Program Officer, Technology and Reproductive Health

PATH is an international, nonprofit organization that creates sustainable, culturally relevant solutions, enabling communities worldwide to break longstanding cycles of poor health. PATH's mission is to improve the health of people around the world by advancing technologies, strengthening systems, and encouraging healthy behaviors.

The Program Officer will work within the Technology Solutions Global program to support the evaluation and advancement of technologies to improve maternal mortality. The primary responsibility of the position will be to identify, characterize and evaluate appropriate technology-focused innovations and opportunities to maternal health challenges. Working both independently and collaboratively with other team members, the program officer will evaluate the potential strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and risks associated with new and established maternal health technologies and work with health and business development specialists to develop comprehensive value propositions and actionable plans for advancing the most promising technologies. This is a term-limited position. Current grant funding for this position runs through September 30, 2012, with the potential for additional funding.

Responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with the project team and internal and external advisors to:
• Conduct technology assessments, gap analysis, and technology landscaping.
• Collate information to contribute to technology translation and integration decisions through the incorporation of criteria such as health system feasibility, training program requirements, health risks versus benefits, clinical effectiveness, comparative value, technology user needs and safety.
• Conduct background research and make programmatic recommendations.
• Provide guidance for interactions between maternal health programs and new technology developers and designers for the purpose of informing technology development activities, by representing the programmatic, clinical, and/or health system perspective on innovations and conceptualized product solutions addressing unmet maternal and other health needs.
• Interact effectively with internal and external experts to conduct stakeholder interviews as needed.
• Inform development of detailed investment cases, identify and document key programmatic milestones including pilot and demonstration projects, early adopter identification, health system constraints, user constraints and medical technology lifecycle constraints including environmental requirements and proper disposal.
• Provide programmatic analysis, synthesis and recommendations from secondary research to inform technology development to achieve the most appropriate function, performance, user satisfaction, impact and sustainability of health technologies.
• Work with project leadership and communications resources to communicate health technology opportunity mapping findings with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• Contribute to grant proposals, renewals, and journal submissions.
• Identify, characterize, and communicate risk/benefits of individual technical approaches.
• Contribute as appropriate to field research methodology, protocol development and research implementation.
• Travel to low-resource settings in developing countries as required, up to 15 percent annually.
  

• Comfortable working in a growing, fast-paced environment, skilled at creating structure and driving toward goals.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills. Skilled writer willing to share writing samples.
• Flexibility in an evolving project environment
• Ability to envision and communicate new opportunities within ambiguous concepts
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to interact with both technical and non-technical staff – and translate accordingly.
• Consolidating secondary research and conducting key informant interviews
• Ability to move an initiative through obstacles, work effectively with others, and seek information.
• Accountable for deadlines and deliverables, results driven.
• Analytical, curious and inquisitive
• Skilled with Microsoft Office software