Manager, Maternal, Newborn, Child Health and Nutrition

Job Description

Title: Manager, Maternal, Newborn, Child Health and Nutrition

Company Name: JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc.

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: Negotiable

Experience: --

Published: 2026-01-14

Application Deadline: 2026-01-16

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Responsibilities & Context:

JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc (JSI) is an international organization based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. JSI works extensively with national and local governments, NGOs, the private sector, and traditional leaders to expand access to high-quality health services. JSI is committed to improving global health through innovative approaches in a range of public health areas, including infectious diseases, nutrition, maternal, newborn and child health, technical and organizational capacity building, supply chain strengthening, strategic information management, health systems management, and policy development. JSI is recruiting a Manager, Maternal, Newborn, Child Health and Nutrition as part of the MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience (MIHR) project in Bangladesh. 

The Momentum Integrated Health Resilience project, implemented by a consortium led by IMA World Health, is a global initiative that partners with governments and local stakeholders in fragile states and regions. MIHR’s objective is to save lives, through increased access to high quality MNCH-Nutrition life-saving interventions, strengthening partnership with local organizations and through improved adaptive management to prevent, detect and respond to health emergencies. MIHR focuses on equipping health institutions and frontline workers with the skills, tools, and resources to sustainably address the leading causes of maternal and child deaths. This approach directly contributes to the America First Global Health Strategy making America safer, stronger and prosperous across the globe, in the short, intermediate and longer terms.

In Bangladesh, MIHR will support the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) to deliver and strengthen life-saving MNCH and nutrition services in Cox’s Bazar host communities and in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), two regions with some of the country’s most vulnerable populations. In this part of the country, health systems are overstretched by geographic isolation and difficult terrain, shortages of skilled health providers, cultural and linguistic barriers, and the protracted humanitarian crisis in Cox’s Bazar. MIHR will also support the tea gardens in Sylhet region in three districts.

Job Summary

The Manager, Maternal, Newborn, Child Health and Nutrition (MNCHN) will provide overall technical support to MOH&FW and partner organizations on improving lifesaving MNCH and nutrition services, enhance community level referral networks, strengthen data use and ensure service continuity during outbreak and disasters. Working closely with Director, Program Implementation and Director, M&E and Information Systems, this position will help design the overall technical approach of the project, and support local implementing partners in ensuring the technical quality of the clinical and community interventions at different levels of health facilities and community systems. The Manager-MNCHN will also maintain liaison with other US government supported MNCH projects to ensure congruence with technical interventions across different geographical areas.

Primary Responsibilities & Duties

1. Ensure clinical excellence in program interventions

• Implement a mentorship package to ensure clinical readiness of the public and private health facilities to provide high impact lifesaving MNCHN interventions, including ANC-PNC, EmONC, ENC, IMCI, sick child management, management of acute malnutrition, infection prevention, continuum of care, etc.

• Improve provider competence to address the major causes of maternal and newborn deaths. i.e. postpartum hemorrhage, eclampsia, obstructed labor, birth asphyxia, low birth weight and sepsis 

• Coordinate with DGHS and DGFP counterparts to ensure MNCHN logistics and supplies to the target health facilities

• Improve preventive MNCHN services at tea gardens

• Strengthen quality of care initiatives

2. Design and Implement appropriate community referral systems 

• Improve community managed transport and local ambulance services focusing on geographically vulnerable areas

• Support frontline health workers to identify and refer high-risk pregnancies and newborns

3. Support performance management at district level and below

• Collaborate with M&E and Information systems team to assess and strengthen facility and community performance 

• Support district and upazila level performance review mechanisms and ensure data use at appropriate platforms

4. Collaboration with MNCHN stakeholders

• Maintain liaison with other US government projects to ensure that the intervention complies with updated national standards and guidelines

• Share project lessons in appropriate technical forums

5. Other responsibilities

• Support JSI and consortium partners and team members in documenting lifesaving interventions and project successes

• Collaborate with other teams to ensure compliance with donor guidelines