Program Assistant, Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access, Integrated Portfolio and Financial Management
PATH
Job Description
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, - . No CSS classes, no inline styles, no , no
. Must preserve all original content word-for-word, no addition, removal, summarizing, rephrasing. So we need to extract the text content from the given HTML, preserving it exactly, then wrap appropriate parts with tags.
We must not add or remove any content. So we need to output the same textual content, but with HTML tags for structure.
We need to identify sections: There's an introductory paragraph: "PATH current employees - please log in and apply Here" (the link text "Here")? Actually the original includes a link: Here. We must preserve the text "Here" (bold? but we cannot keep tags? The instruction says preserve ALL original content word-for-word — do not add, remove, summarise, or rephrase. It doesn't say we cannot keep inline tags like or . However earlier they said use for introductory paragraphs and general text,
for section headers, - for list items. No CSS classes, no inline styles, no s, no
tags. It didn't forbid other tags like , , . But they said "Return ONLY the HTML. No markdown fences, no explanation, no preamble." They didn't say we cannot keep existing tags like , , , . However they said use for introductory paragraphs and general text,
for section headers, - for list items. It didn't say we cannot also have other tags. But to be safe, we could keep them as they are, but we must not add any new tags besides those allowed? The instruction: "Use
for introductory paragraphs and general text. Use
for section headers ... Use - for list items ... No CSS classes, no inline styles, no s, no
tags". It doesn't explicitly forbid other tags like , , , . However they said preserve ALL original content word-for-word — do not add, remove, summarise, or rephrase. If we strip out or tags, we would be removing content (the tags). So we must keep them. But they also said use for introductory paragraphs and general text. That could mean we wrap the paragraphs in
tags, but we can keep inner tags like , , , . Also we must not add or
. The original has many and
and . We need to strip those out (since they are not allowed). But we must preserve the textual content inside them. So we need to remove the
,
, tags, but keep the text nodes and any inner formatting tags like , , , . Also we need to add appropriate structural tags: for paragraphs,
for section headers (like "Responsibilities:", "Required skills and experience:"), and - for list items.
We must not add any extra text. So we need to output something like:
PATH current employees - please log in and apply Here
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.
... etc.
Then we encounter a section header: "Responsibilities: " This is a header. We need to wrap it in . But we must preserve the content word-for-word, including the ... tags? The instruction says use for section headers. It didn't say we cannot keep inner tags. But to preserve original content word-for-word, we should keep the inner tags inside the . However that would be adding tags around existing tags, which is allowed (we are adding tags). The original content includes the text "Responsibilities:" with bold and underline and a span. We must keep that exactly. So we output Responsibilities:
? Actually there is a trailing after the
before . The original: Responsibilities: . So we need to keep that exactly: Responsibilities: . Then wrap in
. So Responsibilities:
.
Then after that, there is a - ... etc. We need to convert each
- block to proper
- . The original has nested s around each
- . We need to strip those divs and keep the
- structure. Also there are
tags inside each
- with etc. We need to preserve those.
We must not add any extra text. So we need to output exactly the same textual content, but with
for paragraphs,
for headers, - for lists, and we can keep other tags like , , , , as they appear.
We must also ensure we don't have any or
tags. So we need to strip them out.
Let's parse the original text step by step.
Original snippet:
PATH current employees - please log in and apply Here
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 Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access (CVIA) brings together our expertise across every stage of the long and complex process of vaccine research, development, and delivery to make lifesaving vaccines widely available to children and communities across the world. CVIA’s current portfolio encompasses more than two dozen vaccines either in development or already in use to protect against fifteen different diseases. Our focus is on vaccines to address the leading diseases that claim children’s lives worldwide: pneumonia, diarrheal disease, and malaria; as well as other global health priorities, such as polio and meningitis. We work in partnership with national health ministries, pharmaceutical manufacturers, donors, international financing and regulatory organizations, and many others. PATH has led numerous global partnerships, including the award-winning Meningitis Vaccine Project and the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, which helped develop the first malaria vaccine candidate recommended for pilot implementation.
