Feb 11, PATH Program Officer- Newborn Nutrition and Lactation Specialist Jobs in Ethiopia

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 health challenges.

PATH’s Primary Health Care program is comprised of six teams: Health Systems, Early Childhood Development, HIV/TB/Viral hepatitis, Integrated Maternal and Child Health and Development (IMCHD) Noncommunicable Diseases, and Sexual and Reproductive Health. Our IMCHD team is a global leader in advocating for and in implementing approaches along the continuum of care and integration of health systems to optimize impact.

Specifically, the IMCHD newborn nutrition team has pioneered advances in optimizing care for small and sick newborns, with focus on the linkage between nutrition and newborn care. Although human milk is the recommended feeding option for these vulnerable newborns (pre-term, low birthweight, sick or small), they – and their mothers – face unique challenges due to physiologic and systems level barriers often preventing human milk consumption.

To address this, the newborn nutrition team has established the Mother-Baby Friendly Initiative Plus, a comprehensive approach for ensuring equitable access to lifesaving human milk for small and sick newborns, including specialized lactation support and locally appropriate human milk banks for safe provision of donor human milk when needed.

PATH works with Ministries of Health and global/regional policy and technical leaders to design and implement sustainable systems as part of a global movement to improve the quality of care for this target population. Advancing these efforts across key geographies is a current PATH priority.

PATH is currently recruiting an IMCHD Program Officer to provide technical and advocacy work in integrating a nutrition package of care into models of care for the small and sick newborn. This IMCHD staff will bring deep technical and clinical knowledge of specialized lactation support needs for small and sick newborns and their mothers.

The IMCHD program officer will have the following primary responsibilities:

Retain current knowledge and understanding of up to date research and policies related to feeding of the small and sick newborn;

Support the creation, adaptation, and piloting of newborn nutrition implementation materials, embedding specialized lactation support requirements;

Provide hands on specialized lactation support training to health care workers in key geographies;

Ensure high quality technical direction and input for all materials related to specialized lactation support for small and sick newborns and their mothers, including:

Training and curriculum resources;

Policy and advocacy resources;

Communications resources;

External and internal reports, blogs, manuscripts;

Implementation science research protocols and planning.

Provide nutrition/lactation technical expertise to the IMCHD team to inform integration across the life cycle, project planning, implementation and evaluation, and strategic expansion;

Assist in guiding gender integration within IMCHD and specialized lactation support activities;

Contribute to partnerships development, proposal writing, and grant management;

Work as collaborative multi-country, diverse team;

Coordinate stakeholder engagement, regional learning sessions, and policy advancement.

Required Experience:

Master’s degree or higher in public health, public policy, or related technical/clinical field

5+ years of working in breastfeeding support/maternal and newborn health

International Board Certified Lactation Consultant certification, or proven experience and knowledge in lactation support for mothers of preterm infants

Clinical experience in provision of hands-on specialized lactation support, with experience in supporting mothers of newborns in the neonatal intensive care

Strong technical expertise in newborn or early infant nutrition/ maternal lactation; experience in both preferred

Previous experience in developing technical training materials; experience conducting training preferred

Experience collaborating with technical and policy experts

Skilled in proposal writing and concept development

Fluent in English; additional languages a plus

Available to travel internationally estimated at 20 percent per PATH’s travel and safety guidelines

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; PATH Program Officer- Newborn Nutrition and Lactation Specialist Jobs in Ethiopia

Find daily jobs in Ethiopia. Jobs – Ethiopia jobs. Search our career portal & find the latest Ethiopian job positions, career opportunities & jobs in Ethiopia.

Jobs in Ethiopia – banking jobs, IT jobs, accounting jobs, NGO jobs, business administration, ICT, UN jobs, procurement jobs, education jobs, hospital jobs, human resources jobs, engineering, teaching jobs, and other careers in Ethiopia.

Find your dream job from 1000s of vacancies in Ethiopia posted and updated daily – click here!