MNCH+N Lead

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith. Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type: Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

30% - Project Leadership and Coordination

• Lead the planning, implementation, monitoring, and technical oversight of integrated MNCH+N interventions.
• Coordinate delivery of ANC, PNC, skilled delivery, EMTCT, immunization, IPTp, and nutrition services across supported service points.
• Ensure MNCH+N services are integrated within the five-disease client encounter approach.
• Coordinate implementation across hubs, spokes, and Circle of Hope posts.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and supportive supervision to project and frontline health teams.
• Strengthening referral and service linkages between communities and health facilities.
• Coordinate demand-generation activities through faith platforms, women’s groups, and the Health Extension Programme.
• Review MNCH+N performance indicators regularly and coordinate corrective actions for identified gaps.
• Ensuring implementation approaches are aligned with FMoH guidelines and HSTP II priorities.
• Facilitate technical review, learning, and coordination meetings with relevant project and government stakeholders.

20% - Technical Quality Assurance

• Ensure quality implementation of:
• Support adaptation and contextualization of project materials.
• Ensure safeguarding, disability inclusion, gender, and conflict sensitivity standards are maintained.
• Health workers competent in integrated MNCH and nutrition service delivery; mentorship functioning to schedule with documented competency verification.
• Increased ANC4, skilled delivery, postnatal care and immunization coverage; EMTCT cascade strengthened; IPTp delivered per national guideline; sustained community demand through faith and women’s platforms.
• Malnutrition actively detected and treated across the network; screening-to-treatment linkage functioning and monitored; IYCF counselling delivered on a scale.
• MNCH and nutrition performance are actively managed from routine data; research contributions delivered to schedule. Cross-cutting standards demonstrably applied; integration maintained across the three technical portfolios.

15% - Leadership, Governance, Partnership & System Integration

• FCI MNCH and nutrition approaches aligned with and embedded within national systems and plans; coordinated, non-duplicative partner engagement.
• Stronger coordination and collaboration between FCI, FMoH, RHBs, Zonal/Woreda Health Offices, FBOs, facilities, and communities.
• FCI interventions are aligned with national policies, strategies, standards, guidelines, and government priorities.
• Clear roles, responsibilities, accountability, and coordination mechanisms are established across the hub-and-spoke network.
• Increased government and FBO ownership of FCI-supported interventions and systems.
• Provide strategic and technical leadership for integrated MNCH+N programming.
• Lead planning, coordination, implementation, and performance review of MNCH+N interventions.
• Strengthen integration of ANC, PNC, skilled delivery, EMTCT, immunization, IPTp, and nutrition services.
• Ensure MNCH+N approaches align with FMoH guidelines and HSTP II priorities.
• Strengthen coordination across hub, spoke, community, and Circle of Hope service platforms.
• Build effective partnerships with government, health facilities, faith actors, women’s groups, and community structures.
• Strengthening linkages between health facilities, the Health Extension Programme, and community platforms.
• Coordinate technical review meetings and follow up implementation actions and performance gaps.
• Promote joint planning, accountability, learning, and evidence-based decision-making among partners.
• Strengthen referral, service integration, and continuity of care across MNCH+N services.
• Strengthened regulatory compliance, governance, accountability, and joint performance review.

15% - Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning

• Work closely with the MEAL Specialist to ensure timely data collection.
• Ensure implementation of baseline, outcome survey, and endline evaluations.
• Lead quarterly learning reviews.
• Review indicator progress and adaptive management actions.
• Support documentation of lessons learned, case studies, and success stories.

10% Grant, Finance and Compliance Management

• Support development and monitoring of MNCH+N budgets and activity plans.
• Monitor expenditure against approved MNCH+N budgets and implementation priorities.
• Ensure technical activities comply with donor requirements, organizational standards, and approved plans.
• Coordinate with Finance, Grant and Operations teams to ensure timely implementation of MNCH+N activities.
• Provide accurate technical input for budget forecasting, financial reviews and grant reports.
• Ensure proper documentation and accountability for MNCH+N activities and expenditures.
• Identify budget variances and implementation gaps and support timely corrective actions.
• Provide technical documentation for audits, donor reviews and monitoring visits.
• Ensure procurement requests and technical specifications for MNCH+N supplies and services align with approved project requirements.
• Contribute to timely, accurate and quality programmatic and donor reporting.

10% - Documentation and Knowledge Management

• Produce quarterly reports.
• Develop learning briefs and success stories.