Overview
Provide expert technical guidance to strengthen paediatric HIV programmes, particularly in high-burden countries across sub-Saharan Africa. Contribute to UNICEF’s HIV programme focused on ending AIDS among children and adolescents.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead on technical expertise and support for paediatric HIV programmes.
- Design and implement strategies to improve HIV testing, treatment, and retention.
- Integrate services into primary health care and nutrition systems.
- Contribute to quality assurance and monitoring of programmes.
- Support networking and partnership building with governments, UN partners, and civil society.
- Drive innovation, knowledge management, and capacity building.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in public health with an emphasis on HIV and paediatric HIV, programme planning and management is required.
- Experience in programming, especially in sub-Saharan African is a desirable.
- Experience in paediatric HIV, facility-based childhood treatment, referral and quality of care is an asset.
- Experience in joint United Nations programme delivery.
- Experience in mobilizing and leveraging new resource for health.
- Experience working with civil society.
- Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.
Qualifications
Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) in Public Health, Health Administration, Epidemiology, Pediatrics, Family health, Health research, Global health, International health, Health policy, Health management or other related social science discipline is required.
