CAFOD, one of the UK’s leading international aid agencies, is looking for a HIV Strategy Manager to drive forward our response to the HIV pandemic. We respond to HIV through our development, humanitarian and advocacy work with partner organisations across 24 countries, and its awareness-raising and education work with the Catholic community in England and Wales.
This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to build on our impressive reputation for high-quality HIV programming in the context of Catholic values and as a progressive Catholic development agency, and to contribute to our efforts to deliver real change for some of the world’s most disadvantaged people.
Responding to HIV is one of the foundations of Just One World – CAFOD’s ten-year strategic framework for addressing global poverty and injustice and enhancing awareness and action on both among Catholics in England and Wales.
You will lead, develop and promote CAFOD’s policy, strategy, advocacy and technical support on HIV, so that the work of our staff and partners remains coherent, effective and relevant in addressing HIV and AIDS, from local to international levels, in alignment with Just One World.
Based in Central London as part of our Programme Effectiveness Team, you will champion our HIV programming strategy to ensure coherent and effective responses to HIV with Church and other partners across Asia, Africa and Latin America. You will work closely with managers and teams across the organisation to enable them to build their competence and confidence to engage successfully with the challenges of working on HIV. You will ensure the evidence of effectiveness and learning from programme experiences informs our engagement with Catholic communities across England and Wales on issues of HIV and AIDS and its advocacy on HIV in the UK and internationally. You will represent our approach to HIV in INGO networks and to the UK government.
You will have exceptional HIV technical skills coupled with a solid and forward-thinking understanding of Catholic theological reflection on challenges posed by HIV and a firm track record of contributing to current thinking and debate on responses to the HIV pandemic within both secular and faith-based sectors. You will match this with the skills and commitment to bring cross-organisational teams together to work in collaborative ways to ensure that we maximise our impact and influence on HIV. But most important will be your ability to lead and enthuse your colleagues – to foster innovation and learning, and support them in harnessing many of our strongest partnerships to deliver and demonstrate effective responses to HIV among some of the world’s most disadvantaged communities.
To read more and apply, please visit cafod.org.uk/jobs by the closing date.
Please note that you need to have the right to work in the UK (by nationality or existing work visa) order to be considered for this post.
How to apply:
To read more and apply, please visit cafod.org.uk/jobs by the closing date.
Closing Date: Sunday, 05 February 2012
