If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
For 60 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.
Duties
Purpose of the Position
- Under the overall guidance of the Chief Child Health & Nutrition, and in close coordination with other programme sectors, accountable for the development, design, planning, implementation and management of HIV/AIDS activities within the country programme
- Accountable for ensuring that all aspects of the HIV/AIDS programme promote gender equality, with an emphasis on gender disaggregation and gender disparity to guide policies, programmes, monitoring and evaluation
- Direct, lead and manage a group of professional and support staff to develop, manage and administer the sectoral or inter-sectoral programme, with a view to the mainstreaming HIV across all aspects of the country programme
- The staff member will have the overall responsibility for the management of the `HIV/AIDS` programmatic area, with a strong focus on PMTCT and treatment of pediatric AIDS
- S/he will be the HIV/AIDS focal person for UNICEF, responsible for internal coordination of all the work done on the 4 Ps, as well as representing UNICEF in external fora, such as the UN technical working group on HIV/AIDS, the HIV Partners’ Forum and the health SWAP
Key Expected Results
- Timely sectoral analysis, input and guidance provided for the Situation Analysis, with consistent integration of sex-disaggregated data, and its periodic update completed for effective project planning, development and management
- Technical leadership and coordination provided to key HIV/AIDS programme/project documents, reports, plan of action, and targeted training/learning programmes, including advocacy in gender equality, ensuring promotion of effective knowledge management
- Quality of rights-based HIV/AIDS projects /programmes effectively promoted, and coherence, synergy and value added to project management process through results-based management
- Sectoral work plan and activities formulated, implemented and monitored, ensuring alignment with the defined project strategies and approaches and integration with gender mainstreaming across sectors
- Project delivery, evaluation and reporting carried out efficiently, rigorously and transparently in compliance with the established guidelines and procedures
- UNICEF`s global goals effectively promoted through advocacy and policy dialogue in the HIV/AIDS sector, focusing on the contributions of gender equality in these goals
- UNICEF and Government accountability ensured regarding supply and non-supply assistance, as well as disbursement of programme funds for the HIV/AIDS sector
- Effective communication and networking achieved through partnership and collaboration, sharing UNICEF`s position on gender equality as useful
Requisites
- Advanced university degree in one or more of the disciplines: Public Health, Public Health Administration, HIV/AIDS, Health Education, Medicine, Social Sciences or a field relevant to international development assistance in HIV/AIDS
- Training in gender and in nutrition programmes that promote gender equality as an asset
- Ten years of relevant work experience
- Experience working in the UN or other international development organization
- Field work experience
- Training and experience in HIVAIDS health care
- Background/familiarity with Emergency
- Experience in monitoring gender disparities and in programme interventions that reduce these disparities as an asset
- Fluency in English and another UN working language
- Fluency in local working language of the duty station, Portuguese an asset
- A first level university degree with a relevant combination of academic qualifications and experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree
- Has highest-level communication skills, including engaging and informative formal public speaking
- Creates and encourages a climate of team-working and collaboration in a multi-cultural environment
- Consistently achieves high-level results, managing and delivering projects on-time and on-budget
- Has high-level leadership and supervisory skills
- Provides others with a clear direction
- Motivates and empowers others
- Recruits staff of a high caliber
- Sets, develops and revises organizational strategy and develops clear visions of the organization`s future potential
- Analyzes and integrates diverse and complex quantitative and qualitative data from a wide range of sources
- Quickly builds rapport with individuals and groups
- Actively nurtures good relationships with people across all organizational levels and boundaries, and with government leaders and stakeholders
- Identifies urgent and potentially risky decisions and acts on them promptly
- Initiates and generates organization-wide activities
- Negotiates effectively by exploring a range of possibilities
Notes
- Due to the amount of applications, only candidates considered for the job will be contacted
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- UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organisation