Sexual and Reproductive Health Officer at IRC

Job Overview:

The SRH Nurse plays a vital role in delivering integrated sexual and reproductive health services within IRC’s humanitarian response. This position involves the provision of maternal and child healthcare, family planning, and community outreach to improve the well-being of women, children, and families. The role also includes capacity building for local health teams and contributing to the integration of GBV prevention in SRH services.

 Major Responsibilities:

Provision of Comprehensive SRH Services:

• Deliver antenatal, postnatal, and family planning services, ensuring comprehensive reproductive healthcare.
• Support safe deliveries, including essential newborn care, in line with Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) standards.
• Facilitate maternal and child health assessments, including growth monitoring, immunizations, and nutrition.
• Provide counselling and education to women and girls on sexual and reproductive health, GBV prevention, and related services.

 Integrated GBV and SRH Services:

• Promote and facilitate the integration of gender-based violence response in SRH services.
• Implement GBV-sensitive healthcare practices, ensuring dignity, confidentiality, and safety for survivors.
• Work collaboratively with Women-Led Organizations (WLOs) and community health workers to promote respectful, gender-sensitive care.

Capacity Building and Training:

• Participate in training sessions and capacity building for local health staff, ensuring adherence to quality standards in SRH and GBV service provision.
• Facilitate knowledge transfer and mentoring for community health workers and WLOs to enhance local leadership in SRH and GBV prevention and response.

Program Support:

• Assist in planning, implementing, and monitoring reproductive health programs in collaboration with program staff.
• Ensure accurate documentation of service delivery, patient records, and timely reporting on key indicators.

Key Working Relationships: 

• Position Reports to: Head Nurse.
• Position directly supervises: Assistant nurses (incentive workers), community health workers.
• Other Internal and/or external contacts: Local health facility staff, community health volunteers

Minimum Qualifications:

• Educational Requirements: Diploma in Nursing and Registered with the Nursing Council of Tanganyika with a valid practicing license.
• Experience: Minimum three years’ work experience in maternal and child healthcare, preferably in primary or humanitarian settings.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies

•  Demonstrated experience in SRH and GBV service delivery, with a focus on integrating care for women and girls in crisis

• Strong skills in community engagement and patient counselling.

Language/Travel: Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Swahili, Kirundi is an added advantage.

Working Environment: Security level yellow – The situation in most of the country is calm. Some parts of Kigoma region experience insecurity-highway banditry.

 Partnership: The IRC is committed to working with partners as our preferred operating model and adhering to our six partnership principles: equality, complementarity, mutuality, solidarity, results orientation, and humility.

Commitment to Client Responsiveness: By committing to Client-Centered Programming, at the IRC Tanzania, we place the people we serve – our clients – at the center of our programming and services. The IRC Tanzania Staff have an important role to play in supporting the implementation of client-responsive programming through raising awareness to the community and clients about the existing feedback mechanisms and how to use them including the response processes, access, and eligibility to services, and contribute to building an institutional culture that prompts staff to listen to clients and to communicate and respond to their requests, feedback, and complaints.

Professional Standards: The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation. 

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusivity: IRC is committed to building a diverse organization and a climate of inclusivity.  We strongly encourage applications from candidates who can demonstrate that they can contribute to this goal. 

IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer: IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, age, marital status, veteran status or disability. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform crucial job functions, and receive other employment benefits and privileges.