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IRIN, the news and information service of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is seeking a dynamic manager to head up a new project to provide imaginative and popular radio programming on HIV/AIDS issues to a mass audience along the Abidjan to Lagos corridor in Côte d'Ivoire. Based in Abidjan, the successful candidate will have 7 years' minimum professional experience in broadcast journalism, including the production of programmes on HIV/AIDS, strong management, budgeting and team-building skills, a strong interest in HIV/AIDS, a working knowledge of key issues, debates and media strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa, and be fully bilingual in English and French. Prior working experience and knowledge of West Africa is essential.

This is an international ALD-3 position and UN terms and conditions of employment apply. Interested candidates should submit a C.V. and covering letter electronically to Mark Bidder () Chief of Operations, from whom the particulars of the position are also available upon request. The closing date for applications is Friday 26 August 2005.

The Academy for Educational Development (AED), a nonprofit organisation committed to solving critical social problems throughout the world, seeks a dynamic and committed person to fill a position of Project Manager for expanding Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (OVC) projects in Kenya.

The Project Manager will work closely with field offices and technical staff to build core competencies for expanding community programs in care and support for OVC. S/he will support the projects in implementing models of good practice of orphan care and oversee project implementation and development as well as overall financial administration. This position requires experience in implementing and evaluating community based development programmes, experience in international donor reporting systems, and experience in financial management and human resource management. The successful candidates will have strong communications, writing, teamwork and interpersonal skills, fluency in English and Kiswahili, and be computer literate.

For more information: Academy for Educational Development, 1825 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009-5721 www.aed.org

Send applications, including a curriculum vitae and the contact details of three traceable references, to Kirsten Weeks at

Contract Duration: from 20 to 35 days. Fees are based on standard consultancy fees
Start date: 1 September 2005

HelpAge International (HAI) is a global network of organisations working with and for disadvantaged older people worldwide to achieve a lasting improvement in the quality of their lives. Over the last 20 years, HAI's network of organisations has been working with older people in poor communities in over 70 countries of the world.

Since 1992, HIV/AIDS has become a core element of HAI's work, especially with partner organisations in Africa and Asia. HAI's focus is to support the crucial role older women and men are playing in the survival of their families and communities. Their interventions are community-based and take an intergenerational approach, and are underpinned by research, advocacy and capacity building of older people.

With support from UNAIDS, HAI has launched a one-year programme to increase the visibility of, and improve support to, older women carers of people living with HIV/AIDS, orphans and vulnerable children. HelpAge International's global aim is to ensure that global responses to HIV/AIDS include older people by documenting good practice and drawing a guide for partners and other implementing agencies.

The programme has the following major expected results that HAI intends to undertake by commissioning experienced consultants:

• A report mapping key stakeholders, existing care standards and guidelines in home- and community-based care, to analyse their applicability to the needs, rights and roles of older women carers and draw together a guide for HAI project partners and other agencies working in this area.
• Documenting good practice of support to older women carers within HAI programme interventions in selected countries of Africa and Asia.
• Analysis of existing data sets and research for information on caregivers of PLWAs and orphaned and vulnerable children.

The findings of these consultancies are expected to be disseminated at various regional and international for a, including the ICASA conference in December, the GNP+ and Home and Community Care Conference in March 2006, and the Africa partners meeting in November 2005. In addition, the findings will form the basis for the development of an advocacy strategy on older carers within the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS.

HAI invites experienced consultants with a strong background in HIV/AIDS within an international development context to submit their CVs and evidence of previous research experience before 15 August 2005.

For more details of these consultancies and details of the major expected results, please request to see the full Terms of Reference, available from:

Amleset Tewodros
Regional Programme Manager
HelpAge International,
Africa Regional Development Centre
PO Box 14888, 00800
Nairobi, Kenya
Email: ,
Website: www.helpage.org