Adolescent Development (HIV) Specialist, (NO-3), Gaborone, Botswana, Fixed term appointment (Open for Botswana nationals only)

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Organizational Context and Goal for the job
The basic mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each little one, all over the place, in the whole lot the group does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing essentially the most deprived and excluded kids and households, interprets this dedication to kids’s rights into motion. For UNICEF, fairness signifies that all kids have a chance to outlive, develop and attain their full potential, with out discrimination, bias or favouritism. To the diploma that any little one has an unequal likelihood in life — in its social, political, financial, civic, and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There may be rising proof that investing within the well being, training, and safety of a society’s most deprived residents — addressing inequity — not solely will give all kids the chance to fulfil their potential but additionally will result in sustained development and stability of nations. Because of this the deal with fairness is so very important. It accelerates progress in direction of realizing the human rights of all kids, which is the common mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Conference on the Rights of the Baby, whereas additionally supporting the equitable growth of countries.

UNICEF’s mandate is to advertise/enhance adolescents’ well being, well-being, growth, and participation guaranteeing that neither age, poverty, gender inequality, nor social exclusion decide entry to Adolescent Sexual, Reproductive Well being (ASRH) companies, together with life-saving HIV prevention, remedy, and care. UNICEF can also be mandated to make sure that international locations progress in direction of the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. That is aligned with UNICEF’s imaginative and prescient of an AIDS-free technology beginning with their 1st decade of life. Moreover, UNICEF goals to deal with different key adolescent development-related challenges, together with psychological well being and to create and help alternatives for adolescent participation and engagement in order that adolescents can take part in selections and processes that concern them.

Strategic Workplace context:

The general imaginative and prescient of UNICEF Botswana’s nation programme is to make sure that kids’s and adolescents’ rights to survival, growth, safety and participation, significantly of essentially the most weak, are realized by means of entry to high quality gender-responsive social companies and the adoption of wholesome and protecting behaviours, and by selling energetic participation. The proposed programme is absolutely aligned with Botswana’s eleventh Nationwide Growth Plan (NDP), Botswana Imaginative and prescient 2036 and the draft UNICEF Strategic Plan (2022–2025). The programme is aligned with and derives from the United Nations Sustainable Growth Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF), significantly the outcomes specializing in gender equality (consequence 1), high quality social companies and social safety (consequence 2) and transparency and entry to justice (consequence 5).
The Nation Programme is guided by a principle of change that’s based mostly on investing in two essential home windows of alternative within the life cycle of the kid: childhood (0–9 years) and adolescence/youth (10–24 years), with equitable social coverage as a programming space that cuts throughout the life cycle. Due to this fact, the nation programme has three programme parts: (i) First Decade: Younger little one survival, growth and studying (0–9 years); (ii) Second Decade: Adolescent and younger individuals’s well-being, studying and participation (10–24 years); and (iii) Social coverage. The place of the Adolescent Growth and HIV Specialist contributes primarily to the second pillar however can also be anticipated to contribute to the primary pillar (elimination of mom to little one transmission) and work carefully with social coverage.
The adolescent growth and HIV element of the programme aimed toward constructing authorities’s capability to broaden programmes to deal with well being challenges confronted by the adolescents, like adolescent pregnancies, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) together with HIV, psychological well being, entry to adolescent-friendly sexual and reproductive well being companies, together with by selling their participation within the design of those companies. The place can also be accountable for guaranteeing alignment between the adolescent growth portfolio on the one hand, and efforts to finish violence being led by the kid safety programme in addition to interventions to help employability and entrepreneurship led by the training programme, all of that are supervised and report back to the Deputy Consultant.

Goal for the job:

The Adolescent Growth (HIV) Specialist, NOC stories to the Deputy Consultant (P-4) for steerage and normal supervision. The Specialist helps conceptualisation, design, growth and preparation of the Adolescent Growth and HIV programmes and is chargeable for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting of the progresses and achievements of the programmes.

The Adolescent Growth (HIV) Specialist offers technical steerage and administration help all through the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable outcomes in line with plans, allocation, results-based administration (RBM) approaches and methodology and UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, requirements of efficiency and accountability framework.

Abstract of key features/accountabilities:

1. Assist to programmes/tasks growth and planning
2. Programme administration, monitoring, and supply of outcomes
3. Technical and operational help to programme implementation
4. Networking and partnership constructing
5. Innovation, data administration and capability constructing

Key operate, accountabilities, and associated duties/duties
1. Assist to programme/venture growth and planning
• Contribute to/help the preparation/design and conduct/replace of scenario evaluation and assessments on adolescent growth and HIV associated points to make sure that complete, related, and evidence-based information are collected to information nation workplace on adolescent growth and HIV programming, monitoring, and supply of programme/venture companies.
• Take part in strategic programme dialogue to offer enter and operational help to the event of an built-in adolescent growth and HIV programme (throughout the nation programme). Formulate, design, and put together adolescent growth and HIV programmes/tasks proposal, guaranteeing alignment with the general UNICEF’s Strategic Plans and Nation Programme and coherence/integration with UNSDCF, regional methods and nationwide priorities, plans and competencies.
• Set up particular objectives, targets and techniques and implementation plans utilizing results-based planning terminology and methodology (RBM).
• Put together adolescent growth and HIV programme documentation for Nation Workplace Programme suggestion guaranteeing alignment with the general UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, regional methods, and nationwide priorities, plans and competencies.
•Work carefully and collaboratively with inside and exterior colleagues and companions to offer technical and operational help to programme planning, administration, and implementation and to make sure synergy, integration, coherence, and harmonization of HIV programmes/tasks throughout the nation programme, donors’ growth methods/insurance policies, nation stage nationwide priorities/competencies and UN system growth interventions/initiatives.

