Senior Consultant – Nutrition

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PATH is a global nonprofit dedicated to achieving health equity. With more than 40 years of experience forging multisector partnerships and with expertise in science, economics, technology, advocacy, and dozens of other specialties, PATH develops and scales up innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing heath challenges. 

PATH is seeking a Senior Consultant for its Nutrition vertical who would work across projects and represent the organization at strategic meetings in the area. PATH is a global organization that works to accelerate health equity by bringing together public institutions, businesses, social enterprises, and investors to solve the world’s most pressing health challenges. With expertise in science, health, economics, technology, advocacy, and dozens of other specialties, PATH develops and scales solutions—including vaccines, drugs, devices, diagnostics, and innovative approaches to strengthening health systems worldwide. Learn more at www.path.org.

PATH has been working in India since 1999 on various systems and service delivery innovations.

Key success factors for this position include executive level maturity that can build 1) partnerships with local, national, and regional governments and other relevant public, private and civil society stakeholders 2) foster collaboration among various program teams 3) Further strengthen organizational technical credibility and expertise in nutrition and global health. The successful candidate will have a proven track record in identifying, engaging and developing new revenue streams and in leading business development through engagement with public and private entities. This is a leader who cultivates long-term relationships with a variety of external partners, leveraging those relationships to create new opportunities for PATH. This role will be responsible for building and maintaining diverse and sustainable donor and program portfolios and for quality execution of solutions and programs.

Technical Leadership

• Partnering with peers across the organization to ensure programmatic and scientific integrity and programmatic excellence through collaboration

• Ensuring PATH programs are designed and implemented with state of the art scientific rigor and excellence.

• Anticipating, understanding, and responding to policy trends to ensure PATH’s leadership in the innovation and program implementation spaces

• Connecting and understanding global & Indian health trends with a focus on multi-level public health landscape and trends to develop new business streams and to make programmatic decisions

• Developing and nurturing the scientific and technical development program staff to develop the next generation of public health leaders

• Leveraging PATH’s policy and advocacy expertise to inform local programs

Business Leadership

• Implementing and delivering on State strategy that is aligned with PATH’s organizational strategy

• Identifying, developing, and pursuing new funding streams that align with organizational and country strategies

• Developing and maintaining relationships with government, private sector, industry donors, as well as with other NGOs, to execute on PATH’s programmatic objectives

• Providing oversight and ensuring donor compliance through the monitoring and evaluation of all programs under the Nutrition vertical

People and Operations Leadership

• Where needed, provide leadership to program staff by engaging in effective change management, frequent communication, and fostering the professional development

• Modeling an open and inclusive leadership style by encouraging contributions, feedback, and participation by all employees

• Modeling accountability and professionalism in all interactions, internally as well as externally

• Leveraging internal communications to create a collaborative environment

• Creating a high-performance culture focused on technical excellence, integrity and quality

• Overseeing and ensuring the development and implementation of effective work planning and management systems that result in effective and efficient programs and programs

• Ensuring that all aspects of programmatic operations comply with PATH policies and local laws

• Ability to travel extensively (both domestic and international)

Required Experience:

• Demonstrated success in multi-cultural leadership and management in a highly matrixed organization

• Demonstrated experience managing a multi-program office in a large, dynamic international not for profit organization

• Demonstrated experience forging and maintaining public-private partnerships

• Demonstrated experience working in low resource settings to implement public health programs

• Demonstrated success in program conceptualization and design, proposal development, fundraising, program delivery, and monitoring and evaluation

• Demonstrated understanding of global health trends and expertise in working with governments, non-profit organizations, and the private sector to achieve public health impact

• Reputation as a flexible team player with the ability to forge consensus in a matrixed organization

• Demonstrated financial, administrative, and operational acumen

• Fluency in English and Hindi and with excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills

• High level of emotional intelligence

• Ability to mentor global health professionals at different career stage

• Ability to effectively scope problems, anticipate and preempt emerging issues and to make decisions in ambiguous contexts

• Post graduate in Medicine, Public Health, Management with relevant experience.

• 25+ years’ experience in health program work across geographies with clear and demonstrated public health impact

Location: Delhi, India