Amref Health Africa was founded in 1957 and has since grown to become the largest African-based international health development organisation; currently implementing more than 180 programs, reaching more than 40 million people across 35 African countries; and a staff complement of over 2,000. Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, Amref Health Africa has offices in ten countries in Africa – Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Guinea (Conakry), Kenya, Malawi, Senegal, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. An additional eleven advocacy and fundraising offices are located in Europe and North America.

Amref Health Africa is driven by its vision of ‘Lasting health change in Africa’ and its mission ‘To catalyze and drive community-led and people-centred health systems while addressing social determinants of health’. We believe that the power to transform Africa's health lies within its communities, and therefore strive to ensure that health systems are not only functional but that communities are empowered to hold these systems accountable for the delivery of quality and affordable health care.

Project Overview

Amref has been selected to implement a four-year, Unitaid-funded project aimed at accelerating adoption and strengthening the market for new and underutilized products and delivery strategies for pre-eclampsia and maternal anaemia. SUPREME aims to close the gap between lifesaving products and services and the women who need them. This US$52.5 million initiative brings together two consortia — SECURE and LIFELINES — to strengthen markets, build quality supply, and embed proven tools into service delivery and national systems for sustainable access.

The MNCH Technical Advisor will provide technical guidance for a multi-country, multi-million-dollar project implemented in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Senegal and Ghana. The project aims to accelerate uptake and use of lifesaving tools for the prevention, diagnosis and management of pre-eclampsia and maternal anaemia, major contributors to maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality in low-resource settings.

The role will provide technical expertise across maternal and newborn health, including project intervention design, implementation research, quality of care frameworks, and quality assurance mechanisms. The Advisor will ensure that MNCH clinical models of care and technical clinical considerations are embedded into the design, adaptation, implementation and evaluation of models of care across project countries.

The MNCH Technical Advisor will work closely with the Programme Manager, MERL Manager, Consortium partners, country teams and Unitaid.

Primary Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Provide 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 Management

• Provide 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 Leadership

• Participate 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 Development

• Participate 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.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’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.

Knowledge, Skills and Competencies

• Deep technical knowledge of evidence-based MNCH clinical and public health practices, including antenatal care, skilled delivery, respectful maternity care, emergency obstetric and newborn care, postnatal care, newborn care and immunization.
• Strong understanding of pre-eclampsia and maternal anaemia prevention, screening, diagnosis, management, referral and follow-up within routine MNCH service delivery platforms.
• Ability to design and review protocols, guidelines, tools, SOPs, job aids, clinical pathways and quality improvement approaches.
• Strong understanding of implementation research methods and ability to apply MNCH clinical expertise to real-world programme learning, adaptation and scale-up.
• Experience with data interpretation, programme monitoring and evaluation, quality improvement and adaptive implementation.
• Strong strategic thinking and ability to translate evidence and policy into practical, scalable MNCH solutions.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with government, donors, technical agencies, professional associations and implementing partners.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including technical reporting, facilitation and presentations.

Languages

• Excellent written and spoken English.
• French would be an advantage.

Please include a cover letter that highlights why you believe you are an ideal candidate for this role, along with your CV showcasing your relevant skills and experience. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, with the application deadline being Friday, May 29, 2026 at 23:59 (EAT)

Amref Health Africa does not require applicants to pay any money at whatever stage of the recruitment and selection process and has not retained any agent in connection with recruitment. Although Amref may use different job boards from time to time to further spread its reach for applicants, all open vacancies are published on our website under the Vacancies page and on our official social media pages. Kindly also note that official emails from Amref Health Africa will arrive from an @amref.org address.

Amref Health Africa is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Amref Health Africa is is dedicated to diversity and is an equal-opportunity employer with a non-smoking environment policy.