Senior Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Advisor (DOS/LEAP Global) - Cote d’Ivoire

Who We Are

ZemiTek, LLC is a Woman-Owned, SBA-certified 8(a) Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) based in the Washington, DC metro area. We have a strong record delivering innovative and high-quality solutions. Since 2007, ZemiTek has provided technical assistance, project management, information technology (IT), knowledge management, monitoring and evaluation, training and learning development, and institutional support services.

Position Description

Global Solutions Ventures (GSV) – a joint-venture partnership between ZemiTek, LLC and Dexis Consulting Group – is implementing the Long-term Exceptional Technical Assistance Project (LEAP Global), a mechanism originally used by USAID to battle against infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, neglected tropical diseases, and pandemic influenza. As of July 1, 2025, LEAP Global transitioned to the U.S. Department of State (DOS). This initiative aims to address the complex human resource challenges faced by national infectious disease programs in the USA-supported countries.

The Senior Malaria Advisor will support the National and State Malaria Programs in carrying out life-saving humanitarian assistance (LHA) in full alignment with the new Presidential Executive Order (EO) directives and the America First Global Health Strategy. The primary focus of the Advisor will be technical leadership to ensure the successful implementation of cost-effective, lifesaving direct service delivery for malaria prevention and treatment.

 

The Senior Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Advisor will support the implementation of life-saving interventions in full alignment with the directives of the new Presidential Executive Order (EO) directives.  The advisor's primary focus will be providing technical support with an emphasis on the areas of maternal, newborn, and child health to reduce maternal, newborn and child morbidity and mortality which impact public health.

 

The Senior MCH Advisor will support the Ministry of Health (MSHPCMU) and the Programme Nationale de Sante de la Mere et de L’Enfant (PNSME) in effectively implementing high-impact interventions that accelerate national progress and enhance the capacity of health institutions to deliver sustainable, quality health services.

 

Key lifesaving areas of intervention include providing safe delivery services, preventing and managing postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), such as through the scale-up of the E-MOTIVE bundle, and eclampsia, maternal nutrition, providing essential and small and sick newborn care, preventing and managing malaria during pregnancy, delivery of quality child health services in primary health care (PHC), from community to secondary level and  identifying and immunizing under-vaccinated and zero-dose children—particularly in underserved urban settings. The advisor will also seek opportunities to integrate relevant nutrition, TB, malaria, GHS and HIV interventions in the MCH platforms, such as through strategies related to the elimination of mother-to-child transmission and addressing key drivers of maternal and child morbidity and mortality. The advisor will receive directions from the PSNME staff, who will serve as onsite Manager/Supervisor.  Familiarity with US Department of State (DOS) /Health Programs Office programming and C/AOR experience is highly desirable as the advisor is expected to support the implementation of the MCH portfolio.  The advisor will report to the DOS/ Health Programs Office weekly and monthly. 

Responsibilities

 

 

• Strategic Leadership:

• Support MSHPCMU through PNSME in effective delivery of life-saving interventions
• Setting organizational direction and developing strategies to improve maternal and child health outcomes.
• Work with the MSHPCMU, and USG implementing partners to develop interventions that accelerate country progress and strengthen health institutions’ abilities to provide health quality services, by extending lives of women, babies, and children.

• Program Management:

• Oversee the implementation of MCH programs, ensuring technical quality and impact. 
• Provide technical support and actively engage with field work to implement programmatic interventions at national and sub-national levels.
• Assist in monitoring the progress of MCH program implementation and provide recommendations for improvements in service delivery.
• Conduct regular conference calls with multisectoral stakeholders, Health Programs Office Mission/US Embassy/Washington to review progress, discuss activities and address emerging issues.
• Collaborate closely with the Activity Manager/AOR/COR as well as the Department of State (DoS) implementing partner on program implementa