Ipas Nigeria

Ipas is a global non-profit organization that works around the world to eliminate deaths and injuries from unsafe abortion and increase women's ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights.

Founded in 1973, Ipas is a global nongovernmental organization dedicated to ending preventable deaths and disabilities from unsafe abortion. Through local, national and global partnerships, Ipas works to ensure that women can obtain safe, respectful and comprehensive abortion care, including counseling and contraception to prevent future unintended pregnancies.

At Ipas, we believe that:

Every woman has a right to safe reproductive health choices, including safe abortion care.
No woman should have to risk her life, her health, her fertility, her well-being or the well-being of her family because she lacks reproductive health care.
Women everywhere must have the opportunity to determine their futures, care for their families and manage their fertility.
Along with caring, committed health professionals and other colleagues worldwide, Ipas tackles this neglected public health problem head on in some of the world’s poorest countries. While many international donors and governments have focused attention and resources elsewhere, we struggle against the fundamental social injustice that results in the deaths of so many women in the prime of their lives.

Based in Abuja, Ipas Nigeria works to increase women’s access to vital reproductive health care, providing postabortion care and family planning, and strengthening alliances and partnerships in support of women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Our mission
Every minute of every day, women who do not have access to safe abortion care take great risks to end unintended pregnancies. Many lose their lives. Others suffer serious, often permanent injuries. Ipas is dedicated to saving women's lives by preventing unsafe abortion. Working with local partners around the world, Ipas works to improve women's access and right to safe, high-quality abortion care and reproductive health services. Learn more about What We Do.

Our staff
We employ more than 400 diverse professionals across program offices in Africa, Asia and Latin America and in our headquarters in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Our employees embody a wealth of varied professional and academic experiences, and many staff members are highly regarded contributors to their specific fields of research and reproductive health work. In our Chapel Hill headquarters, employees hail from across the United States and around the world. In each of our country program offices, the staff consists entirely of local professionals. But no matter where in the world Ipas employees work, their passion and commitment to Ipas's mission unites them.

Work environment
At Ipas, we believe that our employees are our most important asset—and they know it's true. Ipas employees enjoy a friendly, flexible work environment that fosters a strong sense of community. We routinely celebrate long-term staff members' 10- or even 20-year anniversaries with the organization. Lunch-and-learn activities, wellness initiatives and holiday celebrations are just some of the many ways employees come together to have fun and strengthen relationships.

Benefits
Ipas offers competitive salaries, an employee-friendly workplace and a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

Medical and dental coverage
Life insurance
Travel accident insurance
Long-term care insurance
401k retirement plan in which employees are immediately 100% vested
Medical- and dependent-care reimbursement accounts
Extraordinary family care leave: 6 weeks of paid leave for qualifying events
Vacation leave: starting at 3 weeks per year
Sick leave: 12 days per year
Personal leave: 4 hours per month
13 paid holidays
Flexible work hours: 37.5-hour work week with option to flex time