PATH NGO Senior Program Assistant Kenya Jobs

PATH is an international organization that drives transformative innovation to save lives and improve health, especially among women and children. We accelerate innovation across five platforms-vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, devices, and system and service innovations-that harness our entrepreneurial insight, scientific and public health expertise, and passion for health equity.

By mobilizing partners around the world, we take innovation to scale, working alongside countries primarily in Africa and Asia to tackle their greatest health needs. Together, we deliver measurable results that disrupt the cycle of poor health.

PATH’s Advocacy and Public Policy (APP) department works to improve global health by increasing awareness and support of global health priorities and evidence-based policies among policymakers, coalitions and other influential individuals and groups.

PATH’s APP department is seeking to hire a Senior Program Assistant to support advocacy and policy initiatives in the areas of the continuum of care for maternal, newborn, and child health and immunization; as well as global health research and development (R&D) in Kenya.

The position is funded through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which supports advocacy projects in Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, and Uganda, the United States, Europe and at the multilateral level.

The Senior Program Assistant will be based in Nairobi, Kenya and will report to the Advocacy and Policy Manager based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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