Consultant, Maternal and Child Nutrition and Health

About the role

The expert will support the Directorate of Maternal and Child Health (DSME) in technical coordination, performance monitoring, and integration of nutrition and SRMNIA‑N approaches into postpartum family planning (PPFP) interventions. This is a one‑year consulting contract, renewable based on performance, aimed at improving service quality, continuity, and utilization in priority regions of Senegal.

Key responsibilities

• Provide technical coordination for integrated PPFP/SRMNIA‑N interventions, develop action plans, and prepare strategic recommendations.
• Monitor key nutrition, maternal‑child health, and PPFP indicators, analyse data, identify gaps, and support corrective action plans.
• Develop technical tools, facilitate training for regional and health‑district teams, and offer on‑site technical assistance during supervision missions.
• Coordinate with technical and financial partners, participate in working groups, and ensure partner activities align with DSME priorities.

Required profile

• Master’s degree (Bac + 7) in nutrition, public health, maternal and child health, medicine, pediatrics, epidemiology or related field.
• At least seven years of experience implementing or coordinating maternal health, nutrition, SRMNIA‑N or family‑planning programmes, including public‑health program monitoring.
• Field experience at regional or health‑district level and good knowledge of Senegal’s healthcare system.

Required skills

• Proficiency in integrated PPFP/SRMNIA‑N approaches.
• Good knowledge of policies, strategies, regulatory frameworks and international standards for SRMNIA‑N and family planning in Senegal.
• Proficiency in monitoring and evaluation, reporting and data‑analysis tools.
• Proficiency in office software, health‑information systems and nutrition data‑processing software.
• Ability to use data from nutrition surveys, food‑security surveys and demographic‑health surveys.