Senior Sexual Reproductive Health Officer - Capacity Building

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you're a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.

IRC Summary 

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive, recover, and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to people affected by conflict, disaster, and displacement. Working in more than 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, the IRC restores safety, dignity, and hope to millions and supports communities in building sustainable pathways to recovery. 

In Nigeria, prolonged armed conflict in the Northeast and increasing insecurity associated with banditry in parts of the Northwest continue to generate significant humanitarian and development needs. These crises have disrupted access to essential health services, including sexual and reproductive health (SRH), particularly for women, girls, adolescents, and displaced populations. Health facilities frequently face shortages of skilled personnel, medical supplies, and functional referral systems, limiting their ability to provide quality maternal and newborn health services, emergency obstetric and newborn care, family planning, and other lifesaving SRH interventions. IRC works closely with government authorities and local partners to strengthen health systems and improve access to quality SRH services in conflict-affected and underserved communities. 

Position Summary 

The Senior SRH Officer will provide state or location-level technical support, capacity building, quality assurance, and implementation follow-up for IRC's Impact@Scale Project in assigned government PHCs and IRC static facilities. The position will support implementation of interventions to increase voluntary access to modern contraception and prevent and manage postpartum hemorrhage through the E-MOTIVE Bundle. 

The role will focus on building the capacity of health workers and facility teams to deliver high-quality SRH services using globally recognized capacity-strengthening modalities, including competency-based training, on-the-job coaching, clinical mentorship, simulation and emergency drills, supportive supervision, quality improvement, peer learning, data use, and post-training follow-up. 

The Senior SRH Officer will also strengthen provider capacity in other SRH-themed service areas such as maternal and newborn health, antenatal and postnatal care, safe delivery support, BEmONC readiness, post-abortion care, STI management, adolescent-responsive SRH, survivor-centered referral pathways, and CEmONC referral coordination. The position reports to the Roving SRH Manager and will work closely with facility leadership, government counterparts, IRC static facility teams, and community-facing staff. 

Major Responsibilities 

Technical Capacity Building for Impact@Scale Implementation 

• Build the capacity of health workers in assigned government PHCs and IRC static facilities to implement Impact@Scale interventions for voluntary contraception access and PPH prevention using the E-MOTIVE Bundle. 

• Plan, facilitate, and follow up competency-based training, on-the-job coaching, mentorship, simulation drills, supportive supervision, refresher sessions, and post-training follow-up for facility teams. 

• Support providers to apply E-MOTIVE components for early detection, escalation, treatment, and referral of PPH in line with approved project protocols and national guidance. 

• Strengthen provider skills in family planning counseling, informed choice, method provision, infection prevention, documentation, follow-up, and referral. 

• Use structured mentorship plans, skills checklists, action trackers, and competency assessment tools to document progress and identify additional support needs. 

• Orient facility teams on approved algorithms, job aids, registers, quality improvement tools, referral forms, and reporting tools for contraception and PPH prevention activities. 

Capacity Building Modalities to be Used 

• Competency-based classroom and practical training using approved national and project training packages. 

• On-the-job training and bedside coaching during routine service delivery sessions. 

• Clinical mentorship and supportive supervision using structured checklists and agreed action plans. 

• Simulation-based practice, emergency drills, skills demonstrations, and return demonstrations for PPH prevention, detection, response, and referral readiness. 

• Quality improvement cycles, including problem identification, root-cause analysis, change ideas, action planning, review meetings, and monitoring of improvement measures. 

• Peer learning, case discussions, reflective practice sessions, and cross-facility learning exchanges. 

• Use of job aids, standard operating procedures, algorithms, registers, referral tools, and clinical checklists. 

• Data review, data quality checks, dashboard review, and use of routine service data for decision-making and performance improvement. 

• Post-training follow-up, competency assessment, refresher sessions, and targeted remediation for providers requiring additional support. 

• Commodity, drug, equipment, and infection prevention readiness checks to ensure services can be delivered safely and consistently. 

Support to Broader SRH Service Areas 

• Build facility capacity in other SRH-themed areas, including maternal and newborn health, antenatal care, postnatal care, safe delivery practices, BEmONC readiness, post-abortion care, STI management, and adolescent-responsive SRH services. 

