Senior Technical Officer - Early Childhood Development (ECD) - Nampula

A senior role in the field that shapes the future of children

The early years of life matter forever. When the health services that families already know — antenatal care, immunization, child monitoring — also come to include support for caregivers, early stimulation, and child development surveillance, the benefit stays with the child for a lifetime. It is this work that FHI 360 is carrying forward in Nampula, and this position was opened to provide senior technical leadership to it.

FHI 360 is an international non-profit organization dedicated to human development, bringing together experts in health, education, nutrition, environment, economy, youth, research, and technology. In Mozambique, the team collaborates with the national health system so that Early Childhood Development (ECD) is integrated, in an organized manner, into existing maternal and child health services — always aligned with MISAU guidelines and international best practices.

What you will do in this role

You will be the project's senior technical focal point, based in Nampula City. The role has one foot in strategy and another on the ground: designing and refining technical approaches and then ensuring they truly work alongside those implementing them — districts, health facilities, and communities. The role reports to the Senior Technical Advisor, Newborn & Child Health and work in close contact with project teams, provincial and district health authorities, and community partners.

Beyond direct implementation, your insights will guide the project's technical choices and, when facing higher-impact decisions, you will bring proposals to senior technical leadership. You will also share knowledge with less experienced colleagues — without direct team management, but with real influence on the quality of what is delivered.

Your main responsibilities

• Manage the daily execution of ECD activities in project-covered districts — from health facilities to communities.
• Lead the creation of project tools: technical guidelines, job aids, training packages, reports, and learning products backing the integration of ECD.
• Build capacity within FHI 360 itself and among government counterparts so that evidence-based interventions are sustained as the project progresses.
• Integrate ECD approaches into antenatal and postnatal consultations, vaccination sessions, healthy- and sick-child check-ups, nutrition, and community spaces.
• Support caregiver-centered interventions: responsive caregiving, early stimulation at home, greater paternal involvement, caring for the caregiver, and backing adolescent and young mothers.
• Build bridges between maternal and child health, nutrition, immunization, water and sanitation, community health, and early childhood programming.
• Represent the project in technical working groups and coordination platforms at the provincial level, aligning subnational institutions with ECD approaches.
• Integrate ECD indicators into existing health information systems, highlight service gaps, and guide improvements based on data.
• Document field learnings and translate them into reports, presentations, and other products that lay the groundwork for scaling up the program.

Conditions announced by FHI 360

• Annual base salary announced directly by FHI 360: USD 47,000–57,000. In the final offer, the organization considers each candidate's experience and education, internal equity, market reality, and the project budget.
• Full-time position, headquartered in Nampula City, with travel up to 40% of the time within the province and to Maputo, as required.
• Competitive benefits, professional development opportunities, and policies that respect work-life balance (as indicated in the official announcement).
• Technical reference role within the project, with a direct line to senior technical leadership and representation in sector bodies.
• FHI 360 hires without discrimination — based on sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, age, marital status, or disability — nor on any other trait that applicable law protects.

Application and next steps

On the official FHI 360 portal, the closing date for this requisition, for the position based in Nampula City, is set for September 9, 2026. Submission is free and done directly on the announcement:

Apply for the Senior Technical Officer, ECD position (requisition 2026201214)

Once your application is submitted, screening and interviews are managed by the FHI 360 team. Job offers always undergo vetting — references, criminal records, and terrorism financing screening — and the organization follows the MDS, the inter-agency misconduct disclosure scheme. FHI 360 also provides an official warning: no one will ask you for money or credentials during recruitment.

Note: the same portal also has an open position for Technical Officer in the same field (requisition 2026201213, two posts), with its own requirements — if your career path does not yet point to a senior role, this could be your entry point.

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Applications open until September 9, 2026.