SRHR Health Consultant

• Adapt training curricula on SRHR, family planning and contraception for health professionals and community health workers in Sierra Leone, ensuring gender and age-sensitive approaches aligned with national health standards.
• Deliver training sessions for CAUSE Canada Sierra Leone health staff and mentor the Head Nurse to become a technical resource for the project and local health facilities.
• Advise on strategies to overcome barriers to SRHR service utilization and medicine procurement, and support integration of SRHR education into community engagement activities.
• Provide recommendations to improve SRHR interventions and ensure alignment with project goals, participating in project review meetings to assess progress.

This role creates positive change by ensuring health interventions are evidence-based, culturally appropriate, and sustainable, strengthening local capacity to deliver comprehensive, gender-sensitive SRH services to reduce maternal mortality and empower women and girls in Sierra Leone.

• Advanced degree in Public Health, Nursing, or related field with specialization in SRHR.
• Minimum 7–10 years of experience in SRHR programming and health systems strengthening in a developing context.
• Proven experience in curriculum development and training delivery.
• Strong mentoring and coaching skills, with familiarity with Sierra Leone’s health system and cultural context as an asset.

No compensation, perks, or culture highlights mentioned in the job description.

CAUSE Canada's EmpowerHER project is a 7-year initiative aimed at eradicating child marriage and improving sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) among adolescent girls and women in rural Sierra Leone by scaling up proven innovations that engage community leaders and build health system capacity.