Job ID: 2026-7841
Overview
- The Holistic Approach to Reaching Mothers with Obstetric, Neonatal, and Youth (HARMONY) Care Project, funded by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDSC) in Ebonyi State, is a multi-year maternal, newborn, and child health intervention implemented by Jhpiego to improve quality, continuity, and uptake of maternal and newborn health services in Nigeria. The project focuses on strengthening service delivery through Group Antenatal Care (G-ANC), Group Postnatal Care (G-PNC), Family Led Postnatal Care (F-PNC), point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), provider capacity building, and health systems strengthening.
- As part of its strategic objectives, the project seeks to integrate Perinatal Mental Health (PMH) into group-based ANC and PNC, and referral systems to improve prevention, screening, early identification, support, referral, and management of common mental health conditions during pregnancy and the postnatal period. Jhpiego therefore seeks the services of a qualified consultant to support this process.
- The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical expertise for the design, adaptation, and operationalization of PMH integration within HARMONY Care-supported facilities and service delivery platforms, ensuring alignment with policies and strategies in the Nigeria context, WHO guidelines, and global best practices.
Responsibilities
The consultant will undertake the following tasks:
Desk Review:
- Conduct a rapid desk review of relevant global and national policies, guidelines, educational materials, screening tools, training packages, and/or partner/program experiences related to maternal and perinatal mental health in Nigeria.
Develop/refine a PMH Service Pathway
Design a stepped-care PMH pathway outlining roles for:
- Community Based Health Workers (CBHWs)
- Frontline facility staff (Midwives/Nurses/CHEWs/Doctors), inclusive of G-ANC and G-PNC facilitators
- Mental Health Specialists/Psychiatrists
- Referral facilities
- Health Managers (LGA/SMOH/FMoHSW)
Integrate PMH into Service Packages:
- Review existing global/regional/national high-quality PMH psycho-educational and skills building content (i.e. existing tools, materials, and programs for building resilience/stress management and addressing PMH needs in the perinatal period) for women and partners.
- And then, in close collaboration with project technical advisors, propose ways to integrate select, key PMH content and skills building into existing service packages (outlined below), by session and with particular attention to the pscycho-educational needs in that phase:
- Group ANC curriculum
- Group PNC curriculum
- Family Led PNC materials
- Facilitator guidance for each group-based package above.
Develop Tools and Materials:
Based on desk review, and any available and validated global or Nigeria-specific materials, develop or adapt:
- PMH screening tool and associated screening guidance
- PMH training modules (for community, frontline, and advanced providers) for PMH-specific technical update
- PMH service provision job aids (counselling guides)
- Referral guidance
- Client education materials
- Documentation tools.
Support Co-Creation Workshop:
- Support planning and facilitation of stakeholder review sessions/workshops to validate findings and refine materials.
Finalization of Deliverables:
- Revise and finalize all materials based on feedback and prepare for implementation and printing.
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Support:
- Propose draft PMH indicators, learning questions, and measurement considerations for integration into project MEL systems.
Required Qualifications
- Advanced Degree in Psychiatry, Psychology, Public Health, Mental Health, Maternal Health, or related fields
- Minimum of 7 years relevant professional experience
- Demonstrated experience in maternal or perinatal mental health programming
- Experience developing technical guidance, tools, and training packages
- Strong report writing and facilitation skills.
- Experience working in Nigeria or similar LMIC health systems
- Experience in RMNCAH and mental health programming in Nigeria
- Experience supporting donor-funded projects
- Familiarity with primary healthcare systems strengthening.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Strong understanding of maternal mental health and service integration
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills
- Strong analytical and communication skills
- Ability to deliver quality outputs within short timelines
- Strong coordination and workshop facilitation ability.
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Job ID: 2026-7765
Overview
- Maternal and Perinatal Mortality are Obstetric and Neonatal tragedies worldwide.
- Of the global Maternal Mortality occurrences, the vast majority occur in low-resource settings and Nigeria accounts for nearly 20% of the global death.
- The lifetime risk of dying in Nigeria is 1 in 22 during pregnancy, childbirth or postpartum period compared to 1 in 4,900 in most developed countries.
- The causes of maternal mortality include pre-eclampsia/eclampsia (PEE), obstructed labor, postpartum hemorrhage, puerperal sepsis and abortion complications.
- These causes are preventable when labour is supervised by Skilled Birth Attendants (SBAs). Perinatal morbidity and mortality are closely related to events during pregnancy and labor.
- The high rate in Nigeria is a result of poor maternal health, sub-optimal care during pregnancy, childbirth, and in the postnatal period.
- The major causes of newborn deaths are birth asphyxia, neonatal sepsis and prematurity.
- Universal access to Basic Emergency Obstetrics and Neonatal Care (BEmONC) services is one of the strategies that can reduce these deaths and sufferings.
- Improving access to quality basic emergency obstetrics and newborn care is critical to reducing these preventable maternal and newborn deaths and is a top priority of the Government of Nigeria (GoN).
- Aligning with the commitment of the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (FMOHSW) to ensure that “no woman dies during pregnancy, childbirth and in postpartum”, Jhpiego, with funding from United States Government through the Department of States in Nigeria is providing technical assistance to GoN to bridge lingering gaps in the capacities of doctors, nurses, midwives, and Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs) working in MCGL supported Primary Health Care (PHC) facilities with Kebbi State to provide life saving BEmONC signal functions.
Purpose of the BEmONC Capacity Building intervention
- This intervention aims to bridge existing gaps in the competencies of PHC facilities healthcare workers to provide BEmONC services and ultimately improve the quality of services for women and newborns during pregnancy, labour, childbirth and postnatal period.
