HIV Specialist – Prevention

D. Key Duties and Responsibilities

A. Strategic and Technical Leadership

• Advise the HIV/AIDS Expert, NASC Program, and implementers on prevention priorities consistent with national policies, human rights standards, and grant requirements.

• Contribute to workplans, targets, budgets, commodity plans, and implementation arrangements.

• Promote approved innovations and address structural, legal, gender, and access barriers through practical, rights-based approaches.

B. Programme Implementation and Technical Oversight

• Oversee comprehensive, stigma-free differentiated prevention services for key and vulnerable populations.

• Provide technical oversight of outreach, testing, drop-in centers, harm-reduction services, condoms, PrEP, prison interventions under national standards, and government-operated HTS centers.

• Supervise implementers and strengthen linkages from prevention and testing to treatment, TB screening, and other services.

C. Performance Management, M&E, and Strategic Information

• Support strengthening of HIV M&E surveillance systems, including operationalization of a unified HIV prevention database with UIC,

• Support tracking of monitor prevention indicators, coverage, testing yield, linkage, and grant milestones and identify programme gaps and inform course correction

• Support in standardization of prevention services across different implementing partners (government hospitals as well as NGO partners and CBO/KP networks).

• Develop and track improvement plans for underperforming indicators, locations, or implementers.

• Strengthen monitoring systems, data quality, evaluations, operational research, and community-led learning with the MERL Expert.

D. Technical Quality, Commodities, and Capacity Development

• Ensure compliance with approved prevention guidelines, SOPs, and quality standards.

• Strengthen confidentiality, informed participation, referral, and quality improvement across community and testing services.

• Support commodity planning and implement training, mentoring, and supportive supervision for programme and community partners.

• Contribute to the development, revision, and dissemination of national HIV prevention guidelines, SOPs, training materials, and technical tools as requested by NASP and DGHS.

E. Risk Management, Compliance, and Stakeholder Coordination

• Identify and mitigate technical, operational, legal, safeguarding, and commodity risks and escalate significant issues to the HIV/AIDS Expert.

• Ensure compliance with grant, ethical, confidentiality, human rights, and non-discrimination requirements.

• Coordinate with government agencies, implementers, community networks, and development partners and support audits and technical reviews.

F. Reporting

• Prepare quality-assured prevention performance, coverage, commodity, and supervision reports.

• Provide timely inputs to Global Fund reports, grant revisions, and other official submissions.

• Prepare technical and policy briefs and document innovations, bottlenecks, and lessons learned.

G. Additional Responsibilities

• Undertake any other reasonable and relevant responsibilities assigned by the HIV Expert, commensurate with the technical seniority, skills, and experience required for the position.

E. Qualifications and Experience

Education

• Master's degree in public health, social sciences, or another relevant discipline; a medical degree (MBBS or equivalent) is an advantage.

• Specialized training in infectious-disease epidemiology, harm reduction, key-population programming, human rights, gender equity, or community systems strengthening is highly desirable.

Experience

• At least 8 years of progressively responsible experience in public health, infectious-disease programme management, or international development, including at least 5 years in national, institutional, or donor-funded HIV prevention programmes focused on key populations.

• Demonstrated experience in planning, budgeting, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating community-based outreach interventions and working with government, NGOs, community networks, and development partners.

• Experience with Global Fund programmes, WHO/UNAIDS/UNODC initiatives, prison health, structural interventions, surveillance, population-size estimation, or health-systems strengthening is highly desirable.

F. Competencies

Technical Competencies

• Combination HIV prevention and key-population programming.

• Harm reduction, HIV testing, linkage, PrEP, and differentiated prevention.

• Community systems and community-led monitoring.

• Human rights and gender-responsive programming.

• Drop-in center and CBO oversight.

• Prevention commodities, advocacy, and structural-barrier mitigation.

• M&E, surveillance, size estimation, and mapping.

• Results-based management, quality improvement, and digital outreach.

• Risk and grant compliance and technical reporting in English and Bangla.

Behavioral Competencies

• Technical leadership, analytical thinking, and results orientation.

• Sound judgement, communication, negotiation, and stakeholder coordination.

• Teamwork and innovation.

• Integrity, accountability, and confidentiality; encourages openness and transparency.

• Cultural sensitivity, respect for diversity, and commitment to equitable, stigma-free, and evidence-based services.

G. Expected Deliverables

• Annual HIV Prevention and Outreach Implementation Plan, including targets, technical budget and commodity inputs, risk actions, and supervision schedule.

• Quarterly prevention-performance, outreach-coverage, and commodity reports with disaggregated analysis and recommendations.

• Field monitoring, drop-in-center assessment, and technical-supervision reports and Prevention Performance Improvement Plans.

• Annual capacity-development plan and training, mentoring, and evaluation reports.

• Updated prevention guidelines, SOPs, training, and communication materials, as assigned.

• Timely technical inputs to grant reports and reviews and documentation of research, innovation, structural barriers, and good practices.

H. Integrity, Safeguarding, Confidentiality and Compliance

• The incumbent shall uphold the highest standards of integrity, accountability, impartiality, professionalism, and ethical conduct, including the timely and transparent disclosure of any actual, potential, or perceived conflict of interest.

• The incumbent shall contribute to and promote a safe, respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory working and service environment, with zero tolerance for harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse, discrimination, retaliation, or any other safeguarding violation.

• The incumbent shall safeguard and maintain the confidentiality of all programme, financial, personnel, beneficiary, and other sensitive information, including medical and personal data, and shall respect the principles of informed consent, privacy, and data protection.

• The incumbent shall promptly report any suspected or identified misconduct, safeguarding concern, fraud, corruption, conflict of interest, financial irregularity, misuse of resources, or other violation through the prescribed reporting and escalation channels.

• The incumbent shall perform all duties in accordance with applicable Government of Bangladesh laws and policies, the Global Fund Grant Agreement, the Global Fund Code of Conduct for Recipients and other relevant policies, procedures and guidelines.

I. Remuneration and Benefits

• Monthly remuneration will be determined in accordance with the PMU HR guideline

• Group health insurance will be provided as per the PMU HR guideline

• Monthly mobile and internet bill will be provided as per the PMU HR guideline

All these positions are open for Bangladeshi Nationals only. All candidates, irrespective of gender, religious and ethnic backgrounds can apply for the vacancies. Female candidates are highly encourged to apply.

Only short-listed candidates shall be invited for written test/interview. All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Last Date of Application: 20 November 2026 (23:59 PM)