Senior Project Officer - EmpowHER Fund

Aidsfonds - SOA Aids Nederland strives for a world where there are no longer any deaths from AIDS, where people enjoy good sexual health, and a cure is available for all people living with HIV. A world in which everyone can love freely and without fear. For all that is love.

As one of the largest HIV-specific funders in the world, we raise funds and fund to directly support communities with long-term, flexible, and core funding and funding for advocacy. We recognise that funding alone is not sufficient to address the complex challenges of HIV. We put communities in the lead to address challenges and inequalities by giving them the power to decide on funding and programming to make the most effective investments to end AIDS.

We encourage innovation by piloting and scaling approaches and models to make the biggest impact.

We focus on communities of populations living with or affected by HIV (including LGBTIQ+ people, sex workers, people who use drugs, young people, women and children) in ten countries and two regions worldwide. To join our Children, Women & Key Populations Team in the International Department, we are looking for a:

Senior Project Officer - EmpowHER Fund
32
hours per week, starting date a.s.a.p.

This is not a remote position and only open to candidates who are based in the Netherlands.

The EmpowHER Fund envisions a world where women and girls in all their diversity can use the HIV-prevention method of their choice. Yet, in sub-Saharan Africa girls and young women still bear the greatest burden of HIV infections. Too many of them, especially those experiencing intersecting vulnerabilities, face limited options to prevent themselves from HIV, leaving them stuck with methods that don’t fit their lives or worse, no methods  and emerging HIV-prevention options, including the 6-monthly Lenacapavir, the two- monthly Apretrude, the Dual Prevention Pill and the Dapivirine vaginal ring, offer a critical opportunity to expand choice and make sure women and girls find the method that best fit their needs.

However, choice isn’t just about having these products available. It’s about giving women and girls the knowledge, confidence, and power to make decisions and to demand the prevention methods they want. It’s about creating safe, stigma-free services, backed by policies and systems that truly protect and prioritize women’s health. And it’s about centering the leadership of women and girls, ensuring they are the ones shaping the HIV-prevention landscape themselves.

The pooled fund was established in 2026 with €10 million for a five-year period and has already grown to a funding envelope of €32 million. This growth creates an exciting opportunity to further develop a strong, impactful, and learning-oriented portfolio of partners and investments.

As Senior Project Officer, you play a key strategic and operational role in the management of the EmpowHER Fund, working closely with the Fund Manager and project team. You provide oversight of the Fund’s grants portfolio and ensure that the Fund’s strategy and governance decisions are effectively translated into high-quality grantmaking and portfolio management. You provide guidance to Grant Officers, oversee grantmaking processes, identify and synthesise results, lessons learned and trends across the portfolio to inform strategic decision-making.

The Fund Manager is responsible for the Fund’s overall strategic direction, governance, and external relations. As Senior Project Officer, you are a key link between strategy and implementation: you translate strategic priorities into effective grantmaking approaches and bring insights from portfolio management back into the Fund’s strategic development. You act as a…