PATH is currently recruiting for a Program Assistant (SPA) who will provide administrative support to a portfolio of vaccination introduction and delivery projects in Nigeria. The position is based in Kebbi State, provides direct support to project teams in-country and reports to project managers on a day-to-day basis with line reporting to a supervisor with the Project and Portfolio Management team (PPM). The successful candidate will be required to obtain the PATH Proofreaders Certification within 120 days of employment.
The Program Assistant will provide comprehensive administrative, logistical, and clerical support to ensure effective and timely delivery of project activities. This role will enhance operational efficiency, ensure compliance with PATH and donor procedures, and facilitate coordination among national and state-level stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
Administrative and Documentation Support
Support internal and external correspondence, including drafting responses or triaging queries as appropriate.
Proofread, format, and manage project documents including proposals, reports, work plans, presentations, and meeting materials.
Organize and collate project information to support timely donor reporting and internal updates.
Prepare and manage administrative forms, including travel requests, payment forms, and other required documentation.
Maintain organized electronic and hard-copy filing systems using PATH platforms (e.g., SharePoint, Box, Smartsheet).
Logistics and Travel Coordination
Coordinate and manage travel arrangements for project staff and consultants, including flights, accommodation, ground transport, and itineraries.
Provide logistical support for meetings, trainings, workshops, supervision visits, and stakeholder engagements.
Arrange meeting logistics including venues, catering, participant lists, meeting materials, and virtual meeting platforms.
Finance and Procurement Support
Support PATH finance and procurement teams with administrative tasks related to project activities.
Track documentation related to procurement, payments, and expense processing.
Support timely submission and organization of financial and procurement records in line with PATH policies.
Meeting and Coordination Support
Manage scheduling and planning of meetings.
Assist with drafting and distributing agendas and minutes.
Track follow-up actions, decisions, and task assignments arising from meetings.
Systems and IT Support
Support team members in using PATH systems and software tools.
Liaise with IT as needed to resolve basic hardware or software issues.
Serve as a focal point for ensuring project information systems are current and well maintained.
Cross-Team Coordination
Support coordination across CVIA projects and country teams as assigned.
Provide backup support to other CVIA Program Assistants when required.
Required
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. Must preserve all original content word-for-word, no addition, removal, summarizing, rephrasing. So we need to extract the text content from the given HTML, preserving it exactly, then wrap appropriate parts with tags. We must not add or remove any content. So we need to output the same textual content, but with HTML tags for structure. We need to identify sections: There's an introductory paragraph: "PATH current employees - please log in and apply Here" (the link text "Here")? Actually the original includes a link: Here. We must preserve the text "Here" (bold? but we cannot keep tags? The instruction says preserve ALL original content word-for-word — do not add, remove, summarise, or rephrase. It doesn't say we cannot keep inline tags like or . However earlier they said use
for introductory paragraphs and general text,
for section headers, - for list items. No CSS classes, no inline styles, no s, no
tags. It didn't forbid other tags like , , . But they said "Return ONLY the HTML. No markdown fences, no explanation, no preamble." They didn't say we cannot keep existing tags like , , , . However they said use for introductory paragraphs and general text,
for section headers, - for list items. It didn't say we cannot also have other tags. But to be safe, we could keep them as they are, but we must not add any new tags besides those allowed? The instruction: "Use
for introductory paragraphs and general text. Use
for section headers ... Use - for list items ... No CSS classes, no inline styles, no s, no
tags". It doesn't explicitly forbid other tags like , , , . However they said preserve ALL original content word-for-word — do not add, remove, summarise, or rephrase. If we strip out or tags, we would be removing content (the tags). So we must keep them. But they also said use for introductory paragraphs and general text. That could mean we wrap the paragraphs in
tags, but we can keep inner tags like , , , . Also we must not add or
. The original has many and
and . We need to strip those out (since they are not allowed). But we must preserve the textual content inside them. So we need to remove the
,
, tags, but keep the text nodes and any inner formatting tags like , , , . Also we need to add appropriate structural tags: for paragraphs,
for section headers (like "Responsibilities:", "Required skills and experience:"), and - for list items.
