Position Purpose

The Mentor Midwife will serve as BAMA Foundation’s technical anchor for transforming the quality of maternal and newborn care. This role will be dedicated to building resilient, district-owned health systems by strengthening the clinical skills of health workers, fortifying supply chains for essential medicines, improving data-driven decision-making, and enhancing leadership and governance for RMNCAH services. The position will be grounded in a district-led programming approach, working directly through government structures to ensure sustainability and lasting impact within the assigned region. This will be achieved through a critical focus on connecting facility-based care with community mobilization efforts to directly address the Three Delays, ensuring a functional continuum of care from the household to the referral hospital.

Key roles and responsibilities:

a) Foundational Systems Strengthening and District-Led Capacity Building

• Build clinical capacity of health workers through ongoing clinical mentorship, supportive supervision, and peer-to-peer learning aligned with Ministry of Health (MoH) standards, with a focus on Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (BEmONC) and management of high-risk pregnancies.
• Together with the Assistant District Health Officer - Maternal and Child Health (ADHO-MCH), support District-Based Mentors to deliver standardized clinical mentorship, institutionalizing a sustainable, district-owned model for quality clinical oversight.
• Strengthen referral systems by improving risk identification, documentation, clinical care quality, and coordination mechanisms between facilities, ensuring seamless patient pathways.
• Enhance RMNCAH commodity security by building facility and district capacity for forecasting, ordering, stock management, and accountability within government supply chain systems.

b) Leadership of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) and Quality Governance

• Serve as the primary technical advisor to District Health Teams (DHTs) and facility leadership on establishing, managing, and sustaining functional CQI systems, including Quality Improvement Teams (QITs) and review cycles.
• Facilitate the institutionalization of quality care—including newborn resuscitation, postpartum care, and infection prevention—by embedding MoH standards into facility workflows, standard operating procedures, and CQI processes.
• Champion respectful, person-centered care and strengthen provider-client communication, integrating these principles into all quality improvement plans and clinical mentorship.
• Co-facilitate regular, data-driven CQI review meetings at facility and district levels, ensuring they translate into documented action plans and measurable improvements.

c) Data for Quality: Measurement, Analysis, and Adaptive Management

• Strengthen the capacity of health facility and district staff to analyze and use routine health data, MPDSR findings, and CQI indicator data for evidence-based planning and decision-making.
• In collaboration with the M&E team and district biostatisticians, maintain and update dashboards to monitor key RMNCAH quality indicators, promoting transparency and accountability.
• Participate in and support HMIS reporting, data quality assessments (DQAs) and regular service performance reviews to ensure data integrity guides quality improvement efforts.
• Use Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) as a core driver for CQI, ensuring audit recommendations are systematically addressed through PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) cycles.

d) Collaborative Program Implementation, Digital Health Integration, and Advocacy

• Foster strong operational partnerships with DHTs, health facility leadership, local governments, and implementing partners to harmonize quality improvement interventions.
• Work jointly with Community Liaison Officers (C.L.O.s) to integrate community feedback and referral data, and insights from VSLAs into facility CQI plans, ensuring a patient-centered continuum of care and addressing financial barriers to access.
• Facilitate the integration of digital health platforms into clinical quality processes. This includes ensuring health workers proficiently use Mama Rescue for emergency referral coordination and tracking, and FamilyConnect for client follow-up and data entry, using these systems to monitor and improve care continuity.
• Support the monitoring of community health financing models by collaborating with the C.L.O. and project M&E staff to track the uptake and impact of transport co-payment systems and digital health wallets linked to VSLAs, using this data to advise on system improvements and integration with facility services.
• Actively participate in DHT, health unit management, and LMNS coordination meetings to advocate for resources and policies that address systemic barriers to quality, especially for vulnerable populations.
• Document, disseminate, and scale up evidence-based best practices and quality improvement innovations through knowledge products like success stories, technical briefs, and abstracts

e) Cross-Cutting Program Management & Reporting

• Contribute to planning, coordinating, and reporting on RMNCAH quality improvement activities in accordance with project timelines and donor requirements.
• Support facility and district teams to systematically document CQI progress, challenges, and lessons learned to inform adaptive programming.
• Perform any other duties as assigned to advance the quality of RMNCAH services in alignment with BAMA's mission.

