Consultant

Under the terms of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, success in the AIDS response is measured by the achievement of concrete, time-bound targets. They call for careful monitoring of progress in implementing agreed-on commitments and require the United Nations Secretary-General to issue progress reports annually. These reports are designed to identify problems and constraints and recommend action to accelerate achievement of the targets.
Moldova has reported on its progress under UNGASS starting with the first cycle of the reporting, improving both content-wise and process-wise from one cycle to another. For the 2010 reporting, a comprehensive roadmap has been developed and endorsed by stakeholders, providing a blueprint for a participatory multi-sectorial process of data collection and validation.
In this context UNAIDS Moldova announces the recruitment of a National Consultant to coordinate the teams of experts, ensuring proper consultations, analyze consistency and quality of data values for the indicators.

Specific Objectives:

 Coordination of the consultants team responsible for the development of the draft report
 Facilitation of consultations based on the draft report
 Coordination of data analysis and report writing

Requirements for applicants:

- Relevant educational background in sociology, epidemiology or related field;
- Minimum 5 years experience in the field of HIV/AIDS national response and/or HIV/AIDS national M & E system;
- Strong leadership and team-work skills;
- Analytical and report writing skills;
- Experience in using basic Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel), using e-mail and internet.

Duration of work: November 25 – December 25, 2009.

Both male and female candidates are strongly encouraged. Basic information about the Terms of Reference for the advertised job can be found at www.un.md and www.unaids.md
Interested persons should submit their CV, commercial offer and Personal History Form by November 23, 2009, 6:00 PM.