Job Description

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you're a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.

IRC Summary:

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.

South Kordofan, Sudan continues to face widespread humanitarian needs due to protracted conflict, displacement, and disruption of essential services. These pressures have heavily affected access to healthcare, including sexual and reproductive health (SRH). Services. Many facilities experience shortages of staff, supplies, and functional capacity, limiting their ability to provide services such as emergency obstetric and neonatal care, family planning, and support for survivors of gender-based violence (GBV).

The Senior Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) Manager will provide strategic, technical, and operational leadership for integrated SRHR programming in fragile and conflict-affected settings across operational areas in South and West Kordofan. The position will oversee the delivery of high-quality, and contextually appropriate SRH interventions across supported health facilities and communities, ensuring services remain accessible to women, girls, adolescents, displaced populations, and other vulnerable groups affected by conflict, displacement, weak health systems, and limited access to essential healthcare. The Senior SRH Manager will lead integrated programming across family planning, maternal and newborn health, post-abortion care, STI management, Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP), and Clinical Management of Rape (CMR) services, while strengthening quality of care, Basic Emergency Obstetric Neonatal Care(BEmONC) services, antenatal/postnatal care, safe deliveries, and EmONC referrals, provider capacity, accountability, coordination, and systems integration within humanitarian and early recovery settings. The role also requires strong donor management experience and the ability to oversee complex grants and contracts with demanding performance, reporting, compliance, and adaptive management requirements in challenging operational environments

Responsibilities
Technical Leadership and Quality Assurance

• Lead the design, implementation, and scale-up of integrated SRH services in supported locations.
• Ensure services align with national protocols, global standards, and humanitarian principles.
• Strengthen quality of care through mentorship, supportive supervision, clinical coaching, andquality improvement approaches.
• Support integration of SRH services within PHC, MNCH, nutrition, immunization, and community- based platforms.
• Promote trauma-informed, rights-based, and non-discriminatory approaches to SRH service delivery.
• Build technical capacity of health staff, community workers, and local partners through training, mentorship, and continuous learning approaches.

Program Management and Delivery

• Oversee project implementation to ensure timely achievement of targets, deliverables, and donor commitments.
• Lead development and monitoring of workplans, spending plans, procurement forecasts, and activity tracking tools.
• Ensure adaptive programming in response to insecurity, displacement, disease outbreaks, and access constraints.
• Monitor program performance indicators and support evidence-based decision making.

Coordination and Representation

• Represent the organization in Health, SRH, GBV, and technical coordination forums.
• Strengthen collaboration with the Departments of Health, local partners, UN agencies, andcommunity structures.
• Engage religious leaders, community gatekeepers, and local influencers to support acceptance ofSRH services in culturally sensitive settings.
• Support harmonization of referral pathways and integrated service delivery approaches.

Grants, Reporting, and Compliance

• Oversee implementation of donor-funded SRH projects, ensuring compliance with contractual and reporting requirements.
• Contribute to proposal development, budget planning, donor reporting, and program reviews.
• Ensure accurate monitoring, documentation, and timely submission of quality reports and indicators.
• Work closely with operations, supply chain, finance, and MEAL teams to ensure effective project delivery.

Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health, Reproductive Health, Midwifery, Medicine, Nursing, or related field.
• Minimum 3 -5 years of progressive experience managing SRH programs in humanitarian or fragile settings.
• Demonstrated experience implementing integrated SRH programming including FP, BEmONC, MNH, STI management, MISP, and GBV/CMR services.
• Experience managing complex donor-funded programs and contracts, including institutional donor compliance and reporting.
• Strong experience working in conflict-affected, hard-to-reach, or resource-constrained environments.
• Experience working with Ministries of Health, humanitarian coordination systems, and local partners.
• Previous experience supervising multidisciplinary teams in remote management settings.
• Experience supporting community engagement and social behaviour change approaches in culturally sensitive environments.
• Knowledge of Sudan or similar humanitarian contexts is strongly preferred.

Key Competencies

• Strong strategic and operational leadership skills.
• Excellent understanding of humanitarian SRH programming and integrated service delivery models.
• Strong interpersonal, diplomacy, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to navigate complex cultural, religious, and political sensitivities around SRH programming.
• Strong program management, planning, and organizational skills.
• Excellent analytical, reporting, and donor communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure and adapt programming in volatile environments.
• Commitment to gender equality, safeguarding, inclusion, and survivor-centered approaches.
• Strong mentoring and team development skills.
• Professional working proficiency in English required; knowledge of Arabic is a strong asset.

This position has an end date of March 31, 2027.

PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS

All International Rescue Committee workers must adhere to the core values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct Our Standards are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Safeguarding, Conflicts of Interest, Fiscal Integrity, and Reporting Wrongdoing and Protection from Retaliation. IRC is committed to take all necessary preventive measures and create an environment where people feel safe, and to take all necessary actions and corrective measures when harm occurs. IRC builds teams of professionals who promote critical reflection, power sharing, debate, and objectivity to deliver the best possible services to our clients.

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