We must not add any extra text. So we need to output something like:
PATH current employees - please log in and apply Here
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.
... etc.
Then we encounter a section header: "Responsibilities: " This is a header. We need to wrap it in . But we must preserve the content word-for-word, including the ... tags? The instruction says use for section headers. It didn't say we cannot keep inner tags. But to preserve original content word-for-word, we should keep the inner tags inside the . However that would be adding tags around existing tags, which is allowed (we are adding tags). The original content includes the text "Responsibilities:" with bold and underline and a span. We must keep that exactly. So we output Responsibilities:
? Actually there is a trailing after the
before . The original: Responsibilities: . So we need to keep that exactly: Responsibilities: . Then wrap in
. So Responsibilities:
.
Then after that, there is a - ... etc. We need to convert each
- block to proper
- . The original has nested s around each
- . We need to strip those divs and keep the
- structure. Also there are
tags inside each
- with etc. We need to preserve those.
We must not add any extra text. So we need to output exactly the same textual content, but with
for paragraphs,
for headers, - for lists, and we can keep other tags like , , , , as they appear.
We must also ensure we don't have any or
tags. So we need to strip them out.
Let's parse the original text step by step.
Original snippet:
PATH current employees - please log in and apply Here
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 Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access (CVIA) brings together our expertise across every stage of the long and complex process of vaccine research, development, and delivery to make lifesaving vaccines widely available to children and communities across the world. CVIA’s current portfolio encompasses more than two dozen vaccines either in development or already in use to protect against fifteen different diseases. Our focus is on vaccines to address the leading diseases that claim children’s lives worldwide: pneumonia, diarrheal disease, and malaria; as well as other global health priorities, such as polio and meningitis. We work in partnership with national health ministries, pharmaceutical manufacturers, donors, international financing and regulatory organizations, and many others. PATH has led numerous global partnerships, including the award-winning Meningitis Vaccine Project and the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, which helped develop the first malaria vaccine candidate recommended for pilot implementation.
PATH is currently recruiting for a Program Assistant (SPA) who will provide administrative support to a portfolio of vaccination introduction and delivery projects in Nigeria. The position is based in Kebbi State, provides direct support to project teams in-country and reports to project managers on a day-to-day basis with line reporting to a supervisor with the Project and Portfolio Management team (PPM). The successful candidate will be required to obtain the PATH Proofreaders Certification within 120 days of employment.
The Program Assistant will provide comprehensive administrative, logistical, and clerical support to ensure effective and timely delivery of project activities. This role will enhance operational efficiency, ensure compliance with PATH and donor procedures, and facilitate coordination among national and state-level stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
Administrative and Documentation Support
Support internal and external correspondence, including drafting responses or triaging queries as appropriate.
Proofread, format, and manage project documents including proposals, reports, work plans, presentations, and meeting materials.
Organize and collate project information to support timely donor reporting and internal updates.
Prepare and manage administrative forms, including travel requests, payment forms, and other required documentation.
Maintain organized electronic and hard-copy filing systems using PATH platforms (e.g., SharePoint, Box, Smartsheet).
Logistics and Travel Coordination
Coordinate and manage travel arrangements for project staff and consultants, including flights, accommodation, ground transport, and itineraries.
Provide logistical support for meetings, trainings, workshops, supervision visits, and stakeholder engagements.
Arrange meeting logistics including venues, catering, participant lists, meeting materials, and virtual meeting platforms.
Finance and Procurement Support
Support PATH finance and procurement teams with administrative tasks related to project activities.
Track documentation related to procurement, payments, and expense processing.
