Founded in 1973, Ipas is a global nongovernmental organization dedicated to ending preventable deaths and disabilities from unsafe abortion. Through local, national and global partnerships, Ipas works to ensure that women can obtain safe, respectful and comprehensive abortion care, including counseling and contraception to prevent future unintended pregnancies. At Ipas, we believe that: Every woman has a right to safe reproductive health choices, including safe abortion care. No woman should have to risk her life, her health, her fertility, her well-being or the well-being of her family because she lacks reproductive health care. Women everywhere must have the opportunity to determine their futures, care for their families and manage their fertility. Along with caring, committed health professionals and other colleagues worldwide, Ipas tackles this neglected public health problem head on in some of the world’s poorest countries. While many international donors and governments have focused attention and resources elsewhere, we struggle against the fundamental social injustice that results in the deaths of so many women in the prime of their lives.
- Job Type: Full Time
- Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
- Experience: 5 years
- Location: Abuja
- Job Field: Media / Advertising / Branding , NGO/Non-Profit
- Supports partner organizations in the development of effective Community engagement strategies, and helps monitor work plans and budgets, ensuring the scope of the project is within Ipas’s strategy and donor requirements.
- Leads in the design of curriculum and training activities to increase knowledge, skills and abilities of women and community members to access SRHR.
- Develop initiatives to build capacity of partner NGOs in programming, including the use of formative research to identify the target audience, understand behavioural determinants, and develop effective interventions.
- Establish and develop links with organizations, institutions, coalitions, and groups to build movement and mobilize social support for Women’s access to SRHR in the community.
- Support the review of CBOs monthly, quarterly, and bi-annual financial documents to ensure internal compliance, and donor reporting requirements.
- Undertake regular field monitoring visits to review program progress, workplan implementation and to support the community and CBOs in their activities. ·
- Identifies, designs and adapts qualitative tools to capture project outcomes, documents and shares results organizationally and as appropriate to stakeholders.
- Review all Terra Forms submitted by CBOs and submit to the RM&E unit for entry into Terra system. ·
- Build the capacity of CBOs to document best practices, case studies, stories of change during the implementation of project activities.
- Support the Publication of IEC, SNC, and BCC materials related to SRHR for dissemination at local level. ·
- Bachelors degree in related field
- 5+ years’ relevant experience in Community engagement field, especially sexual and reproductive health, including project management experience
- Must possess the ability to work with different community populations including adolescents, women with disabilities, men and women’s groups
- Must be able to negotiate and communicate with community, state and private organizations’ leaderships
- Must have working knowledge of conceptualizing, implementing and monitoring community initiatives
- Willingness to travel and work additional hours when required
- Experience working with reproductive health projects, a plus
- Knowledge and experience in community mobilization, capacity building and training of community groups
- Experience in monitoring and mentoring community/communication initiatives in the field
- Working knowledge of community entry strategies
