Gender and HIV Specialist at HIFASS

Job Description

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

Specific Duties

Program Development and Advisory 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 learning network.
• 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 base for AIDS response strategies by documenting practice experience, lesson learned and replicable tools from applied initiatives.

Minimum Requirements

• An advance University Degree in a Development area - Social Science, Political Science, Public Administration, Public Health or Epidemiology.

Desired Skills and Experience

• 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.
• Organisation, n both developed and developing countries is highly desirable.
• Experience in leading/managing knowledge product development and dissemination