Support timely submission and organization of financial and procurement records in line with PATH policies.
Meeting and Coordination Support
Manage scheduling and planning of meetings.
Assist with drafting and distributing agendas and minutes.
Track follow-up actions, decisions, and task assignments arising from meetings.
Systems and IT Support
Support team members in using PATH systems and software tools.
Liaise with IT as needed to resolve basic hardware or software issues.
Serve as a focal point for ensuring project information systems are current and well maintained.
Cross-Team Coordination
Support coordination across CVIA projects and country teams as assigned.
Provide backup support to other CVIA Program Assistants when required.
Required
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tags. It didn't forbid other tags like , , . But they said "Return ONLY the HTML. No markdown fences, no explanation, no preamble." They didn't say we cannot keep existing tags like , , , . However they said use
for introductory paragraphs and general text,
for section headers, - for list items. It didn't say we cannot also have other tags. But to be safe, we could keep them as they are, but we must not add any new tags besides those allowed? The instruction: "Use
for introductory paragraphs and general text. Use
for section headers ... Use - for list items ... No CSS classes, no inline styles, no s, no
tags". It doesn't explicitly forbid other tags like , , , . However they said preserve ALL original content word-for-word — do not add, remove, summarise, or rephrase. If we strip out or tags, we would be removing content (the tags). So we must keep them. But they also said use for introductory paragraphs and general text. That could mean we wrap the paragraphs in
tags, but we can keep inner tags like , , , . Also we must not add or
. The original has many and
and . We need to strip those out (since they are not allowed). But we must preserve the textual content inside them. So we need to remove the
,
, tags, but keep the text nodes and any inner formatting tags like , , , . Also we need to add appropriate structural tags: for paragraphs,
for section headers (like "Responsibilities:", "Required skills and experience:"), and - for list items.
We must not add any extra text. So we need to output something like:
PATH current employees - please log in and apply Here
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.
... etc.
Then we encounter a section header: "Responsibilities: " This is a header. We need to wrap it in . But we must preserve the content word-for-word, including the ... tags? The instruction says use for section headers. It didn't say we cannot keep inner tags. But to preserve original content word-for-word, we should keep the inner tags inside the . However that would be adding tags around existing tags, which is allowed (we are adding tags). The original content includes the text "Responsibilities:" with bold and underline and a span. We must keep that exactly. So we output Responsibilities:
? Actually there is a trailing after the
before . The original: Responsibilities: . So we need to keep that exactly: Responsibilities: . Then wrap in
. So Responsibilities:
.
Then after that, there is a - ... etc. We need to convert each
- block to proper
- . The original has nested s around each
- . We need to strip those divs and keep the
- structure. Also there are
tags inside each
- with etc. We need to preserve those.
We must not add any extra text. So we need to output exactly the same textual content, but with
for paragraphs,
for headers, - for lists, and we can keep other tags like , , , , as they appear.
We must also ensure we don't have any or
tags. So we need to strip them out.
Let's parse the original text step by step.
Original snippet:
PATH current employees - please log in and apply Here
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 Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access (CVIA) brings together our expertise across every stage of the long and complex process of vaccine research, development, and delivery to make lifesaving vaccines widely available to children and communities across the world. CVIA’s current portfolio encompasses more than two dozen vaccines either in development or already in use to protect against fifteen different diseases. Our focus is on vaccines to address the leading diseases that claim children’s lives worldwide: pneumonia, diarrheal disease, and malaria; as well as other global health priorities, such as polio and meningitis. We work in partnership with national health ministries, pharmaceutical manufacturers, donors, international financing and regulatory organizations, and many others. PATH has led numerous global partnerships, including the award-winning Meningitis Vaccine Project and the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, which helped develop the first malaria vaccine candidate recommended for pilot implementation.
