Technical Officer (Midwife)

Jhpiego has been submitting a proposal for MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership core funding project to the US Government, focusing on Life-Saving skills in the MNCH program, which will work to cooperate with the MNCH national program and also plan to work close relationship with the sub-national level to implement the priority activity on life-saving to mitigate the risk for women, especially on postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) to save lives for women who are at risk of life-threatening conditions. The project will be implemented for seven-month period and may be expanded for a longer period depending on funding availability. Jhpiego is hiring one Technical Officer (Midwife) position, based in Ponhea Krek OD at Tbong Khmum province.

This position will work with MNCH-PHD and OD to provide technical support in the areas of MNCH, with a focus on the specific Life-Saving activities to build capacity for Health Centers (HC) and Referral Hospital (RH) staff at the targeted health facilities to ensure they have the competency skills to provide the trained skills to survive women at risk of PPH which is leading the cause of maternal mortality rate in Cambodia.

Number of Vacancies : 1

Reports to: DCOP - Technical and Programs

Location: Ponhea Krek OD at Tbong Khmum Province, Cambodia

Duration of Contract  : October 2025 – Mar 2026 (six months)

Last Date to Apply: 15th Sept, 2025

This is a contingent offer dependent upon the final full approval by our donor and confirmation of the project budget.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and programmatic support in provincial-level project planning, implementation, and monitoring
• Ensure that Jhpiego’s core funding project activities on the MNCH program of E-MOTIVE bundle for PPH management is technically sound, evidence-based, and responsive to the needs of the country and donor
• Participate actively in technical and strategic support to the Provincial Health Department and the relevant Operational District
• Work with professionalism and cooperate reasonably with target sub-national counterparts (PHD and OD) to plan to provide capacity building on life-saving activity for health facility midwives and others as needed
• Provide technical assistance and capacity building on the E-MOTIVE bundle for PPH management, service delivery, and data capture and analysis
• Provide practical support to the technical team and relevant counterparts for program implementation and mentoring, coaching as required
• Develop and prepare training materials, budgeting, letter invitation, and others as the program needs
• Document the data and generate the evidence for further strategic planning
• Help to enter data of activity implementation into the MEL system
• Help to collect data from the health facility for MEL team and report writing
• Provide a regular basis of a weekly, monthly, and quarterly report to the Provincial coordinator
• Help Provincial Coordinator select a success story to focus on the Life-Saving status
• Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor

Experience and Qualifications

• Must have a midwife degree, and substantial clinical experience of life-saving skills is a benefit
• A minimum of 7 years experience working on public health programs at national and provincial levels
• Preference will be given to candidates with education and/or strong implementation experience related to MNCH support in the public health context
• Must understand life-saving skills, especially on the E-MOTIVE bundle for PPH management and other life-saving skills to demonstrate/transfer those skills to health facility midwives in target areas
• A strong understanding of the health system in Cambodia, and the roles of public and private/non-government actors
• Understand how to use the high-fidelity equipment for simulation with a specific scenario during the training and coaching
• Demonstrated experience providing technical and programmatic support for the government staff capacity building, coaching/mentoring, and data collection
• Demonstrated strong understanding of political contexts and experience in collaboration with both government and non-government stakeholders

Skills & Competencies

• Enthusiasm, out-of-the-box thinking, and a desire to make a positive impact, and team player
• Good understanding, friendly, open-minded, helpful
• Highly self-motivated, takes initiative, proactive
• Solution- and results-oriented personalities
• Flexible in a variety of tasks, contributing to work even outside of JD as required
• Ability to develop productive working relationships with a wide range of key stakeholders
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills in both Khmer and English
• Strong computer literacy
• Commit to the work to produce a good result for project
• Ability to travel frequently