RH Officer (Reproductive Health)

TL;DR

RH Officer (Reproductive Health): Conduct clinical quality assurance, supportive supervision, and capacity building for midwives and community health workers, while monitoring reproductive health service delivery, counselling quality, and community engagement. Focus on ensuring compliance with reproductive health protocols, strengthening HMIS and reporting data quality, and improving programme performance through supervision findings, competency assessments, and evidence-based recommendations.

Location: Herat, Afghanistan

Company

hirify.global (IRC) is an international humanitarian organization providing health, safety, education, and economic support in crisis settings.

What you will do

• Run monthly supportive supervision visits to health facilities and Family Health Houses (FHHs) using standardized IRC checklists to assess clinical quality, counselling, eligibility screening, infection prevention, documentation, and commodity management.
• Coach and correct midwives and community health workers (CHWs), review clinical records, maintain competency/performance trackers, and submit reports with gaps, corrective actions, and follow-up recommendations.
• Deliver and cascade reproductive health and family planning trainings as an IRC Master Trainer, including competency assessments and return demonstrations for newly recruited staff.
• Assure counselling and community engagement quality by monitoring FHAG dialogues, Community Health Shura engagement, and CHW household outreach; review reports and registries to identify gaps and coordinate corrective actions.
• Supervise supply chain and health information management by verifying commodity availability and buffer stocks, checking stock records, and ensuring consistency between facility registers, CHW records, and HMIS submissions.
• Compile and analyze monthly/quarterly programme performance data, maintain programme documentation for monitoring/learning and donor compliance, and support recruitment/onboarding and workforce wellbeing in remote field settings.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Midwifery (BSc Midwifery) or Community Midwifery degree, or Diploma in Nursing/Community Health Nursing with strong reproductive health clinical experience, or Medical Doctor (MBBS) with reproductive health programme experience.
• Minimum 2–3 years of progressive clinical and programme experience in reproductive health, maternal health, or primary healthcare in Afghanistan.
• Experience delivering maternal and reproductive health services and working with community-level health platforms in Afghanistan (FHHs, CHWs, FHAGs, Community Health Shuras).
• Experience in clinical quality assurance, supportive supervision, or programme monitoring, including training/mentoring midwives or CHWs.
• Experience working in the assigned province (Nangarhar, Herat, or Kunduz) and familiarity with the local health system, PPHD, and community structures.
• English, Dari, and Pashto.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a humanitarian INGO focused on integrity, service, equality, and accountability.
• Supportive supervision and mentorship responsibilities with an emphasis on learning-oriented, high-performing teams.
• Extensive travel within the assigned province is required in compliance with IRC security protocols.
• Emphasis on staff wellbeing, safety, and operational continuity in remote field settings.

Hiring process

• Application review based on education and required reproductive health and supervision experience.
• Assessment of language capability (English, Dari, Pashto) and ability to work in remote field settings with travel.
• Interviews to evaluate clinical quality assurance, community engagement, and HMIS/reporting experience.