Reproductive Health Officer

Background/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 affected people. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.

IRC has been working in Pakistan for approximately 40 years, leading and delivering large, sophisticated programs to meet the needs in health, education, safeguarding, environmental health and livelihoods for displaced, poor and disaster affected communities. IRC works in partnership with local government and non-governmental organizations and is currently working across the country.

Job Overview/Summary:

The Integrated Services for communities in Pakistan project aim to enhance the safety, dignity, and well-being of Afghan refugees and host communities in two districts of KP, Haripur and Nowshera. It focuses on multi-sectoral integrated program delivery providing quality protection, GBV, SRH, and MHPSS services, alongside climate-resilient, livelihoods, youth engagement, and social cohesion initiatives. The project adopts a participatory, inclusive approach to address vulnerabilities and promote sustainable development. The Reproductive Health Officer is responsible for the implementation of Sexual Reproductive Health activities with standard protocols to be followed at all the IRC supported Health facilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Improving the counseling & quality RH services of IRC health Program.
• Devise, plan and implement staff /service providers capacity building training
• Conduct field visits to ensure implementation of Q of Care interventions and conduct on the job coaching
• Establishment of a referral system to provide access to SRH services at Health Facility level and develop a linkage with other NGOs that are working on SRH & GBV
• Programmatic interventions to increase the number of clients for provision of quality SRH services through trained staff in best equipped health facilities in the districts.
• Programmatic interventions to address the demeanor of Health care providers in provision of SRH/GBV services.
• Provide technical input and ensure quality of the activities being implemented. Support monthly meetings of field staff at all the project districts.
• Work together with an outreach team through an integrated approach.
• Maintain all Technical training data base/Service Provider data with coordination of HIS section.
• Entry of all Health Service delivery data in KMS on regular basis.
• To ensure proper record keeping of supplies/commodities/medicines at health facility level through LHVs.
• Ensure to maintain the consumption record of consumable and non-consumable items at health facility and warehouse with coordination of warehouse officer and proper record keeping in hard and soft.
• Represent IRC's RH programs in liaison with partners, governments, NGOs, etc
• Assist the Manager Coordination meetings with all partners of IRC Health program.
• Strong mutual coordination and integration with staff of HIS & CMU for the achievement of the project objectives
• Prepare/Review activity reports of the section.
• Support supervisor in Sharing quarterly & biannual reports 
• Review visits report of joint supervision visit & take action on recommendations
• Analyzing and sharing monthly & weekly reports of all technical services in IRC supported health facilities.
• Any task assigned by supervisor.

Key Working Relationships

Position Reports to: Quality Assurance Manager (Technically) and District Manager (Operationally)

Position Coordinates with: Project Staff, LHVs and operations as needed

Job Requirements:

 A. Education

Education: MBBS/Diploma of the LHV/FMT/Nurse Registered with Pakistan Nursing Council/Medical Faculty

B. Work experience

Minimum 2-3 years of work experience in the field of humanitarian project/social development sector.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies 

• Practicing experience in communication, social mobilization and coordination.
• Proficiency in basic computer applications (e.g., MS Office, email).
• Ability to handle stressful situations and manage multiple tasks effectively. 
• Working experience in QA component and supervising LHVs

Language Skills: Proficient in of verbal and oral English, Urdu, and Local Languages

The IRC Core Values and Commitments.

• The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in 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 Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons.
• IRC is committed to ensuring that IRC staff is suitable to work with children and have the knowledge to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child Safeguarding Policy.
• IRC ensures that its staff must actively practice the roles and responsibilities related to client responsiveness, accountability to people in affected communities and must have competencies to solicits and listens to feedback and other’s perspectives, responds to feedback with maturity and sensitivity and takes appropriate decisions and makes changes to behavior or actions in response to feedback.
• IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our organizational mission. As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs. Our organizational policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this commitment.

Differently abled women candidates are highly encouraged to apply.