Qualifications and requirements

• Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree in Midwifery from a recognized institution.
• Registration and valid practicing license from Uganda Nurses and Midwives Council (UNMC).
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in maternal, newborn, and child health.
• Well-grounded in clinical practice in RMNCAH, and provision of BEmONC services.
• Experience in clinical mentorship, QI methodologies, and RMNCAH programming is an added advantage.
• Strong understanding of MoH QI frameworks and health facility systems.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and coaching skills.
• Willingness to travel frequently for field visits

• Build clinical capacity of health workers through ongoing clinical mentorship, supportive supervision, and peer-to-peer learning aligned with Ministry of Health (MoH) standards, with a focus on Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (BEmONC) and management of high-risk pregnancies.
• Together with the Assistant District Health Officer - Maternal and Child Health (ADHO-MCH), support District-Based Mentors to deliver standardized clinical mentorship, institutionalizing a sustainable, district-owned model for quality clinical oversight.
• Strengthen referral systems by improving risk identification, documentation, clinical care quality, and coordination mechanisms between facilities, ensuring seamless patient pathways.
• Enhance RMNCAH commodity security by building facility and district capacity for forecasting, ordering, stock management, and accountability within government supply chain systems.
• Serve as the primary technical advisor to District Health Teams (DHTs) and facility leadership on establishing, managing, and sustaining functional CQI systems, including Quality Improvement Teams (QITs) and review cycles.
• Facilitate the institutionalization of quality care—including newborn resuscitation, postpartum care, and infection prevention—by embedding MoH standards into facility workflows, standard operating procedures, and CQI processes.
• Champion respectful, person-centered care and strengthen provider-client communication, integrating these principles into all quality improvement plans and clinical mentorship.
• Co-facilitate regular, data-driven CQI review meetings at facility and district levels, ensuring they translate into documented action plans and measurable improvements.
• Strengthen the capacity of health facility and district staff to analyze and use routine health data, MPDSR findings, and CQI indicator data for evidence-based planning and decision-making.
• In collaboration with the M&E team and district biostatisticians, maintain and update dashboards to monitor key RMNCAH quality indicators, promoting transparency and accountability.
• Participate in and support HMIS reporting, data quality assessments (DQAs) and regular service performance reviews to ensure data integrity guides quality improvement efforts.
• Use Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) as a core driver for CQI, ensuring audit recommendations are systematically addressed through PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) cycles.
• Foster strong operational partnerships with DHTs, health facility leadership, local governments, and implementing partners to harmonize quality improvement interventions.
• Work jointly with Community Liaison Officers (C.L.O.s) to integrate community feedback and referral data, and insights from VSLAs into facility CQI plans, ensuring a patient-centered continuum of care and addressing financial barriers to access.
• Facilitate the integration of digital health platforms into clinical quality processes. This includes ensuring health workers proficiently use Mama Rescue for emergency referral coordination and tracking, and FamilyConnect for client follow-up and data entry, using these systems to monitor and improve care continuity.
• Support the monitoring of community health financing models by collaborating with the C.L.O. and project M&E staff to track the uptake and impact of transport co-payment systems and digital health wallets linked to VSLAs, using this data to advise on system improvements and integration with facility services.
• Actively participate in DHT, health unit management, and LMNS coordination meetings to advocate for resources and policies that address systemic barriers to quality, especially for vulnerable populations.
• Document, disseminate, and scale up evidence-based best practices and quality improvement innovations through knowledge products like success stories, technical briefs, and abstracts
• Contribute to planning, coordinating, and reporting on RMNCAH quality improvement activities in accordance with project timelines and donor requirements.
• Support facility and district teams to systematically document CQI progress, challenges, and lessons learned to inform adaptive programming.
• Perform any other duties as assigned to advance the quality of RMNCAH services in alignment with BAMA's mission.

• Strong communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Coaching skills
• Clinical mentorship
• QI methodologies
• RMNCAH programming
• Understanding of MoH QI frameworks
• Understanding of health facility systems

• Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree in Midwifery from a recognized institution.
• Registration and valid practicing license from Uganda Nurses and Midwives Council (UNMC).
• Well-grounded in clinical practice in RMNCAH, and provision of BEmONC services.