Call for nominations for 10 vacancies on the GAVI Alliance Civil Society Constituency Steering Committee

Deadline for nominations: 1 May, 2013

GAVI supports a civil society constituency whose role is to advise the Alliance on its policies and practice, support implementation of GAVI’s activities and ensure that views of civil society are heard and engaged throughout its business.

The GAVI CSO Constituency is led by a 15-member Steering Committee (SC).  The SC also includes the CSO representative who sits on GAVI’s Board, the alternate board member and CSO representatives sitting on other GAVI committees, bringing the total number of SC members to 18. The structure and responsibilities of the Steering Committee are outlined in the Constituency’s Charter, which was updated in January 2013. 

Membership on the CSO SC is organisational; organisations are appointed to serve a single, three-year term. SC member organisations are selected based on commitment to follow issues, available time, technical expertise, and representation of the broad and diverse civil society spectrum. Specific attention is paid to country of origin and achieving a balance between advocacy and service-delivery organisations. The SC also strives to maintain a gender balance (GAVI’s gender policy is downloadable here). 

Application process

Full details on the role of SC members can be found on pages 2-4 of the CSO Constituency Charter.  Members are expected to attend two face-to-face meetings per year as well as monthly teleconferences.

All interested organisations should first read the GAVI CSO Constituency Charter in its entirety. Nominations must be supported by a relevant national CSO platform, where one exists (it’s recommended that you include a supporting statement from the platform’s Chair or Coordinator). Nominations without the support of a national CSO platform may not be considered. All SC members should also be able to represent networks and alliances of health-focused CSOs in their country, where applicable.

 

Nominations should be in English and should include:

1.    Organisational information (headquarters, branch offices, key areas of work, contact person submitting the organisational nomination)

2.    Brief organisational statement of reason for interest, skills offered to the Steering Committee, previous involvement in immunisation and organisational resources to be leveraged

3.    Brief CV or biography of the individual who would represent the organisation on the SC

4.    Statement from organisation that they are prepared to support the representative for GAVI CSO Constituency work at a minimum of 10% time

5.    Supporting statement from relevant national CSO platform

Kindly put all requested information in ONE DOCUMENT and include the organisation’s name in the file title. Please do not send multiple documents.

Please submit nominations to GAVICSO.SC.2013@gmail.com no later than close of business Wednesday, 1 May 2013. 

Thank you in advance for your interest, we kindly request that you share this message with all interested parties and apologize in advance for any cross postings.

Kind regards on behalf of the GAVI CSO Steering Committee