Job Summary
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- Job posted on: 29th Apr 2024
Health Equity Matters leads Australia’s effort to end HIV transmission. We do so on behalf of our member organisations who represent lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities, sex workers, people who use drugs, people with HIV and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Our close connections with our communities provide us with rapid intelligence on changes in Australia’s HIV epidemic, allow us to mobilise and respond quickly and to act as a trusted communication channel to government, research and clinical partners.
We have worked with Australian governments for more than 30 years to achieve a world-class response to HIV of which we can be proud. Health Equity Matters works across the Parliament to foster interest, strengthen political support, provide briefings and education about Australia’s response to HIV and to highlight the opportunities we have to better meet our goals of ending HIV transmission and minimising the impacts of HIV.
Health Equity Matters supports its members by leading the national conversation on HIV, advocating for Health Equity Matters’ members and communities in forums and government processes and providing a public voice on HIV. We work directly with our members in formulating positions and responses as new issues and evidence emerges. We work in partnership with clinicians and researchers to communicate and advocate for our communities’ interests.
Internationally, we foster the development of regional and country-level responses to HIV, contribute to the development of effective HIV policy and programs, and represent Australia’s community response to HIV in global forums. We are proud to have partnered with communities, technical partners and governments in Asia and the Pacific since the beginning of the HIV epidemic.
Health Equity Matters has offices in Sydney, Australia and Bangkok, Thailand.
SKPA-2 is a USD$12.5m program funded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for the period 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2025. The program follows from and significantly extends the successful SKPA-1 program, was completed on June 30, 2022. Health Equity Matters is the Principal Recipient.
Currently, SKPA-2 aims to improve the sustainability of evidence-informed, prioritised HIV services for key populations in Bhutan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, and Sri Lanka. There are four program objectives:
SKPA-2 is led by a Principal Director who works for a consortium of partners to implement the program. The consortium includes both country and regional sub-recipients. The WHO (World Health Organisation) and UNAIDS contribute as technical partners.
The Senior Program Officer: Human Rights, Equity and Gender will be responsible for program management of SKPA-2’s human rights, equity and gender work in Bhutan, Mongolia, Philippines and Sri Lanka, and for ensuring strong rights-based programming. The Senior Program Officer: Human Rights, Equity and Gender will be expected to exercise a strong collaborative approach to their work with the understanding that they form part of a broader, dynamic team all working together to contribute to the aims and objectives the SKPA-2 program.
Technical and Strategic Leadership
Global Fund Grant Management and Financial Control
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