Job Name: HIV program management Specialist
Location of Job: Brazzaville, Congo
Type of Job: International Personnel Service Agreement
Duration: 1 Year with Possibility for extension
Institution: UNDP
Application Deadline: 22 October 2024
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN’s global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience, and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 170 countries and territories, working with Governments and people on their own solutions to global and national development challenges to help empower lives and build resilient nations.
Duties and Responsibilities
The HIV program management specialist in support of the PNLS will assume the following responsibilities:
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Advice and support to the definition of strategic orientations, the development of standards and directives as well as related documentation:
- Take stock of the national documents available to combat HIV/AIDS and TB/HIV coinfection, to be updated and developed;
- Take stock of the various plans to combat HIV/AIDS and TB/HIV coinfection available, to be updated and developed;
- Support the development and implementation of a budgeted annual plan of program interventions, drawn from the overall operational plan of the PSN, that of the Ministry in charge of Health, including activities specific to the PNLS and adjusted annually;
- Participate in the daily monitoring of the implementation of the activities planned in the grant, including the implementation of the high-volume sites strategy;
- Support the development of normative documents, guidelines, guides and training modules necessary for the implementation of the Programme;
- Support the development of a training and capacity building plan for PNLS staff;
- Contribute to building the capacities of the PNLS team in the area of planning and programmatic management.
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Substantially contribute to the implementation and monitoring of program activities including continuous analysis of the results obtained according to the program performance framework:
- Collaborate with the ICAP technical team to implement differentiated approaches to HIV services and to strengthen the capacity of health providers in high-volume sites;
- Support the Director of the PNLS in the coordination and implementation of HIV activities;
- Support the planning and implementation of PMTCT and pediatric HIV interventions.
- Monitor the implementation of community interventions to combat HIV.
- Support and monitor the establishment of points of dispensation (PODI)
- Participate in supervision of support sites at intermediate and peripheral levels:
- Support the preparation of various workshops, strategic meetings, technical groups/committees and missions;
- Support the monitoring and implementation of recommendations from various workshops, strategic meetings, working groups and missions.
- Support the PNLS in the continuous monitoring of the results obtained at the level of each district and in particular high-volume sites on the basis of the targets of the performance framework as well as providing recorded performances to improve performance;
- Contribute to the development, on time, of the PNLS quarterly reports in connection with the grant as well as the PNLS annual activity report;
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Ensure coordination between the PNLS and technical and financial partners:
- Support the preparation and holding of coordination/consultation meetings with Technical and Financial partners;
- Contribute to initiatives to mobilize financial resources, technical expertise and skills to support sub-programs in the health sectors;
- Support the program for the inclusion of the private health subsector in the health component of the response to HIV/AIDS.
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Institutional Arrangement:
The HIV Program Management Specialist will report to the PMU Program Specialist and will work in close collaboration with the Global Fund Project Coordinator and other PMU departments (Program and Finance).
Competencies
| Expected Demonstration of Competencies | |
| Core | |
| Achieve Results:
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LEVEL 3: Set and align challenging, achievable objectives for multiple projects, have lasting impact |
| Think Innovatively:
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LEVEL 3: Proactively mitigate potential risks, develop new ideas to solve complex problems |
| Learn Continuously
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LEVEL 3: Create and act on opportunities to expand horizons, diversify experiences |
| Adapt with Agility
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LEVEL 3: Proactively initiate and champion change, manage multiple competing demands |
| Act with Determination | LEVEL 3: Think beyond immediate task/barriers and take action to achieve greater results |
| Engage and Partner
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LEVEL 3: Political savvy, navigate complex landscape, champion inter-agency collaboration |
| Enable Diversity and Inclusion
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LEVEL 3: Appreciate benefits of diverse workforce and champion inclusivity |
Cross-Functional & Technical competencies:
| Thematic Area | Name | Definition |
| Business Direction and Strategy | Negotiation and Influence | Ability to reach an understanding, persuade others, resolve points of difference, gain the advantage in the outcome of dialogue, negotiate mutually acceptable solutions through compromise and create ‘win-win’ situations |
| Business Direction and Strategy | System Thinking | Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system |
| Business Development | Collective Intelligence Design | Ability to bring together diverse groups of people, data, information or ideas, and technology to design services or solutions |
| Business Management | Communication | Ability to communicate in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication. to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience.
Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media and other appropriate channels. |
| Partnership Management | Relationship Management | Ability to engage with a wide range of public and private partners, build, sustain and/or strengthen working relations, trust and mutual understanding |
| 2030 Agenda: People | Health | Procurement services for PPE and laboratory equipment for national COVID-19 responses
Procurement services of health products Diagnostic capacity and procurement of laboratory equipment, consumables and reagents |
| 2030 Agenda: People | Health | Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GFATM) |
Minimum Qualifications of the Successful IPSA
| Min. Academic Education |
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| Min. years of relevant Workexperience |
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| Required skills and competencies |
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| Desired additional skills
and competencies |
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| Required Language(s) (at
working level) |
English and French are the working languages of the UN Secretariat.
For this position, fluency in French and English is required. |
| Professional Certificates |
Required Documents
- Personal CV or P11, indicating all past positions held and their main underlying functions, their durations (month/year), the qualifications, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate, and at least three (3) the most recent professional references of previous supervisors. References may also include peers.
- A cover letter (maximum length: 1 page) indicating why the candidate considers him-/herself to be suitable for the position.
- Managers may ask (ad hoc) for any other materials relevant to pre-assessing the relevance of their experience, such as reports, presentations, publications, campaigns or other materials.
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