SR Cost & Pricing Officer, West Africa - PATH

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 specialities. PATH develops and scales solutions—including vaccines, drugs, devices, diagnostics, and innovative approaches to strengthening health systems worldwide.

PATH is seeking a Senior Cost & Pricing Officer. This position is based in either Africa or Asia. The Senior Cost & Pricing Officer is a critical member of PATH’s pricing and finance team. Under the direction of the Head of Cost & Pricing, the Senior Cost & Pricing Officer oversees the development of cost proposals to a variety of international donors including the development of detailed budget, budget narrative, cost/price analysis of partner budgets, partner budget negotiations and documentation, and coordination with other proposal team members throughout the organization.

The Senior Cost and Pricing officer lead large and complex proposals, and also trains, mentors, assists and supports a variety of other PATH staff on proposal development. The Senior Cost and Pricing officer cultivates and develops relationships with PATH staff in Africa or Asia, and provides specific support for budgets originating in our Africa or Asia offices.

Responsibilities:

Cost Proposal Development for assigned bids

• Lead the cost proposal efforts for PATH’s Proposal Budgeting team working closely with technical teams as well as the proposal development
• Develop and revise complex proposal templates and budgets in accordance with donor requirements, while utilizing advanced Excel spreadsheet
• Develop explanatory budget narratives to accompany
• Lead and manage proposal budget meetings with various international teams and make recommendations to technical teams to assure development of a competitive
• Lead a cost analysis of the RFA/RFP document for initial proposal team Develop cost strategy for individual proposals and back of the envelope budgets.
• Create and modify budget spreadsheet templates to be responsive to donor specific Create and/or revise new budget templates as needed, especially for non-US Government donors.
• Develop pricing and presentation budgets for Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF), Firm Fixed Price (FFP), Time and Materials (T&M), Deliverables Contracts.

• Negotiate with partners and subcontractor organizations to ensure partners’ budgets and cost proposal documentation are compliant with donor and solicitation Coordinate cost volume inputs from subrecipients/subcontractors as a part of the proposal process and perform activities including: providing budget assumptions and guidance, developing required budget templates, and finalize budgets to conform to donor requirements.

Other Business Development:

• Research and analyze various donor requirements for proposal budgeting and project management. Develop tools, templates and capacity-building on these requirements.
• Conduct market research and cost/data gathering for countries and program work.

• Create and revise cost-related tools, templates, worksheets, guides, and training manuals.
• Provide guidance to partner organizations on proposal budgeting, proposal procedures, cost documentation.
• Liaise with contracts and grants/finance staff supporting existing projects for operational inputs on proposal development.
• Subject expert matter on US Government and other donor regulation policies including, but not limited to, Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Agency for International Development Acquisition Regulation (AIDAR), and US Department of State Standardized Regulations.
• Review and provide feedback on assigned proposal and program budgets and prepare final versions for submission to the donor.

Required Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience overall with a minimum of 3 years developing cost proposals including the budget, budget narrative, and cost documentation for donor-funded programs, including US Government (USAID, CDC, NIH), other bilateral donors, and/or private foundations and corporations.
• Demonstrated knowledge of various donors including the US Government (USAID, CDC, NIH), DFID, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UN Agencies, etc.
• Very strong analytical and business modelling skills.
• Manage without authority. The candidate has the capacity to influence a diverse group of stakeholders and interact with an executive audience.
• Knowledge of general accounting Ability to communicate and articulate those principles into the proposal submission.
• Bachelor’s degree required in business administration, accounting, finance, or other relevant fields.
• Demonstrated skills and ability to lead, develop, and revise competitive cost proposal budgets within short turnaround times.