Advisor, Maternal and Newborn Health

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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 Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH) Advisor provides technical and programmatic leadership to regional field implementation teams to scale up evidence-based, high-impact MNH interventions at health facility and community levels, ensuring alignment with approved project work plans, milestones, and payment-linked deliverables. S/he will work closely with the project Field Team Leads, Technical Officers and  Government of Tanzania (GoT) counterparts, including PMO-RALG and the Ministry of Health (MoH), to co-design, implement, coordinate, and monitor MNH activities aligned with national priorities outlined in the Government-to-Government (G2G) MOU and accompanying implementation plan, government systems, and AFGHS project milestones. The Advisor will collaborate with government counterparts, other technical advisors, Department of State (DoS) implementing partners, and stakeholders to strengthen integrated, efficient, and high-quality MNH service delivery and promote accountability at national, regional, and district levels.

The MNH Advisor will work closely with monitoring and evaluation staff and field implementation teams to track progress against approved project milestones and payment-linked deliverables, monitor implementation performance, identify and address gaps, and facilitate timely corrective actions to ensure achievement, documentation, verification, and payment of milestones. S/he will ensure that technical assistance, implementation priorities, and field-level support are strategically aligned with milestone requirements and contribute to measurable improvements in MNH service delivery and outcomes.

A key responsibility of the MNH Advisor will be to advance sustainability and transition by strengthening regional and subnational government leadership, ownership, and institutional capacity to independently manage and sustain priority MNH interventions aligned with the G2G MOU. At the national level, s/he will support the integration and institutionalization of evidence-based MNH interventions within existing government policies and at subnational and facility level ensure integration or priority interventions within CCHP plans, budgets, service delivery platforms, supervision mechanisms, and data systems. Working with government counterparts, the Advisor will facilitate the progressive transition of implementation, oversight, and accountability functions to national, regional, and council structures, while strengthening workforce capacity, integrated service delivery, data use, and community engagement to sustain MNH service quality and outcomes beyond project support

This position will be closed on October 19, 2026.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Skills Development

• Provide technical leadership, support, and oversight to project-supported MNH interventions, ensuring technical quality and alignment with approved project milestones and deliverables, while strengthening government capacity to progressively lead, institutionalize, and sustain priority intervention

• Ensure technical excellence related to all project activities, with a particular focus on quality improvement and capacity development approaches, across MNH clinical intervention areas in program focus regions.

• Identify evidence-based high-impact practices related to MNH programming and facilitate application in the project, providing technical guidance on integrating MNH with other clinical services including HIV, malaria, immunization, nutrition, and other related services across the continuum of care.

• Lead the implementation and institutionalization of collaborative quality improvement approaches within existing government structures and systems, strengthening government ownership and capacity to independently sustain continuous quality improvement across all levels of service delivery.

• Strengthen referral linkages and feedback loops between community, primary, and referral-level health facilities to support timely access to lifesaving MNH services.

• Collaborate closely with R/CHMTs in capacity strengthening, including supportive supervision efforts, to ensure quality service delivery to clients and strengthen government systems to independently lead and sustain mentorship, supervision, and continuous quality improvement.