Sexual and Reproductive Health Coordinator – Generic Posting

• People Skills: Ability to work independently and as a team player who demonstrates leadership and is able to support and train local and international staff and also able to work with disaster affected communities in a sensitive and participatory manner.
• Communication Skills: Well developed written and oral communication skills. Able to communicate clearly and sensitively with internal and external stakeholders as a representative of CARE. This includes effective negotiation and representation skills.
• Integrity: Works with trustworthiness and integrity and has a clear commitment to CARE's core values and humanitarian principles.
• Resilience/Adaptability and flexibility: Ability to operate effectively under extreme circumstances including stress, high security risks and harsh living conditions. Works and lives with a flexible, adaptable and resilient manner.
• Awareness and sensitivity of self and others: Demonstrates awareness and sensitivity to gender and diversity. Have experience and the ability to live and work in diverse cultural contexts in a culturally appropriate manner. Has a capacity to make accurate self-assessment particularly in high stress and high security contexts.
• Work style: Is well planned and organized even within a fluid working environment and has a capacity for initiative and decision making with competent analytical and problem solving skills.

Knowledge and skills:

• knowledge of Sphere and INGO Code of Conduct. Requires general finance, administration, information management and telecommunication skills and proficiency in information technology/ computer skills.

• 5 – 7 years humanitarian aid experience.
• Multiple language skills desirable.

Technical Competencies:

• SRH technical expertise
• MPH, nursing or medical degree, or related degree with emphasis on reproductive health
• Previous experience in medium-large scale emergencies
• Capacity to develop, implement and analyze health assessments, develop and implement work-plans in emergency settings.
• Experience in budget management
• Skills in training, monitoring, and evaluation of health interventions
• Strong writing skills and report writing
• Strong knowledge of MISP and implementation requirements and must have completed one of the following:
  • MISP Distance Learning Module, www.rhrc.org
  • Participated in a MISP training led by SPRINT or some other well recognized group.

Assessment

• Collect secondary data on key SRH indicators such as maternal mortality ratios, contraceptive prevalence rates, GBV data, and HIV/AIDS statistics. Review existing assessment reports by the MOPH, UN agencies, International NGOs, etc…. 
• In collaboration with the emergency response team, plan and conduct rapid assessments followed by more in-depth assessments. Coordinate and collaborate with the health cluster, SRH working group, and local health authorities and community members on all assessments. Share assessment findings with the health cluster, SRH working group, and community members.

Strategy Development

• Working with development and emergency response team members, develop strategy for integrating SRH into emergency response including linkages with specific sectors.

Proposal Development

• Participate in establishing funding requirements for reproductive health activities and contribute to the development of proposals for emergency response and transition. Work with finance department to develop appropriate budgets.

Management and Implementation

• In collaboration with country office technical staff, monitor and provide guidance to the SRH component of CARE's emergency response. Ensure it is appropriately integrated with CARE’s overall preparedness, response and transition activities.
• Identify key partners for both the response and transition to development.
• Coordinate implementation of the MISP:
  • Ensure sufficient human and financial resources to implement the MISP and transition to comprehensive SRH programming that includes referrals and/or clinical services for FP including IUDs and post abortion care (PAC).

• • Coordinate with UNFPA to obtain necessary RH kits. The kits are frequently free during new onset emergencies.
  • Train staff as needed to implement SRH activities including the MISP.
  • Ensure GBV prevention and response services, clean and safe delivery services including referral to quality EmOC services and family planning services, prevention of HIV, and treatment of STI services are available.  Refer to the Interagency Field Manual for RH in Humanitarian Situations and the IASC Guidelines for GBV in Emergencies for implementation activities.
  • Ensure gender is integrated into SRH/health activities.  Refer to the IASC guidelines for Gender in Emergencies.
• Ensure linkages between existing country office SRH and health projects and the emergency response and ensure strategies build upon in-country expertise and promote sustainability
• Work with CARE and partner staff to develop comprehensive programs for RH that include:
  • 1) provision of health services that provide family planning, maternal and newborn care, emergency obstetric and neonatal services, HIV/AIDS and STI management;
  • 2) appropriate prevention and response for survivors of GBV;
  • 3)  links with the program approach; and
  • 4) activities to challenge gender and social norms that affect the reproductive health of the target population

Liaison and Coordination:

• Represent CARE's work and specifically SRH activities in health cluster, RH working group, GBV working group meetings; as well as other coordination meetings with the MOH.
• Network with key donors such as BHA, PRM, DFID and ECHO at cluster and working group meetings.  Submit proposals to the flash appeal.
• Coordinate with other sector responses within CARE (WASH, Shelter, Food, Gender, DRR, etc…) to ensure a multi-sector approach to SRH.
• Coordinate with all appropriate CARE groups such as communications, CI SRH advisors, gender specialists, and advocacy.

Human Resources and Administration:

• As needed, work with HR and PSEA specialist to ensure all staff are trained on prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) and are fully informed of the code of conduct and zero tolerance for SEA.
• In collaboration with health and M&E managers, design and develop supervisory, monitoring and evaluation systems for SRH interventions

The Sexual and Reproductive Health Coordinator will also have to fulfill any other task as requested by her/his supervisor depending on the programmatic priorities in the Field Office.