Strategic Information Adviser - Pretoria, South Africa - UNAIDS

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Pretoria, South Africa

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Description

Site

South Africa,
Gauteng,
Pretoria:

Sector:

Nonprofit/Community/Social Services/International Cooperation:

Role:

Other:

Date
:20/04/2023 (Expiry date
:12/05/2023)

About UNAIDS:

Serving Communities and Countries to End Inequalities and AIDS

We, 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, we 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.

MANDATE OF THE DEPARTMENT:

The Regional Office provides leadership and coordinates support for an expanded UN system response to ending the AIDS epidemic at regional and country level.

It steers, promotes, and supports regional and national partners and the UN system towards ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.

Using an equity and equality lens as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Regional Office promotes effective use of strategic information of the epidemic trends and the status of its response and provides technical leadership on people-centered HIV prevention and response in the region focused on key populations and locations most at risk.

The South Africa Country Office provides leadership and coordinates the expanded UN system response in South Africa.

Using an equity and equality lens as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the South Africa Country Office supports the equitable provision of HIV services focused on key populations and locations most at risk.

The South Africa Country Office promotes effective use of strategic information to better understand and track the epidemic and its trends, and to measure progress and sustainable impact of the response in South Africa.

It supports efforts to strengthen the capacities of communities and their meaningful engagement in health, social protection, and human rights mechanisms, and provides intellectual support and technical guidance as necessary to national partners and policymakers.

UNAIDS is mandated by the UN General Assembly to collect data from countries and report progress towards global AIDS response targets.

The Data for Impact Practice leads this AIDS response tracking and reporting, tracks progress and responses towards established targets, identifies inequalities and gaps in the AIDS response, and works to enhance countries' strategic information capacities on the HIV epidemic and response with regards to epidemiology and demographic impact, prevention, treatment and care, societal enablers including laws and policies, and resources (resources with the Equitable Financing Practice).

At country and regional level, the Practice leads the generation of strategic information to inform different programming and planning processes, and coordinates the joint programme planning and monitoring through the Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework (UBRAF).

Main tasks and Responsibilities of the Position:

Within the matrix management reporting structure of the Country Office, the RST and the Global Data for Impact Practice, the Adviser focuses on a manageable set of deliverables that are aligned with the UNAIDS strategic information vision and the capacity, the epidemic size and growth, and the needs in South Africa.

He /she has the following key responsibilities:

1.National capacity building and coordination
Identifies, promotes and reinforces capacity needs of national counterparts in surveillance, data collection, data analysis, reporting and using evidence for programming and pandemic preparedness.
Builds capacities to focus responses to relevant geographical areas and key populations.
Works with national counterparts to strengthen surveillance and monitoring systems including health information systems with attention to the quality of data including the use of unique identifiers.
Promotes data systems and survey tools for policies and programmes.
Accompanies the development of communityled monitoring (CLM) systems.
Strategic analysis, programmatic and policy advice
Coordinates and influences the prioritization, process and technical aspects of a wide array of data collection, compilation, and analysis related to epidemiology, policies, programme coverage and resources, in view of informing future programme efforts.
Performs modelling and analysis of surveillance, policy and programme monitoring data on trends and geographic location of the epidemic and response including using standard estimation tools in view of detecting and monitoring inequalities.
Contributions to global processes
Facilitates and coordinates monitoring and reporting at national level and contributes data and analyses to the regional and g