Senior Advisor

JOB DESCRIPTION
SENIOR ADVISOR: HUMAN RIGHTS
FUNDING (SP2)
CONTRACT TYPE: PERMANENT
REPORTS TO: LEAD: HEALTH SYSTEMS ENGAGEMENT
DIRECT REPORTS: N/A
LOCATION: SOUTH AFRICA
TRAVEL REQUIRED: OCCASIONAL TRAVEL, REGIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL

TRAVEL (ESTIMATED ONCE PER QUARTER)

JOB PURPOSE
You are a skilled fundraising professional with an excellent insight into HIV and human rights, and a strong network in this area. This role will mobilise funds to support Frontline AIDS and partners to deliver Strategic Priority 2: Champion Human Rights and Gender and Racial Justice in Frontline AIDS Strategy 2026-2030. You will work with technical and advocacy colleagues to grow our networks, join movements, and demonstrate the added value of Frontline AIDS in the human rights space.

KEY ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
STRATEGIC PRIORITY LEADERSHIP
You will work with colleagues across learning, advocacy, funding and communications and partnership engagement teams to identify and secure funding for our strategic priority Champion Human Rights and Gender and Racial Justice. This will involve working with colleagues and partners to develop a strategic
vision and operational workplan for the priority. You will be responsible for developing a funding plan to resource the strategic priority. This will include identifying aligned institutional and philanthropic donors, and working with colleagues and partners to effectively engage these donors, secure and deliver work in this area..

NETWORK BUILDING AND EXTERNAL REPRESENTATION

Represent Frontline AIDS in key human rights, gender and racial justice spaces and meetings, profiling our human rights and gender and racial justice work. Contribute to building new strategic alliances with gender justice, LGBTQ+, and human rights organisations. Leverage these alliances to secure new funding.

BROKERING FUNDING AND RESOURCES 

You will work with the senior and technical leadership to position Frontline AIDS as a go-to partner in human rights networks. You will take a proactive approach to donor engagement, working with your line manager and colleagues to build relationships and develop proactive propositions in line with the Funding Strategy and Strategic Priority 2 workplan. You will work with Frontline AIDS partners to jointly seek funding opportunities at the national, regional and global level. You will engage with donors to invest in human rights and gender and racial justice approaches that remove barriers to ending AIDS. This willYou will have donor account management responsibilities, aligned with the strategic priority funding portfolio. You will lead intelligence gathering about key institutional, philanthropic, and corporate donors, and new funding opportunities. Ensure effective tracking of new policies, political changes, and funding trends for each assigned donor in order to position effectively for new funding. Lead proactive engagement with your own portfolio of donors, and support team members to build relationships with their portfolio of donors and stakeholders. You will be responsible for contributing to proposal development, ensuring the submission of competitive concepts that meets all donor and internal criteria. involve mobilising resources for advocacy programmes, emergency response granting, and human rights monitoring systems and approaches.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

PERSON SPECIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE SKILLS, EXPERIENCE

Qualifications & Knowledge
Graduate or equivalent experience in international development, global health or human rights. Sound understanding of the global donor landscape for HIV/AIDS, SRHR and human rights as well as programming in a relevant area (HIV, human rights, gender justice) in the Global South.
Experience
Proven track record of positioning organisations with key institutional and philanthropic donors including building donor and partner networks/coalitions.
A track record of effectively managing donor relationships. Proven track record of building donor and partner networks and coalitions.
Experience of preparing and presenting reports and presentations for a range of audiences. Strong experience in developing successful concept notes and proposals including experience of using logical frameworks, theory of change or similar proposal development tools. Successful track record of raising 6-figure funds from diverse institutional donors, philanthropy, and corporate partners Experience in developing proposal budgets of USD 1M and above
Skills

Ability to communicate, advocate and co-create with senior management, donors, partners and other stakeholders. Proven networking and relationship building skills and ability to represent Frontline AIDS with confidence Excellent proposal writing skills, with the ability to clearly communicate
impact or potential impact. Strong financial literacy, particularly in designing budgets and financial reporting Strong project management skills; able to prioritise effectively and work with multiple tasks and across projects delivering on time and to quality standards.

CORE VALUES AND BEHAVIOURS
At Frontline AIDS we expect everyone to demonstrate and actively develop our intersectional Anti-Racist, Feminist and Decolonising Values and Behaviours (ARFD):
• Delivers results with accountability – commits to high performance, role-models positive behaviours.
• Inspires and advocates with impact – builds shared vision, motivates others, and influences change.
• Leads with dignity, respect and fairness – demonstrates courage, honesty, and commitment to intersectional anti-racist, feminist and decolonial values.

HOW YOUR ROLE FITS WITHIN FRONTLINE AIDS
As we pursue our strategic priorities over the next five years, Frontline AIDS will play three core roles that align with our strengths and with the functions that partners have signalled would be the most facilitative of the Partnership and with our anti-racist and feminist values:
• To advocate together and with impact to shape global national, regional and global decision making
• To develop and share learning on innovative, community-led practice for our new realities
• To unlock new and sustainable sources of funding for the civil society response to HIV. In order to fulfil these core roles well, this work will be underpinned by Partnership Engagement and Operations fit for the future. Your contribution is primarily to unlock new and sustainable sources of funding, however you will engage with colleagues and partners working in other areas; advocacy, learning, partnerships and operations.

 To apply please see the link:    Senior Advisor: Human Rights Funding

  Closing date: 01 May 2026

 All applicants need to apply on our website using the above link