Senior Program Officer - PATH Ethiopia

Senior Program Officer, MACEPA Ethiopia

Job Description

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.

The Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa (MACEPA), a program at PATH, is a leader in the fight to end malaria illnesses and deaths. We refine and develop tools and approaches, invest in national programs, and build the data that empower national governments to pursue elimination. MACEPA is partnering with countries that have achieved major reductions in malaria illness to develop evidence-based approaches to eliminating the disease. The approach involves optimizing coverage of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment interventions, and advanced surveillance methods to track and treat remaining cases.

MACEPA seeks to recruit a  Senior Program Officer who will be responsible for geospatial analysis of malaria transmission dynamics to provide necessary evidences on demographic, population migration patterns  and spatial patterns of infection including monitoring of source and sinking of malaria infections to guide targeted program action in the project districts/kebeles. Based in Addis Ababa  and reporting to Senior Technical Advisor, MACEPA, Malaria Control Program, the Senior  Program Officer will execute the following duties and responsibilities:

• Serve as technical lead for mapping and related GIS activities related for Ethiopia team.
• Lead the periodic re-stratification of villages by malaria risk along the along the malaria control-elimination continuum.
• Actively participates in the PRIME cycle of the MCP within the FMOH. 
• Participate in program monitoring and evaluation to ensure quality data collection and use of information for re-planning and participate in the organization quarterly/annual meetings with partners.
• Provide strategic thinking, technical guidance, and implementation support in the development of project approaches to malaria control and elimination, based on best practices and evidence.
• Work with MACEPA M&E team to design and adapt monitoring and evaluation tools to support and track the implementation of pilots, spatial studies, operational research and routine project activities taking place in Ethiopia.
• Assist with the development/adaptation of training materials and guidelines for malaria control and elimination and participate in the preparation and organization of training activities.
• Facilitate consultations with partners and other stakeholders and build partnership for planning resource mobilization for malaria control program implementation
• Ensure quality and timely collection, management, cleaning, and analysis of quantitative data (lead/contribute to research activities and manage staff, partners, and consultants conducting research activities).
• Assist in the preparation of monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual reports to HQ and donors as well as interim status reports as and when required.
• Ensure timely documentation of evidences, dissemination of research findings through national and international conference presentations, research reports, and peer-reviewed journal articles.

Required Skills

• Oral and written fluency in English and Amharic.
• Demonstrated capability in developing studies and operations research to address specific scientific and programmatic questions.
• Familiarity (preferably direct experience) with standard monitoring and evaluation approaches used by the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership, the Global Malaria Program at WHO and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria (GFATM) and participating countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Ability to collect, analyze and map data using software such as STATA, SPSS, ArcGIS and/or HealthMapper.
• Demonstrated experience in Geospatial Health, spatiotemporal modeling and risking mapping.
• Demonstrated experience in the control of tropical vector-borne diseases such as malaria. Demonstrated strong oral and written communication skills with experience in public presentations at national or international level and participation and leadership in scientific publications.
• Experience in data quality assurance is desired.

Required Experience

Master’s degree in public health, epidemiology, Geospatial Health or a related field, with at least 5 years of experience in public health related programs in developing countries is required; PhD preferred,experience in research, Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Health Programs,expertise in design of impact evaluation research, including substantial knowledge on quantitative research methods, sampling techniques, data analysis and interpretation,experience in primary authorship of scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals.

You must currently have legal authorization to work in Ethiopia.

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

Job Location

Addis Ababa, , Ethiopia

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