Summary
Date Posted: Friday, July 15, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
To develop a National Advocacy Strategy for accelerating the HIV response for children and adolescents LHIV.To develop the accompanying road map for its operationalization following consultative engagements with key stakeholders at sub-national and national level.

Key Responsibilities:
• Collate and synthesize content from the consultation meetings for caregivers of CLHIV, HIV Exposed Infants; adolescents LHIV and the key stakeholders- conducted in April 2022]
• In close collaboration with MoH and Uganda AIDS Commission plan and co-facilitate the writing, validation and dissemination workshops
• Document and compile all workshop reports.
• Facilitate the two separate consultative workshops, one for adolescents/young people LHIV and one for caregivers of children LHIV and collate the gaps highlighted by caregivers, adolescents/young people LHIV and the caregivers of children LHIV into key messages.
• Provide technical leadership and facilitate the strategy writing workshop for key stakeholders using the above harvested reports from the consultations from adolescents/young people LHIV and caregivers' workshops and the key stakeholders.
• Facilitate virtual and in-person reviews to finalize the Uganda National Paediatric HIV Advocacy Strategy and Road map.
• Facilitate the national validation workshop for the strategy and the road map. The validation team will comprise of technical officers from MOH, Networks of PLHIV, MOES, MOGLSD, SBCC, UAC, AIDS development partners and UNICEF.
• Facilitate the national dissemination workshop of the final Uganda National Paediatric HIV Advocacy Strategy and Road map.

Education
• Advanced university degree in public health, social/political sciences or another relevant field
• Work Experience
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant professional work experience at national and international level in analysis and/or research and/or communication/advocacy in the area of health, primary health care, community health programming
• Extensive experience producing timely and high-quality reports for UN systems
• Knowledge of the Uganda health system or experience working in Uganda is an advantage

Key Competencies
• Excellent analytical, communication, advocacy and research skills.
• Computer literacy, especially MS Office programmes, is required.
• Fluency in English
• Knowledge of the Uganda context is preferred.
• Understanding of local institutional, policy and legal frameworks is preferred
• Ensured adherence to MOH guidelines and SOPs related to COVID-19 prevention and control

Conditions:
• Consultant is responsible for providing his/her own work materials – computer, software, etc.
• All remuneration must be within the contract agreement and against the agreed deliverables
• No contract may commence unless the contract is signed by both UNICEF and the consultant or Contractor.
• No contract may commence unless the consultant provides a certificate of completion of a mandatory course on “prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse”. A certificate to be submitted with the signed contract should have been obtained in the last three months.
• Consultants will be required to sign the health statement for consultants/Individual contractor prior to taking up the assignment, and to document that they have appropriate health insurance, if applicable.
• The Form 'Designation, change or revocation of beneficiary' has to be completed by the consultant before the commencement of travel.
• Clearance from DHR required for former UNICEF staff.
• Clearance from the Government required for civil servants.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
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