Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights Specialist

About this role

Plan International is recruiting a Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights Specialist for an anticipated project in Tanga, Tanzania, implemented by GIZ with the Ministry of Health and the Prime Minister's Office for Regional Administration and Local Government. The specialist will lead school-based and out-of-school youth-club SRHR and life-skills interventions under Work Package 1, including training teachers and youth facilitators in SRHR education, life skills, gender and inclusion. They will ensure age-appropriate SRHR knowledge transfer aligned with national guidelines and youth-friendly standards, and guide cooperation among schools, youth clubs and health facilities to strengthen access and referral pathways. With the Team Leader, the specialist will facilitate gender-transformative dialogue with local opinion leaders under Work Package 2, using health evidence to address norms affecting SRHR access and help reduce teenage pregnancies.

The role coordinates dialogue cycles, supports baseline, midline and endline assessments, orients local education and ward officers on SRHR, and contributes to reporting, lessons learned and safeguarding compliance. Candidates need a master's degree in public health, medicine, nursing, social sciences, education or gender studies and five years of professional experience in SRHR or adolescent and youth health programmes. They also need five years designing and implementing SRHR knowledge transfer for young people, five years engaging community, opinion or religious leaders and other gatekeepers on sensitive SRHR topics, five years applying gender-transformative approaches, and five years working in an international organisation. English and Kiswahili proficiency is required.

The advert does not list separate preferred qualifications. This full-time post is based in Tanga and reports to the Project Manager; it is open only to candidates with the pre-existing right to live and work in Tanzania. Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation advancing children's rights and equality for girls in more than 80 countries. Applications close through Plan International's careers portal on 31 October 2026.