Head of HIV

Apply locations Geneva time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday time left to apply End Date: November 15, 2024 (22 days left to apply) job requisition id JR3913

The Head of HIV is the Global Fund’s lead voice and authority on responding to and ending the HIV epidemic both with external audiences and within the Global Fund Secretariat.

The Head of HIV sets the strategy for how the Global Fund’s investments contribute to the elimination of HIV as a global public health threat. They leverage the Global Fund’s investment scale and model, community of partners, the HIV Team and the broader Secretariat to reach and sustain the ambitious SDG targets for HIV, supporting catalytic people-centered HIV investments to maximize impact, equity, quality, build sustainability, tailored to the local context and based on country owned plans and aligned with technical guidance. They ensure the Global Fund strategy is effectively operationalized at scale and in line with Global Funding processes and with the HIV partnerships and broader health communities.

The Head of HIV assertively drives the Global Fund partnerships towards the strategic goals of: saving lives; reducing HIV mortality morbidity and incidence; an intensified focus on HIV prevention; meeting the needs of populations at high risk especially key and vulnerable populations; emphasizing integrated people-centered services; championing innovations; and advocating for reductions to HIV-related stigma, discrimination and criminalization.

They drive technical and programmatic innovations, prioritization and sustainability planning while ensuring everyone, including key populations, has equitable access to quality services. They support market shaping, introduction of innovative tools and integrated approaches, and best effective use of HIV health products.

Key Responsibilities

As a senior leader in the Technical Advice and Partnerships Department (TAP) Management Team, the Head of HIV is responsible for steering the Secretariat and the Global Fund partnerships to accelerate country-level impact in the fight against HIV, TB, and Malaria.

Their focus is on the HIV epidemic, and they leverage expertise from other Global Fund domains (e.g., Malaria, TB, Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health, Community, Rights and Gender, Health Financing, Supply Operations).

The Head of HIV is responsible for three specific outcomes:

1. Leveraging and influencing the Global Fund’s partnerships to accelerate along key HIV priorities, through a clear, articulated vision in line with the Global Fund’s mission and strategy.
2. Increasing the quality of Global Fund’s investments in HIV, including HIV prevention. Ensuring cross secretariat collaboration for HIV program results progression and sustainability; driving program quality including use of HIV Program Essentials; pushing innovations including market shaping, integration and performance; identifying key challenges, strategic insights, issues and opportunities and how to respond through the levers of the Global Fund model.
3. Developing a motivated, highly effective HIV Team whose expertise in strategic HIV investments, program design and effective implementation to accelerate results is consistently in high demand across the Global Fund Secretariat and beyond, particularly by GMD Country Teams, countries, communities and the broader partnership.

Several core responsibilities facilitate the Head of HIV’s achievement of these outcomes:

• Acting as Corporate Sponsor for relationships with Key Partners such as PEPFAR, UNAIDS, WHO, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and private sector partners, among others, and in collaboration with colleagues.
• Shaping and driving an ongoing, systematic dialogue regarding investment, program, and partnership performance with other Global Fund senior management, the Global Fund Strategy Committee and Board, using timely, diplomatic influencing, clarity and negotiation skills when necessary.
• Provide leadership and guidance to the team of highly skilled professional staff to foster a culture of excellence, service and high performance, continuous learning and professional development; lead and oversee the planning and execution of the team’s work program and staffing needs to ensure high quality outputs; lead the recruitment, coaching, mentoring and appraisal of staff in the team for maximum productivity and growth, and manage efficient execution of the team’s budget.
• Effectively communicate the latest technical evidence, key insights and strategic direction to a diverse audience that cross cultures and technical disciplines internally and externally.

Qualifications

Essential:

• A medical degree or an advanced degree or equivalent in medicine, public health, health systems, epidemiology or infectious diseases.

Desirable:

• Specialized post-graduate qualification in HIV.

Experience

Essential:

• Substantial experience at regional or global levels in public health with a focus on HIV. Experience can include policy-making, program design and implementation, research, Ministry of Health or corporate leadership and/or advisory.
• Experience of working in or with the global health community, particularly technical agencies, at a senior level with focus on HIV.
• Experience working in countries or regions where the Global Fund invests.
• Experience driving performance and/or change in an operationally and politically complex organization including management of many stakeholders with directly competing interests.
• Experience managing a large, highly diverse team in a complex organizational environment.

Desirable:

• At least 15 years experience at regional or global levels in public health with at least 5 years focused on HIV.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the Global Fund and its partnership model, governance, policies and processes.
• Proven ability to clearly articulate and communicate a strategic vision and appraisal of evidence base, including through publications or presentations delivered or equivalent.
• Experience leading policy negotiation discussions on both political and highly technical topics – ideally at an international level.
• At least 6 years experience in people management, developing a team or organizational transformation to step-up performance.

Competencies

Languages:

An excellent knowledge of English and preferably a good working knowledge of French. Knowledge of other languages would be an asset.

Functional Competencies:

• Analytical – Level 2
• Business – Level 3
• Country-context – Level 3
• Disease-knowledge – Level 3
• Geopolitical Awareness – Level 3
• Global Public Health – Level 3
• Community, Rights and Gender – Level 2
• Multicultural Understanding – Level 3
• Negotiations – Level 3
• Operational Policy - Level 2
• Project Management – Level 3

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Job Posting End Date

14 November 2024

The Global Fund is a partnership designed to accelerate the end of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as epidemics. As an international organization, the Global Fund mobilizes and invests more than US$4 billion a year to support programs run by local experts in more than 100 countries. In partnership with governments, civil society, technical agencies, the private sector and people affected by the diseases, we are challenging barriers and embracing innovation.