Team Lead, Community and Youth Engagement – D1  

About UNAIDS:
Serving Communities and Countries to End Inequalities and AIDS
We, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, lead the global effort to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. By placing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to reduction of inequalities at the heart of our work, we lead the global response to AIDS by: (i) maximizing equitable and equal access to HIV services, (ii) breaking down barriers to achieving HIV outcomes, and (iii) integrating efficient HIV responses into wider health and protection systems. 
We are committed to creating an equal, safe and empowering workplace culture where all people in all their diversity thrive. We live our values of Commitment to the AIDS Response, Integrity and Respect for Diversity.

MANDATE OF THE DEPARTMENT:
The Equality and Rights for All Practice team delivers the UNAIDS Secretariat’s goals of reducing intersecting inequalities. This specifically refers to ensuring that the HIV response is gender-transformative, rights-based and people-focused – People Living with HIV, Key Populations, and Youth (including Young People Living with HIV, Young Key Populations, Adolescent Girls and Young Women) – in a manner that is community-led, inclusive and progresses societal enablers. The Practice also delivers on the organizational agenda to remove human rights barriers and intersecting gender inequalities. It does that by developing and sharing policies, guidance, research and tools that support legal, policy and social norm change; by advocating for a greater political commitment; and by convening communities of practice and leveraging existing and new partnerships to continuously identify and respond to the inequalities driving the HIV epidemic.

Main tasks and Responsibilities of the Position:
Reporting to the Director, Equality and Rights for All Practice, the Team Lead, Community and Youth Engagement is responsible for the development and implementation of the UNAIDS engagement strategy to advance community leadership in the HIV response.

She/he/they has the following key responsibilities: 

1. Leadership and strategic direction

a. Conceptualizes, catalyzes, and shapes the development of UNAIDS’ high level and strategic relationships with community and civil society activists and leaders and other key partners such as governments and multilateral institutions, providing strategic direction to UNAIDS leadership. 

b. Develops and implements UNAIDS’ civil society and community engagement strategies to advance community leadership, including community-led responses, as central to the AIDS response, with a specific focus on the engagement of networks of: people living with HIV, gay and bisexual men, people who use drugs, sex workers, and transgender people, specifically including networks of women and young people in all of these groups, as well as adolescent girls and young women in all their diversity and other marginalized groups experiencing inequalities in the context of HIV.

c. Provides strategic direction and coordinates efforts to advance UNAIDS’ political and technical support to community-led networks and civil society organizations, that include mechanisms to monitor legal, policy, and funding spaces and guide UNAIDS’ responses to changes in these spaces.

d. Provides overall vision, leadership, and coordination, including the elaboration of UNAIDS strategies and policies to harness the comparative strengths of civil society and community-led PLHIV, key population, women and youth networks at national, regional, and global levels for accountability and delivery on the Global AIDS Strategy and Political Declaration commitments, including the commitments on community-led responses and the GIPA principle.

e. Oversees the provision of technical guidance to regional and country offices and leads on the positioning of community leadership at the centre of UNAIDS efforts to implement the Global AIDS Strategy.
f. Leads and influences UNAIDS’ research agenda, data collection, generation and analysis, positions, policies and programmes, as well as those of communities, donors and other partners, to ensure adequate attention to and funding of community-led responses as critical to the HIV response.

g. Engages in substantial amounts of technical, research, and presentation work, including extensive writing, editing, translation of research into appropriate messages for different audiences, and tools for different stakeholder groups, and close quality assurance of all written and presentations from across the Division.

2. Advocacy, collaboration and partnership building

a. Leads external advocacy with intergovernmental fora, missions and others as appropriate, particularly on the meaningful engagement, leadership, effectiveness, and sustainability of HIV responses led by and for networks of PLHIV and Key and Priority Populations, including those led by women and young people in these communities.

b. Harnesses the strategic strengths of a broad range of civil society organizations (including NGOs, INGOs, academic partnerships, FBOs, grassroots, national, regional, and global networks of people living with HIV and key populations), provide leadership and vision to strengthen the HIV response at all levels.

c. Leads and supports the development of campaigns, influencing and advocacy initiatives with diverse networks of stakeholders, influencers and partners, to drive community-led research, advocacy, and service delivery as well as engagement in decision-making and financing for community networks, to end the intersecting inequalities that continue to drive the HIV epidemic, and to support the achievement of the GAS societal enablers.

d. Positions UNAIDS as a global thought and knowledge leader on health, gender transformative, and human rights responses led by and for affected communities.

e. Oversees the development and strengthening of knowledge networks and communities of practice on community leadership, community-led responses, ensuring information sharing, quality assurance, and capacity building.

f. Builds and maintains strong partnerships and represents UNAIDS with key stakeholders including at interdepartmental / UNAIDS initiatives, with cosponsors, donors, civil society, and inter-agency bodies among others, to advance the needs and priorities of people living with HIV, key populations, and other priority populations and achieve UNAIDS strategic, operational and resource mobilization goals.

g. Provides strategic direction on knowledge management for the team and influences knowledge management in other teams to partner effectively and systematically with civil society and community-led networks and organizations, and to support community-led responses.

h. Leads and oversees research, analysis, and knowledge brokering of strategic information on the priorities and needs of people living with HIV and key and priority populations in all their intersecting dimensions, with a strong focus on research led by and for PLHIV and key population communities, including those led by women and young people, for use and adaptation at the global, regional and country levels. 