Responsibilities
In collaboration with Jhpiego staff:
- Each ad-hoc staff will participate in a 5-day skills standardization and pre-training planning workshop to be organized by Jhpiego.
- Conduct an advocacy visit to the SPHCDA prior to the commencement of the training and participate in a post-training debrief of stakeholders.
- Conduct a 7-day on-site capacity building of an average of 6 healthcare care workers at the PHC, which would include community health extension workers, community midwives, nurses and midwives.
- Conduct a 4-day follow-up mentoring of the trained healthcare workers to strengthen their confidence and competence in using the newly acquired knowledge and skills.
- Conduct pre- and post-test assessments for each of the modules of the training package.
- Submit a comprehensive report at the end of the training and at the end of the mentoring within 5 working days after completion of each task.
Required Qualifications
- Must be a practicing medical doctor, or registered nurse and/or registered midwife in one of the General Hospitals where Comprehensive Emergency Obstetrics and Newborn Care (CEmONC) training was recently conducted in Kebbi State.
- Evidence of up-to-date annual practicing license issued by either the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (for doctors) or the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (for Nurses and/or Midwives).
- Acquired at least 5 years post-MBBS, or post-nursing and/or midwifery bedside clinical practicing experience in a secondary health facility in Kebbi State.
- Evidence of successful completion of an onsite hands-on competency-based comprehensive emergency obstetrics and newborn care training (or refresher training) within the last 12 months.
- Evidence of strong clinical facilitation, mentoring or coaching skills.
- Evidence of strong analytical and communication skills.
Duration of Consultancy:
- Maximum of 14 (fourteen) non-consecutive working days (unless otherwise extended by Jhpiego) as follows:
- On-site training - 7 days
- Mentoring - 4 days
- Report writing - 2 days
- Advocacy visit and debrief meeting – 1 day.
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Job ID: 2026-7765
Overview
- Maternal and Perinatal Mortality are Obstetric and Neonatal tragedies worldwide.
- Of the global Maternal Mortality occurrences, the vast majority occur in low-resource settings and Nigeria accounts for nearly 20% of the global death.
- The lifetime risk of dying in Nigeria is 1 in 22 during pregnancy, childbirth or postpartum period compared to 1 in 4,900 in most developed countries.
- The causes of maternal mortality include pre-eclampsia/eclampsia (PEE), obstructed labor, postpartum hemorrhage, puerperal sepsis and abortion complications.
- These causes are preventable when labour is supervised by Skilled Birth Attendants (SBAs). Perinatal morbidity and mortality are closely related to events during pregnancy and labor.
- The high rate in Nigeria is a result of poor maternal health, sub-optimal care during pregnancy, childbirth, and in the postnatal period.
- The major causes of newborn deaths are birth asphyxia, neonatal sepsis and prematurity.
- Universal access to Basic Emergency Obstetrics and Neonatal Care (BEmONC) services is one of the strategies that can reduce these deaths and sufferings.
- Improving access to quality basic emergency obstetrics and newborn care is critical to reducing these preventable maternal and newborn deaths and is a top priority of the Government of Nigeria (GoN).
- Aligning with the commitment of the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (FMOHSW) to ensure that “no woman dies during pregnancy, childbirth and in postpartum”, Jhpiego, with funding from United States Government through the Department of States in Nigeria is providing technical assistance to GoN to bridge lingering gaps in the capacities of doctors, nurses, midwives, and Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs) working in MCGL supported Primary Health Care (PHC) facilities with Kebbi State to provide life saving BEmONC signal functions.
Purpose of the BEmONC Capacity Building intervention
- This intervention aims to bridge existing gaps in the competencies of PHC facilities healthcare workers to provide BEmONC services and ultimately improve the quality of services for women and newborns during pregnancy, labour, childbirth and postnatal period.
Responsibilities
In collaboration with Jhpiego staff:
- Each ad-hoc staff will participate in a 5-day skills standardization and pre-training planning workshop to be organized by Jhpiego.
- Conduct an advocacy visit to the SPHCDA prior to the commencement of the training and participate in a post-training debrief of stakeholders.
- Conduct a 7-day on-site capacity building of an average of 6 healthcare care workers at the PHC, which would include community health extension workers, community midwives, nurses and midwives.
- Conduct a 4-day follow-up mentoring of the trained healthcare workers to strengthen their confidence and competence in using the newly acquired knowledge and skills.
- Conduct pre- and post-test assessments for each of the modules of the training package.
- Submit a comprehensive report at the end of the training and at the end of the mentoring within 5 working days after completion of each task.
Required Qualifications
- Must be a practicing medical doctor, or registered nurse and/or registered midwife in one of the General Hospitals where Comprehensive Emergency Obstetrics and Newborn Care (CEmONC) training was recently conducted in Kebbi State.
- Evidence of up-to-date annual practicing license issued by either the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (for doctors) or the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (for Nurses and/or Midwives).
- Acquired at least 5 years post-MBBS, or post-nursing and/or midwifery bedside clinical practicing experience in a secondary health facility in Kebbi State.
- Evidence of successful completion of an onsite hands-on competency-based comprehensive emergency obstetrics and newborn care training (or refresher training) within the last 12 months.
- Evidence of strong clinical facilitation, mentoring or coaching skills.
- Evidence of strong analytical and communication skills.
Duration of Consultancy:
- Maximum of 14 (fourteen) non-consecutive working days (unless otherwise extended by Jhpiego) as follows:
- On-site training - 7 days
- Mentoring - 4 days
- Report writing - 2 days
- Advocacy visit and debrief meeting – 1 day.
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