PATH is currently recruiting for a Program Assistant (SPA) who will provide administrative support to a portfolio of vaccination introduction and delivery projects in Nigeria. The position is based in Kebbi State, provides direct support to project teams in-country and reports to project managers on a day-to-day basis with line reporting to a supervisor with the Project and Portfolio Management team (PPM). The successful candidate will be required to obtain the PATH Proofreaders Certification within 120 days of employment.
The Program Assistant will provide comprehensive administrative, logistical, and clerical support to ensure effective and timely delivery of project activities. This role will enhance operational efficiency, ensure compliance with PATH and donor procedures, and facilitate coordination among national and state-level stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
Administrative and Documentation Support
Support internal and external correspondence, including drafting responses or triaging queries as appropriate.
Proofread, format, and manage project documents including proposals, reports, work plans, presentations, and meeting materials.
Organize and collate project information to support timely donor reporting and internal updates.
Prepare and manage administrative forms, including travel requests, payment forms, and other required documentation.
Maintain organized electronic and hard-copy filing systems using PATH platforms (e.g., SharePoint, Box, Smartsheet).
Logistics and Travel Coordination
Coordinate and manage travel arrangements for project staff and consultants, including flights, accommodation, ground transport, and itineraries.
Provide logistical support for meetings, trainings, workshops, supervision visits, and stakeholder engagements.
Arrange meeting logistics including venues, catering, participant lists, meeting materials, and virtual meeting platforms.
Finance and Procurement Support
Support PATH finance and procurement teams with administrative tasks related to project activities.
Track documentation related to procurement, payments, and expense processing.
Support timely submission and organization of financial and procurement records in line with PATH policies.
Meeting and Coordination Support
Manage scheduling and planning of meetings.
Assist with drafting and distributing agendas and minutes.
Track follow-up actions, decisions, and task assignments arising from meetings.
Systems and IT Support
Support team members in using PATH systems and software tools.
Liaise with IT as needed to resolve basic hardware or software issues.
Serve as a focal point for ensuring project information systems are current and well maintained.
Cross-Team Coordination
Support coordination across CVIA projects and country teams as assigned.
Provide backup support to other CVIA Program Assistants when required.
Required
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for introductory paragraphs and general text. Use
for section headers ... Use - for list items ... No CSS classes, no inline styles, no s, no
tags". It doesn't explicitly forbid other tags like , , , . However they said preserve ALL original content word-for-word — do not add, remove, summarise, or rephrase. If we strip out or tags, we would be removing content (the tags). So we must keep them. But they also said use for introductory paragraphs and general text. That could mean we wrap the paragraphs in
tags, but we can keep inner tags like , , , . Also we must not add or
. The original has many and
and . We need to strip those out (since they are not allowed). But we must preserve the textual content inside them. So we need to remove the
,
, tags, but keep the text nodes and any inner formatting tags like , , , . Also we need to add appropriate structural tags: for paragraphs,
for section headers (like "Responsibilities:", "Required skills and experience:"), and - for list items.
We must not add any extra text. So we need to output something like:
PATH current employees - please log in and apply Here
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.
... etc.
Then we encounter a section header: "Responsibilities: " This is a header. We need to wrap it in . But we must preserve the content word-for-word, including the ... tags? The instruction says use for section headers. It didn't say we cannot keep inner tags. But to preserve original content word-for-word, we should keep the inner tags inside the . However that would be adding tags around existing tags, which is allowed (we are adding tags). The original content includes the text "Responsibilities:" with bold and underline and a span. We must keep that exactly. So we output Responsibilities:
? Actually there is a trailing after the
before . The original: Responsibilities: . So we need to keep that exactly: Responsibilities: . Then wrap in
. So Responsibilities:
.
Then after that, there is a - ... etc. We need to convert each
- block to proper
- . The original has nested s around each
- . We need to strip those divs and keep the
- structure. Also there are
tags inside each
- with etc. We need to preserve those.
We must not add any extra text. So we need to output exactly the same textual content, but with
for paragraphs,
for headers, - for lists, and we can keep other tags like , , , , as they appear.
