*THIS POSITION CAN BE LOCATED IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON DC, NAIROBI, OR NEW DELHI.

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.

Our mission of health equity hinges on a strong commitment to anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion –within our teams, and in our work. In 2019, PATH launched a two-year people and culture initiative that yielded our updated values, a global team of DEI champions to advise our executives, and our DEI strategy 2021-2023. At PATH, we know sustainable change requires both leadership commitment and mechanisms for all people’s voices to be heard. Our strategy was developed by leaders and employees across PATH and includes a mix of institutional and employee-led work streams. We seek to hire a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Director to lead and refine our strategy and create a DEI center of excellence to advise, support and bring together our global workstreams.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead the diversity, equity, and inclusion initiative at PATH, in partnership with PATH’s Chief People Officer, and with the CEO to whom the role will also report.
• Oversee execution of three-year DEI strategy and annual work plans, including measuring and reporting on progress against success indicators on the three DEI strategy pillars: People, Business Practices, and Programming and Public Health Approach.
• Serve as primary DEI advisor to PATH executive team and board of directors, including providing input to PATH strategy and facilitating DEI learning sessions.
• Manage DEI project manager and oversee a cross-functional team of people leading DEI workstreams.
• Advise and support DEI Advisory Group, HR business partners, and People Resource Groups (LGBTQIA+, Black PATH Employees Network, and Disability Justice and Inclusion).
• Manage institutional DEI budget ($300K+ in 2021 with plans to increase in 2022) and provide oversight of divisional DEI budgets.
• Facilitate intentional DEI dialogue with employees and leaders across all divisions and regions.
• Oversee selection and coordination of DEI consultants at PATH to ensure a shared approach and vocabulary and alignment to strategy.
• Advise and support HR on DEI learning strategies and integrating DEI into all people practices.
• Liaise with peer organizations to share best practices and lessons learned and advocate for equity in the global health sector.
• Advise and support HR and Monitoring and Evaluation teams to make DEI data accessible and transparently communicate progress on DEI strategy and annual work plans.

Required Skills Required Experience

• A minimum of 7 years of experience leading institutional initiatives to reduce power imbalances.
• Demonstrated understanding of historic and systemic equity barriers in more than one region of the world.
• Knowledge of anti-racism and best practices in diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.
• Demonstrated experience leading systematic change and leading with influence.
• Experience developing, executing and reporting on work plans using data and metrics to track progress and identify future actions.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally across multiple cultures, and geographies.
• Experience facilitating dialogue and respectively managing conflict.
• Proven success managing people and developing talent.
• Demonstrated ability to establish trust, creatively problem solve, and lead with an agile mindset.
• Proven effectiveness engaging with and developing reports and presentations for executives.
• Willing to work varied hours to accommodate multiple time zones.
• Must have legal authorization to work in country where hired.
• Multilingual candidates preferred.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

Our mission of health equity hinges on a strong commitment to anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion – within our teams, and in our work. We believe that a diverse, global workforce makes us stronger, and we strive to create a culture of inclusion where diversity is valued.

All employees at PATH are expected to live out our shared values:

RESPECT We treat everyone with dignity, compassion, and appreciation.

EQUITY We strive to eliminate the barriers and boundaries created by our conscious and unconscious biases and ingrain diversity, fairness, and inclusion in everything we do.

INTEGRITY We do the right thing even when it is difficult.

INNOVATION We test new ideas, challenge the status quo, and apply what we learn.

COLLABORATION We partner across teams, sectors, and borders.

IMPACT We prioritize solutions that address the most significant health issues in the communities of greatest need.

Candidates must have legal authorization to work in the country of application.

PATH is dedicated to building an inclusive workforce where diversity is valued.

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PATH is an equal opportunity employer. Every qualified applicant will be considered for employment. PATH does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or orientation, genetic information, age, national origin, marital status, disability status, political ideology, military or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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• Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Science, Technology or related discipline.  Students within their junior or senior year preferred.
• Must have completed coursework in software development or information management
• Programming capability required, especially Java, Scala or C#
• Experience with an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) such as IntelliJ Idea, Eclipse, or Visual Studio
• Experience with software source control, bug tracking and issue management
• Knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL databases with excellent query writing skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience with Windows and Linux, including scripting & performance monitoring
• Familiarity with Data Warehousing, Big Data Strategies, and Hadoop Ecosystem
• Experience preferred with configuration management, continuous delivery practices and automation frameworks