Senior Technical Advisor - Maternal and Newborn Health and Nutrition (MNHN)

Key Duties and Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Advisory

• Provide high-quality technical advice to support evidence-informed decision-making across NOURISH.
• Review and oversee partner workplans, technical designs, theories of change, and outputs.
• Ensure monitoring, evaluation, and data align with investments, strategic priorities, and outcomes.
• Enable application of the latest evidence, best practices, and learning across implementation.

Knowledge Translation & Learning

• Lead synthesis and translation of program evidence and technical outputs into accessible knowledge products.
• Support development and dissemination of technical briefs, guidance, reports, and learning products.
• Contribute to and help lead the NOURISH learning agenda, fostering continuous learning and adaptive management.

Representation & Stakeholder Engagement

• Represent NOURISH in technical meetings, working groups, partner engagements, and relevant forums, internally and externally.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with consortium partners, donors, government stakeholders, and technical networks.

Collaboration & Partnership

• Work collaboratively across the NOURISH team, including finance, health financing, MEAL, and consortium leadership, to deliver integrated, high-quality outputs with efficiency.
• Engage with Nutrition International's regional and HQ teams, mobilizing technical expertise through clear workplans and deliverables.
• Support partners in implementing workplans, synthesizing learnings, enabling cross-learning, and providing technical support and coordination.

NOURISH Reporting and Performance Management

• Provide technical leadership in partner reporting, ensuring evidence-based reporting that demonstrates progress against deliverables, KPIs, commitments, and program objectives.
• Review performance data to identify opportunities for strengthening implementation and results.

People Leadership

• Provide line management and technical supervision to assigned staff, supporting performance, professional development, and accountability.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performing team culture with shared ownership of NOURISH objectives across teams and partners.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• The Senior Technical Advisor, MNHN will provide direct supervision and line management to the Technical Advisors.

Requirements

• Master's degree (or higher) in nutrition, public health nutrition, maternal health and nutrition, nutrition and international development.
• Minimum 10 years' experience providing senior technical leadership in international development, public health, nutrition, health systems strengthening, or a related field.
• 5-7 years of experience at a regional level in Senior Technical roles in nutrition programs in international development / Public Health / NGO environments.
• Experience working in a senior technical capacity across multiple African countries, including within consortium-based or multi-partner settings.
• Demonstrated upstream and downstream health system experience with nutrition actions for a positive pregnancy, including micronutrient supplementation - MMS and calcium supplementation.
• Experience working in the public health/nutrition sector in Africa; understanding of health systems.
• Demonstrated experience providing strategic technical advice and translating evidence into programme and policy decisions.
• Significant experience reviewing technical designs, theories of change, implementation plans, and technical deliverables.
• Extensive experience supporting monitoring, evaluation, learning, and the use of data to improve programme performance.
• Proven experience leading knowledge translation, including synthesising evidence and developing technical guidance, reports, learning products, and dissemination materials.
• Experience working on large, multi-country, donor-funded programmes and coordinating across multiple partners.

Skills & Competencies

• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Demonstrated understanding of results-based management, performance measurement frameworks and fundamentals of program monitoring and donor reporting.
• Demonstrated experience in project start up processes.
• Demonstrated understanding and/or experience operationalizing child safeguarding principles and policy.
• A working knowledge of French is an asset.
• Exceptional organizational and planning skills with a proven ability to prioritize and work in a dynamic fast paced environment.
• Confident leader with a proven ability to motivate and support project teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate with internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with team members, project stakeholders and partner organizations.
• Ability to navigate diverse cultural environments and tailor solutions to country and regional contexts.
• Strong project management skills, with experience in the direct management of international development projects.