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HIV/AIDS Specialist (Health), NO-3, Salvador, Brazil

San Salvador

  • Organization: UNICEF - United Nations Children’s Fund
  • Location: San Salvador
  • Grade: Mid/Senior level - Mid/Senior - Internationally recruited position
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Public Health and Health Service
    • HIV and AIDS
    • Sexual and reproductive health
  • Closing Date: Closed

The Health and HIV/AIDS Specialist (Health) will support the development and preparation of the health interventions/projects and will be responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating and reporting of program progress of health and HIV/AIDS thematic areas within the country programme components.

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Purpose of the Position

The Health and HIV/AIDS Specialist reports to the Chief of Field Office NO3 and Chief of Health and HIV/AIDS NO4 for guidance and supervision. The specialist supports the development and preparation of the health interventions/projects and is responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating and reporting of program progress of health and HIV/AIDS thematic area within the country programme components; and provides technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable results according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM) and organizational Strategic Plans and goals, standards of performance and accountability framework.


Key Accountabilities and Duties & Tasks

1. Support to interventions/projects development and planning

- Support/contribute to the preparation/design and conduct/update of situation analysis for the sector/s to establish a strategic plan for development, design and management of health and HIV/AIDS related thematic areas. Keep abreast of development trends to enhance program management, efficiency and delivery.

- Participate in strategic Health and HIV/AIDS thematic area discussion on the planning of Health and HIV/AIDS interventions/projects. Formulate, design and prepare a sector of the Health and HIV/AIDS area proposals, ensuring alignment with the overall UNICEF's Strategic Plans and Country Program and coherence/integration with UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF), regional strategies and national priorities, plans and competencies.

- Establish specific interventions/projects goals, objectives, strategies, and implementation plans based on results-based planning terminology and methodology (RBM). Prepare required documentations for thematic area review and approval.

- Work closely and collaboratively with internal and external colleagues and partners to discuss strategies and methodologies and to determine national priorities/competencies to ensure the achievement of concrete and sustainable results.

- Provide technical and operational support throughout all stages of programming processes and to ensure integration, coherence and harmonization of programs/projects with other UNICEF thematic areas and components and achievement of results as planned and allocated.

2. Health and HIV/AIDS thematic area management, monitoring and delivery of results

- Plan and/or collaborate with internal and external partners to establish monitoring benchmarks, performance indicators and other UNICEF/UN system indicators and measurement to assess/strengthen performance accountability, coherence and delivery of concrete and sustainable results for the assigned sector in health and HIV programmes/interventions.

- Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, programmatic reviews and midi and annual reviews with government and other counterparts to assess progress and to determine required action/interventions to achieve results.

- Prepare/assess monitoring and evaluation reports to identify gaps, strengths/weaknesses and management, identify lessons learned and use knowledge gained for development planning and timely intervention to achieve goals.

- Actively monitor interventions/projects through field visits, surveys and/or exchange of information with partners/stakeholders to assess progress, identify bottlenecks and potential problems and take timely decisions to resolve issues and/or refer to relevant officials for timely resolution.

- Monitor and verify the optimum/appropriate use of Health and HIV/AIDS thematic area resources (financial, administrative and other assets) confirming compliance with organizational rules, regulations/procedures and donor commitments, standards of accountability and integrity and ensuring timely reporting and liquidation of resources.

- Prepare regular/mandated interventions/projects reports for management, donors and partners to keep them informed of Health and HIV/AIDS progress results.

3. Technical and operational support to Health and HIV interventions/projects implementation

- Provide technical guidance and operational support to government counterparts, NGO partners, UN system partners and other country office partners/donors on interpretation, application and understanding of UNICEF policies, strategies, processes and best practices and approaches on health and related issues to support program development planning, management, implementation and delivery of results.

- Participate in discussions with subnational partners/clients/stakeholders to promote health and HIV/AIDS and development issues.

- Draft policy papers, briefs and other strategic program materials for management use, information and/or consideration.

4. Networking and partnership building

- Build and sustain effective close working partnerships with relevant sector government counterparts, subnational stakeholders and partners/allies/donors/academia through active networking and advocacy to exchange knowledge/expertise, leverage resources/action, build alliances and engage participation of communities in programme design, delivery and demand creation.

- Prepare technical and information materials for CO and ZO programme advocacy to promote awareness, establish partnership/alliances and enhance resource mobilization for UNICEF Health HIV interventions/projects.

- Participate in appropriate inter-agency discussions and planning on Health and HIV and related issues to collaborate with inter-agency partners/colleagues on UNDAF planning and preparation of Health and HIV programmes/projects ensuring organizational position, interests and priorities are fully considered and integrated in the UNDAF process in development planning and agenda setting.

5. Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building

- Apply/introduce innovative approaches and good practice to build the capacity of partners and stakeholders and to support the implementation and delivery of concrete and sustainable program results.

- Keep abreast and conduct research to provide evidence for implementation of best and cutting edge practices in health.

- Assess, institutionalize and share best practices and knowledge learneed.

- Contribute to the development and implementation of policies and procedures to ensure optimum efficiency and efficacy of sustainable programs and projects.

- Organize and implement capacity building initiatives to enhance the competencies of clients/stakeholders to promote sustainable results on health related programs/projects.
 

Qualifications of Successful Candidate

Education

An advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in Public Health, Nutrition, Pediatric Health, Family Health, Health Research, Global/International Health, Health Policy and/or Management, Environmental Health Sciences, Biostatistics, Socio-Medical, Health Education, Epidemiology or other health related science is required.

Experience

- A minimum of five (5) years of professional progressive experience, at the national and/or international level, in public health/nutrition planning and management and/or in relevant areas of maternal and neonatal health care is required

- Professional work experience in health emergency/humanitarian preparedness, some of which preferably in a developing country, is desirable.

- Previous relevant work experience in health/nutrition program/project development and management in UN system and/or agency is considered an asset.

- Previous professional work experience at the managerial/supervisory level is desirable.

Language

- Fluency in Portuguese and English is required. Knowledge of an additional UN Language (Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Spanish) is considered an asset.


Competencies of Successful Candidate

Core Values

•Commitment


•Diversity and Inclusion

•Integrity

Core competencies

•Communication (II)

•Working with People (II)

•Drive for Results (II)

Functional Competencies

•Leading and supervising (I)

•Formulating strategies and concepts (II)

•Analyzing (III)

•Relating and networking (II)

•Deciding and Initiating action (II)

•Applying technical expertise (III)

 

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Please note that this Vacancy Announcement is open for competition to Brazilian nationals only.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all religious and ethnic backgrounds, representing the diversity of Brazil, such as black and indigenous people, to apply to become a part of our organization. Candidates will be treated equally regardless of gender, sexual orientation, special needs, social and HIV/aids status. UNICEF is a smoke-free environment.

This vacancy is now closed.