2. Programme administration, monitoring, and supply of outcomes

• Plan and/or collaborate with inside and exterior companions to determine monitoring benchmarks, efficiency indicators and different UNICEF/UN system indicators and measurement to evaluate/strengthen efficiency accountability, coherence, and supply of concrete and sustainable outcomes for the assigned sector/s in adolescent growth and HIV programmes.
• Take part in monitoring and analysis workout routines, programme evaluations and annual evaluations with authorities and different counterparts to evaluate progress and to find out required motion/interventions to realize outcomes.
• Put together/assess monitoring and analysis stories to establish gaps, strengths/weaknesses in programme and administration, establish classes discovered and use data gained for growth planning and well timed intervention to realize objectives.
• Actively monitor programmes/tasks by means of area visits, surveys and/or change of knowledge with companions/stakeholders to evaluate progress, establish bottlenecks and potential issues and take well timed selections to resolve points and/or confer with related officers for well timed decision.
• Monitor and confirm the optimum/applicable use of sector/s programme assets (monetary, administrative, and different property) confirming compliance with organizational guidelines, laws/procedures and donor commitments, requirements of accountability and integrity and guaranteeing well timed reporting and liquidation of assets.
• Put together common/mandated programme/venture stories for administration, donors, and companions to maintain them knowledgeable of programme progress.

3. Technical and operational help to programme implementation

• Present technical steerage and operational help to authorities counterparts, NGO companions, UN system companions and different nation workplace companions/donors on UNICEF insurance policies, methods, processes and greatest practices and approaches on HIV associated points to help programme growth planning, administration, implementation, and supply of outcomes.
• Take part in programme strategic discussions/planning to contribute to coverage discussions and agenda setting to advertise adolescent growth and HIV interventions particularly within the areas of gender inequality, social inclusion, human rights, and humanitarian conditions to make sure that at dangers and weak inhabitants are absolutely lined in occasions of biggest wants.
• Draft coverage papers, briefs and different strategic programme supplies for administration use, data and/or consideration.

4. Networking and partnership constructing

• Construct and maintain efficient shut working partnerships with related sector authorities counterparts, nationwide stakeholders and international companions/allies/donors/academia by means of energetic networking and advocacy to change data/experience, leverage assets/motion, construct alliances and interact participation of communities in programme design, supply, and demand creation.
• Put together communication and knowledge supplies for CO programme advocacy to advertise consciousness, set up partnership/alliances and improve useful resource mobilization for UNICEF adolescent growth and HIV programmes/tasks.
• Take part and/or symbolize UNICEF in applicable inter-agency (UNCT) discussions and planning on HIV and associated points to collaborate with inter-agency companions/colleagues on UNDAF planning and preparation of adolescent growth and HIV programmes/tasks guaranteeing organizational place, pursuits and priorities are absolutely thought of and built-in within the UNSDCF course of in growth planning and agenda setting.

5. Innovation, data administration and capability constructing

• Apply/introduce progressive approaches and good observe to construct the capability of companions and stakeholders and to help the implementation and supply of concrete and sustainable programme outcomes.
• Preserve abreast, analysis, benchmark and implement greatest and cutting-edge practices in adolescent growth and HIV administration and knowledge programs. Institutionalize and share greatest practices and data discovered.
• Manage and implement capability constructing initiatives to reinforce the competencies of purchasers/stakeholders to advertise sustainable ends in adolescent growth and HIV associated programmes/tasks.

To qualify as an advocate for each little one you’ll have…

Recruitment {Qualifications}

Training: An Superior College Diploma in public well being, paediatric well being, household and/or neighborhood well being, well being analysis, international/worldwide well being, well being coverage and/or growth research, social science or associated fields is required.

*A completion of first 12 months College Diploma in a related area mixed with 2 extra years {of professional} expertise could also be accepted in lieu of an Superior College Diploma.

Expertise: A minimal of 5 years {of professional} expertise in public well being and HIV/AIDS programme planning and administration and/or in related areas of public well being. Related expertise in Well being and HIV/AIDS programme/venture growth and administration in any UN system company, authorities or civil society group is a requirement. Related expertise can also be required in designing, implementing, and monitoring adolescent growth and participation programmes.

Language Necessities: Fluency in English is required. Data of a neighborhood language is an asset.

For each Baby, you reveal…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin the whole lot we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (3) Drive to realize outcomes for impression (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.

Throughout the recruitment course of, we take a look at candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges: competency framework here.

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Remarks:

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