist with managing nutrition activities in field-funded MCHIP country programs (e.g., Egypt, Kenya, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe).
• Assist with integrating key nutrition messages into the MCHIP platform and countries where MCHIP is working. 
• Write scopes of work for consultancies or in-country staff and supervise activities and ensure the quality of deliverables, as needed.
• Write, review, and revise trip reports.
• Contribute to developing annual work plans and budgets, working with the MCHIP Project Administrator (PADM), for the core and country field-funded activities, aligning work plans with national priorities.
• Assist in the development of Behavior Change Communication (BCC) materials and assessment tools for country activities..
• Contribute to monitoring and reporting on core-funded maternal anemia control and field-funded activities for quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports.
• Assist with writing briefs and papers particularly related to MCHIP learning activities in nutrition.
• Work with in-country staff on monitoring and reporting for quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports for the nutrition sectors for MCHIP country program offices.
• Monitor and stay current with the nutrition literature including maternal anemia control activities, malaria and helminths, and infant and young child nutrition control research and programs.

Other MCHN Nutrition Activities:

• Contribute to proposal writing and other business development activities.

Required Skills

• Knowledge of the process of developing BCC messages, materials and tools.
• Awareness of and interest in agriculture and nutrition programming and the Feed the Future Initiative.
• Demonstrated ability to establish excellent relationships with team members, host country counterparts, donors and implementing agencies.
• Demonstrated ability to work with USAID missions, USAID-Washington, D.C., and/or collaborating partners desired.
• Fluency in written and oral English and strong oral proficiency and competency in writing and speaking in French and/or Spanish desired. 

Required Experience

• Master's Degree in nutrition and at least 5 years of experience working in international development managing nutrition programs.
• Experience with nutrition program design and monitoring and evaluating nutrition programs is necessary.
• Experience in nutrition analysis, either qualitative or quantitative and knowledge of nutrition research methodologies is required.
• Experience developing or adapting training curricula and/or integrating nutrition components into maternal and child health training curricula is also required.
• Experience/knowledge of nutrition in primary health care (Essential Nutrition Actions) and community-based nutrition programs and experience/knowledge about rehabilitating severely malnourished children at the facility and community levels is a must.
• Experience in nutrition in agriculture programming is a plus.
• Candidate must also have experience in writing proposals for funding.

PATH is dedicated to diversity and is an equal opportunity employer.

Job Location

Washington, DC, US.

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