Maternal Neonatal Child Health (MNCH) Technical Advisor

ABOUT THE COMPANY

AMREF Health Africa is the largest international health development organisation based in Africa. Working with
and through African communities, health systems and governments, Amref Health Africa’s vision is for lasting
health change in Africa and is committed to improving the health of people in Africa by partnering with and empowering communities, and strengthening health systems. With headquarters in Kenya,

JOB SUMMARY

Education and ExperienceBachelor’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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical LeadershipProvide 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 ManagementProvide 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 LeadershipParticipate 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 DevelopmentParticipate 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.

REQUIRED SKILLS

Midwifing, Nursing, Public health, Reporting

REQUIRED EDUCATION

Bachelor's degree