Senior Program Officer, China Program - China Program, AMEE

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Title: Senior Program Officer

Location: Shanghai, China

Division: China Program, AMEE

The PATH China Program focuses on bringing more effective and affordable health products to the public market in developing countries. We collaborate closely with our partners to reach that goal. The Vaccine Development for Global Health and Emergency Response project aims to accelerate innovation in for global health and emergency response to infectious diseases. The project promotes the strategy that advocates for a greater role of China in contributing to global health and emergency response. We will achieve this by partnering with vaccine technology developers and manufacturers in China to advance innovative technologies and products.

PATH is currently recruiting for a Senior Program Officer to contribute to vaccine technology program in China. The Manager of this position is the China Country Representative.

Responsibilities:

The senior program officer will provide day-to-day leadership and integrated management of the vaccine technology program, ensuring that the technology development projects under the program are delivered in a coordinated, timely, compliant, and high-quality manner.

· Lead integrated program planning across the vaccine technology development projects, translating program objectives into clear workplans, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and decision points.

· Coordinate implementation across internal technical teams, operations functions, external developers, manufacturers, consultants, and other partners.

· Monitor progress against scope, schedule, budget, and quality

expectations; identify variances early and drive corrective actions with accountable owners.

· Maintain an integrated program calendar and ensure timely preparation for technical reviews, program reviews, donor updates, and key decisions.

· Establish practical program governance, meeting rhythms, decision logs, action tracking, and escalation pathways across the portfolio.

· Maintain program-level risk, issue, assumption, and dependency registers; lead mitigation planning and escalate material concerns to the China Country Representative.

· Ensure project documentation, approvals, records, and reporting are complete, accurate, current, and audit-ready in accordance with applicable PATH requirements and donor commitments. Be responsible for the development of donor reports.

· Partner with finance and operations colleagues to develop, monitor, and forecast program budgets, expenditures, contracts, subawards, procurement needs, and resource requirements.

· Promote efficient use of resources and ensure that financial and operational decisions remain aligned with approved plans and deliverables.

· Support effective deployment of project staff, consultants, and technical resources as needed.

· Clarify roles, responsibilities, deliverables, and interfaces among partners; facilitate resolution of cross-partner issues and alignment on priorities.

· Plan and facilitate effective technical and program meetings, document decisions, and follow through on agreed actions.

· Provide clear, concise updates to the China Country Representative and other leadership stakeholders on progress, decisions, risks, budget status, and support needed.

· Synthesize learning across the three technology projects and promote consistent approaches, tools, and standards across the program.

· Identify opportunities to improve program efficiency, partner coordination, delivery quality, and long-term sustainability.

· Build trusted, productive relationships with technology partners, research institutions, manufacturers, government stakeholders, funders, and technical experts.

· Support or lead the development of new grant proposals, or the revision of existing proposals.

· Other tasks as assigned by the Manager.

Required skills and experience:

· Master’s degree or higher in public health, life sciences, medicine or a related field.

· Demonstrated experience managing complex, multi-partner programs or portfolios, including integrated planning, milestone tracking, risk management, reporting, and issue resolution.

· At least 15 years of experience in vaccine, biologics, medical device or another product-development environment. Knowledge and understanding of the product development process for biologics (vaccine-specific experience preferred). Working knowledge of vaccine or biologics development, including CMC, nonclinical, clinical, regulatory, quality, manufacturing, or product-introduction considerations.

· Demonstrated ability to provide technical coordination across complex product development programs involving multiple functions including scientific, technical, operational, and external relations.

· Demonstrated success engaging government sponsors, authorities, institutional stakeholders, or other senior external partners in China.

· Experience leading or coordinating complex vaccine technology development programs across multiple products, platforms, technical disciplines, or development partners.

· Experience managing donor-funded, nonprofit, global health, or international collaboration programs, including donor reporting and compliance obligations.

· Ability to work effectively on fast-paced, complex projects with a global team in various time zones, with a collaborative and accountable working style.

· Proven ability to take initiative, learn quickly, anticipate needs and challenges, and find solutions.

· Excellent written and oral communication skills in Mandarin Chinese and English, including the ability to prepare high-quality reports, briefings, presentations, and responses to questions.

· Strong judgment, diplomacy, organization, attention to detail, and ability to manage competing priorities and sensitive stakeholder matters.

· Proficiency with standard office and project-management tools for planning, analysis, documentation, and reporting.

· Ability to travel as required for program implementation and stakeholder engagement.

Must have legal authorization to work in China.

HOW TO APPLY:

Submission of a cover letter in English and Chinese is required for further consideration.