About PATH

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Implementation leadership: Lead and oversee integrated HIV/TB service delivery at project-supported health facilities, including elimination of vertical transmission, in accordance with national and global guidelines.
• Program strategy: Contribute to project work-plan development and implementation design. Support evidence-based, integrated service-delivery strategies that address gaps in testing, linkage, retention, and viral load suppression and align with project milestones.
• Health systems strengthening: Collaborate with ministries of health, local governments, and non-governmental organizations to build local capacity and improve facility-to-community referral networks.
• Sustainability and transition: Strengthen county ownership and the sustainability of HIV/TB services by engaging county leadership; supporting county technical working groups, transition teams, and planning forums; and advancing county-specific transition roadmaps through increased domestic resource allocation and accountability.
• Performance monitoring and compliance: Ensure the project meets donor targets and milestones, oversee data-driven quality-improvement initiatives, and contribute to technical reports.
• Project visibility, learning, and knowledge sharing: Lead the documentation and dissemination of success stories, technical papers, lessons learned, promising practices, to enhance project visibility.
• County Focal Person for the Project: Serve as the project’s County Focal Person, providing day-to-day supervision and management of the project staff based in the county, and ensuring effective coordination, accountability, and operational support.
• Additional duties: Perform any other duties assigned by the supervisor.

Required Qualifications

• Education: Holder of a MBChB or equivalent, with a Master of Public Health (MPH), or an equivalent qualification.
• Experience: At least seven years of progressively responsible public-health experience, including the design, implementation, and oversight of county health systems-strengthening programs. At least five of these years must be in a senior supervisory role within the Ministry of Health or a donor-funded or PEPFAR-supported HIV/AIDS program.
• Technical expertise: Demonstrated expertise in current integrated HIV guidelines, HIV/TB program performance metrics, donor compliance requirements, and Kenya’s devolved health-system architecture. The candidate must be able to navigate and engage national, county, sub-county, and facility-level health structures effectively to strengthen program implementation and sustainability.
• Core competencies:
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, capacity-building, communication, and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to build, develop, and maintain effective relationships with county government leaders and staff, colleagues, private-sector stakeholders, and partners.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Lead and oversee integrated HIV/TB service delivery at project-supported health facilities, including elimination of vertical transmission, in accordance with national and global guidelines.
• Contribute to project work-plan development and implementation design. Support evidence-based, integrated service-delivery strategies that address gaps in testing, linkage, retention, and viral load suppression and align with project milestones.
• Collaborate with ministries of health, local governments, and non-governmental organizations to build local capacity and improve facility-to-community referral networks.
• Strengthen county ownership and the sustainability of HIV/TB services by engaging county leadership; supporting county technical working groups, transition teams, and planning forums; and advancing county-specific transition roadmaps through increased domestic resource allocation and accountability.
• Ensure the project meets donor targets and milestones, oversee data-driven quality-improvement initiatives, and contribute to technical reports.
• Lead the documentation and dissemination of success stories, technical papers, lessons learned, promising practices, to enhance project visibility.
• Serve as the project’s County Focal Person, providing day-to-day supervision and management of the project staff based in the county, and ensuring effective coordination, accountability, and operational support.
• Perform any other duties assigned by the supervisor.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, capacity-building, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to build, develop, and maintain effective relationships with county government leaders and staff, colleagues, private-sector stakeholders, and partners.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated expertise in current integrated HIV guidelines, HIV/TB program performance metrics, donor compliance requirements, and Kenya’s devolved health-system architecture.
• Ability to navigate and engage national, county, sub-county, and facility-level health structures effectively to strengthen program implementation and sustainability.

• MBChB or equivalent, with a Master of Public Health (MPH), or an equivalent qualification.
• At least seven years of progressively responsible public-health experience, including the design, implementation, and oversight of county health systems-strengthening programs.
• At least five of these years must be in a senior supervisory role within the Ministry of Health or a donor-funded or PEPFAR-supported HIV/AIDS program.