MOMENTUM INTEGRATED HEALTH RESILIENCE (MIHR) is part of a suite of innovative awards funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to holistically strengthen quality voluntary family planning (FP), reproductive health (RH), and maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) in partner countries around the world. MIHR’s focus on health resilience reduces chronic vulnerabilities and promotes more inclusive health development by addressing risks and responses to shocks and stresses, ensuring the continuity of MNCH/FP/RH services.

Working alongside local organizations, governments, and humanitarian and development partners in these fragile settings, the project works to accelerate reductions in maternal, newborn, and child illness and death by increasing the capacity of partner country institutions and local organizations—including new and underutilized partners—to introduce, deliver, scale up, and sustain the use of evidence-based, quality MNCH/FP/RH care.

MIHR’s Child Health Team Lead will provide leadership to develop and implement evidence-based programming used throughout MIHR in delivering results for children, and ensure that priorities and metrics for measuring progress on these programs are in place. S/he will identify, prioritize and oversee development of opportunities to test and evaluate new or improved approaches to child health with special attention to developing common approaches and assisting the MIHR to utilize these approaches successfully in fragile settings. S/he will serve as the principal focal point within the project on child health, interfacing with USAID/Washington, USAID Mission offices and other external partners. S/he will lead and manage the work of the child health team, providing strategic technical direction and leadership for the project’s child health portfolio, as well as support JSI to improve child health program design, implementation, research design, standards, and analysis, with special focus on building these capacities in the program countries.

• Provide strategic leadership to MIHR’s global child health team. Take overall responsibility for development and implementation of MIHR’s child health programs.
• Advance implementation of Child Health activities into MIHR core and country programs.
• Mentor and advance expertise of DC-based and country-based child health staff. Ensure that the child health team is high functioning and motivated
• Support MIHR's adaptive management and program learning, and support the documentation of lessons as they evolve.
• Ensure bi-directional learning and technical exchanges between home office and countries, and promote South-to-South technical assistance to the extent possible.
• Manage the Child Health Team’s relationship with relevant USAID managers.
• Provide USAID child health team with regular updates on child health activity implementation
• Advocate for MIHR’s representation in relevant global, regional and national child health technical meetings and conferences, to ensure that MIHR is a leader in policy, programming and implementation discussions on child health.
• Make substantive technical and policy contributions for the development of global and national child health policies and strategies in collaboration with international and national partners such as WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, and international and local Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).
• Assist in identifying, monitoring performance and supervising the work of consultants, subcontractors and partners as needed.
• Provide direct input to countries for the development of national child health policies and strategies in child health-related areas including IMNCI including PSBI,iCCM, ETAT, Pediatric Death Audit, and quality of care.
• Provide on-site technical assistance to country programs and partners for the development and implementation of child health program activities.
• Promote JSI's technical expertise in Child Health and Community health, including at the JSI HQ level through thought leadership efforts such as the CH Series, blogs, technical briefs, external meetings and panels, etc.
• Perform other duties commensurate with training and experience.

• MD with a MPH or PhD and at least 15 years of international child health program experience, including five years in a leadership role.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, oral and written communication skills are required.
• Experience in the design, implementation, management and evaluation of primary health care services related to child health in fragile settings.
• Mastery of the technical issues related to the public health management of child hood illnesses (IMNCI including PSBI, iCCM, ETAT, Pediatric Death Audit) is essential.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in public health policy, advocacy and resource mobilization (global and national).
• Proven effectiveness in successful team management, supervision, management and mentoring of staff.
• Demonstrated capacity to collaborate and coordinate both within an organization and externally, particularly with highly experienced qualified colleagues.
• Strong communication skills: experienced, highly effective public speaker and presenter required.
• Ability to manage a team to produce quality products on deadline – combining good time management and team management abilities.
• Significant experience working within USAID or in an USAID-funded project, and working with technical staff in UN agencies (e.g. WHO, UNICEF) is strongly preferred.
• English fluency - spoken and written; proficiency in French strongly preferred.
• Willingness to travel an estimated time of 30%.

Salary is based on geographic location and commensurate with experience