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Main purpose of the role To manage a high-quality portfolio of investments and active programmes that advance CIFF’s SRHR priorities by accelerating self-care, self-injection and innovative approaches that make health systems work better for women and girls. The role will provide leadership for CIFF’s self-injection portfolio, with a primary focus on transitioning self-injection from externally supported scale-up into routine family planning services and integrating DMPA-SC self-injection into national health systems. The scope extends from last mile family planning delivery to market shaping to make innovative contraceptives and SRHR products affordable to countries and end users. This role is expected to lead to other similar innovations in health systems to make SRHR products more accessible. This role will manage existing and new investments that expand equitable access to self-care and self-injection, strengthen national stewardship and financing, and unlock policy, service delivery, supply chain, data and demand-side barriers to sustainable scale. In collaboration with CIFF SRHR Choices team, the role will support product introduction in priority countries and market shaping of relevant products, ensuring alignment with country priorities, and long-term integration into routine family planning systems. This is an opportunity to shape the next phase of self-injection and self-care in family planning: moving from successful introduction to sustainable, country-owned scale. The role sits at the intersection of grant-making, health systems, market shaping and government partnership, and will influence how catalytic philanthropy can help embed innovation into routine services for women and girls. In the first 12–18 months, success will include leading the reinvestment in DISC; embedding self-care within national health systems; continuing to reduce the cost per service towards a level that is affordable for communities and countries; and positioning the portfolio to start including additional products. Requirements Role’s responsibilities Strategy & planning   With a near term focus on self-care, support and lead broader integration of SRHR innovation in health systems Work with the Director for Equitable Access, SRHR Choices, Commodity Financing teams and co-funders to analyse national strategies with a particular focus on integrating DMPA-SC self-injection and other novel products into national health systems, routine family planning services, public-sector delivery channels and sustainable financing mechanisms. Coordinate and refine CIFF’s strategy that links new product introduction, market shaping and integrated service delivery including on self-injection and other innovative solutions. Prepare and present high-quality analysis and research, as required, to support cost effective implementation of self-injection and innovations through community health workers, primary health care and other innovative outlets including private sector. Contribute to the production of programme strategy and the associated evidence base, alongside other team members, prior to a proposal’s submission for approval. Identify and shape innovation opportunities that improve how health systems deliver contraception, including approaches that strengthen client autonomy, simplify service delivery, improve continuation, and enable routine availability of self-injection through public and mixed health systems. Drive transition and integration plans with grantees and country partners so that self-injection moves from project-supported delivery into national policy, training, supervision, commodity security, data systems and routine family planning service delivery.   Programme development, delivery & performance   Manage CIFF’s portfolio of self- care/injection investments of live and  active pipeline investment of c. $50-60M, in accordance with the sector priorities, including