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Community engagement lead, Community Rights and Gender Department: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria — Geneva 

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria seeks to employ a community engagement lead who will be part of its Community Rights and Gender Department.

This position provides leadership and vision for the Global Fund’s work on technical support and capacity development related to community responses, human rights, gender and key populations.

Successful candidates will support senior management to oversee implementation, monitoring, evaluation and review of the Community, Rights and Gender Strategic Initiative. This initiative is a three-year Board-approved programme to reinforce meaningful and sustainable community engagement in Global Fund related processes. 

Key duties will also include capacity development for country coordinating mechanisms, maintaining strong civil society relationships across the three-disease portfolio of the Fund and contributing to Global Fund reports, publications, advocacy materials and press releases.  

Deadline: 4 September
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Conference: Research in relation to advocacy, policy and practice, 7 to 9 October — Rhodes University

This annual event brings together academics, researchers, students, activists, practitioners and policymakers for in-depth discussions about research and advocacy, policy and practice in the field of sexualities and reproduction.

Participation is limited to 20 to 25 participants. The event is funded by the Critical Studies in Sexualities and Reproduction Research Unit and grants will be provided for up to 10 participants who are members of the Sexual & Reproductive Justice Coalition.

Deadline: 30 August
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Call for applications: Advocacy fellows, AVAC

AVAC’s Advocacy Fellows Programme launched in 2009 to expand the capacity of advocates and organizations to accelerate, shape and monitor biomedical HIV prevention research and implementation worldwide.

Seventy Fellows have moved through the programme in its first 10 years, many of whom have gone on to become leaders in the HIV movement in their communities, countries and globally.

The programme is aimed at emerging or mid-career community leaders in low and middle-income countries where biomedical HIV prevention or cure research is ongoing or planned. 

Deadline: 20 September
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Programme manager, Mothers2Mothers (m2m) — Cape Town

The non-governmental organisation (NGO) m2m seeks to employ a programme manager who will act as a member of the Country Management Unit. The position is based at the organisation's head office in Cape Town, with regular travel.

The manager will be responsible for managing country programmes and projects and will report to the senior portfolio lead.

The successful candidate will have a minimum of a bachelors degree in public health, social sciences or a related field. A master's degree in public health or policy will be considered an advantage. All candidates must have at least five years' experience working on international development and health projects with NGOs.

M2m is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from people living with HIV, people with disabilities, women and disadvantaged people.

Deadline: 23 August
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Call for papers: Ensuring Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Violence against Women and Girls, 27 to 29 November 2019 — Cape Town

The Cape Town non-profit organisation Ilitha Labantu, together with the African Women Independent Forum, will be hosting an international conference on violence against women and the rule of law. The meeting will bring together scholars, experts, government officials and activists working to prevent domestic violence. The conference will highlight the achievements in advancing women’s access to justice, gender equality and women’s empowerment by investing in the rule of law and access to justice to survivors of abuse. 

Deadline: 30 August
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Regional stakeholder engagement advisor, AVAC — New York

The advocacy organisation, AVAC, seeks to employ a regional stakeholder engagement advisor. 

The advisor will provide technical, content-focused support to the organisation's research engagement activities, with a focus on activities in East and Southern Africa.

The successful candidate will have a passion for and experience in HIV prevention research advocacy. The candidate will also have a bachelors degree in a relevant field or a master's degree and/or experience in public or global health, development or other relevant fields.

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Call for female experts in any field, Quote This Woman+ — Various locations

Quote This Woman+ is a project of the non-profit Media Monitoring Africa to establish an online database of women and non-binary experts to improve gender representation in sourcing among the media. During the election season alone, Quote This Woman+ fielded more than 500 calls from journalists wanting to increase the voices of women in the media.

Keen to be quoted? Submit your details to kathy@augury.co.za. 

Deadline: N/A
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