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.
• Support dissemination of project evidence and learning products.
• Document key achievements, challenges, gaps, lessons learned, good practices, and results from health systems and technical program implementation.
• Compile and synthesize routine program data, assessment findings, and implementation evidence to support learning, planning, and evidence-based decision-making.
• Prepare high-quality technical reports, learning briefs, case studies, success stories, and other knowledge products.
• Document evidence from health-system assessments, supportive supervision, quality improvement, capacity building, mentorship, and service integration.
• Identify, document, and disseminate innovations, promising practices, scalable approaches, and implementation learning.
• Coordinate with MEAL and technical teams to ensure accurate, timely, and evidence-based documentation, knowledge products, and reporting.
• Facilitate learning, reflection, and knowledge-sharing with government, partners, faith/community platforms, and project teams, and maintain accessible technical resources and learning materials.
• Promote the use of evidence and documented learning for adaptive management, continuous quality improvement, program improvement, and health-system strengthening.
• Support dissemination and scale-up of effective HIV/TB practices and innovations. Required Education, Training, Certificatio n
• Medical Doctor (MD), or a bachelor’s degree in Midwifery, Nursing, Public Health or Nutrition, PLUS a master’s degree in public health, Nutrition, Reproductive Health or a directly related field.
• Current professional registration/license with the relevant Ethiopian professional body, where applicable to the qualification held. Minimum of eight (8) years of progressively responsible experience in maternal, newborn and child health and/or nutrition programming in Ethiopia, including at least three (3) years in a technical advisory or technical leadership role on a donor-funded health Programme.
• Proven technical command of the maternal and newborn continuum that is focused antenatal care, skilled delivery, emergency obstetric and newborn care referral, postnatal care, EMTCT and immunization.
• Demonstrated experience in nutrition programming, including MUAC-based screening, integrated management of acute malnutrition (IMAM/CMAM), the RUTF treatment pathway and infant and young child feeding counselling.
• Substantive experience working with FMoH maternal and child health and nutrition structures, EPI, and Regional Health Bureaus, including participation in national technical working groups.
• Documented operational research or publication experience in MNCH or nutrition.
• Experience working with Ethiopia’s Health Extension Programme and HDA/WDA community networks. Required Professional Experience
• Demonstrated experience in MNCH, nutrition, primary healthcare, and integrated service delivery.
• Experience providing technical leadership, supportive supervision, mentoring, and capacity building to health workers and program teams.
• Experience strengthening ANC, PNC, skilled delivery, immunization, EMTCT, IPTp, child health, and nutrition services.
• Experience working with government health structures, health facilities, community health systems, and development partners.
• Practical experience in quality improvement, referral systems, community engagement, and demand generation.
• Experience using routine health data, monitoring results, and evidence for program improvement and decision-making.
• Experience supporting technical reporting, documentation, learning, and knowledge management.
• Experience integrating gender equality, disability inclusion, safeguarding, and equity into health programming.
• Experience working in multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder health programs is desirable. TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
• MNCH+N Programming
• Maternal Health
• Newborn Health
• Child Health
• Nutrition Programming
• Primary Healthcare
• Service Integration
• Quality Improvement
• Health Systems
• Community Health
• EMTCT
• Immunization Referral Systems
• Health Information
• Data Analysis
• MEAL
• Technical Reporting
• Capacity Building
• Safeguarding
• Gender & Inclusion CORE SKILLS
• Coordination
• Communication
• Partnership Building
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Team Leadership
• Facilitation
• Problem-Solving
• Decision-Making
• Analytical Skills
• Negotiation
• Coaching
• Adaptability
• Results Orientation World Vision is a child-focused organization that is committed to safeguarding all children as well as adult beneficiaries, and has zero tolerance for incidents of violence or abuse against children or adults, including sexual exploitation or abuse, committed either by employees or others affiliated with our work. Therefore, World Vision does not hire staff whose background is not suitable for working with children or vulnerable adults, even if their role does not interact directly with them. Disclaimer: World Vision Ethiopia is a reputable organization that values transparency and fairness in its recruitment process and does not solicit any money for any job application. We encourage all job seekers to be cautious of any job ads that require payment or personal information upfront. If you have any questions or concerns about our job ads or recruitment process, please do not hesitate to contact us directly. Applicant Types Accepted: Local Applicants Only