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Position: Community Led Monitoring (CLM) Project Officer
Background
Starting October 2023, UNAIDS Rwanda will manage the United States President’s Emergency Response for AIDS (PEPFAR) Community Led Monitoring (CLM) grant under COP23. This arrangement builds on the existing agreement between USAID and UNAIDS at HQ level to facilitate the CLM implementation. It leverages UNAIDS country level strengths including the close work with communities and convening role.
For Rwanda, UNAIDS presents an alternative to the existing arrangements. UNAIDS is a neutral partner and will broker for a coordinated institutionalized CLM funding mechanism that ensures harmonization of efforts and indicator driven work from shared platforms of accountability. Our intention is to ensure that CLM is truly community led and owned.
The CLM Project team contracted by UNAIDS are Technical Assistants (TAs), accountable to UNAIDS. The TAs are direct hires and are accountable to the UNAIDS Country Director, with direct supervision of the Community Support Advisor. The TAs will be responsible for Coordination, capacity building, M&E and Learning and documentation.
Job Summary
Under the direct supervision and guidance of the Community Support Advisor, the CLM Project Officer, helps shape the vision of the Community-Led monitoring programme from the lens of communities of key and priority populations in Rwanda. Making sure CLM maintains its bottom up and human rights-based approach. The CLM Project Officer is also responsible for interpreting national and global health policies and strategies to guide implementation of the CLM project.
In addition, he/she is responsible for developing, managing, coordinating, networking, implementing, and monitoring CLM advocacy and communications efforts to influence practices, policies, narratives to bring positive changes in quality of HIV services. The CLM project officer is accountable for all aspects of CLM coordination and to lead the CLM program in utilizing CLM data/results/findings to influence health policies at all levels. The CLM project officer is responsible for technically collaborating with the CCG in setting advocacy agendas and monitors progress of committed actions by duty bearers. Provides advocacy technical assistance to the CLM project team including CLM CLOs grantees and the Umbrella networks to effectively engage duty bearers.
The project officer is also responsible for documentation of CLM program evolvement and successes, stories of change and effective advocacy strategies as well as for sharing.
The CLM project officer will facilitate the Community Led Organizations engagement in the COP process in Rwanda. He/she provides TA to CLOs and KP community representatives to conduct consultative meetings and dialogues to identify community HIV priorities and produce the reports and related media communication for UNAIDS and partners. The project officer attends the COP Review meetings pushing national and global advocacy agenda. The project officer is also responsible for supporting resource mobilization processes and other funding streams to augment CLM resources.
The project officer is liaison between CCG and CLM implementing umbrella networks and optimal resource utilisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Program Leadership and Strategic Direction
- Lead the consultation and development of CLM SOPs and national CLM framework.
- Oversee designing of Community-led monitoring tools.
- Actively participate in the CLM harmonization process in Rwanda and facilitating the creation and or adoption of Young People (particularly AGYW) and Faith networks into the CLM advocacy structure.
- Oversee the review of Community-led Monitoring Project documents -reports, work plans and other related documents.
- Review and submit project progress reports (Monthly, Quarterly, and Annual Reports)
- Technical assistance in packaging and presenting CLM data and possible solutions.
- CLM project advocacy for utilizing CLM data/ findings/ results to influence health policies at local, district, provincial, national levels.
- Lead the development and implementation of the CLM Advocacy Strategy.
- Support Implementing partners to build evidence-based advocacy arguments, working closely with CLM programme staff, umbrella networks and CLOs to identify gaps in evidence and arguments and ensure those gaps are adequately filled.
- Support partners in defining and targeting of advocacy strategies on issues and priorities identified through the CLM programme.
- Prepare and oversee the preparation of CLM communication and advocacy materials (e.g. press releases, briefings, speeches, questions and answers, talking points, etc.)
- Capacity building and Training of CLM staff, and CLOs on Advocacy
- Set up and cascading CLM feedback mechanisms at all levels and ensure their functioning.
- Package identified barriers and enablers for presentation at existing or new advocacy platforms.
- Refer/escalate identified advocacy issues to relevant authorities including the government of Rwanda using the existing response mechanisms.
- Disseminate CLM results with relevant recommended actions for remediation to UNAIDS, Implementing Partners, CLM Taskforce and National Steering Committee on a quarterly basis.
- Identify research needs and work with CLM programme team especially the UNAIDS strategic information advisor for gathering evidence to support CLM advocacy campaigns.
- Provide technical assistance to the CLM CLOs in developing and executing CLM advocacy campaigns including writing position papers and press statements.
- Build capacity of CLM staff to execute CLM implementation and HIV advocacy collaboratively.
- Meet with CLM networks to disseminate CLM findings and develop strategic advocacy plans quarterly.
- Documentation and Communications
- Lead in the documentation of lessons learned, promising practices and ensure they are shared and disseminated in the appropriate spaces.
- Provide leadership support to staff and promote best practices in people management.
- Produce and package CLM communication materials in close liaison with the CLM technical team (e.g., Press releases, publications, social media posts) to increase CLM visibility in collaboration with the CLM program team.
- Write and develop content for the website, digital newsletters, print publications and social networking sites.
- Ensure consistency in terms of branding, messaging, and frequency of posting via digital channels.
- Support Community/CLO engagement in the planning processes
- Provide TA to communities and CLOs to analyze and identify HIV Prevention, Treatment, Care, and support data generated in the CLM Project and planning processes to influence COP and GF funding allocations.
- Support the development of COP and GF community processes – research, identify HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support community priorities.
- Convene meetings, collate identified barriers, compile, produce social media content and communities of practice.
- Identify KP group representatives to train and prepare for consultative processes.
- Analyze data in consultation with global partners and recommend appropriately.
- Participate in regional and global discussions, presenting CLO and KP communities’ HIV priorities.
- Monitor the implementation of plans for compliance of agreed activities an contribute to the PEPFAR supported Country Strategic Direction Summary (SDS).
Qualifications, experience, and key competencies required.
Education
Required: A master’s degree in social sciences, Community development or relevant training.
Desirable: Additional professional training in Project Management
Experience
Required:
- Minimum 7 years relevant experience at the national or international level in, communications, advocacy, local governance, or a related field, of which, minimum 3 years at managerial level.
- A minimum of 5 years working experience in HIV/TB prevention, care, and treatment programmes in Rwanda.
- Knowledge and experience in HIV & AIDS advocacy.
- Experience in capacity building and training evidence-based HIV advocacy approaches.
- Excellent strategic planning and organizational skills.
- Competent in multi-level stakeholder engagement.
- Advanced oral & written communication skills, Excellent participatory training skills, inter-personal skills and demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively is key.
- Analytical skills and excellent writing, reporting and presentation skills.
Desirable:
- Experience of managing projects within the UN system or an international organisation.
- Knowledge of UN systems rules and procedures.
Languages
Required: Advanced knowledge of English and intermediate level of French.
Desirable: Knowledge of another official UN language.
Functional skills
Demonstrated office and skills with office software.
Sound knowledge of UN programs, rules, procedures and practices.
Technical knowledge
- Commitment to UNAIDS
- Integrity
- Respect for diversity
Skills
- Working in Teams
- Communicating with impact
- Applying expertise
- Delivering results
- Driving change and innovation
- Being accountable
How to apply
The complete application documents (with the job applied for), must be submitted to UNAIDS Country Office, EBENEZER BUILDING, KG 7th, Kigali, Rwanda, not later than 6th March 2024.
To abide by greening our environment measures, the documents may be submitted online through the apply button below.
Late submissions will be rejected.
Done in Kigali, on 20th February 2024.
