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.

The Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (MNTD) program is a leader in the effort to end malaria illnesses and deaths, refines and develops tools and approaches, invests in national programs, and builds data to empower national governments to pursue malaria elimination. PATH leads a consortium of academic and research institutions to implement the PMI Insights Project. PMI Insights is a USAID-funded five-year cooperative agreement (funded through September, 2025) providing support to malaria operational research (OR) and program evaluation (PE). This work includes activities to support country-driven research prioritization, design, implementation, dissemination, and utilization of findings from malaria OR and PE studies.

PATH seeks to recruit a Research Associate for the PMI Insights Project. The Research Associate will provide coordination, oversight, and technical support for research activities at all stages of the research process from concept note and protocol development through data collection, data analysis, dissemination and support for research utilization. All activities will necessitate working effectively with multiple partner institutions to ensure strong collaboration and communication, timely and high-quality results from research activities, and effective support for utilization of research findings to shape malaria guidelines, strategies, and policies.

Responsibilities:

Lead coordination, oversight, and technical support for research activities:

• Facilitate meetings with research partners and funders, including technical discussions and routine updates. Develop meeting agendas and track action items
• Contribute to comprehensive and transparent knowledge management for assigned research activities, including maintaining project repositories that are shared across project partners
• Support collaborative development of research concept notes and protocols
• Create and own research activity work plans. Monitor progress to ensure timely implementation and outputs
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of the protocol and provide oversight to ensure protocol adherence
• Coordinate Institutional Review Board (IRB) submissions (including modifications) for research activities, and assure timely renewals as needed
• Work collaboratively to identify and solve logistics, administration, programmatic, technical and/or communications bottlenecks as they arise to support timely and high-quality implementation of project activities
• Support sub-awards to research partners by developing technical scopes of work for contracts, and tracking and reviewing partner deliverables
• Contribute to monitoring the quality of research activities through remote supervision and field visits
• Summarize activities, progress towards targets, and outputs for meetings, routine updates, and quarterly and annual reports
• Contribute to development of tailored research uptake plans and support dissemination to facilitate research utilization
• Support development of dissemination and communications materials, including developing content for briefs, website updates, reports, and presentations