Maternal Neonatal Child Health (MNCH) Technical Advisor

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in a clinical or health-related field, such as Medicine, Nursing, Midwifery, Public Health or a related discipline.
  
• Master’s degree in Public Health, Maternal and Child Health, Health Systems, Epidemiology, Implementation Science or a related field would be advantageous.
  
• 5–10+ years of professional experience in MNCH, maternal and newborn health, or related public health programming.
  
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing MNCH research or implementation research programmes, preferably in LMIC settings.
  
• Proven experience providing technical leadership and quality improvement support within decentralised, multi-country or multi-site programme structures.
  
• Experience designing, assessing or strengthening MNCH clinical pathways and models of care across health system levels.
  
• Experience working with government health systems, research and procurement authorities, health facilities, professional bodies and implementing partners.
  
• Experience supporting multi-country MNCH interventions, including adaptation of technical guidance across diverse policy, service delivery and health workforce contexts.
  

Technical Leadership

• Provide technical expertise and guidance on maternal and newborn health, including global and consortium standards, protocols, evidence-based approaches and best practice.
  
• Guide the design and implementation of person-centred MNCH service delivery models for pre-eclampsia and maternal anaemia.
  
• Provide technical input on products and services targeting pre-eclampsia and maternal anaemia, including diagnostics and treatment pathways.
  
• Support innovative service delivery models, including Group ANC, midwifery-led care, networks of care and referral pathways.
  
• Ensure MNCH clinical models of care and technical clinical considerations are embedded in project design, adaptation, implementation and evaluation across countries.
  
• Support country teams to translate global and national MNCH clinical guidance into feasible, context-specific service delivery models.
  
• Provide technical guidance to ensure implementation research activities are grounded in MNCH clinical best practice, including ANC pathways, referral systems, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, respectful maternity care and continuity of care.
  
• Work with country teams to design, adapt, implement and refine MNCH clinical models of care for pre-eclampsia and maternal anaemia, ensuring clear clinical pathways, provider roles, quality standards and patient-centred care principles.
  
• Design quality of care frameworks and support quality assurance mechanisms across project countries.
  
• Provide technical assistance on health system requirements, workforce needs, facility readiness and service delivery arrangements required to deliver MNCH products and services effectively.
  
• Provide MNCH technical input into implementation research protocols, tools, learning questions, data collection approaches, interpretation of findings and intervention adaptation.
  
• Work with the MERL Manager to strengthen MNCH indicators, quality-of-care measures and implementation outcomes, ensuring alignment with global frameworks such as EWENE metrics.
  
• Support community demand generation and engagement in MNCH services, ensuring linkages with quality service delivery and referral systems.
  
• Identify MNCH implementation bottlenecks, clinical quality gaps and health system constraints, and support country teams to use data for learning, course correction and quality improvement.
  
• Ensure alignment with country and global MNCH agendas, national guidelines, clinical standards and best practice.
  
• Review and provide technical input into workplans, reports and project deliverables.
  

Country and Relationship Management

• Provide hands-on MNCH technical support to multi-country teams, ensuring consistency of core clinical standards while allowing country-level adaptation.
  
• Support country teams to align implementation with national guidelines, health system capacity and service delivery realities.
  
• Drive the programme’s learning agenda, including documentation of promising practices, implementation lessons and scalable MNCH models of care.
  
• Provide oversight to country workplans and project documents to ensure timeliness, technical quality and alignment with deliverables.
  
• Manage generation and dissemination of technical information to staff, partners and stakeholders.
  
• Facilitate cross-country learning on MNCH service delivery, clinical quality improvement, referral systems, community engagement and implementation research findings.
  
• Support collaboration with Consortium partners to ensure coordinated technical approaches and shared learning.
  
• Serve as an MNCH technical spokesperson for the project in donor meetings, technical forums and partner engagements.
  

Stakeholder Engagement and Thought Leadership

• Participate in and/or lead programme governance structures, including the Steering Committee and Programme Implementation Team.
  
• Support regional and global stakeholder engagement and advocacy activities, including opportunities for collaboration, visibility and uptake of project learning.
  
• Contribute to project knowledge products, technical briefs, learning papers, presentations and thought leadership on MNCH models of care, implementation research and scale-up.
  
• Engage with government, professional associations, technical working groups, donors and implementing partners to align with national MNCH priorities and global best practice.
  

Program Development

• Participate in concept development and writing of quarterly and annual reports for internal and external stakeholders, including donors.
  
• Contribute MNCH technical content to proposals, concept notes, workplans, donor reports and programme development materials.
  
• Support identification of emerging MNCH priorities, evidence gaps and opportunities for innovation, scale-up and sustainability.