Call for Applications: HER Voice Fund Ambassadors 2025 – YOA

Deadline: February 18, 2025

Are you an adolescent woman or younger girl (AGYW) aged 18 to twenty-eight and dwelling in Malawi, Tanzania, Cameroon, Eswatini, or Lesotho? Are you captivated with making your voice heard and main the way in which in selections that form the lives of AGYW? This is your likelihood to make an affect! The Global Network of Young People Living with HIV (Y+ Global) is recruiting HER Voice Fund Ambassadors in Malawi, Tanzania, Cameroon, Eswatini and Lesotho.

The HER Voice Fund (HVF) helps the significant engagement of adolescent ladies and younger girls (AGYW) and youth-led group-based mostly organisations in Global Fund and associated coverage and program processes in 13 international locations the place the variety of new HIV infections amongst AGYW is the very best globally and the place the disparity in HIV danger between younger ladies and men is the best. The HER Voice Fund is supported by ViiV Healthcare Positive Action and the Global Fund and applied by the Global Network of Young People Living with HIV (Y+ Global).

Responsibilities

• Serve because the in-nation consultant for the HER Voice Fund, embodying its core rules and dedicating your self to reaching their aims.
• Lead the creation and execution of proof-based mostly advocacy agendas, respectful of human rights and transformative for gender, clearly speaking the wants and priorities of adolescent ladies and younger girls (AGYW).
• Collaborate with the Country Lead to trace nation commitments and plans at each nationwide and sub-nationwide ranges.
• Engage with grantees to supply help and improve consciousness of their initiatives.
• Advocate for the Fund in media retailers and share impactful implementation tales throughout numerous communication channels.
• Possibility of becoming a member of the Project Advisory Group to help within the grantee choice course of.
• OPPORTUNITY to attend regional and world conferences to voice the priorities of adolescent ladies and younger girls within the HIV response.
• Provide reviews on the actions of grantee organisations and contribute to progress reviews for the HER Voice Fund.
• Report to the HER Voice Fund Coordinator at Y+ Global.

Benefits

• Boost your strategic communication abilities by creating customised displays and bettering your public talking.
• Develop your advocacy and management skills via an intensive program designed to boost your affect and voice inside world well being and rights actions.
• Engage with a broader community of initiatives centred on HIV, sexual and reproductive well being and rights, gender equality, training, and empowerment, paving the way in which for collaborative alternatives and world platforms.

HVF Ambassadors obtain an honorarium to compensate for their work and contribution to communication.

Eligibility

• Applicant should be a younger girl or adolescent woman aged 18 to twenty-eight;
• Demonstrates ardour and experience in HIV prevention, SRHR, and basic well being;
• A self-motivated particular person and devoted group member wanting to create affect;
• Proven expertise in advocating for and addressing the distinctive wants of adolescent ladies and younger girls;
• Understanding of native dynamics and established connections with networks and organisations centered on HIV, SRHR, and girls’s well being;
• Familiarity with nationwide Global Fund processes is an asset;
• Willing to decide to a 2-yr engagement with a minimal of 8 days a month;
• Dedicated to making sure significant involvement of younger people;
• Residing in Malawi, Tanzania, Cameroon, Eswatini, or Lesotho;
• Excellent English proficiency required (each written and spoken);
• Strong organisational and planning skills;
• Competent in utilizing computer systems and on-line communication instruments, together with dependable web entry and platforms reminiscent of Zoom, Google Meetings, or Microsoft Teams.

Application

Applicant should:

• A letter of curiosity not exceeding 300 phrases clearly explaining why you wish to be the HVF Ambassador and your expertise advocating or participating with AGYW on the native or nation stage.
• A curriculum vitae (3 pages most)
• A suggestion letter from a good native organisation working with AGYW in your nation.

Submit the requested paperwork by electronic mail to [email protected] by Tuesday, 18 February 2025. The topic line of your electronic mail ought to be HER Voice Ambassador: [NAME] (Country of Application).

For extra data, go to HER Voice Fund Ambassador.