JOB TITLE: Strengthening Health Systems to Provide Life Saving Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and Nutrition Services Programme Manager
TEAM/PROGRAMME: Programme and Operations
LOCATION: Mongu
GRADE: 3
POST TYPE: National
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INTRODUCTION [PROJECT OVERVIEW]
Save the Children (SCI) is the world’s leading independent non-profit organization for children. Our vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation. SCI’s Mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting changes in their lives. In Zambia, SCI has been implementing programs across Child Rights Governance, Health and Nutrition, Child Protection, Education, Child Poverty and Humanitarian thematic areas since 1983.
SCI, in partnership with MAP International and the Zambian Ministry of Health (MOH) with funding from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Charity (LDSC) is implementing the Integrated Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Nutrition (IMNCHN) Project. The goal of the project is to contribute to the reduction in maternal, newborn, and child mortality, stillbirths, and morbidity in Mongu district of the Western province. The project is currently supporting twelve health facilities in Mongu district, including two hospitals and 20 health centers to ensure:
I.Sustained improvements in equitable access to and quality of maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition services (including people with disabilities)
II Increased demand and enhanced social norms for preventative health behaviors and use of health services
III. Increased capacity of local institutions and organizations to sustainably deliver evidence-based, quality health and nutrition services.
ROLE PURPOSE:
The Integrated Maternal, Newborn, and Child, Health and Nutrition (IMNCHN) Programme Manager is responsible for strategically driving, coordinating and reporting on the results for the Strengthening Health Systems to Provide Life Saving Maternal, Newborn, and Child, Health and Nutrition Services project using an adaptive management and learning and reflection approach to achieve outcomes and impact for meaningful and lasting change for children.
The IMNCHN Programme Manager works closely with other functions including Country Office Senior Management Team to meet all program-related objectives in the Country Office. The Programme Manager is accountable for effective and efficient management of Strengthening Health Systems to Provide Life Saving Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health and Nutrition Services project in ways that ensure resources are focused on reaching strategic objectives, meeting donor expectations and adhering to all internal and external standards.
The IMNCHN Manager will have the primary responsibility for leading and managing the project team, ensuring technical, programmatic soundness, fiscal management and alignment of project with policies and strategies of the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) aimed at enhancing the quality of MNCHN services. The intervention will target all the levels of the Zambian health system from community to health centers to Level 2 hospitals focusing on strengthening the access to and quality of services along a continuum of care of while also generating demand for ealth services and improving essential health practices among the population in the targeted catchment
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APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:
QUALIFIED APPLICANTS SHOULD ONLY ATTACH A COVER LETTER AND AN UPDATED CV.
The closing date for receipt of applications is Monday 11th May 2026. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Save the Children reserves the right to re advertise if suitable applicants are not found.
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