Senior Medical Scientist

This position is remote-based. Salary range for US-based candidate is $165000.00 to $180000.00. Compensation for this position will be determined by the prevailing market rate in the employees country and the applicable statutory laws in addition to Ipass own pay philosophy and other factors such as the employees experience level and expertise.

Position may work remotely from any of the following US states: AZ CA CO DC FL GA MD MA MI NJ NY NC PA SC TX VA WA. Additionally the position may work remotely from any of the following countries outside of the US: Bangladesh Bolivia Canada Democratic Republic of the Congo Cote dIvoire Ethiopia Indonesia Kenya Malawi Mexico Mozambique Myanmar Nepal Nigeria South Africa and Zambia.

The Senior Medical Scientist will provide technical leadership to help ensure that the best available evidence supports quality and continuous improvement in safe abortion contraception and gender-based violence management across development and humanitarian contexts. This role will strengthen abortion availability accessibility acceptability and quality through formal health systems and self-care pathways by establishing and enhancing global technical tools standards processes monitoring mechanisms and partnerships that contribute to a sustainable abortion ecosystem.

Summary of Responsibilities

The Senior Medical Scientist is a subject matter expert using clinical expertise evolving evidence and strategic partnerships to advance Ipass mission at the global collaboration with key staff across the organization Senior Medical Scientist will advance innovative initiatives and provide strategic guidance and technical assistance on safe abortion contraception and GBV care quality and access. The Senior Medical Scientist disseminates new evidence through publications and presentations; conducts training; represents Ipas externally advocating for the organizations mission within the broader reproductive health field; and builds partnerships with colleague organizations to maximize impact.

Organizational Leadership and Strategy:

• Provides technical leadership to develop and test innovative approaches to improve quality abortion and contraception care (e.g. global quality indicators quality improvement processes) and to integrate safe abortion and postabortion contraception into SRHR programming for Ipas support programs and in emergency crisis settings

Program technical or functional content of the job:

• Provide and/or analyze evidence based technical content used for advocacy opportunities related to safe abortion for Ipas supported programs and external coalitions
• Develop technical tools and resources translating evidence based clinical updates into health services
• Provides technical leadership on quality and regulatory processes pertinent to the Ipas MVA product line as well as infection prevention and MVA processing
• Supports training of Ipas supported sites and partners on content such as VCAT clinical management of abortion and contraception care trauma-informed care legal risk assessment etc.
• Leads and/or significant participation in clinical/technical research and technical evidence dissemination for abortion/contraception clinical practice improvement
• Prepare and/or analyze service delivery data and issue clinical recommendations for continuous improvement of quality of care across the pathways to care.

Resource mobilization:

• Supports fundraising initiatives by contributing to donor proposals and preparation/review of donor reports

Communications & representation:

• Write periodic evidence summaries for internal communications with technical staff across the network
• Provides external leadership Ipas representation and advocacy as required at national regional and international conferences and events
• Disseminates evidence externally through presentations and publications

Position Requirements

• A deep commitment to sexual and reproductive health and rights especially abortion contraception and GBV care access
• Demonstrated contribution to the development of technical tools standards guidelines and SRHR research.
• Professional-level fluency in English (speaking reading and writing)
• Proven ability to support and strengthen the capacity of teams including through training supportive supervision strong communication nonhierarchical leadership approaches and modeling the Ipas core values.
• Demonstrated capacity and commitment to good stewardship of funds including strong skills in work planning budgeting financial monitoring and data-driven problem solving.
• Proven ability to build positive working relationships in a multicultural and complex implementation contexts with diverse internal teams and external partners

Education

• Advanced clinical degree (e.g nursing midwifery)

Experience

• 10 years experience in clinical practice including reproductive health care and experience applying scientific clinical information to practical training and programs
• Substantive experience with evaluation of quality in clinical care and quality improvement.
• Substantive knowledge and experience of international reproductive health programs and systems in low-resource and humanitarian settings
• Knowledge of key partners and influencers in our field
• Experience working in multicultural teams

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD or DrPH and/or significant experience in research
• Strong clinical background
• Experience working in humanitarian contexts and/or working with humanitarian implementing agencies
• Established relationships with non-profit organizations and advocacy groups
• Proficiency with at least one Ipas working language such as French Portuguese or Spanish.
• Strong preference for advanced practice midwife or nurse

Working environment:

• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time internationally including in crisis settings

Ipas is strongly committed to providing a work environment that is free from all forms of harassment discrimination and inequity. We recruit employ train promote and compensate our personnel without regard to race age sex religion national origin color creed ancestry citizenship caste ethnicity regional identity tribal identity marital status veteran status disability genetic information gender identity transgender status sexual orientation or any other personal characteristic protected by law or outlined by Ipas policy. Ipas acknowledges that these personal characteristics may differ in different contexts.