Lead: HIV in Crisis

Overview

To lead Frontline AIDS’ new strategic priority to strengthen the resilience of the global HIV response to crisis. The role drives the identification, development, and scaling of locally rooted innovations and knowledge that enable HIV responses to anticipate, withstand, and recover from current and future shocks—including conflict, climate change, and other systemic threats.

Through strategic partner support, learning, evidence-informed advocacy and brokering new relationships the postholder will ensure that community-led approaches to resilience are amplified, shared, and embedded in national HIV responses. You will bring deep knowledge of humanitarian and resilience policy and programming and its intersection with HIV providing expert leadership within Frontline AIDS and with key external stakeholders.

You will lead a matrixed team of staff across learning, advocacy, funding, communications and partnership engagement teams to deliver our new strategic priority to strengthen the HIV response’s resilience to crisis. This will involve convening key leaders from the Frontline AIDS partnership to develop a strategic vision and operational workplan for the priority and oversee its delivery.

Provide hands-on support to partners to help them better navigate the humanitarian systems in their contexts. Lead the development and dissemination of practical guidance, standards, and evidence-based innovations that strengthen the resilience of HIV responses during crises. This includes advancing work on the intersection of climate change and HIV, supporting partners to navigate locally-led humanitarian action, and developing a strategic ‘playbook’ for coordinated crisis response across the Frontline AIDS partnership.

Represent Frontline AIDS and cultivate a network of advocates within the partnership to lead strategic advocacy efforts to ensure HIV and intersecting issues are addressed in national and global humanitarian policy frameworks. Develop and promote powerful narratives that challenge the structural inequalities which are driving crises.

Mobilise strategic investments and broker funded partnerships to strengthen HIV responses in crisis settings. Support partners to access global and local funding mechanisms and build consortia that deliver community-led, resilience approaches.

Providing highly effective line management to direct reports (currently
1), as well as effective task management with key colleagues in other teams, ensuring a high level of performance and supporting individual development. As the leader of a team, this role will build a team culture with a focus on performance, safety, well-being, and integrity. As part of the Extended Leadership Team, the role holder will be expected to uphold the highest standards of organisational conduct, with zero tolerance for serious misconduct and a firm commitment to safeguarding and to cultivate a culture that prioritises well-being, psychological safety, in which staff feel open to voicing and reporting concerns, and with a good work-life balance.

We will learn from partners and peers and share our own practice openly.