Overview
Establish a pre-qualified roster of HIV/AIDS technical experts to provide specialized technical support to UNICEF Country Offices, Regional Offices, and Headquarters on an as-needed basis.
Key Responsibilities
- Support analysis of PMTCT cascade and identify gaps.
- Provide technical support for Triple Elimination validation processes.
- Advise on paediatric HIV treatment optimization.
- Support design and scale up for community-based models.
- Provide technical assistance to strengthen prevention and service delivery platforms for adolescents.
- Support design and implementation of combination prevention programmes.
- Analyse HIV epidemiological and programme data.
- Develop peer-reviewed publications, technical reports, and knowledge products.
- Support capacity-building of national counterparts on HIV data systems.
- Develop investment cases, donor proposals, and funding strategies.
- Support development and review of funding proposals.
- Support financial planning and sustainability strategies.
- Support integration of social protection and other supportive interventions.
- Integrate gender analysis and gender-transformative approaches into HIV programming.
- Support analysis and programme guidance on structural drivers of HIV.
- Write clear, engaging content that is strategic.
- Analyse and synthesize technical material and develop documents for specific audiences.
- Edit a range of documents to develop assets.
Required Experience
- Mid-level consultant: 8–12 years’ experience in HIV/AIDS programming in LMIC settings
- Senior consultant: 12+ years’ experience in HIV/AIDS programming in LMIC settings
- Substantive technical expertise in one or more HIV thematic areas (PMTCT, paediatric/adolescent HIV, prevention, data analysis, resource mobilization, or social protection/gender), evidenced by prior work and/or publications
- Experience in cost analysis within the health sector
- Experience in economic evaluation within the health sector
- Experience in Public Financial Management within the health sector
- Experience interfacing with national ministries of health and other multi-stakeholders and multi-cultural settings
- Experience in resource tracking (budgets and expenditure)
- Experience in development and implementation of research in health economics and health care financing
- Experience in advocacy and resource mobilization
- Good understanding of health systems
- Strong analytical skills and experience synthesizing information from multiple sources.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively.
- Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment
Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Medicine, Social Sciences, International Development, Health Policy, or a related discipline.
- A first-level degree with qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced degree.
- Additional qualifying experience may be accepted instead of the advanced university degree.