• Support respectful maternity care, client-centered counseling, gender-sensitive communication, privacy, confidentiality, safeguarding, and non-discriminatory service delivery. 

• Strengthen referral readiness and linkages between PHCs, IRC static facilities, BEmONC service points, and CEmONC referral centers. 

• Support facility teams to identify and address barriers to uptake of contraception and maternal health services, including provider capacity, workflow, commodity availability, documentation, and referral delays. 

• Support integration of Impact@Scale interventions into routine SRH and maternal health service delivery without adding nutrition, OPD, or immunization responsibilities. 

Facility-Level Quality Assurance and Supportive Supervision 

• Conduct routine supportive supervision visits to assigned government PHCs and IRC static facilities using approved supervision tools. 

• Assess quality of service delivery, provider competence, documentation, infection prevention readiness, commodity availability, referral readiness, and client flow. 

• Develop facility-specific action plans with facility teams and follow up completion of agreed corrective actions. 

• Support quality improvement meetings, review of service delivery gaps, and implementation of practical change ideas. 

• Document supervision findings and escalate unresolved technical, operational, or commodity-related issues to the Roving SRH Manager. 

Commodity, Drug, Equipment, and Referral Readiness 

• Monitor availability of family planning commodities, E-MOTIVE commodities, uterotonics, tranexamic acid, essential drugs, consumables, equipment, registers, and job aids in assigned facilities. 

• Support facility teams to track stock status, consumption, expiry, redistribution needs, and stock-out risks. 

• Work with facility focal persons, pharmacists, storekeepers, and IRC supply chain teams to address gaps and ensure readiness for quality SRH service delivery. 

• Support timely identification and escalation of supply gaps that may affect contraception provision, PPH prevention, emergency response, or referral readiness. 

• Promote rational use, proper storage, and accountability for SRH and PPH-related commodities. 

Monitoring, Reporting, and Data Use 

• Support accurate documentation of contraception, PPH prevention, referral, training, supervision, and quality improvement activities. 

• Review routine service data with facility teams to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities for improvement. 

• Conduct data quality checks and support corrective actions for incomplete, inconsistent, or delayed reporting. 

• Prepare timely activity reports, mentorship updates, supervision reports, and action trackers for submission to the Roving SRH Manager. 

• Document field-level lessons, success stories, bottlenecks, and promising practices for project learning. 

Coordination and Team Contribution 

• Coordinate closely with facility leadership, Local Government Area health authorities, government PHC teams, IRC static facility teams, and other partners in assigned locations. 

• Participate in state or location-level SRH and maternal health coordination meetings as delegated by the Roving SRH Manager. 

• Work with the Senior Clinical Outreach Officer and community-facing teams to ensure demand creation is linked to quality facility-based services. 

• Support community feedback mechanisms and ensure client concerns related to SRH service quality are escalated appropriately. 

• Contribute to cross-location learning among Maiduguri, Monguno, Yola, and Sokoto teams. 

Experience and Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification in Nursing, Midwifery, Public Health, Community Health, Reproductive Health, Medicine, or a related clinical or public health field. 

• Minimum 3-5 years of progressive experience implementing SRH, family planning, maternal health, BEmONC, or humanitarian health programs. 

• Demonstrated experience providing training, on-the-job coaching, clinical mentorship, supportive supervision, and quality improvement support to facility-based health workers. 

• Strong practical knowledge of voluntary contraception, PPH prevention and management, the E-MOTIVE Bundle, maternal and newborn health, post-abortion care, STI management, and referral systems. 

• Experience working with government PHCs, IRC static facilities, facility managers, LGA health teams, and community-linked service delivery structures. 

• Experience monitoring drug, commodity, equipment, and facility readiness for SRH and maternal health services. 

• Strong documentation, data review, report writing, coordination, and facilitation skills. 

• Ability to travel frequently within assigned location and support health facilities in complex or hard-to-reach settings where access is permitted. 

Key Competencies 

• Facility-based capacity building and mentorship  - • Family planning and PPH prevention technical knowledge 

• E-MOTIVE Bundle implementation support  - • Supportive supervision and quality improvement 

• Data use for facility performance improvement  - • Commodity, drug, and equipment readiness monitoring 

• Coordination with government PHCs and IRC static facilities - • Respectful, rights-based, gender-responsive SRH service delivery 

Ability to Travel: 5% of time

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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