Call for application. UNICEF HIV AIDS Specialist

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UNICEF HIV AIDS Specialist

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Location: Hyderabad

Last Date: August 11, 2010

Email: nonprofitjobs@...

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the world's leading organization

working for the rights of children, invites applications for the following

position:

HIV AIDS SPECIALIST (JOBE CODE: UNHIV)

Location: Hyderabad

Closing Date: 11 August 2010

Purpose of the post:

Under the guidance of the Chief of Field Office (L4), and working closely with

the UNICEF Education, Health & Nutrition, Communication for Development, Child

Protection and SSPPME Specialists, the Staff Member (SM) will be responsible for

facilitating and influencing State Government's policy and strategies and for

designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating the UNICEF supported HIV

programme in the States of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.

The Staff Member is based in the Hyderabad Field Office for the States of Andhra

Pradesh and Karnataka, She/he works at both the State and District level with

the State Government, District and Mandals Administration Officials as well with

NGOs and communities representative. She/he also takes sector specific guidance

from the HIV Section at Delhi.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:-

1. Influencing Policy and strategies : Analyses and recommends policies,

strategies for comprehensive services for Women, Children and Young People and

for improving efficiency and cost effectiveness of HIV related interventions.

2. Programme Development and Implementation : Contributes to the preparation of

Situation Analysis by compiling data, analyzing and evaluating information, and

developing state specific programme delivery strategies that contributes to

national results. Designs, prepares, implements, monitors and evaluates UNICEF

assisted HIV programme. Analyzes and evaluates data and/or takes corrective

action when necessary, to meet programme objectives. Enable concurrent

monitoring and reporting on performance indicators of Government flagship

programmes related to children and HIV. Provides technical advice and assistance

to government officials and other partners in the planning and management of

programme/project. Writes programme/project inputs for donor proposals, donor

reports and other statutory reports required for programme management.

3. Building Partnerships : Convene and establish partnerships with government,

civil society and private sector organization working on issues around children,

particularly in the area of HIV and sectors impacted by HIV to facilitate scale

up, leverage resources and harmonize inputs. Assists in the development and/or

introduction of new approaches, methods and practices in project management and

evaluation

4. Monitoring, Evaluation and Knowledge management :Support government to

institute mechanisms to monitor State HIV programmes, build evidence for policy

change and scale up. Identifies necessary action for programme adjustments and

resource allocation. Support Government and the UNICEF Field Office to establish

mechanisms to manage knowledge on children and AIDS and ensure easy access to

information by all relevant stakeholders.

5. Inter-sectoral collaboration : Promotes and provides strategic framework for

intersectoral convergence in the planning and implementation of related HIV

interventions for the prevention, care and treatment of HIV among children

6. Management of supplies, cash Assistance and procurement of services With

support from the Programme Assistant, Operations and Supply staff manage all the

HIV programme related supply and procurement of services. Ensure timely

disbursements of funds, monitors and submits financial and end use supplies

status reports to Chief Field Office as required.

Application consisting of a cover letter and an up-to-date CV should be sent to

nonprofitjobs@... by 11th August 2010.

In order to ensure that your application is sorted correctly, please clearly

mention the Job Code of the post and location in the subject line of your

e-mail.

Only applications of short listed candidates will be acknowledged.

These vacancies are open to Indian Nationals only. For more details of the posts

and full job descriptions, visit the UNICEF India website at www.unicef.in and

click on " Careers at UNICEF " at the bottom of the page.

Those who applied against our advertisement on www.devnetjobs.org need not apply

again. "

UNICEF is a non-smoking working environment.

Applications from qualified women are encouraged.