Description
The SRH Coordinator will provide strategic, technical, and managerial leadership for IRC South Sudan’s Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) portfolio.
The role will oversee implementation and scale-up of high-impact SRH interventions including contraception, maternal and newborn health, postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) prevention and treatment, and community-based SRH delivery models.
The position will lead country-level implementation of the SRHR Impact at Scale (I@S) initiative, focused on expanding access to contraception and scaling prevention and treatment of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH).
The Coordinator will support integrated delivery of SRH interventions across facility and community platforms and promote linkages with other Impact at Scale priorities including immunization, nutrition, and cash assistance to maximize population-level impact.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic direction, leadership, and overall technical and management support to the sexual reproductive health programs in South Sudan.
- Lead design and scale-up of high impact SRH programming including under the Impact at scale initiative focusing on harmonizing best practices, improved impact, and integrated approaches.
- Ensure SRH programming aligns with Ministry of Health standard protocols, policies and guidelines, WHO standards and IRC global SRHR guidance.
- Work collaboratively with other sectors including Nutrition, GBV, CP and ERD to promote integrated service delivery across facility, outreach and community platform to improve coverage and quality of SRH interventions.
- Provide technical oversight to program managers and field teams to ensure quality implementation and scale-up of SRH interventions.
- Support monitoring systems to improve data quality, reporting, and performance tracking for SRH indicators.
- Coordinate with global SRHR technical advisors and country health teams on roll out and implementation of innovative approaches and guidelines and learning in South Sudan context.
Requirements:
- Degree in Medicine or Nursing; preferably with a master’s in public health.
- Demonstrated qualifications and experience in program design, monitoring and evaluation of health programs, and provision of technical assistance; experience working in community health preferred.
- At least 5 years’ professional experience working for an international NGO or equivalent in a program management capacity; experience working in a humanitarian setting preferred.
- Excellent analytical and written skills.
- English and Local Arabic fluency; strong interpersonal and intercultural communication skills.