Senior Technical Manager - Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

About the role

IMA World Health, part of Corus International, is hiring a Senior Technical Manager for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The role provides technical guidance and high-level advisory support for designing, implementing, monitoring and continuously improving MNCH interventions. It translates the overall AFGHS-IMA workplan and guides evidence-based, high-impact interventions that improve the quality, safety, accessibility and use of MNCH services in primary health care and hospital settings, through local and international implementing partners.

Key responsibilities

• Advise project leadership, government counterparts and implementing partners on evidence-based approaches to improve maternal, newborn and child health outcomes.
• Translate national health policies, strategies, standards and guidelines into practical implementation approaches and technical priorities.
• Lead technical assessments of bottlenecks, service delivery gaps and opportunities to improve MNCH quality and effectiveness.
• Guide the development of technical work plans, milestones, performance indicators and quality standards, and promote institutionalization and scale-up of successful approaches.
• Strengthen community engagement, advocacy, referral systems and links between communities, maternity waiting homes and health facilities.
• Advise on improving maternal and perinatal death reviews, corrective actions and follow-up, and link MPDSR to quality improvement at woreda and facility level.
• Collaborate with the MERL team on routine data review, logistics management information systems and essential commodity availability.
• Strengthen PRCMM functionality (performance analysis, clinical case review, action planning and follow-up).
• Guide quality improvement in facilities using score cards, Community Action Cycles and Partnership Defined Quality, and mentor health facility leaders and clinical teams.
• Support hospitals in improving service readiness, quality performance and compliance with quality standards and accreditation requirements.
• Promote collaborative learning through Communities of Practice and EPAQ activities.

Required profile

• Extensive theoretical and practical understanding of MNCH, including MCH service delivery and integrated service implementation at facility and community levels.
• Knowledge of quality improvement approaches, PRCMM, Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR), PHCU-led quality improvement and health system performance improvement.