We must also ensure we don't have any or
tags. So we need to strip them out.
Let's parse the original text step by step.
Original snippet:
PATH current employees - please log in and apply Here
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 Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access (CVIA) brings together our expertise across every stage of the long and complex process of vaccine research, development, and delivery to make lifesaving vaccines widely available to children and communities across the world. CVIA’s current portfolio encompasses more than two dozen vaccines either in development or already in use to protect against fifteen different diseases. Our focus is on vaccines to address the leading diseases that claim children’s lives worldwide: pneumonia, diarrheal disease, and malaria; as well as other global health priorities, such as polio and meningitis. We work in partnership with national health ministries, pharmaceutical manufacturers, donors, international financing and regulatory organizations, and many others. PATH has led numerous global partnerships, including the award-winning Meningitis Vaccine Project and the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, which helped develop the first malaria vaccine candidate recommended for pilot implementation.
PATH is currently recruiting for a Program Assistant (SPA) who will provide administrative support to a portfolio of vaccination introduction and delivery projects in Nigeria. The position is based in Kebbi State, provides direct support to project teams in-country and reports to project managers on a day-to-day basis with line reporting to a supervisor with the Project and Portfolio Management team (PPM). The successful candidate will be required to obtain the PATH Proofreaders Certification within 120 days of employment.
The Program Assistant will provide comprehensive administrative, logistical, and clerical support to ensure effective and timely delivery of project activities. This role will enhance operational efficiency, ensure compliance with PATH and donor procedures, and facilitate coordination among national and state-level stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
Administrative and Documentation Support
Support internal and external correspondence, including drafting responses or triaging queries as appropriate.
Proofread, format, and manage project documents including proposals, reports, work plans, presentations, and meeting materials.
Organize and collate project information to support timely donor reporting and internal updates.
Prepare and manage administrative forms, including travel requests, payment forms, and other required documentation.
Maintain organized electronic and hard-copy filing systems using PATH platforms (e.g., SharePoint, Box, Smartsheet).
Logistics and Travel Coordination
Coordinate and manage travel arrangements for project staff and consultants, including flights, accommodation, ground transport, and itineraries.
Provide logistical support for meetings, trainings, workshops, supervision visits, and stakeholder engagements.
Arrange meeting logistics including venues, catering, participant lists, meeting materials, and virtual meeting platforms.
Finance and Procurement Support
Support PATH finance and procurement teams with administrative tasks related to project activities.
Track documentation related to procurement, payments, and expense processing.
Support timely submission and organization of financial and procurement records in line with PATH policies.
Meeting and Coordination Support
Manage scheduling and planning of meetings.
Assist with drafting and distributing agendas and minutes.
Track follow-up actions, decisions, and task assignments arising from meetings.
Systems and IT Support
Support team members in using PATH systems and software tools.
Liaise with IT as needed to resolve basic hardware or software issues.
Serve as a focal point for ensuring project information systems are current and well maintained.
Cross-Team Coordination
Support coordination across CVIA projects and country teams as assigned.
Provide backup support to other CVIA Program Assistants when required.
