Reports To

Program guide, Women in Leadership (0.5) & Director of COMS-A (0.5)

Location

COMS-A Secretariat, Kigali, Rwanda

COMS-A Overview

COMS-A is a pan-continental, African-led platform for medical education reform, uniting over 200 medical schools across the continent around common standards, shared research, and coordinated advocacy. Since its 2025 launch, COMS-A has placed gender, sexual and reproductive health and rights (GSRH) at the center of its mission, building a unified platform for training in gender-responsive health and educational services across Africa’s medical schools.

Purpose of the Job

The Coordinator is a new role that combines technical leadership on GSRH programming with ongoing member engagement for the Consortium. Working closely with the COMS-A Director and Program guide - Women in Leadership, the Coordinator ensures that GSRH integration is substantive, evidence-based, and contextually appropriate across the Secretariat’s workstreams, including the Faculty Development Academy and the Higher Education Leadership Academy, among others, while also sustaining and growing COMS-A’s membership base across a rapidly expanding, linguistically and regionally diverse network of institutions.

GSRH Program Leadership and Curriculum Integration

1. organize the integration of GSRH content into curricula, training programs, and mentorship initiatives across COMS-A workstreams.
2. Co-design GSRH curriculum content and educational materials for key academies and training initiatives.
3. deliver programmatic leadership and operational assist for leadership and allyship programs, including oversight of quality-improvement projects and tracking institutional commitments.
4. assist fellowship and specialized training programs through recruitment, cohort logistics, partner site coordination, and monitoring of institution-based projects.
5. assist GSRH-related monitoring and evaluation: track indicators, compile evidence, and contribute to quarterly and annual donor reporting.
6. Serve as a primary point of contact for member institutions on GSRH-related programming and technical assistance requests.

Membership Engagement

7. guide recruitment, onboarding, and ongoing engagement of COMS-A member institutions across Africa.
8. keep and update the membership database and communications systems, ensuring accurate and current records as the network grows.
9. create and execute overall member engagement strategies, facilitate communities of practice across thematic areas, and keep active oversight of member involvement and satisfaction.
10. assist planning and delivery of the annual MedEdAfrica conference and other convenings, including coordination of GSRH scientific programming.

Secretariat Support

11. assist the COMS-A Director on day-to-day Secretariat operations, reporting, and donor communications as needed.
12. Contribute to partnership development with continental and global bodies on related collaboration.

Qualifications, Knowledge, and Skills

Academic qualifications

Minimum of a Master’s in global health, health professions education, gender studies, or a related field.

Experience

• Demonstrated experience working on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and/or gender equity programming, ideally within an academic context in Africa.
• Experience with membership-based organizations, network coordination, or multi-country program management.
• Experience in curriculum design or faculty development in health professions education preferred.
• Prior experience supporting grant-funded programs and donor reporting requirements preferred.

Technical competencies

• Excellent written and spoken English and French.
• Familiarity with monitoring and evaluation frameworks for education or health programs preferred.

Behavioral competencies

• Strong organizational, relationship-management, and cross-cultural communication skills.
• Willingness to travel across COMS-A member countries as needed.

• organize the integration of GSRH content into curricula, training programs, and mentorship initiatives across COMS-A workstreams.
• Co-design GSRH curriculum content and educational materials for key academies and training initiatives.
• deliver programmatic leadership and operational assist for leadership and allyship programs, including oversight of quality-improvement projects and tracking institutional commitments.
• assist fellowship and specialized training programs through recruitment, cohort logistics, partner site coordination, and monitoring of institution-based projects.
• assist GSRH-related monitoring and evaluation: track indicators, compile evidence, and contribute to quarterly and annual donor reporting.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for member institutions on GSRH-related programming and technical assistance requests.
• guide recruitment, onboarding, and ongoing engagement of COMS-A member institutions across Africa.
• keep and update the membership database and communications systems, ensuring accurate and current records as the network grows.
• create and execute overall member engagement strategies, facilitate communities of practice across thematic areas, and keep active oversight of member involvement and satisfaction.
• assist planning and delivery of the annual MedEdAfrica conference and other convenings, including coordination of GSRH scientific programming.
• assist the COMS-A Director on day-to-day Secretariat operations, reporting, and donor communications as needed.
• Contribute to partnership development with continental and global bodies on related collaboration.

• Excellent written and spoken English and French.
• Familiarity with monitoring and evaluation frameworks for education or health programs preferred.
• Strong organizational, relationship-management, and cross-cultural communication skills.
• Curriculum design and educational material development
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Membership engagement and network coordination
• Program and event coordination
• Donor reporting

• Minimum of a Master’s in global health, health professions education, gender studies, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience working on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and/or gender equity programming, ideally within an academic context in Africa.
• Experience with membership-based organizations, network coordination, or multi-country program management.
• Experience in curriculum design or faculty development in health professions education preferred.
• Prior experience supporting grant-funded programs and donor reporting requirements preferred.
• Willingness to travel across COMS-A member countries as needed.