Family Planning and Adolescent Reproductive Health in Emergency Specialist
Location: US – DC – Home Office
Save the Children
Summary
The Family Planning and Adolescent Reproductive Health in Emergences Specialist will provide technical assistance to country office programs that address family planning in development and emergency settings. Reporting to the ARH Sr. Specialist, the specialist will contribute to the implementation of youth friendly family planning, emergency obstetric care (EmOC), and Post Abortion Care (PAC) in emergencies and significantly manage all work related to adolescent reproductive health in emergencies. He/She will work collaboratively with the Emergency Health and Nutrition, Adolescent Health and Reproductive Health teams as well as country offices to ensure that family planning and EmOC/PAC programs in emergencies are adolescent inclusive, to strengthen global family planning programs, and to document and disseminate research findings and program results.
Responsibilities
Program Technical Assistance
The specialist will travel internationally to provide technical support to emergency programs as follows:
• Deploy to 2 Save the Children ongoing programs in conflict/emergency affected countries to provide technical assistance on adolescent-inclusive Family Planning, Post Abortion Care and Emergency Obstetric Care programming
• Deploy to new emergencies in the field and explore potential for adolescent-inclusive Family Planning, Post Abortion Care and Emergency Obstetric Care programming by liaising with the Emergency Health and Nutrition Team
• Travel to country offices/programs (approx 35-40 %).
Capacity Building and Training
• Actively engage in the preparation and roll-out of the reproductive health in emergencies training package as a part of the Emergency Health and Nutrition Team
• Ensure EHN training packages are adolescent inclusive and/or facilitate an extra day of training on the ASRH toolkit
• Support UNFPA in two Training of Trainers (external to Save the Children)
Qualitative Research
In collaboration with UNFPA’s Humanitarian Response Branch, develop and conduct a multi-country qualitative study within the Save the Children’s ongoing emergency programs that explores:
a) The impact of the lack of access to youth-friendly services on adolescents
b) The impact of conflict on the adolescents’ transition from the youth perspective
• Document and disseminate finding of the study
Monitoring and Evaluation
• Work with the M and E specialist to track data from emergency country programs on age-disaggregated FP/PAC/EmOC, ensuring desegregation for adolescents.
Coordination and Partnership
• Co-Chair the Adolescent Reproductive Health Sub-working group of Inter-Agency Working Group on RH in Emergencies (IWAG) (Other co-chairs: UNFPA and Women’s Refugee Commission)
• Represent Save the Children on Adolescent focused initiatives in emergencies (INEE Youth coordination group)
• Be the liaison between the Reproductive Health Team and the Emergency Health and Nutrition Team.
• Support the monitoring of the ASRH E-Learning module in collaboration with UNFPA’s Humanitarian Response
Program/Proposal Development and strategic planning
• Establish and maintain contacts with key SC-HO and CO technical staff regarding new proposals and program development
• In collaboration with the EHN/RH/AHN team, assist in coordinating and developing SC response to new country program descriptions.
• Support strategic and operational planning for RH and EHN teams
Requirements
• Clinical degree (Nurse, Midwife, etc) preferred or experience working in a clinical setting
• Masters degree in public health or related field an advantage
• Minimum of 3 years clinical experience working with youth and family planning
• Minimum of 2 years experience working in developing countries.
• Ability to travel up to 40% of the work year, including post conflict countries
• Flexibility to travel to a new emergencies at least once a year without prior planning
• Monitoring and Evaluation experience an advantage
• Academic or practical experience with qualitative research
• Demonstrated collaborative relationship with field-based international donor agencies
• Experience in the development of operational plans in cooperation with other team members
• Ability to interact with established networks of health professionals and other partners
• Field oriented and comfortable with a team approach to programming
• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines
• Candidate should have the capacity to work in a second language (Arabic, Spanish, Creole, French, etc
• Candidate should be knowledgeable about community based family planning programs
• Candidate should be knowledge about the sexual and reproductive health issues affecting adolescents globally
• Candidate should have experience and proven track records of working with multiple cultures and enjoy working across multiple countries/cultures
• Candidate should have some training and/or experience with qualitative research (focus groups, in depth interviews, participatory research methods)
• Candidate should have very strong oral and written communication skills in English
• Candidate should have strong understanding of analyzing program data for monitoring and evaluation purposes
• Candidate should have good networking skills and be able to effectively represent Save the Children externally and develop new partnership opportunities externally.
• Candidate should be able to identify, document and contribute to the development of the state-of-the-art practices in family planning and adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
• Candidate should have skills in FP counseling, and provision of contraceptive methods including IUDs and Implants
Employee Type
Full Time
Save the Children is the leading independent organization for children in need, with programs in over 120 countries, including the United States. We aim to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives by improving their health, education and economic opportunities. In 2010, we improved the lives of over 64 million children in need in the United States and around the world. Our goal is to reach more than 74 million children annually by the year 2012. Join our dedicated and diverse staff committed to improving the well-being of children.
Save the Children provides an attractive benefits package including competitive salaries, a matching retirement plan, health and welfare benefits, life insurance, an employee assistance program, generous time off and much more.
We are an equal opportunity organization dedicated to our core values of Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity and Integrity.
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