Technical Director, MNCH

Jhpiego Jobs Vacancy, Employment
Tanzania NGO and Social Work Jobs

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Job Details

Job LocationTanzania

Job CategoryNGO and Social Work Jobs

Job PostedOctober 9, 2026

Job Description

Overview

The AFGHS-Jhpiego project is funded by the U.S. Department of State (DoS) to support the delivery of lifesaving, comprehensive maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) and malaria services across Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar. It aims to improve service and data quality, strengthen health-system integration and resilience, facilitate effective transition, and promote local ownership and accountability for sustained health outcomes.

Jhpiego works closely with the Ministries of Health in Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar, the Reproductive and Child Health Section (RCHS), the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP), the Zanzibar Malaria Elimination Programme (ZAMEP), and Regional Administration and Local Government (RALG) structures to align implementation with national priorities and strengthen locally led implementation and oversight.

Position Summary

The Technical Director – MNCH provides overall technical leadership, coordination, and oversight for comprehensive maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) interventions under the project, drawing on subject matter expertise in maternal and newborn health, child health, nutrition, immunization, quality improvement, and related service delivery approaches. Working closely with the project’s management team and the Senior Technical Team, the Technical Director – MNCH coordinates technical inputs across these areas and provides strategic guidance to ensure coherent, evidence-based approaches aligned with national policies, guidelines, and standards across Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar.

The Technical Director – MNCH works closely with the monitoring, evaluation, research and learning (MERL), community-based health services (CBHS), malaria, and field implementation teams to ensure high-quality implementation and timely use of data for performance improvement and adaptive management. The role serves as a key technical point of contact with relevant Ministry of Health technical units, Regional Administration and Local Government (RALG) structures, research and academic institutions, professional bodies, and other technical partners. The Technical Director – MNCH also serves as the link between the project’s MNCH technical team, national technical forums, and Jhpiego’s global technical teams, ensuring technical alignment, coordination, and application of national and global evidence.

The Technical Director – MNCH provides technical leadership for the sustainability, institutionalization, and transition of project-supported MNCH interventions. Working with government counterparts, the role strengthens government leadership and technical capacity and supports integration of effective approaches into government policies, plans, budgets, workforce development, clinical training, supportive supervision, quality improvement, routine service delivery, and data and accountability systems. The Technical Director – MNCH works closely with the Sustainability and Transition Director to identify and address barriers to sustained implementation and support progressive transition of technical leadership and implementation functions to government structures while maintaining quality and continuity of essential MNCH services.

This position will be closed on October 15, 2026.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership and Quality Improvement

• Provide overall technical direction and oversight for MNCH interventions, ensuring alignment with national policies, project objectives, and global evidence.

• Provide technical leadership across maternal and newborn health, child health, nutrition, immunization, and related integrated service delivery approaches.

• Provide technical input into the design, planning, implementation, and scale-up of MNCH activities to ensure effectiveness, quality, consistency, and responsiveness to national and subnational priorities.

• Lead implementation and institutionalization of evidence-based quality improvement approaches across project-supported MNCH services.

• Provide technical leadership for high-impact maternal and newborn interventions across the continuum of care: antenatal care, high-quality intrapartum care, emergency obstetric and newborn care, prevention and management of postpartum hemorrhage, essential newborn care, care for small and sick newborns, postnatal care, and referral systems.

• Provide strategic technical guidance for child health, nutrition, and immunization interventions, including integrated management of childhood illness, emergency triage and treatment, routine and intensified immunization, growth monitoring, infant and young child feeding, and management of acute malnutrition.

• Ensure appropriate integration of MNCH services with malaria, HIV, community health, and other relevant service areas.

• Capacity Strengthening

• Provide technical leadership for assessment of MNCH workforce and clinical capacity needs and development of evidence-based approaches to address identified gaps.

• Strengthening government-led clinical training, mentorship, supportive supervision, and quality improvement systems at national, regional, council, and facility levels.

• Support development and strengthening of government trainers, mentors, and clinical champions across priority MNCH technical areas.