Required
Apply Now ↗
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tags". It doesn't explicitly forbid other tags like , , , . However they said preserve ALL original content word-for-word — do not add, remove, summarise, or rephrase. If we strip out or tags, we would be removing content (the tags). So we must keep them. But they also said use
for introductory paragraphs and general text. That could mean we wrap the paragraphs in
tags, but we can keep inner tags like , , , . Also we must not add . We need to strip those out (since they are not allowed). But we must preserve the textual content inside them. So we need to remove the tags, but keep the text nodes and any inner formatting tags like , , , . Also we need to add appropriate structural tags: for paragraphs, PATH current employees - please log in and apply Here 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. tags inside each for paragraphs, PATH current employees - please log in and apply Here 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 Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access (CVIA) brings together our expertise across every stage of the long and complex process of vaccine research, development, and delivery to make lifesaving vaccines widely available to children and communities across the world. CVIA’s current portfolio encompasses more than two dozen vaccines either in development or already in use to protect against fifteen different diseases. Our focus is on vaccines to address the leading diseases that claim children’s lives worldwide: pneumonia, diarrheal disease, and malaria; as well as other global health priorities, such as polio and meningitis. We work in partnership with national health ministries, pharmaceutical manufacturers, donors, international financing and regulatory organizations, and many others. PATH has led numerous global partnerships, including the award-winning Meningitis Vaccine Project and the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, which helped develop the first malaria vaccine candidate recommended for pilot implementation. PATH is currently recruiting for a Program Assistant (SPA) who will provide administrative support to a portfolio of vaccination introduction and delivery projects in Nigeria. The position is based in Kebbi State, provides direct support to project teams in-country and reports to project managers on a day-to-day basis with line reporting to a supervisor with the Project and Portfolio Management team (PPM). The successful candidate will be required to obtain the PATH Proofreaders Certification within 120 days of employment. The Program Assistant will provide comprehensive administrative, logistical, and clerical support to ensure effective and timely delivery of project activities. This role will enhance operational efficiency, ensure compliance with PATH and donor procedures, and facilitate coordination among national and state-level stakeholders. Responsibilities: Administrative and Documentation Support Support internal and external correspondence, including drafting responses or triaging queries as appropriate. Proofread, format, and manage project documents including proposals, reports, work plans, presentations, and meeting materials. Organize and collate project information to support timely donor reporting and internal updates. Prepare and manage administrative forms, including travel requests, payment forms, and other required documentation. Maintain organized electronic and hard-copy filing systems using PATH platforms (e.g., SharePoint, Box, Smartsheet). Logistics and Travel Coordination Coordinate and manage travel arrangements for project staff and consultants, including flights, accommodation, ground transport, and itineraries. Provide logistical support for meetings, trainings, workshops, supervision visits, and stakeholder engagements. Arrange meeting logistics including venues, catering, participant lists, meeting materials, and virtual meeting platforms. Finance and Procurement Support Support PATH finance and procurement teams with administrative tasks related to project activities. Track documentation related to procurement, payments, and expense processing. Support timely submission and organization of financial and procurement records in line with PATH policies. Meeting and Coordination Support Manage scheduling and planning of meetings. Assist with drafting and distributing agendas and minutes. Track follow-up actions, decisions, and task assignments arising from meetings. Systems and IT Support Support team members in using PATH systems and software tools. Liaise with IT as needed to resolve basic hardware or software issues. Serve as a focal point for ensuring project information systems are current and well maintained. Cross-Team Coordination Support coordination across CVIA projects and country teams as assigned. Provide backup support to other CVIA Program Assistants when required. Required Get an instant AI match score for this role — free, takes 3 minutes. The concierge rewrites your whole CV and writes a matching cover letter for this job — opens right here, nothing to paste. Upload your CV and get a tailored cover letter in seconds — free, no account needed. Leave your email and our AI matches you to new jobs across 24 African markets — free. You wait for the call. Upload your CV and we score every new job against your real experience — only strong matches reach your inbox. Optional, but it makes your matches far sharper. 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. The original has many
and
, for section headers (like "Responsibilities:", "Required skills and experience:"), and
before . The original: Responsibilities: . So we need to keep that exactly: Responsibilities: . Then wrap in . But we must preserve the content word-for-word, including the ... tags? The instruction says use
for section headers. It didn't say we cannot keep inner tags. But to preserve original content word-for-word, we should keep the inner tags inside the
. However that would be adding
tags around existing tags, which is allowed (we are adding tags). The original content includes the text "Responsibilities:" with bold and underline and a span. We must keep that exactly. So we output
Responsibilities:
? Actually there is a trailing after the . So
Responsibilities:
.
Then after that, there is a for headers,
tags. So we need to strip them out.
Let's parse the original text step by step.
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