Technical Lead- RMNCAH

**Position Title:** Technical Lead – RMNCAH
**Department:** Regional Programs - AEMEA; Tanzania Country Office
**Location**: Mwanza, Tanzania
**Key Relationships**:
**Reports to**: Tanzania Country Director with dotted line reporting to Associate Director, AME
**Direct Reports to this Position:** Project Officer, MHPSS and Project Officer, Community Engagement and SBC
**Assignment Type:** Full time
**Application Requirements:** Resume, application questions, and cover letter
**Benefits:**
We offer a comprehensive and highly competitive set of benefits. These include:
Health and Life Insurance
Communication allowance
Twenty-one (21) working days of annual leave
Pension 10% of an employee’s gross salary and employer contribution.
13th month bonus paid annually
Transport and Housing allowance

**About Americares:**
Americares is a health-focused relief and development organization that saves lives and improves health for people affected by poverty or disaster. Each year, Americares reaches 85 countries on average, including the United States, with life-changing health programs, medicine, medical supplies, and emergency aid. Americares is one of the world’s leading nonprofit providers of donated medicine and medical supplies. For more information, visit americares.org

**Americares Values:**
We create a global community, treating people as they want to be treated.
We respond effectively and responsibly, putting plans into practice.
We embed ethics and equity in our work and workplace.
We are better together; partnership is at our core.
We ask and listen to create sustainable solutions for a healthier tomorrow.
We commit to quality, growing, and improving to ensure individuals and communities thrive.

**About the position:**
The Technical Lead – RMNCAH will lead and provide overall technical leadership and strategic oversight for the Integrated Maternal Health, Family Planning, Obstetric Fistula and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Project implemented by Americares Foundation Tanzania. The Technical Lead will guide the design, implementation, and quality assurance of integrated RMNCAH interventions across facility and community platforms. The role will support evidence-based capacity building interventions (i.e., on-the-job training, on-site mentorship, supportive supervision and clinical attachment), quality improvement initiatives, health systems strengthening, and the integration of mental health and psychosocial support within maternal and newborn health services.

The Technical Lead – RMNCAH will also provide strategic technical leadership and work in close partnership with regional and council health management teams, referral hospitals including Bugando Medical Centre, sub-granted civil society organizations, and community structures to ensure the project is fully aligned with national policies and guidelines, strengthens referral systems, and delivers measurable outcomes across integrated maternal health, family planning, obstetric fistula, and MHPSS.

**Duties and Responsibilities:**
1\. Technical Leadership, Program Implementation and Quality Assurance

Provide strategic technical direction for the design, implementation, and scale-up of integrated RMNCAH interventions including maternal and newborn health, family planning, obstetric fistula, and perinatal mental health ensuring alignment with national guidelines, quality-of-care standards, and the latest evidence.

Lead the development of project work plans, implementation strategies, clinical protocols, and program guidelines, while providing oversight for the integration of obstetric fistula services (prevention, identification, referral, surgical care, survivor reintegration) and perinatal mental health within the broader maternal and newborn health continuum.

Oversee health systems strengthening and quality improvement activities, including facility readiness assessments, clinical audits, maternal death root cause analyses, and the implementation of Maternal and Perinatal Death

Surveillance and Response (MPDSR).
Guide capacity-building efforts (i.e., on-the-job training, mentorship, coaching, clinical attachments) through hub-and-spoke models for health care providers across all technical areas.

Provide technical oversight on integrated supportive supervision activities to ensure quality, effectiveness, and sustainability.

Support strengthening referral linkages and emergency obstetric care pathways across facility and community levels, working in collaboration with government systems and partners.

Support integrated fistula outreach campaigns, surgical repair services, post-operative care, and survivor reintegration programs

Promote community engagement strategies to improve demand for quality maternal health services, early identification and referral of obstetric fistula cases.

Advise the adoption and scale-up of innovations