Position description

Department: Program

Reports to: Birth Companionship Project Manager

Assignment type: Full-time

Location: Mwanza

Length: One year

Position summary

The Birth Companionship Project Officer – Clinical provides technical and operational support for the implementation of facility-based interventions under the Birth Companionship project, ensuring high-quality delivery of respectful maternity care services within supported health facilities.

The role focuses on strengthening provider capacity, improving service delivery practices, and ensuring effective integration of birth companionship within routine maternity care. Working closely with facility teams, Regional and Council Health Management Teams, and community structures, the position supports training, mentorship, supportive supervision, and quality improvement processes.

It also contributes to facility readiness assessments and supports implementation of minor renovations to improve the service environment for respectful maternity care. In addition, the role contributes to data management, monitoring and evaluation, documentation of best practices, and collaboration with the communication team to support knowledge generation and dissemination for continuous program improvement and scale-up.

Key responsibilities

I. Facility-level planning and coordination

• Build and maintain strong working relationships with facility leadership, RHMTs, CHMTs, and service providers
• Support planning and coordination of facility-level implementation and sustainability activities
• Participate in facility readiness assessments to identify gaps in infrastructure, privacy, workflow, and service environment
• Contribute to development of activity plans aligned with program workplans
• Support coordination between facility teams and community structures
• Work with the Project Manager to support planning of evaluations and future program phases

II. Clinical implementation and capacity building

• Plan, organize, and facilitate training sessions for healthcare providers on birth companionship and respectful maternity care
• Provide routine supportive supervision and on-site mentorship to healthcare providers
• Strengthen provider competencies in respectful maternity care, labour support, and client-centered services
• Promote adherence to national guidelines, labour care guide, and service standards
• Support integration of birth companionship into routine maternity care services
• Ensure consistent implementation of approved protocols and quality standards
• Support implementation of facility-level improvements that enhance privacy, dignity, and client experience

III. Implementation support and service quality improvement

• Support implementation of birth companionship interventions across assigned facilities
• Facilitate linkage between community engagement activities and facility service delivery
• Coordinate collection and use of client feedback to improve service experience
• Support development and implementation of action plans to address service quality gaps
• Participate in quality improvement processes, audits, and mentorship activities
• Ensure facility environment supports respectful maternity care and birth companionship practices

IV. Monitoring, evaluation, and learning

• Ensure collection, validation, and reporting of facility-level data
• Conduct routine data quality assessments and provide feedback
• Support analysis and use of data for performance improvement
• Support implementation of baseline and endline evaluations
• Contribute to documentation of best practices, lessons learned, and program evidence
• Work with the communication team to package clinical and service delivery insights for dissemination

V. Supervision and facility coordination

• Support supervision of facility focal persons and service providers
• Strengthen coordination between facility teams, community health workers, and project teams
• Provide technical guidance and follow-up to ensure quality of service delivery
• Support capacity building through mentorship and on-the-job coaching
• Ensure alignment of facility activities with project targets and timelines

VI. Reporting and documentation

• Prepare and submit monthly implementation reports
• Contribute to quarterly and final project reports
• Maintain proper documentation of facility-based activities
• Support compilation of data and inputs for program reporting
• Ensure completeness and accuracy of all submitted reports

VII. Operational and administrative support

• Assist in the coordination of logistics for training and facility activities
• Support the implementation of minor facility renovations in collaboration with project teams and government counterparts
• Support proper use and accountability of project resources
• Ensure adherence to organizational policies and procedures
• Facilitate coordination and communication across teams

Qualifications and experience

• Degree in Medicine (MD), Nursing, or related clinical field with at least three (3) years of relevant experience, or diploma with at least seven (7) years of experience in RMNCAH
• Experience in the implementation of maternal and newborn health interventions in health facilities
• Experience in training, mentorship, and supportive supervision of healthcare providers
• Familiarity with respectful maternity care, Labour care guide, and birth companionship approaches
• Experience working with government health systems and donor-funded programs
• Additional training in gender, respectful care, or doula-related support is an added advantage

• Build and maintain strong working relationships with facility leadership, RHMTs, CHMTs, and service providers
• Support planning and coordination of facility-level implementation and sustainability activities
• Participate in facility readiness assessments to identify gaps in infrastructure, privacy, workflow, and service environment
• Contribute to development of activity plans aligned with program workplans
• Support coordination between facility teams and community structures
• Work with the Project Manager to support planning of evaluations and future program phases
• Plan, organize, and facilitate training sessions for healthcare providers on birth companionship and respectful maternity care
• Provide routine supportive supervision and on-site mentorship to healthcare providers
• Strengthen provider competencies in respectful maternity care, labour support, and client-centered services
• Promote adherence to national guidelines, labour care guide, and service standards
• Support integration of birth companionship into routine maternity care services
• Ensure consistent implementation of approved protocols and quality standards
• Support implementation of facility-level improvements that enhance privacy, dignity, and client experience
• Support implementation of birth companionship interventions across assigned facilities
• Facilitate linkage between community engagement activities and facility service delivery
• Coordinate collection and use of client feedback to improve service experience
• Support development and implementation of action plans to address service quality gaps
• Participate in quality improvement processes, audits, and mentorship activities
• Ensure facility environment supports respectful maternity care and birth companionship practices
• Ensure collection, validation, and reporting of facility-level data
• Conduct routine data quality assessments and provide feedback
• Support analysis and use of data for performance improvement
• Support implementation of baseline and endline evaluations
• Contribute to documentation of best practices, lessons learned, and program evidence
• Work with the communication team to package clinical and service delivery insights for dissemination
• Support supervision of facility focal persons and service providers
• Strengthen coordination between facility teams, community health workers, and project teams
• Provide technical guidance and follow-up to ensure quality of service delivery
• Support capacity building through mentorship and on-the-job coaching
• Ensure alignment of facility activities with project targets and timelines
• Prepare and submit monthly implementation reports
• Contribute to quarterly and final project reports
• Maintain proper documentation of facility-based activities
• Support compilation of data and inputs for program reporting
• Ensure completeness and accuracy of all submitted reports
• Assist in the coordination of logistics for training and facility activities
• Support the implementation of minor facility renovations in collaboration with project teams and government counterparts
• Support proper use and accountability of project resources
• Ensure adherence to organizational policies and procedures
• Facilitate coordination and communication across teams

• Training facilitation
• Mentorship
• Supportive supervision
• Data management
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Quality improvement processes
• Communication
• Coordination
• Respectful maternity care principles
• Birth companionship approaches

• Degree in Medicine (MD), Nursing, or related clinical field
• Diploma with at least seven (7) years of experience in RMNCAH
• Experience in the implementation of maternal and newborn health interventions in health facilities
• Experience in training, mentorship, and supportive supervision of healthcare providers
• Familiarity with respectful maternity care, Labour care guide, and birth companionship approaches
• Experience working with government health systems and donor-funded programs
• Additional training in gender, respectful care, or doula-related support is an added advantage