Descriptions
Summary
**Clinical Advisor (1 Position(s))**
**Overview**
• Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) is a leading African research organisation with extensive experience in health research, innovation, and systems strengthening.
• The Maternal and Newborn Health Program aims to strengthen maternal and newborn health services by addressing gaps in workforce, commodities, infrastructure, and data systems.
• The program targets 210 high-volume facilities across 12 regions in Tanzania.
**Key Responsibilities**
• Provide technical leadership in the design, implementation, and monitoring of maternal and newborn care interventions.
• Co-lead updating and harmonisation of tools and training materials with MOH, PMO-RALG, professional associations, and other implementing partners.
• Lead technical mentoring strategies on essential newborn care, inpatient neonatal care, and continuity of care interventions.
• Support national guideline updates and TWG engagement.
• Collaborate with MoH, PMO-RALG, and other partners to ensure fidelity to evidence-based newborn care practices.
• Provide hands-on technical input to implementing partners on service delivery models, clinical protocols, referral systems, and quality improvement (QI) approaches.
• Contribute to site selection, facility readiness assessment, and phased scale-up of newborn care interventions.
• Lead efforts to strengthen quality of care, including supportive supervision, mentorship, and clinical audits.
• Support integration of quality improvement collaboratives and learning platforms across facilities and regions.
• Advice on strengthening clinical governance, accountability, and patient safety mechanisms.
• Guide the design and implementation of capacity building strategies for health workers.
• Work with professional associations and training institutions to support competence-based training for neonatal care.
• Promote task sharing and team-based models where appropriate.
• Provide technical oversight on clinical indicators, dashboards, and learning questions related to maternal and newborn health outcomes.
• Support the use of routine health information systems for clinical decision-making and program improvement.
• Contribute to learning agendas, operational research, and documentation of best practices.
• Support policy dialogues, technical working groups, and national reviews related to newborn health.
• Represent the program in national and subnational forums as delegated by the Program leadership.
• Advice on strategies for institutionalising and sustaining program interventions within government systems.
• Support the development of scale-up pathways and investment cases for effective newborn health interventions.
**Requirements**
• Strong understanding of global and national maternal, newborn, and child health policies, guidelines, and service delivery models.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication, and coordination skills.
• Ability to translate clinical evidence into practical, scalable programme interventions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience using routine data for improvement.
• Presentation skills.
**Benefits**
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**Deadline**
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**Job Type**
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How to apply
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