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German Junior Professional Officer Job (JPO) Openings at UNAIDS. Don’t Miss This Great Opportunity!

Vacancy Details

  • Position(s): JPO, Programme Officer Influencing and Partnerships
  • Organization: UNAIDS – Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
  • Division/ Unit: Policy, Advocacy and Knowledge Branch/Influencing and Partnerships
  • Country and Duty Station: Geneva, Switzerland (HQ)

About UNAIDS

German Junior Professional Officer Job (JPO) Openings at UNAIDS. Don’t Miss This Great Opportunity! Serving Countries and Communities to End Inequalities and AIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, lead the global effort to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. By placing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to reduction of inequalities at the heart of our work, lead the global response to AIDS by:
(i) maximizing equitable and equal access to HIV services, (ii) breaking down barriers to
achieving HIV outcomes, and (iii) integrating efficient HIV responses into wider health and
protection systems. UNAIDS is committed to creating an equal, safe and empowering workplace culture where all people in all their diversity thrive. They live their values of Commitment to the AIDS Response,
Integrity and Respect for Diversity.

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The Influencing and Partnership Division is a newly created division within the Policy, Advocacy and Knowledge Branch of UNAIDS. It will lead in external partnerships, and strategic political work, mobilizing a spectrum of tools and relationships to support building an environment enabling the ultimate goal of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. Once fully set up it will ensure effectiveness, impact and consistency in the organization-wide advocacy effort with a specific attention on addressing inequalities that drive pandemics and make some people, in some places, particularly susceptible to them. The Influencing and Partnerships team will be responsible for building organization-wide initiatives and platforms to advance the UNAIDS’ policy and political agenda.

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Team Purpose

Ensuring that UNAIDS influencing around the world including campaigns, advocacy,
policy, I s high impact, and achieves systemic change with an overall framing on
inequalities and gender, and human rights.

  • Leading, convening & managing UNAIDS influencing work across the world. Working
    with countries, and regions, consulting, co-creating and setting vision and direction of
    travel for UNAIDS influencing work.
  • Embedding an integrated people-powered approach in all UNAIDS influencing work.
  • Enabling a strategic approach to working with allies and partners for influencing, ensuring
    co-creation, organizational humility, and support for partnerships and allyships.

Content and methodology of supervision:

As part of the UNAIDS JPO programme overall framework, the JPO will benefit from the
following supervision modalities:

  • Structured guidance provided by the supervisor, especially in the beginning of the
    assignment, with the purpose of gradually increasing the responsibilities of the JPO.
  • Establishment of a work plan, with clear key results (Performance Evaluation Report) and
    completion of the yearly Performance Evaluation Reports.
  • Effective supervision through knowledge sharing and performance/development
    feedback throughout the assignment.
  • Participation in Unit/Team/Office meetings to ensure integration and operational
    effectiveness.
  • Guidance and advice in relation to learning and training opportunities within the field of
    expertise.
  • Regular calls organized by the Human Resources Department (individually and/or as a
    group) to establish a community of practice and provide networking opportunities for
    JPOs. Specific emphasis is set on mentoring and supporting first-year JPOs.

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Key Responsibilities

Job purpose: Supporting the Influencing team in co-creation and delivery of creative public
facing approaches to engage audiences around the world. Ensuring that communities are
central to theories of change where power analysis suggests it should be. Working primarily
to support Advisors within the priorities set by the Unit. The candidate will bring energy and
refresh the team with alternative ways of thinking.
Reporting to the Adviser, Influencing and Partnerships, the incumbent will have the following
responsibilities:

  • Support the development of a data base and communication with key influencers and
    groups of influencers, including communications at the appropriate level within UNAIDS.
  • Support the co-creation, development and delivery of impactful influencing activities as
    envisaged in the UNAIDS Global Strategy, including but not limited to public awareness,
    social norm change campaigns, political and private sector influencing campaigns,
    activist and public engagement campaigns.
  • Support the implementation of projects with specific responsibilities flexibly determined by
    the Influencing and Partnership team, including: digital campaigning, and allies
    coordination and engagement.
  • Contribute to a creative campaigning culture, generating ideas on different issues and
    themes, as well as for partners.
  • Build and maintain relationships with movements, partners and allies

UNAIDS Values

  1. Commitment to the AIDS response
  2. Integrity
  3. Respect for diversity

Core competencies

  1. Working in teams
  2. Communicating with impact
  3. Applying expertise
  4. Delivering results
  5. Driving change and innovation
  6. Being accountable

Requirements

Education
Master’s degree in communications, international relations, social and/or political science,
management, or in similar fields.

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Experience
Essential: At least two years of relevant work experience, preferably in in communications,
policy and building and maintaining relationships including with politicians, or other public
officials and public influential individuals.
Desirable: Prior experience in HIV response, global health, international development or a
related field, in liaising with Parliamentarians and other influential individuals an asset.

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FUNCTIONAL/TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

  • Strong capacity to learn quickly and plan strategically for resource mobilization and
    policy/social norms change.
  • Capacity to communicate clearly orally and in writing. Ability to communicate
    effectively, tailoring the language, tone, style, and format to match the audience,
    including for media events.
  • Ability to support effective communication and brand building campaigns and provide
    advice to managers and counterparts.
  • Understanding of the global health policy landscape, architecture and regional and
    country realities.
  • Strong ability to analyze and reach conclusions on possible causes and solutions to
    critical challenges faced.

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