United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Humanitarian HIV Adviser

1 Year Fixed Term Contract

Campaign Start Date: 24^th March 2016

Campaign Closing Date: 23^rd April 2016

We are looking for a Humanitarian HIV Adviser professional to lead on the development and implementation of our humanitarian HIV work. You will work with other sector leads and advisers across Save the Children to ensure HIV is adequately addressed in Humanitarian responses.

As Humanitarian HIV Adviser you will lead on the strategic development, expansion and delivery of Save the Children’s humanitarian HIV response. You will also recruit, manage and retain the humanitarian Health and HIV Emergency Response Personnel and engage with country programmes to ensure and manage deployments. Your responsibilities will include:

Strategy & Leadership (25%):

· Lead on the strategic development, expansion and delivery of Save the Children International’s humanitarian HIV response

· Working as the lead for humanitarian HIV within Save the Children International establish a close working relationship across Save the Children members to ensure that they are aware of and supporting mainstreaming and integration of HIV throughout Save the Children’s humanitarian work.

· Recruit, manage and retain the humanitarian Health and HIV Emergency Response Personnel. Engage with country programmes to ensure and manage deployments.

· Maintain a strategic overview of HIV related issues affecting children in humanitarian contexts, monitoring trends, the external environment and inputting to organisational strategy and planning processes.

Programme Support (35%):

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  In large emergencies, travel to the field at short notice to set up and manage new emergency HIV programmes, or mainstream HIV across all sectors.

  
  


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  Provide Technical Assistance in-country support to Category 1, 2 and some Category 3 responses in medium / high prevalence countries. Provide desk based support including technical profiling, preparedness, recruitment, strategy and proposal development, capacity building, contingency plans, EPPs in smaller responses.

  
  


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  Conduct, guide or initiate HIV assessments and design programmes in humanitarian contexts to generate funded HIV responses; and provide technical assistance and conduct evaluations as appropriate.

  
  

Technical Capacity Building (20%):

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  Working with the wider Humanitarian Technical Unit, the Humanitarian Capacity Building Team, and Save the Children International colleagues, ensure that HIV is addressed across humanitarian capacity building initiatives

  
  


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  Develop and provide common frameworks, tools and guidance to country programmes to ensure high quality operations and advocacy addressing HIV in humanitarian programmes.

  
  


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  Develop training courses and modules for the Front Line Health Workers initiative

  
  


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  Provide on the job training, mentoring, coaching and support to Emergency Response Personnel and country level staff on HIV.

  
  

Programme Policy, Innovation & Learning (10%):

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  Lead the organisational strategic direction through the development of programmatic guidance, policies and papers for HIV. Working closely with Save the Children International, ensure HIV is mainstreamed throughout Save the Children Humanitarian tools, benchmarks, standards and support roll-out to countries and regions.

  
  


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  Monitor and evaluate programme quality in Save the Children’s humanitarian programmes, adherence to IASC guidelines and to ensure that work is in line with Save the Children’s child rights programming approach.

  
  


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  Working with the Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Advisor, develop and implement effective monitoring, evaluation & learning tools and processes for humanitarian HIV work.

  
  


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  Lead on the identification of best practice and develop programme policy and research relating to humanitarian HIV work, ensuring that this is consistent with Save the Children’s overall policy framework and positions.

  
  

Advocacy & Representation (10% ):

· Work collaboratively with the Programme Policy & Quality Department and Advocacy Division to ensure humanitarian HIV is represented in both global programmes and advocacy organisational objectives.

· Play a leadership role within the relevant external bodies and organisations in the sector, such as the IATT on HIV in Emergencies

· Lead on specific areas of advocacy directly related to emergency HIV programming, often using documented evidence generated from our programmes.

· Play a leadership role in developing a Save the Children International’s HIV portfolio across the Technical Working Groups.

General

• Comply with the requirements of Save the Children UK’s child protection policies and other staff policies.


• Perform such other tasks and responsibilities as may be required from time to time in order to ensure the smooth running of the team, the senior management team, cross departmental teams, the department and Save the Children UK.

To be successful you will have an academic or professional qualification at post graduate level or equivalent in public health, or you will be a clinician. You should also have experience and a proven track record of success in delivering high quality humanitarian HIV and health programmes. In addition you will have:

· Proven experience of leadership and management of cross-cultural teams

· Experience of working within budget constraints with the ability to work effectively across teams and departments

· Highly developed writing skills – both at a programmatic level and a policy level

· Strong communication skills at a level appropriate for high level external representation with the ability to tailor communications to different audiences

· Ability to analyse diverse information and develop recommendations for an appropriate response

· Ability to travel at short notice occasionally to remote and insecure locations for up to 30% of work time.

At Save the Children our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. If you share our mission, are passionate about making it happen and strongly believe you can contribute then join us and we’ll give you every opportunity to succeed. We look forward to hearing from you.

Closing date: 23^rd April 2016

Please note that applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. And short listing may commence prior to the advert closing date.