Project Title: Leadership For Results

Project number: UKR/01/004

Post Title: Chief Technical Advisor on HIV/AIDS (CTA)

Duration of employment: 1 year

Full time

Duty Station: Kyiv

Duties and responsibilities:

The Chief Technical Advisor will be employed by UNDP and will be responsible for:

• Partnership between national executing agency and UNDP CO, overseeing strategic planning and coordination of the project activities to ensure that objectives are reached;
• Providing continuous assessment and analysis on the achievement of project objectives and results;
• Providing technical advise on Leadership for Results and Applied Human Rights activities within the ACT NOW Programme;
• Providing technical support and assistance to the Government, UNDP and other parties in strengthening of the national capacities  to develop and sustain a sound response to HIV/AIDS epidemic;
• Interacting with UN Theme Group on HIV/AIDS technical working groups and UNAIDS Technical Working Groups on IDU/STI;
• Assistance in the development of the national guidelines and protocols in the areas of HIV surveillance, prevention, care and support, monitoring and evaluation; 
• Ensuring collaboration between key partners for development, review and dissemination of technical resource materials on strategic planning, surveillance, human rights policy, activities related to the HIV prevention and care domain;
• Technical collaboration and exchange of information and experiences among country regions and networks within the Ukraine;
• Promoting awareness and understanding of issues and responses related to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Ukraine;
  Ensuring the exchange of knowledge on collection, reproduction and dissemination of the national best practices examples.
• Facilitation of the training sessions for national professionals in HIV/AIDS domain as needed/ requested;
  Contributing to the meetings of the State AIDS Commission;
• Liaising with key governmental stakeholders, Country Coordination Mechanism for the Global Fund and the ACT NOW Programming Specialist on technical issues;
• Participating in the UN Theme Group on HIV/AIDS meetings and the internal meetings of UNDP, as necessary;
• Representing UNDP at forums relevant to HIV/AIDS issues;
• Performing other activities, as appropriate.

Qualifications for the post:

• Ph.D with a minimum of 5 years experience in a field relevant to the position;
• Professional knowledge, background, skills and at least 10 years of experience in the areas related of HIV/AIDS;
• Previous work experience dealing with national and international projects on HIV/AIDS in the region and Ukraine;
• Experience with functioning of UN and UNDP systems (relevant international experience is highly desirable);
• Ability to communicate and work with Ukrainian stakeholders and international organizations;
• Strong organizational abilities and innovative thinking;
• Networker and best-practices provider;
• Excellent writing and communication skills;
• Computer literacy;
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work under pressure
• Fluency in English is highly desirable.

In case of interest of this position please send your CV (both English and Ukrainian) via e-mail to the following person: Egorov Vyacheslav vegorov@un.kiev.ua