Gender Specialist at HIFASS

Basic Function

• The Specialist serves as a technical resource on gender and sexual diversity for HI V/AIDS activities including but not limited to policy development and advisory services, research and content development, practice advocacy, management and coordination.

Essential Job Functions, Duties, and Responsibilities
Program Development andAdvisory Service:

• Provide direct advisory and technical support to program in areas of HIV and gender and sexual diversity
• Provide advice and technical support in development of programmatic focus to address stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV
• Provide technical support to ensure the involvement of people living with and affected by HIV in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of program.

Research and Content Development:

• Lead program content development of normative standards and approaches on HIV,gender and sexual diversity
• Research and understand concepts to foster improved adherence to human rights treaties and obligations under international agreements.

Practice Advocacy:

• Contribute experience and expertise to the formulation of new programmatic activities, documenting practice and cross-practice experience and lesson learned in the country.
• Promote regional and local partnering and exchange, through HIV information and learning networks.
• Support networking among partners, including the identification of external support providers

Management and Coordination:

• Contribute to team strategy development, work planning and M&E plan from gender and sexual diversity perspective
• Promote knowledge management to enrich the content bate for AIDS response strategies by documenting practice experience, lesson learned and replicable tools from applied initiatives.

Minimum Requirements

• An advanced university degree in a Development araes-Social Science, Political Science, Public Administration, Public Health or Epidemiology

Desired skills and Experiences:

• Minimum of 10 years of overall relevant professional experience as well as a proven professional record in the practice area
• Proven professional credibility, as well as senior-level working experience in governmental, multilateral or civil society organization, in both developed and developing countries is highly desirable
• Experience in leading/managing knowledge product development and dissemination
• Ability to communicate in any of the local languages will be an added advantage

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Basic Function

• The Specialist serves as a technical resource on gender and sexual diversity for HI V/AIDS activities including but not limited to policy development and advisory services, research and content development, practice advocacy, management and coordination.

Essential Job Functions, Duties, and Responsibilities
Program Development andAdvisory Service:

• Provide direct advisory and technical support to program in areas of HIV and gender and sexual diversity
• Provide advice and technical support in development of programmatic focus to address stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV
• Provide technical support to ensure the involvement of people living with and affected by HIV in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of program.

Research and Content Development:

• Lead program content development of normative standards and approaches on HIV,gender and sexual diversity
• Research and understand concepts to foster improved adherence to human rights treaties and obligations under international agreements.

Practice Advocacy:

• Contribute experience and expertise to the formulation of new programmatic activities, documenting practice and cross-practice experience and lesson learned in the country.
• Promote regional and local partnering and exchange, through HIV information and learning networks.
• Support networking among partners, including the identification of external support providers

Management and Coordination:

• Contribute to team strategy development, work planning and M&E plan from gender and sexual diversity perspective
• Promote knowledge management to enrich the content bate for AIDS response strategies by documenting practice experience, lesson learned and replicable tools from applied initiatives.

Minimum Requirements

• An advanced university degree in a Development araes-Social Science, Political Science, Public Administration, Public Health or Epidemiology

Desired skills and Experiences:

• Minimum of 10 years of overall relevant professional experience as well as a proven professional record in the practice area
• Proven professional credibility, as well as senior-level working experience in governmental, multilateral or civil society organization, in both developed and developing countries is highly desirable
• Experience in leading/managing knowledge product development and dissemination
• Ability to communicate in any of the local languages will be an added advantage