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The Darfur region continues to face widespread humanitarian needs due to prolonged instability, displacement, and disrupted essential services. These pressures have heavily affected access to healthcare, including sexual and reproductive health (SRH). 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).Within this context, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) continues to support SRH programming across Darfur, working with health authorities, communities, and partners to address critical gaps, reinforce existing services, and promote safe, equitable access to essential SRH care.
The IRC is currently responding to the Emergency in Darfur regions with operational presence in West Darfur, Central Darfur and North Darfur.
Position Summary
The Senior SRH Manager is the focal point for all IRC’s SRH services and activities in Darfur . S/He ensures that proposed emergency SRH interventions implemented by the IRC are guided by the MISP and global best practice. The SRH program currently includes the following services/activities:
• Engagement with existing SRH working groups (regional and national),
• Clinical Management of Rape and close collaboration with psychosocial programs and other gender based violence (GBV) activities,
• Antenatal/postnatal care, safe deliveries, and EmONC referrals,
• Basic Emergency Obstetric Neonatal Care (BEMONC),
• Syndromic management of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI),
• Family Planning – short- and long-term contraception provision and counselling,
• Comprehensive abortion care,
• Menstrual hygiene management (MHM),
• Plan to transition to comprehensive SRH – as required.
The Senior SRH Manager is expected to lead the SRH portfolio, including coordinating all SRH operations, providing training and coaching for healthcare providers, ensuring timely and quality M&E data, managing the SRH stock, and coordinating with other agencies on the ground. He/she reports to the Health Coordinator and works closely with Health and other sector managers/officers to ensure coordinated and integrated SRH activities.
Responsibilities
Program Management
• Oversee the implementation of quality SRH program activities in supported health facilities.
• Provide technical oversight and training to field-based health staff. Areas of technical support might include: BEmONC, Syndromic management of STIs, CMR/IPV, short- and long-term family planning service provision (including counselling), MHM etc. (Work closely with Health staff to build their SRH capacity and ensure SRH is properly implemented and integrated in all PHC activities.)
• Support community mobilization on SRH – in coordination with other sectors and actors.
• Lead SRH emergency preparedness planning, including contingency stock and mobile response modalities where needed.
• Ensure proper SRH data recording in all supported facilities and promote a culture of learning whereby lessons-learned and good practices are documented and shared.
• Undertake regular field monitoring visits to assess progress and identify technical quality issues and/or other implementation issues. Provide solutions and implement/support modifications as required.
• Support the compilation of data and generation of quality SRH reports on a regular and timely manner.
• Continuously assess SRH needs and suggest new approaches to address identified unmet needs.
• Assist the Health Coordinator in proposal writing for SRH funding opportunities.
• Work closely with the IRC’s Health, Nutrition, WASH and Women Protection & Empowerment (WPE) teams to implement holistic and integrated programming to meet the diverse and unique needs of women, girls, men and boys.
Staff Supervision & Development
• Directly supervise SRH staff, providing ongoing leadership, promoting a strong team spirit and oversee implementation and coordination of activities to ensure targets are met.
• Coordinate and oversee SRH staff work plans, vacation schedules, and ensure completion and submission of monthly timesheets, probation reviews and annual performance reviews.
• Undertake capacity-development activities/training for relevant IRC and partner staff;
• Recruit SRH staff in collaboration with the Human Resources Department, oversee the orientation of new SRH staff and provide SRH-related orientation to all new staff.
Grant Planning & Implementation
• Prepare and maintain/update detailed work plans that support and achieve the program’s activities and indicators within grant timelines.
• Ensure appropriate and timely spending of grants to achieve program goals. Approve expenditures to the designated level; monitor monthly expenditures and track budgets to ensure that all spending is in line with approved budgets and timelines (including developing procurement plans, monthly program spending plan and cash forecasts).
• Coordinate with IRC logistics, finance and grants departments to ensure timely implementation of program activities and expenditures, including active participation in grant opening/closing and review meetings as necessary.
Coordination & Representation
• Co-lead and/or proactively engage with regional and national SRH working groups and ensure that information from coordination meetings is shared internally, as appropriate.
• Undertake/participate in liaison, coordination, and information sharing activities with local community, committees, national and international NGOs, donors and government representatives, etc.
Partner Management
• Serve as the main focal point with SRH implementing partners (including MOH/local authorities); maintain respectful and constructive relations and ensure regular meetings and ongoing coordination.
• Proactively involve IRC’s implementing partners at each stage of the program management cycle (assessment, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation etc.)
• Regularly monitor performance of the Partner to achieve the project’s set objectives; provide technical support and guidance; share relevant information and direction to improve quality and achieve timelines.
Qualifications & Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in midwifery, public health, Medicine or a related field.
• At least 3 years humanitarian project management experience with demonstrated technical expertise and working knowledge of SRH in humanitarian settings and MISP implementation.
• Demonstrated training and coaching skills.
• Thorough understanding of GBV response and service provision and integration between SRH and GBV activities and teams.
• Thorough understanding of BEmONC programming and protocols.
• Excellent spoken and written English, Proficiency in Arabic preferred.
• Proven abilities in developing work plans, data collection/ analysis and performance monitoring, with ability to interpret and validate SRH data.
• Excellent computer skills: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
Personal Attributes:
• Demonstrated leadership and team management skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong commitment to reproductive rights.
• Ability to work under pressure and adapt to a rapidly changing context.
• Commitment to humanitarian principles and values.
• Cultural sensitivity and respect for diversity and inclusion.
• Willingness to travel and work in remote or insecure areas with basic living conditions.
PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS
All International Rescue Committee workers must adhere to the core values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. Our Standards are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Safeguarding, Conflicts of Interest, Fiscal Integrity, and Reporting Wrongdoing and Protection from Retaliation. IRC is committed to take all necessary preventive measures and create an environment where people feel safe, and to take all necessary actions and corrective measures when harm occurs. IRC builds teams of professionals who promote critical reflection, power sharing, debate, and objectivity to deliver the best possible services to our clients.
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