Youth Mobilization Volunteer (HIV)

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Mission and objectives

UNAIDS is leading the global effort to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals. Since the first cases of HIV were reported more than 35 years ago, 78 million people have become infected with HIV and 35 million have died from AIDS-related illnesses. Since it started operations in 1996, UNAIDS has led and inspired global, regional, national and local leadership, innovation and partnership to ultimately consign HIV to history. UNAIDS is a problem-solver. It places people living with HIV and people affected by the virus at the decision-making table and at the centre of designing, delivering and monitoring the AIDS response. It charts paths for countries and communities to get on the Fast-Track to ending AIDS and is a bold advocate for addressing the legal and policy barriers to the AIDS response. UNAIDS provides the strategic direction, advocacy, coordination and technical support needed to catalyse and connect leadership from governments, the private sector and communities to deliver life-saving HIV services. Without UNAIDS, there would be no strategic vision for the AIDS response. UNAIDS generates strategic information and analysis that increases the understanding of the state of the AIDS epidemic and progress made at the local, national, regional and global levels. It leads the world’s most extensive data collection on HIV epidemiology, programme coverage and finance and publishes the most authoritative and up-to-date information on the HIV epidemic—vital for an effective AIDS response. UNAIDS produces data for impact—no major report, speech or policy initiative on HIV has been launched or made without referring to data collected and released by UNAIDS.

Context

The Youth Mobilization Volunteer for Young Key Populations in UCO India will contribute: • In the execution of the UNAIDS youth strategy. • Leveraging new technologies and social media, the National Youth Mobilization Volunteer spearheads dynamic new ways of working in UNAIDS, using online tools to collaborate with country, regional and global teams and creates space for and reinforces a new generation of young key population leaders in the AIDS response. • Build up and strengthen strategic partnerships and coordination among youth networks and key stakeholders to facilitate the participation of young key populations and policy change.

Task description

Under the overall guidance of the Adviser, the Youth Mobilization Volunteer (HIV) for Young Key Populations will undertake the following tasks: • Support for increased political inclusion of young key populations in regional and country decision-making processes related to policy, programme development and funding mechanisms in the AIDS response-such as the Joint UN Teams on AIDS, Country Coordinating Mechanisms and National AIDS Control Organisation • Provide technical support to Country Office to mainstream Young Key Population (YKP) related issues into different programmes and initiatives. • Assist in mobilising resources to support YKP-led initiatives, to ensure a meaningful engagement of YKP as active partners of the HIV response. • Support in building a community of interest by making information more accessible to young people through blogs, podcasts, Twitter, Facebook, feature stories, impact articles, press releases. • Assist in exploring opportunities to build broad new alliances for social change inside and outside the AIDS response by adopting a network approach to social organization, identifying key influencers and organizations in other youth movements, while also utilizing existing partnerships to deliver on UNAIDS' strategic young key populations agenda. • Assist in organizing and managing events • Support in developing communication strategies and assist in mobilization of partners •Assist in preparation of monthly/quarterly review decks for internal and external meetings