Job Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership and Quality Assurance
• Provide overall technical direction for SRHR and GBV programming across all DELIVER country programs, ensuring alignment with global standards, IRC's technical frameworks, and the evidence base for humanitarian SRH and GBV response.
• Lead the adaptation and contextualisation of IRC's SRHR and GBV integration models across supported service delivery points, working with country teams to select and apply the most appropriate model based on existing health and protection infrastructure, context and client preferences.
• Oversee the technical quality of clinical capacity strengthening approaches across countries, including SRHR S-CORTs, WHO CMR/IPV training, Low Dose High Frequency (LDHF) methodologies, WHO Bleeding After Birth training, and Values Clarification and Attitudes Transformation (VCAT) for service providers.
• Provide technical guidance on the implementation of the Minimum Initial Services Package (MISP), including Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (EmONC), family planning, comprehensive abortion care, clinical management of rape (CMR), HIV/STI prevention and treatment, and postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) prevention and treatment.
• Champion the integration of GBV risk mitigation into SRH service delivery and vice versa, ensuring a survivor-centered, rights-based and adolescent-responsive approach across all delivery modalities.
• Ensure technically sound, culturally appropriate and gender-sensitive programming that prioritizes hard-to-reach populations including adolescents, people with disabilities, displaced populations and ethnic and religious minorities.
• Capacity Strengthening
• Design and deliver technical capacity strengthening support to IRC country program health and protection teams, including remote and in-person technical assistance, training facilitation, mentorship and supportive supervision.
• Build the capacity of local partner organizations in SRHR and GBV technical standards, integration approaches and quality improvement methodologies, in line with IRC's PEERS partnership principles.
• Support country teams to establish and strengthen clinical supervision systems, including joint supervision with Ministries of Health, standardised supervision checklists and facility-level quality improvement plans.
• Knowledge Management and Learning
• Lead the documentation and dissemination of technical learning, promising practices and case studies from DELIVER country programs to inform adaptive management and contribute to the global evidence base for SRHR and GBV in humanitarian settings.
• Facilitate peer-to-peer technical learning exchanges between country programs to promote cross-country knowledge sharing and innovation.
• Represent IRC's technical expertise in relevant global forums, including the SRH Task Team under the Global Health Cluster, the Interagency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises (IAWG), and relevant GBV coordination mechanisms.
• Contribute to the development of technical tools, guidelines and resources to improve SRHR and GBV programming in humanitarian settings.
• Reporting and Coordination
• Review country-level technical reports for accuracy, quality and coherence, and contribute technical content to consolidated narrative reports to Global Affairs Canada (GAC).
• Provide technical input into program monitoring frameworks, indicator tracking and data review processes to ensure that service quality is measured and evidence-based course corrections are made in a timely manner.
• Collaborate with the Program Lead, MEAL staff and country program teams to ensure that client feedback and service quality data are systematically used to drive program improvement.