PATH Procurement, Nutrition, M&E, Community Development, Gender, Health and Grants Officer Job Vacancies in Kenya

PATH is an international nonprofit organization that creates sustainable, culturally relevant solutions, enabling communities worldwide to break longstanding cycles of poor health.

The PATH Kenya Country Program seeks to fill the following positions:

Procurement Officer:

The position holder will handle, coordinate and manage procurement of goods and services for the PATH Kenya Country Program activities in a timely and efficient manner while maintaining high standards of accountability.

He will ensure that procurement documentation is used in accordance with USAID and PATH guidelines and procedures.

Nutrition Associate:

The Nutrition Associate will be an integral member of the MCHIP Kenya team. The primary focus will be to support the DON in developing and implementing its strategic approach for improving infant and young child feeding (IYCF) and reducing malnutrition in Kenya.

This will include policy formulation and dissemination, program implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and multi-partner coordination. S/he will promote implementation of MCHIP activities at the national level and coordinate implementation through APHIAplus projects.

In addition, we seek to fill the positions below for the APHIAplus Western Kenya project. The successful applicants will be based in either Nyanza or Western provinces.

The APHIAplus Western Kenya project is a comprehensive health service delivery project that aims to improve the health of Kenyans in the western region of the country from Jan 2011 to Dec 2015.

PATH and its partners will work closely with the Government of Kenya and a wide variety of non-government agencies to strengthen health care services, support the involvement of civil society and address the social determinants of health.

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Specialist:

The M&E Specialist must have executive authority to provide strategic direction, technical leadership and performance accountability to the M&E team for the project. S/he will oversee the design, development and implementation of the M&E strategy for the project, offer technical assistance and help build capacity of the project stakeholders on data for decision-making.

S/he will lead the M&E and implementation teams to carry out monitoring in a timely manner, ensuring accurate data collection, analysis, reporting of project activities and outputs and use
of data for decision-making.

Mentoring Team Leader:

The successful candidate will lead and manage the county-based project mentoring team and as such, work actively to ensure that all service delivery, community and social determinants activities are well-coordinated and working together to achieve a meaningful impact on the county’s health, economic and social indicators.

S/he will serve as the project’s primary liaison with the county’s key stakeholders, including GOK officials, local leaders and representatives of other local implementing partners and oversee the development and implementation of the project’s workplan.

Senior Youth Technical Advisor:

The position holder will provide technical guidance to support the integration of youth-oriented activities with other community interventions in the project, and will serve as the project’s focal person for the Partnership for a HIV Free Generation project. S/he will work with the project’s service delivery team to ensure that health services are youthfriendly.

Collaborating with the project team, s/he will conduct a baseline assessment to ascertain the prevailing youth situation/needs at each province, county or district and work with communities/facilities to develop action plans and to build referral linkages.

Community Advisor:

The Community Advisor, a member of a county-based project mentoring team, will work actively to ensure that all community-oriented project activities are well coordinated with efforts by service delivery and social determinants advisors.

S/he will coordinate the initiation of the MOH’s community unit activities, build the capacity of CBOs, ensure effective networking and referrals across project interventions and links these activities with other key stakeholders within the county.

S/he will monitor all ongoing community activities to ensure that they are on schedule, and meet program quality criteria to yield expected results.

Gender Officer:

The successful applicant will work closely with the Gender Advisor to provide technical guidance to the project’s technical and mentoring teams to support the mainstreaming of gender activities into the range of community interventions.

S/he will support to provide leadership for implementation of gender equity and quality intervention with an aim to improve socio-economic status and civil rights of women, men, girls and boys.

S/he will work with the project’s service delivery team to ensure that health services are gender sensitive and help to adapt and develop a range of gender-related messages, job aides and intervention strategies.

Nutrition Officer:

The successful candidate will work closely with the Nutrition Advisor to provide technical guidance to the project’s technical and mentoring teams to support the mainstreaming of interventions and activities aimed at improving infant and young child feeding and reducing malnutrition.

Child Survival Officer:

The position holder will work closely with the Child Survival Advisor to provide technical guidance to support the integration of child survival services with other services in the provinces, counties and districts.

Collaborating with the project teams, the Officer will conduct a baseline assessment to ascertain the prevailing child health situations/needs and work with communities/facilities to develop action plans and to build referral linkages.

TB Officer:

The Tuberculosis (TB) Officer will work closely with the TB Advisor to support the project’s mentoring teams in the area of TB/HIV integration and help build capacity of MOH to strengthen community and facility-based TB prevention, detection and treatment.

S/he will conduct baseline assessments to ascertain the prevailing situation / needs at each province, county or district and work with communities / facilities to develop action plans and build referral linkages.

Grants Officer:

The Grants Officer will oversee grant making to local organizations. S/he will provide support in designing and overseeing the grant management systems, provide technical advice and take the lead role in management of contracts, grants and cooperative agreements. S/he will provide sound management control ensuring full compliance with PATH and USAID procedures.

For detailed job descriptions and position requirements for these and other vacant positions, please log on to the PATH website.

Please apply online for any of the above positions by uploading your application letter, a detailed updated CV and details of at least 3 referees on the PATH website below against the
position you are applying for.:

www.path.org/employment.php

Closing date: January 6, 2012

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

PATH is an Equal Opportunity Employer.