Coordinator, GSRH Programs and Membership Engagement

Description

Job Title:

Coordinator, GSRH Programs and Membership Engagement

Reports To:

Program Lead, Women in Leadership (0.5) & Director of COMS-A (0.5)

Location:

COMS-A Secretariat, Kigali, Rwanda

COMS-A Overview

COMS-A is a pan-continental, African-led platform for medical education reform, uniting over 200 medical schools across the continent around common standards, shared research, and coordinated advocacy. Since its 2025 launch, COMS-A has placed gender, sexual and reproductive health and rights (GSRH) at the center of its mission, building a unified platform for training in gender-responsive health and educational services across Africa’s medical schools.

Purpose

of the Job

The Coordinator is a new role that combines technical leadership on GSRH programming with ongoing member engagement for the Consortium. Working closely with the COMS-A Director and Program Lead - Women in Leadership, the Coordinator ensures that GSRH integration is substantive, evidence-based, and contextually appropriate across the Secretariat’s work streams, including the Faculty Development Academy and the Higher Education Leadership Academy, among others, while also sustaining and growing COMS-A’s membership base across a rapidly expanding, linguistically and regionally diverse network of institutions.

Key Responsibilities GSRH Program Leadership and Curriculum Integration

• Coordinate the integration of GSRH content into curricula, training programs, and mentorship initiatives across COMS-A work streams.
• Co-design GSRH curriculum content and educational materials for key academies and training initiatives.
• Provide programmatic leadership and operational support for leadership and allyship programs, including oversight of quality-improvement projects and tracking institutional commitments.
• Support fellowship and specialized training programs through recruitment, cohort logistics, partner site coordination, and monitoring of institution-based projects.
• Support GSRH-related monitoring and evaluation: track indicators, compile evidence, and contribute to quarterly and annual donor reporting.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for member institutions on GSRH-related programming and technical assistance requests.

Membership Engagement

• Lead recruitment, onboarding, and ongoing engagement of COMS-A member institutions across Africa.
• Maintain and update the membership database and communications systems, ensuring accurate and current records as the network grows.
• Develop and execute overall member engagement strategies, facilitate communities of practice across thematic areas, and maintain active oversight of member involvement and satisfaction.
• Support planning and delivery of the annual Med Ed Africa  conference and other convenings, including coordination of GSRH scientific programming.

Secretariat Support

• Support the COMS-A Director on day-to-day Secretariat operations, reporting, and donor communications as needed.
• Contribute to partnership development with continental and global bodies on related collaboration.

Qualifications, Knowledge, And Skills

• Academic qualifications
• Minimum of a Masters in global health, health professions education, gender studies, or a related field.
• Experience
• Demonstrated experience working on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and/or gender equity programming, ideally within an academic context in Africa.
• Experience with membership-based organizations, network coordination, or multi-country program management.
• Experience in curriculum design or faculty development in health professions education preferred.
• Prior experience supporting grant-funded programs and donor reporting requirements preferred.
• Technical competencies
• Excellent written and spoken English and French.
• Familiarity with monitoring…