Manager, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
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About This Role
Organization Description
The Mohamed bin Zayed Foundation for Humanity is a leading philanthropy committed to empowering individuals, families, and communities by fostering human potential and opportunity.
Guided by Emirati values, the foundation focuses on advancing global health and inclusive development through evidence-based approaches.
By leveraging UAE expertise, the organization catalyzes transformative innovations and partnerships that drive sustainable impact at scale.
With an emphasis on building the capacity of countries and partners, the foundation is dedicated to delivering meaningful and long-lasting change for current and future generations.
Role Description
This role is responsible for day-to-day oversight of a subset of MNCH investments, ensuring high-quality grant management, technical rigor, and effective execution.
Operating in a start-up foundation environment, this role manages complex, multi-country grants and partnerships across maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health, while contributing substantively to portfolio strategy, learning, and cross-pillar integration.
Portfolio & Program Management
- Manage a portfolio of MNCH grants and investments, ensuring strong execution, performance, and alignment with approved strategies.
- Support the Senior Director / Director in shaping portfolio plans, annual workplans, and investment pipelines.
- Provide technical and programmatic oversight to partners, supporting effective implementation and problem-solving.
- Monitor portfolio progress, risks, and results, and proactively flag issues and opportunities to senior leadership.
Grant & Investment Lifecycle Management
- Manage the full grant lifecycle for assigned MNCH investments, from concept development and due diligence through approval, implementation oversight, and close-out.
- Support the preparation of high-quality concept notes, proposals, and draft investment memoranda for internal review and governance processes.
- Review partner proposals, budgets, and implementation plans, ensuring technical soundness, feasibility, and value for money.
- Oversee grant agreements, amendments, reporting requirements, and close-out documentation in collaboration with legal, finance, and operations teams.
- Ensure timely, accurate, and high-quality partner reporting and portfolio documentation.
Implementation, Learning & Adaptive Management
- Track implementation progress against milestones, budgets, and results frameworks.
- Support monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities, including data review, partner check-ins, and learning synthesis.
- Identify implementation challenges and contribute to adaptive management and course correction.
- Support cross-portfolio learning and coordination, particularly with Health Workforce, Infectious Diseases, and Health Infrastructure teams.
Partnerships & Communications
- Maintain strong working relationships with implementing partners, technical agencies, and other stakeholders.
- Represent the Foundation in partner meetings, technical discussions, and coordination forums, as appropriate.
- Contribute to internal and external communications products, including briefs, updates, and learning materials.
Financial & Operational Oversight
- Review partner budgets, financial reports, and forecasts to ensure alignment with approved plans and effective use of resources.
- Support financial planning, grant compliance, and risk management across assigned MNCH investments.
Base Location
The position is based in Abu Dhabi with approximately 15–20% travel to priority program countries in Africa and Asia.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree (or equivalent experience) in public health, maternal and child health, international development, or a related field.
- At least five (5) years of relevant experience in MNCH or health systems programming, preferably in low- and middle-income country contexts.
- Demonstrated experience managing grants, partners, and complex projects.
- Strong understanding of MNCH evidence, global frameworks, and service delivery approaches.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and project management skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and operate effectively in a fast-paced, start-up environment.
- Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and collaborative ways of working.
- For more information and to sign up for the Foundation’s latest news and events, please visit https://mohamedbinzayedfoundation.org
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