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Programme Officer - Innovation and Engagement (Adolescents) (P-2), HIV/AIDS Section, Programme Division, NYHQ (182 days) # 00113192

New York City

  • Organization: UNICEF - United Nations Children’s Fund
  • Location: New York City
  • Grade: Junior level - P-2, International Professional - Internationally recruited position
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Youth
    • HIV and AIDS
    • Children's rights (health and protection)
    • Project and Programme Management
    • Innovations for Sustainable Development
  • Closing Date: Closed

UNICEF’s HIV response for children must ensure that age, poverty, gender inequality, and social exclusion do not determine access to life saving HIV prevention, treatment and care. UNICEF and its partners’ responses ensure all children are born free of HIV, and remain HIV-free for the first two decades of life, from birth through adolescence. It means that all children living with HIV have access to the treatment, care and support they need to remain alive and healthy.

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, results.

The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this commitment to children’s rights into action. For UNICEF, equity means that all children have an opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential, without discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the degree that any child has an unequal chance in life — in its social, political, economic, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There is growing evidence that investing in the health, education and protection of a society’s most disadvantaged citizens — addressing inequity — not only will give all children the opportunity to fulfill their potential but also will lead to sustained growth and stability of countries. This is why the focus on equity is so vital. It accelerates progress towards realizing the human rights of all children, which is the universal mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, while also supporting the equitable development of nations.

HIV & AIDS Section is located within the Programmes Division (PD) at UNICEF’s New York headquarters. UNICEF’s HIV response for children must ensure that age, poverty, gender inequality, and social exclusion do not determine access to life saving HIV prevention, treatment and care. UNICEF and its partners’ responses ensure all children are born free of HIV, and remain HIV-free for the first two decades of life, from birth through adolescence. It means that all children living with HIV have access to the treatment, care and support they need to remain alive and healthy. This is UNICEF’s vision of an AIDS-free generation starting with children. Ending AIDS among children is vital to ending the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030 – the overarching goal of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), of which UNICEF is a co-sponsoring partner.

How can you make a difference?

You will be responsible for deep engagement with adolescent networks, with communities of adolescents living with and/or affected by HIV and AIDS, and with organizations that work with these networks, across UNICEF’s key geographic units. Including leadership development, adolescent-engaged research, speaking engagements, visibility, and digital engagement, with the aim of unleashing the creativity and passion of young people to unearth new solutions for the global HIV response.

You must lead in identifying, adapting, replicating and adapting processes, platforms, tools, and methodologies too bring the voice and perspectives of adolescents and key affected networks to bear as a critical force for generating and applying solutions that work for their challenges. You will collaborate with key units across the organization to accomplish this. Engendering strong business relationships across sectors to bring the voices and leadership of girl and women-led networks will be a critical dimension of this role.

You will play a key coordination role for selected strategic initiatives and will curate and produce key knowledge products that showcase the best of UNICEF and global programming across the geographic regions.

Summary of key functions and accountabilities:

Adolescent-led Innovation

  • Work closely and collaboratively with internal and external colleagues and partners to advance strategies and methodologies and to engage adolescent and youth leaders and networks in identifying innovative solutions to the barriers restricting their access to care
  • Work with regional offices and country teams to define critical programmatic gaps of import to the adolescent and youth segment and define pathways to scale up and sustain coverage of a focused set of product, technological, and service delivery innovations within health, education, and protection sectors.

Engagement

  • Develop and execute coordinated strategy to develop functional partnerships with key global multi-sectoral adolescent and youth forums, networks, coalitions, and initiatives, including and especially the networks and communities of affected girls and young women
  • Work with advocacy and partnerships teams within and across Programmes Division to align youth engagement strategies, and deepen digital and strategic engagement of adolescent and youth activities and leaders throughout the spectrum of programme design, review, and strategy-setting
  • Support resource mobilization efforts to cultivate next generation of engaged leaders in HIV, Health and wellbeing, working across sectoral lines and interests

Coordination

  • Support development of annual operational plans and procedures
  • Track and manage critical timelines, deadlines, and due dates for key global initiatives and projects
  • Support management of critical donor relationships and accountabilities, including programmatic and financial report writing

Knowledge Curation

  • Contribute to the normative work of the team, including manuscript development, guidance, and reporting
  • Working with colleagues across Programmes Division, Office of Innovation, Data Analytics Policy and Strategic Planning, Regional and Country Offices, curate compelling knowledge products that showcase the best of adolescent-engaged innovation and engagement within UNICEF’s adolescent and HIV programming
  • Build and manage project collaboration tools to support effective coordination of key initiatives

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have:

  • A University Degree (Master’s) in Public health, 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 sciences is required;
  • A minimum of 2 years of professional experience in HIV/AIDS planning, project management, innovation, and/or in relevant areas of health care, health/emergency preparedness at the national or international is required;
  • Experience in HIV/AIDS programme/project development in a UN system agency, multilateral, or international organization is an asset.
  • Fluency in English (written and verbal) is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is considered an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Care, Respective, Integrity, Trust and Accountability.

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

For more information on remuneration and benefits, please visit UNICEF’s Entitlements’ page.  If you would like to find estimates for entitlements, you may use the online Salary Estimate Calculator

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles.

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