Youth Officer, Rst Esa - Johannesburg, South Africa - cinfo

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COMPANY PRESENTATION

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) leads and inspires the world to achieve its shared vision of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.

• UNAIDS is leading the global effort to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals and provides the strategic direction, advocacy, coordination and technical support needed to catalyse and connect leadership from governments, the private sector and communities to deliver lifesaving HIV services.

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MANDATE OF THE DEPARTMENT:

• The UNAIDS Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) 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 for ESA promotes effective use of strategic information of the epidemic trends and the status of its response and provides technical leadership on peoplecentered HIV prevention and response in the region focused on key populations and locations most at risk.

The Equality and Rights for All Practice delivers on the UNAIDS Secretariat's goals of reducing inequalities.

This specifically refers to ensuring that the HIV response is gender-transformative, rights-based, and people-focused in a manner that is community-led, inclusive and progresses societal enablers.

The Practice also delivers on the organizational agenda to remove human rights barriers and intersecting gender inequalities.

It does that by developing and sharing policies, guidance, research, and tools that support legal, policy and social norm change; by advocating for a greater political commitment; and by convening communities of practice and leveraging existing and new partnerships to continuously identify and respond to the inequalities driving the HIV epidemic.

Main tasks and Responsibilities of the Position:

• Within the matrix management reporting structure of the Regional Office for ESA and the Equality and Rights for All Practice, the Regional Youth Officer focuses on a manageable set of deliverables that are aligned with the UNAIDS equality and rights for all vision, the epidemic trajectory, the social norms, and the needs in the region. This post, like all ERA posts, includes a focus on youth engagement and leadership, customized to respond to the regional and subregional contexts and epidemic, and to match the focus of the post (i.e., a focus on young people living with HIV and young key populations etc.)
• The Regional Youth Officer is responsible for contributing to the practice area objectives in the office and with UNAIDS partners and counterparts, coordinating specialist expertise and contributing to the overall coordination of the UNAIDS response in the functional areas described below.
• He /she has the following key responsibilities:

1) Youth-specific focus

• Provides substantive support to countries in coordinating their youth by leading, facilitating and promoting efforts to scale up, strengthening and funding of the HIV response by and for young people.
• Provides advice to and engages with regional mechanisms or countrylevel governments, cosponsors, community led, womenled, and youthled organizations and networks, on issues related to:

i. youth leadership and engagement.
- ii. capacity building and skills development.
- iii. investment in youth leadership and partnerships.
- iv. comprehensive sexuality education.
- v. education and social protection policies and programmes for young people.
- vi. removal of policy, legal and societal barriers for adolescents to access services, including age of consent laws and policies.
- vii. integration of services.
- viii. generation, analysis, and use of data for both youth specific and youth responsive programming and advocacy; and
- ix. the overall expansion of youth-led responses.

• Supports the establishment of a culture of youth inclusion within UNAIDS and adoption of 'youth as asset' perspective including via strengthening and quality assuring of internship and other youth support programmes.

2) Provision of technical advice

Provides technical input into laws, jurisprudence, policies, programmes, plans, frameworks, and others as required in support of UNAIDS' institutional efforts to advance youth engagement and leadership in the overall health and HIV response, ensuring the highest standards of quality, accuracy, clarity, and presentation.

This specifically includes the provision of normative support to regional bodies and regional policy processes.- Drives the prioritization agenda in the region on youth engagement issues.

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