Senior HIV and AIDS Specialist, Nairobi

Closing date: Tuesday, 5 May 2015

Senior HIV and AIDS Specialist, P-5, Nairobi, Kenya
Vacancy No: E-VN-2015-000917
Duty Station: Nairobi
Country: Kenya
Region: ESARO
Job Level: P-5
Position: 00056502
Application Close: 05-May-15
Contract Type: Long-term Staff (FT)
Purpose of the Position
The Senior HIV and AIDS Specialist (Prevention) is responsible for providing regional technical leadership, guidance, and assistance to country programmes, shaping UNICEF's national programme efforts to reduce new infections among adolescents, and, more broadly, address underlying causes and drivers of adolescents' heightened risk and vulnerability to HIV. The incumbent will lead UNICEF's engagement in the joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS's efforts to reduce new infections among adolescents, support the attainment of HIV Prevention targets, outcomes and outputs in UNICEF's Medium Term Strategic Plan, and aligned with ESAR's Regional Priorities, will also serve as UNICEF ESARO's focal point for multisectoral adolescent programming.
S/he will ensure harmonized and aligned HIV prevention technical assistance and support to national programmes by Joint UN Country Teams on HIV/AIDS. The incumbent will represent ESARO among development partners and within the Interagency HIV Prevention Working Group, and the regional HIV prevention coordination structure, supervised under the Regional Directors Team.
Key Expected Results

1. Provide leadership in the provision of technical support and high-level guidance to UNICEF-supported country programmes and key partners for accelerating the implementation of evidence-informed HIV prevention interventions with and for adolescents in the region, including the strengthening of regional and country-level cosponsor support for the coordination, harmonization and alignment of national HIV prevention responses. Provide oversight, monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of the HIV prevention programme activities supported by country programmes. Promote the achievement by country programmes of the MTSP HIV Prevention targets by leading processes for the generation and dissemination of sub-regional and national level evidence on effective and innovative responses which effectively address the key drivers of the epidemic in the region.
2. Lead the coordination of ESARO support to Country Office activities in Regional Priority 4, Results for Adolescents, by fostering cross-sectoral engagement and collaboration on adolescent programming, and providing overall strategic vision for regional and country programming.
3. Provide high-quality oversight to country and regional office teams in the implementation of priority programming on adolescents, including ensuring data monitoring and accountability mechanisms on Regional Priority 4, as well as other relevant HIV initiatives on adolescents. Coordinate and review progress on related key indicators on HIV and adolescents and provide support to CO and RO colleagues to provide high quality reporting on results.
4. Provide senior representation, leadership, coordination support and management for ESARO within the regional interagency working groups on HIV prevention through the provision of technical leadership to strengthen UN coherence, harmonization, and alignment on HIV prevention activities and processes within the region in support of the HIV prevention programmes with and for adolescents by national partners.Through high-level technical leadership, strategic advice and technical guidance support efficient regional-level capacity development assistance, the development and dissemination of strategic information, joint advocacy and resource mobilization in order to increase adolescents' access to and use of HIV prevention information, skills and services.
5. Coordinate and guide broader multisectoral adolescent programming addressing an integrated approach to adolescent HIV Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support, and support other sectors including Protection, Education, and Health with the development of plans and strategies addressing the underlying causes of adolescent vulnerability.

Qualifications of Successful Candidate

• 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 at national and/or international level.
• Experience working in the UN or other international development organization an asset.
• 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 language.
• Knowledge of the local working language of the duty station would be an asset.

Competencies of Successful Candidate

• 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.

Remarks
This is an extension of the application deadline in order to expand the candidate pool. Previous applicants need not reapply as their original application will be duly considered.
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.

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