| He /she has the following key responsibilities:
1) Provision of technical advice
- Drives the prioritization agenda in the region on gender equality and youth engagement issues. Supports country offices in the region via the provision of on-call support, sharing of information, guidance, tools and resources that help: strengthen and diversify youth community led responses and transform harmful gender norms.
- Advises on demand creation for the inclusion in National AIDS plans of programmatic interventions addressing the integration and scaling up of youth community-led responses and to advance gender equality and youth engagement.
- Together with colleagues in the global Equality and Rights for All Practice, RST and other partners, works towards maximizing the potential of resources mobilization opportunities and bilateral aid available at regional and national level to broker aligned, harmonized resources to address key youth led communities' priorities, and provide knowledge and other resources for young key populations, youth led networks and organizations, including for community led responses.
- Stays abreast of current/hot issues and tensions to young key populations, youth communities, including young women and provides direct support to these populations during human rights crises.
- Develops appropriate scorecards and dashboards to monitor cross-country and join UN performance in the region on selected gender and youth performance indicators.
2) Partnerships and collaboration
- Identifies needs, plans, coordinates, implements and evaluates regional capacity building activities for UNAIDS staff, regional and national communities and civil society counterparts and others as required. This particularly refers to organizing regional communities of practice related to gender, youth communities, and young leaders in the HIV response and participating as required in any relevant regional and global communities of practice.
- Builds, fosters and expands strategic alliances with youth communities to support tracking and monitoring government accountability for the attainment of HIV global objectives and commitments including resources made available to different stakeholder groups in the governmental and non-governmental sectors.
- Supports and strengthens alliances between PLHIV networks, youth, young women led and young key population networks and organizations, HIV-related civil society organizations, and social justice movements at regional level, including those working to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights and youth engagement as part of the HIV response.
- Provides support to cosponsors and other partners to ensure that: key considerations on how advances in gender equality, youth communities and youth engagement affect the HIV response and community priorities are integrated into relevant AIDS response and broader plans, programmes, budgets, and initiatives.
- Facilitates multi-country proposals development and resource mobilization for gender and youth initiatives.
3) Advocacy and knowledge management
- Provides guidance, substantive inputs and quality control on gender equality advocacy strategies, materials and dissemination tools to internal and external knowledge functions.
- Identifies and promotes good practices from within the region and from other regions to benefit the response in countries of the region, in other regions or globally, through appropriate representation of UNAIDS positions on gender equality, youth community engagement and leadership.
- Liaises with the Global Fund, PEPFAR and other partners to facilitate regional learning on gender, youth and young key populations.
4) Gender equality
- Works on the positioning of gender equality at the centre of UNAIDS efforts to implement the global AIDS strategy in the region, emphasizing gender transformative young women / youth/ young key populations / young people living with HIV-led interventions at scale.
- Establishes or supports at the regional or country-level effective leadership, mentorship and capacity building of networks of youth, young women and young key populations that include young women living with HIV, young women who use drugs, female sex workers and transgender women and adolescent girls and young women, for effective representation and advocacy on gender equality, sexual and reproductive health and rights.
- Analyzes the regional HIV epidemic, context and response from a gender perspective, as well as relevant data on sexual and reproductive health and rights. Monitors trends and opportunities across the region and provides on-call support to countries to advocate, build political commitment and mobilize resources. influencing to build political commitment and mobilize resources for the HIV response, as well as to enable South-South learning and collaboration.
- Supports the completion and implementation of gender assessments to ensured development and implementation.
- Organizes or participates in communities of practice on gender equality issues, young women-led responses, for joint coordination, information sharing, quality assurance, capacity building and mutual support.
5) Youth-specific focus
- Provides substantive support to countries in coordinating their youth activities by leading, facilitating and promoting efforts to scale up, strengthening and funding of the HIV response by and for young people.
- Provides advice to and engages with regional mechanisms or country-level governments, cosponsors, community led, women-led, and youth-led organizations and networks, on issues related to:
i. youth leadership and engagement;
ii. capacity building and skills development;
iii. investment in youth leadership and partnerships;
iv. comprehensive sexuality education;
v. education and social protection policies and programmes for young people;
vi. removal of policy, legal and societal barriers for adolescents to access services, including age of consent laws and policies;
vii. integration of services;
viii. generation, analysis and use of data for both youth specific and youth responsive programming and advocacy; and
ix. the overall expansion of youth-led responses.
- Supports the establishment of a culture of youth inclusion within UNAIDS and adoption of 'youth as asset' perspective including via strengthening and quality assuring of internship and other youth support programmes.
Essential:
Advanced university degree at Master´s level or equivalent in Social Sciences, Public Health, Human Rights, Public Policy or Administration, Law, Gender or Women's Studies, or another field related to the responsibilities. For internal candidates a first university degree and 4 years of relevant experience will be considered as equivalent |
Competencies:
UNAIDS Values
1. Commitment to the AIDS response
2. Integrity
3. Respect for diversity
Core competencies
1. Working in teams
2. Communicating with impact
3. Applying expertise
4. Delivering results
5. Driving change and innovation
6. Being accountable |
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