Senior Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) Manager
Bewerben
remote type
In Person
locations
Kamuleila, Sudan
time type
Full time
posted on
Heute ausgeschrieben
job requisition id
JR00003838
Das International Rescue Committee (IRC) leistet Hilfe bei den schlimmsten humanitären Krisen weltweit und steht von Krieg und Krisen betroffenen Menschen zur Seite, um ihre Gesundheit, Schutz & Sicherheit, Bildung, ihre wirtschaftliche Situation und ihre Selbstbestimmung zu sichern und zu fördern. IRC wurde 1933 auf Initiative von Albert Einstein gegründet und ist eine der weltweit größten internationalen humanitären Nichtregierungsorganisationen (INGO). IRC ist in mehr als 40 Ländern und 29 US-Städten tätig und unterstützt Menschen dabei, zu überleben, die Kontrolle über ihre Zukunft zurückzugewinnen und ihre Communities zu stärken. Im Dienst der Menschlichkeit leisten IRC-Mitarbeitende einen nachhaltigen Beitrag, indem sie Millionen von Menschen Sicherheit, Würde und Hoffnung zurückgeben. Wenn Sie ein*e lösungsorientierte*r, leidenschaftliche*r Wegbereiter*in für Veränderung sind, kommen Sie zu uns, um das Leben von Millionen von Menschen weltweit positiv zu beeinflussen und gemeinsam eine bessere Zukunft zu gestalten.
IRC Summary:
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.
South Kordofan, Sudan continues to face widespread humanitarian needs due to protracted conflict, displacement, and disruption of essential services. These pressures have heavily affected access to healthcare, including sexual and reproductive health (SRH). Services. Many facilities experience shortages of staff, supplies, and functional capacity, limiting their ability to provide services such as emergency obstetric and neonatal care, family planning, and support for survivors of gender-based violence (GBV).
Position Summary:
The Senior Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) Manager will provide strategic, technical, and operational leadership for integrated SRHR programming in fragile and conflict-affected settings across operational areas in South and West Kordofan. The position will oversee the delivery of high-quality, and contextually appropriate SRH interventions across supported health facilities and communities, ensuring services remain accessible to women, girls, adolescents, displaced populations, and other vulnerable groups affected by conflict, displacement, weak health systems, and limited access to essential healthcare. The Senior SRH Manager will lead integrated programming across family planning, maternal and newborn health, post-abortion care, STI management, Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP), and Clinical Management of Rape (CMR) services, while strengthening quality of care, Basic Emergency Obstetric Neonatal Care(BEmONC) services, antenatal/postnatal care, safe deliveries, and EmONC referrals, provider capacity, accountability, coordination, and systems integration within humanitarian and early recovery settings. The role also requires strong donor management experience and the ability to oversee complex grants and contracts with demanding performance, reporting, compliance, and adaptive management requirements in challenging operational environments
Responsibilities
Technical Leadership and Quality Assurance
- Lead the design, implementation, and scale-up of integrated SRH services in supported locations.
- Ensure services align with national protocols, global standards, and humanitarian principles.
- Strengthen quality of care through mentorship, supportive supervision, clinical coaching, andquality improvement approaches.
- Support integration of SRH services within PHC, MNCH, nutrition, immunization, and community- based platforms.
- Promote trauma-informed, rights-based, and non-discriminatory approaches to SRH service delivery.
- Build technical capacity of health staff, community workers, and local partners through training, mentorship, and continuous learning approaches.
Program Management and Delivery
- Oversee project implementation to ensure timely achievement of targets, deliverables, and donor commitments.
- Lead development and monitoring of workplans, spending plans, procurement forecasts, and activity tracking tools.
- Ensure adaptive programming in response to insecurity, displacement, disease outbreaks, and access constraints.
- Monitor program performance indicators and support evidence-based decision making.
Coordination and Representation
- Represent the organization in Health, SRH, GBV, and technical coordination forums.
- Strengthen collaboration with the Departments of Health, local partners, UN agencies, andcommunity structures.
- Engage religious leaders, community gatekeepers, and local influencers to support acceptance ofSRH services in culturally sensitive settings.
- Support harmonization of referral pathways and integrated service delivery approaches.
Grants, Reporting, and Compliance
- Oversee implementation of donor-funded SRH projects, ensuring compliance with contractual and reporting requirements.
- Contribute to proposal development, budget planning, donor reporting, and program reviews.
- Ensure accurate monitoring, documentation, and timely submission of quality reports and indicators.
- Work closely with operations, supply chain, finance, and MEAL teams to ensure effective project delivery.
Experience and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health, Reproductive Health, Midwifery, Medicine, Nursing, or related field.
- Minimum 3 -5 years of progressive experience managing SRH programs in humanitarian or fragile settings.
- Demonstrated experience implementing integrated SRH programming including FP, BEmONC, MNH, STI management, MISP, and GBV/CMR services.
- Experience managing complex donor-funded programs and contracts, including institutional donor compliance and reporting.
- Strong experience working in conflict-affected, hard-to-reach, or resource-constrained environments.
- Experience working with Ministries of Health, humanitarian coordination systems, and local partners.
- Previous experience supervising multidisciplinary teams in remote management settings.
- Experience supporting community engagement and social behaviour change approaches in culturally sensitive environments.
- Knowledge of Sudan or similar humanitarian contexts is strongly preferred.
Key Competencies
- Strong strategic and operational leadership skills.
- Excellent understanding of humanitarian SRH programming and integrated service delivery models.
- Strong interpersonal, diplomacy, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to navigate complex cultural, religious, and political sensitivities around SRH programming.
- Strong program management, planning, and organizational skills.
- Excellent analytical, reporting, and donor communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work under pressure and adapt programming in volatile environments.
- Commitment to gender equality, safeguarding, inclusion, and survivor-centered approaches.
- Strong mentoring and team development skills.
- Professional working proficiency in English required; knowledge of Arabic is a strong asset.
This position has an end date of March 31, 2027.
IRC und IRC-Mitarbeitende sind verpflichtet, sich an die Werte und Prinzipien der IRC Way-Standards zu halten. Dieser Verhaltenskodex basiert auf den Grundwerten: Integrität, Einsatz, Verantwortung und Gleichberechtigung.