3. Management

a. Provides leadership, guides and supports staff. Nurtures an equal, safe and empowering work environment and team culture. Promotes and models excellence and timely management and resolution of problems within the Division and Department. Ensures compliance with all corporate Human Resources processes and frameworks.

b. Supervises and provides quality assurance of inputs related to community and youth engagement into planning, budgeting, reporting processes and outputs including departmental workplans and budgets, UNAIDS’s Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework (UBRAF), thematic reporting, evaluations and all other relevant corporate and practice processes. 

c. Leads and supports resource mobilization for community- and youth-led responses to HIV. 

d. Participates in the senior leadership team of the Equality and Rights for All Practice

e. Guides, motivates, manages, mentors and develops the members of the community and youth engagement team and CYE and ERA regional, and country office advisors with responsibilities for community and youth engagement, and relevant knowledge networks.

4. Performs other related functions as required and agreed by the Director, Equality and Rights for All Practice.
 

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education:
Essential: Advanced university degree at Master´s level or higher in Political Science, Public Policy or Administration, Law, or another relevant field in Social Sciences, Communications, or Public Health. 

A relevant first-year university degree and 17 years of relevant professional experience will be considered as equivalent for internal candidates.

Competencies:
UNAIDS Values:
Commitment to the AIDS response
Integrity
Respect for diversity

Core competencies:
Working in Teams
Communication with Impact
Applying Expertise
Delivering Results
Driving Change and Innovation
Being Accountable

Managerial competencies:
Vision and strategic thinking
Leading Teams
Building Relationships and Networks
Developing and Empowering Others
Managing Performance and Resources
Vision and Strategic Thinking
Exercising Sound Judgement

Experience:
Essential: A minimum of 15 years of experience in community and civil society mobilization, collaboration and partnership development. Within this experience, at least 10 years of experience working in at least two of the following three levels: country, regional, and international and in the field of health or development, preferably in HIV, fostering partnerships with a range of sectors, including with government, intergovernmental organizations, academia, and other global health diplomacy partners. 

Extensive demonstrated experience in social science research, including using participatory action research methods, and writing for community and high-level governmental audiences, including publications.

Expertise in the development of policies, guidance and strategic recommendations on health at global level, building on community-led research and priorities. Previous line management experience, preferably including remote and matrix management; proven budget, project, and grant management experience; and successful track record of resource mobilization. 

Strong interpersonal, representational, and advocacy skills. Ability to facilitate and strengthen the involvement of a range of external partners in HIV work. 
 

Languages:
Essential: Proficiency in English.
Desirable: Knowledge of additional UN official languages.
 

Additional Information:
Positions at the international professional category within UNAIDS will be subject to the Organization’s Mobility Policy. The above-mentioned position is a rotational position and its standard duration of assignment is linked to the ICSC hardship classification of the duty station.

Other similar positions at the same level may be filled from this vacancy notice.

Annual salary: (Net of tax)
USD 106,023 at single ratePost Adjustment: 22.5 % of the figure(s) on the left side. This percentage is to be considered as indicative since variations may occur each month either upwards or downwards due to currency exchange rate fluctuations or inflation.

Applicants will be required to take a test. Applicants will be contacted directly if selected for an interview. 

Applications from people living with HIV are particularly welcome. Applications from women and from nationals of non- and under-represented member states are particularly encouraged. 

Any appointment/extension of appointment is subject to the Staff Regulations and Rules of the World Health Organization (WHO) adjusted, as necessary, to take into account the particular operational needs of UNAIDS, and any subsequent amendments.

Only candidates under serious consideration will be contacted.

Note: The paramount consideration in the appointment, transfer or promotion of staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence and integrity. The medical criterion for recruitment is fitness to work in the particular post. The United Nations HIV/AIDS Personnel Policy clearly stipulates that no staff and/or potential candidates shall be discriminated against on the basis of real or perceived HIV status. HIV infection, in itself, does not constitute lack of fitness to work. There is no obligation to disclose HIV-related personal information.

UNAIDS is committed to providing a work environment that respects the inherent dignity of all persons. UNAIDS has a responsibility to take all appropriate steps to prevent and respond to discrimination, abuse of authority, and harassment, including sexual harassment in the workplace or in connection with work. UNAIDS has zero tolerance towards abusive conduct.

Please visit UNAIDS’s e-Recruitment website at: https://erecruit.unaids.org to review and apply to positions. The system provides instructions for online application procedures.

All applicants are encouraged to apply online as soon as possible after the vacancy has been posted and well before the deadline stated in the vacancy announcement.

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