Senior Field Coordinator

Job ID

2026-7590

Location

UG-Kampala

Category

International Positions

Employment Status

Full-Time

The Senior Field Coordinator – TCI Uganda will provide strategic, technical, and programmatic leadership for The Challenge Initiative (TCI) East Africa (EA) Hub in Uganda, ensuring high-quality implementation, sustainable adoption, and scale-up of evidence-based Family Planning (FP) and Maternal Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) high impact interventions and innovations across selected geographies.

Reporting to the EA Hub Project Director, the position holder will oversee country-level planning, stakeholder engagement, technical assistance, and performance management of TCI-supported geographies. The role will work closely with national and local governments, implementing partners, and private sector actors to strengthen local ownership, institutionalization, and sustainability of FP & MNCH programs. The Senior Field Coordinator will also play a critical role in knowledge management and resource mobilization towards scaling up implementation of the interventions in the region.

• Provide overall TCI Uganda program management and leadership to ensure the effective and successful program implementation, and alignment with TCI Global standards.
• Provide strategic oversight and coordination to support geographies to operationalize approved FP/MNCH high impact interventions and best practices, ensuring alignment with national policies and goals.
• Lead and oversee capacity strengthening strategies, including the design, coordination, and quality assurance of training, coaching, and mentorship approaches.
• Provide leadership in data use for adaptive management through routine data literacy forums, supporting data quality assurance (DQA) processes, and promoting the use of performance data to guide programmatic decisions.
• Oversee documentation and learning processes, ensuring systematic capture of implementation progress, challenges, innovations, and lessons learned to inform reporting, learning, and scale-up.
• Provide strategic oversight of FP commodity security by supporting local governments to monitor availability, identify systemic supply chain gaps, and strengthen forecasting and quantification processes.
• Coordinate engagement with national and local governments supply chain stakeholders to address bottlenecks in FP commodity distribution
• Advocate and guide geographies in strengthening FP/MNCH financing mechanisms
• Provide leadership support to local government HMTs to strengthen governance, coordination, accountability, and stewardship for FP/MNCH programming.
• Provide coaching and technical assistance to support local governments HMTs on implementation of FP/MNCH interventions and best practices, innovations scale-up, and sustainability.
• Ensure strategic documentation and dissemination of best practices and success stories, positioning geography experiences to inform national dialogue and intra + cross-geography learning, TCI University and Communities of Practice.
• Provide oversight and final review of routine program reports, activity summaries, and progress updates to ensure quality, coherence, and alignment with donor and TCI requirements.
• Represent TCI East Africa Hub at sub-national, national, regional, and technical forums, ensuring effective dissemination and use of program data and learning.
• Provide technical review and strategic input into the design, adaptation, and improvement of key TCI components.
• Support the preparation and monitoring of country monthly, quarterly and annual program reports, annual work plans and budgets.

1. Master’s degree in public health, Population Studies, Development Studies, Health Systems Management, Medicine, Public Health, Nursing or a related field.
2. Minimum of 8–10 years of progressively responsible experience in FP, AYSRH, MNCH, preferably within international NGOs or donor-funded projects.
3. Demonstrated experience providing technical assistance and managing large-scale, multi-stakeholder health programs at national and sub-national levels.

1. Strong understanding of Uganda’s health system, FP/RH policy environment, and sub-national level governance structures and health financing.
2. Proven experience in stakeholder engagement, partnership management, and advocacy with government and development partners.
3. Experience in proposal development, work planning, budgeting, and donor reporting.
4. Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; proficiency in other widely spoken local languages is an asset.

Deadline for applications is Friday 6th Febuary. This vaccancy may close earlier as we are reviewing applications on a rolling basis.

Jhpiego, a Johns Hopkins University affiliate, is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, other legally protected characteristics or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria. Jhpiego promotes Affirmative Action for minorities, women, individuals who are disabled, and veterans

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