Senior Advisor, HIV Prevention and Care - GL E - Defined Duration until December 2028
HIV prevention and care is strategically important to win the fight against HIV, to meet the targets in the Global Fund Strategy and the 2030 disease targets in the Sustainable Development Goals of reduced incidence with zero stigma and discrimination.
The Senior Advisor sets the Global Fundโs vision, strategy, and agenda for HIV Prevention and Care, leading the many Global Fund teams involved. While this role primarily focuses on HIV prevention (approximately 60% of time allocation), the Senior Advisor will also serve as a Senior HIV Disease Advisor providing technical and strategic input across the entire HIV care and treatment continuum, ensuring strong linkages between prevention, testing and treatment.
This role requires providing managerial support and technical oversight to the HIV prevention advisors within the HIV team, including those working on HIV health products innovations, and support to other team members, as needed to ensure responsiveness to organizational needs and priorities.
The Senior Advisor provides strategic direction, guidance, and advice to the Global Fundโs regional and country portfolios, with a differentiated focus to high HIV burden countries and countries with rising HIV incidence. They will provide technical advice to inform strategic investments: 1) in response to direct queries from Country Teams and their Managers, 2) throughout the grant life-cycle including country dialogue process underpinning the development of funding requests, grant making and implementation, 3) proactively support Country Teams in priority countries to drive and mainstream the innovations and insights necessary to accelerate in-country program performance and results, while ensuring everyone, including key populations and Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW), has equitable access to quality services.
The Senior Advisor ensures that effective prevention, care and treatment interventions are operationalized at scale, leveraging the organizationโs investment size and scope, and in line with Global Fund processes and the HIV and broader health communitiesโ contexts.
Key Responsibilities
Perform the following duties under the supervision of the Head of HIV:
- Drive the Global Fundโs HIV Prevention and Care agenda, developing impactful strategies and guidance (technical, operational, monitoring, and coordination), as well as leading HIV Prevention reviews, data analysis and evaluations, to increase the quality, innovation, scale-up, measurability and performance of the Global Fundโs prevention investments as part of scaling-up impactful national HIV responses. The strategies and guidance will be multi-sectorial and incorporate learning, integrating across public health, education, socio-economic, structural, governance, and community perspectives. This responsibility is recognized as critical to Global Fundโs success and being high profile both internally and with partners, but also extremely challenging, demanding, and complex
- Informed by normative guidance from technical partners and by program performance results, provide advice on strategic investments across the HIV care cascade including for HIV testing and treatment to enhance the programming of new funding to achieve maximum impact and optimal alignment with the Global Fundโs strategic objectives. Monitor scientific and programmatic developments, including new tools (drugs, vaccines, diagnostics, etc.) and public health approaches for HIV, and ensure appropriate dissemination, training and technical capacity building across the Global Fund.
Critical themes:
- Implementation technical support: develop and provide prevention-specific guidance and technical assistance at all stages in the Global Fund grant life-cycle, including during concept note development, intervention/package design, grant implementation, portfolio optimization and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E). This responsibility area is critical as the Global Fund aims to significantly increase the volume and โ more challengingly โ the performance of HIV prevention investments in the new grant cycle starting in 2021. The Global Funds HIV expenditures total some $2 billion annually, and prevention is around 14% of our total HIV investment โ contributing about 5% of the total investment estimated to be needed. The need for prioritization and precision remains imperative
- Cross-departmental alignment and coordination: provide thought leadership and strategic guidance on HIV prevention to the Global Fund, including setting the priority portfolios for HIV prevention. To this end, the Senior Advisor will lead collaboration on HIV prevention, care and treatment with other members of the HIV Team, the Community, Rights and Gender Department, and with Department Heads and Regional Mangers in the Grant Management Division, and the Resilient & Sustainable Systems for Health (RSSH).
- Partnership coordination: promote and shape Global Fund formal mechanisms for joint alignment with external partners on HIV prevention with the aim of further strengthening the on-going, systematic dialogue, including analysis of HIV Prevention performance, setting guidance, and applying best practices. This includes setting the Global Fund positions on key issues/opportunities, and representing the Global Fund in prevention fora, such as the HIV Prevention Coalition, to evolve normative and strategic investment guidance. The Senior Advisor is expected to develop close working relationships with HIV prevention leaders and technical experts in partner organizations, including WHO, UNAIDS, PEPFAR, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), and leading civil society/NGO organizations
- Design and delivery current and emerging Catalytic Investments: engage in existing and emerging the Global Fundโs Strategic Initiative (SI) including concept design and delivery oversight, and reporting on the catalytic effects on the investments. They will collaborate with ERCD to secure co-financing with new and existing donors.
Other tasks:
- Lead the HIV team prevention-related capacity building and learning efforts within the Global Fund, ensuring staff is updated on the best scientific evidence and best implementation innovations in HIV prevention
- Contribute to the development of Global Fundโs next organization strategy (now under development), reports, publications, press releases, and other advocacy or information materials
- Perform people management responsibilities and provide technical oversight to Disease Advisors and other team members as needed.
- Support the Head of HIV with the day-to-day management and operations of the HIV team, deputizing when needed and representing at key meetings, including management meetings
- Develop Terms of References for consultants and supervise these if their work falls within the area(s) of responsibility.
- Perform other duties consistent with the role as required
Subject to change by the Executive Director at any time at their sole discretion.
Qualifications
Essential:
- An advanced university degree in public health, epidemiology, social science, or an equivalent field.
Desirable:
- Medical degree or specialized post-graduate qualification in the diseaseโs area
Experience
Essential:
- Management of HIV programs in the international context including program design and implementation, research, and policy development, including in developing country contexts
- In-depth HIV prevention and care knowledge and experience across the five prevention pillars and demonstrated understanding of HIV prevention and care systems and programming.
- Proven track record of managing a team within a dynamic context across diverse funding streams. This includes matrixed operations, collaborating closely across teams, departments and divisions working towards a common goal.
- A strong understanding of the evolving international health arena and direct exposure to HIV prevention and care programs both at national and international levels.
- Knowledge and experience in technology and digital health technology experience is required for this position.
- Proven interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to effectively interact with various stakeholders in and outside the organization including UN agencies, government officials, donors, project implementers, civil society, and project beneficiaries, among others.
- Strong oral communication, analytical, and writing skills, and demonstrated ability to work in a team setting with people of diverse backgrounds and points of view.
- Experience in people or team management
Desirable:
- 8-10 years of senior-level experience at an international level in the area of HIV prevention and care including program design and implementation, research, and policy development.
- Demonstrated experience writing and/or reviewing technical proposals for global health programs.
- Knowledge of the Global Fund and its policies, processes, and its governance structure.
- A good publications record demonstrating the ability to analyze data sets and analyze complex public health interventions.
- Experience working in public health for national or local government including Ministries of Health, as well as international, national or community based non-governmental organizations.
- Experience in project management and delivery, including the use of data and evidence.
- Ability to manage complex multi-partner initiatives.
Competencies
Languages:
- An excellent knowledge of English and preferably a good working knowledge of French and/or Portuguese. Knowledge of other languages would be an asset
Functional Competencies:
- Disease Knowledge โ Expert
- Global Public Health โ Expert
- Analytical โ Mastery
- Business โ Expert
- Geopolitical Awareness โ Expert
- Project Management - Mastery
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Job Posting End Date11 January 2026
- An excellent knowledge of English and preferably a good working knowledge of French and/or Portuguese. Knowledge of other languages would be an asset
- Medical degree or specialized post-graduate qualification in the diseaseโs area
- An advanced university degree in public health, epidemiology, social science, or an equivalent field.