Reproductive Health Manager

Job Title: Reproductive Health Manager

Band / Level / Grade: PROFESSIONAL – 7B

Department: Health

Location: Aden, Yemen – with frequent visits to field sites

BACKGROUND: 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.

The IRC responds to people’s acute and longer-term needs with integrated programs that improve health and safety, prioritize children’s education, foster economic wellbeing, and empower communities to regain control over their lives. Our work gives rise to some of the most pressing issues facing contemporary humanitarian action, including questions of access, conflict sensitivity, coordination, and impact.

The IRC Yemen began its programs in October 2012. Since establishing its presence in the South of Yemen, in the Red Sea Coastal city of Aden, the organization has grown from just an implementing small project to handling large scale emergency and relief operations. Following the war which broke out in Yemen in March of 2015 and the humanitarian disaster, which was crafted by the same, IRC launched one an emergency response program in the southern govern orates of Aden, Lahj, Abyan, Shabwah and Al Dhale, and expanded later in Sana’a and Hodeidah in the North.

Currently IRC Yemen is operating in eight govern orates in the south and north of Yemen through direct programming and through local partnerships, in Health, WASH, Nutrition, Economic Recovery Development, Education, Child Protection, Gender and Women Protection and Empowerment.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) have been working in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for more than forty years. Today, the IRC has more than 2,200 staff working across the region, including in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, and Yemen to support those affected by some of the world’s most complex and protracted humanitarian crises.

The Reproductive Health (RH) Manager leads the implementation of IRC Yemen’s reproductive health portfolio at community level, through mobile health teams, static health facilities and supported EmONC facilities, as part of a wider RMNCAH intervention. The position ensures that RH services are delivered in accordance with the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP), national guidelines and IRC clinical standards; provides technical and clinical supervision, mentorship and capacity building to RH Officers, midwives, medical doctors, mobile health team staff and partner staff;

leads the development of RH standard operating procedures, referral pathways and integration with Protection programming; oversees work planning, budget tracking, quality monitoring, data and reporting; and represents IRC in reproductive health and health cluster coordination forums with the MoPHP, local health authorities, UN agencies and peer agencies.

The Reproductive Health (RH) Manager is responsible for the implementation of IRC’s reproductive health strategy and implicated activities at community level, through mobile health teams, health facilities and in supported EmONC facilities, as part of the larger health care intervention that includes RMNCA health care. The RH Manager ensures that services are delivered in accordance with the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP), national guidelines and IRC clinical standards.

In addition, the RH Manager will take the…