Job Description

Project Overview

Maximizing Options to Advance Informed Choice for HIV Prevention (MOSAIC) is a five-year
(2021-2026) global project funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
(PEPFAR) through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to help women
protect themselves from HIV by accelerating introduction and scale-up of new biomedical
prevention products. 
The MOSAIC consortium is led by FHI 360 along with core partners Wits Reproductive Health
and HIV Institute, Pangaea Zimbabwe AIDS Trust (PZAT), LVCT Health, Jhpiego, and AVAC.
The work will also be supported by technical partners from Afton Bloom, Avenir Health,
Columbia University, Mann Global Health, RTI International, the University of Pittsburgh, and the
University of Washington. 

MOSAIC Approach
MOSAIC’s objective is to ensure that individuals—especially women—can protect themselves
from acquiring HIV and other infectious diseases by accelerating introduction and scale-up of new
biomedical prevention products and expediting their availability, acceptance, uptake, and impact.
To achieve this objective, MOSAIC will work in alignment with the following five priorities: 
1. Ensure a user-centered approach in which the needs and preferences of users—
especially adolescent girls and young women—are understood and addressed in
product introduction and scale-up. 
2. Conduct research to expand the evidence base on how to effectively enhance product
availability and acceptability. 
3. Coordinate and provide technical assistance to global, national, and subnational
stakeholders to expedite product introduction in policy and practice by addressing
issues related to regulatory review, policy development, resource mobilization, supply
chain, delivery models and platforms and demand creation. 
4. Implement research utilization activities and establish mechanisms for rapid,
effective knowledge exchange among key stakeholders to ensure existing and
emerging evidence on product introduction and scale-up is applied in policy and
practice. 
5. Strengthen and sustain local partner capacity to advocate for, design, and
implement high-quality product introduction activities and research. 

Position Description
The Youth Representative will support the MOSAIC project and be responsible for the integration
of a youth and gender focused user-centered approach, continual adaptation based on end-user
feedback, and promotion of youth and gender voices leading design, in all activities related to the
introduction of new biomedical prevention products in the country.

Duties and Responsibilities

Global MOSAIC Engagement
- Serve as a conduit for cross-country learning amongst young people.
- Attend regular meetings of the MOSAIC Gender/Youth Team, sharing their insights on both
successes and failures to advance collective learning.
- Actively participate in regular meetings with the MOSAIC Gender/ Youth team and Research
utilization/ Knowledge management (RU/RK) team sharing their insights on both successes
and failures to ensure collective learning.
2. Community and stakeholder engagement
- Coordinate monthly/quarterly meetings with local Youth Advisory Boards (YABs) to discuss
new HIV prevention products and inform program activities.
- Conduct strategy review meetings with youth, gender and technical experts to align the
MOSAIC gender and youth strategy with country priorities.
- Plan and conduct national meetings to introduce and update stakeholders on the gender and
youth strategy.
- Identify key gender and youth stakeholders, institutions, and individuals to engage in product
introduction efforts and establish/maintain functional professional relationships with key
stakeholders and institutions to facilitate RU/dissemination and biomedical HIV prevention
scale up efforts amongst AGYW.
- Participate in local health promotion campaigns and youth events when possible and ensure
integration of HIV prevention information.
3. Development of knowledge products
- Works closely with the MOSAIC-Zimbabwe management and technical team, and with
relevant MOSAIC regional and global focal persons to produce high-quality, audienceappropriate print and digital content, including peer-reviewed publications, blog posts,
technical briefs, reports and fact sheets, conference abstracts and posters, and training materials
and other technical tools.
- Monitor, document and share project accomplishments, most significant change stories on
gender and youth engagement, challenges, and lessons learned among internal and external
partners for policy dialogue, advocacy, and future programming.
4. Monitoring/quality improvement
- Provide feedback on selected youth/gender outputs under MOSAIC, including reporting and
workplan.
- Maintain a country level tracker for all gender and youth integration activities.

Qualifications and Experience

Young woman aged between 18 to 25.
- Experience working with NGOs in community/ youth/ gender/HIV related structures and
projects for minimum of 2 years.
- Demonstrates experience in gender integration, youth empowerment and social and
behavior change communication in the health sector.
- Good communication skills and able to write and speak fluent English, Shona, and
Ndebele.
- Ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds. Ability to communicate effectively
with community members, community leaders, support staff, health care workers and
Ministry of Health staff.
- Basic computer literacy and the ability to work independently and as part of a team. Be
adaptable, approachable, empathetic, and willing to take initiative. Knowledge on HIV
prevention, care and treatment is an advantage.
- Degree in gender or social science or a related field would be an added advantage.
- Evidence of good presentation/facilitation skills and excellent verbal and written
communication skills and successful teamwork.
- Experience developing and maintaining productive working relations with stakeholders
including the Ministry of Health

How to Apply

A 3-minute video fully addressing the following questions:
1. Tell us about yourself?
2. Why is HIV prevention important for adolescent girls and young women?
3. How would you convince Ministry of Health and Childcare to introduce new HIV
prevention options?
4. How would you convince parents and guardians that HIV prevention is important for
adolescent girls and young women?
Submit a CV and relevant copies of certificates clearly stating the position being applied for in the
subject section of the email to: [email protected] by close of business on Thursday 07 December
2023. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.