Community Outreach Organizer (Female)

Program Implementation

• Create and establish positive relationship with gatekeepers for program activities;
• Travel in town and out of town (if necessary) to promote safer behaviours amongst high-risk populations according to outreach and DIC schedules.
• Conduct health education (HE) sessions to cover minimum prevention package to target groups using defined LPK methods and IEC materials.
• Support to achieve all phases of HIV cascade of Care (Reach Test Treat & Retain) HIV Index testing and TB Case Finding etc.
• Work in line with IPC messages designed for high-risk populations group.
• Effectively use job-aids like flipcharts and other tools as an augmenter to bring behaviour change in target population.
• Give necessary pamphlets brochures and promotional items to target audiences after HE sessions as needed.
• Regular access reports to check outreach worker report and closely follow how her teams and individual outreach workers are performing.
• Involves proactively in aligned with organizational change in new program implementation or innovative strategies under guidance and request of senior management team.
• Actively perform in planning organizing and involving in special campaigns/events/weekly and monthly activities

Program development

• Keep updated about high-risk populations context and cruising points and hotspots in the city.
• Keep finding new cruising points and new areas for high-risk populations.
• Ensure in updating the hotspots in individual outreach worker area as biweekly/monthly basis (regular mapping exercise).

Outreach team management

• Supervises 2 to 10 Outreach Workers.
• Develops monthly and weekly outreach plan (frequency of contacts plan list of cruising points weekly coverage weekly activity) for each outreach worker in her team; and the plan and the checking are aiming to ensure that program targets and objectives are achieved by the outreach workers under her supervision.
• Monitors closely M&E data to check achievements of targets and adapt the outreach plans and take immediate actions as needed to fix on gaps/challenges.
• Conduct routine meetings with respective team individually to discuss targets Vs achievements challenges and to share experiences in working with clients;
• Visits to the hotspots with each outreach Worker once a month at least (provides supervision on weekly basis); gives regular constructive clients feedback to Outreach Workers about their communication skills (accuracy of messages interaction with audience) according LPK IPC guidelines using the supervision form. Those visits aim at maintaining outreach worker motivation and ensuring services quality delivery;
• Supervises new outreach workers daily during their probation period and assesses probation performance to inform to Project Officer that decision of contracting or not;
• Monitoring of outreach workers communication skills working performance and helping them to initiate contacting with relevant persons.
• Conduct needs/skills assessment based on supervision reports and provide and/or organize training and refresher training for the team in technical programmatic and operational areas as needed.
• Use the proper LPKs monitoring checklist to assess outreach performance and collecting of clients feedback as mentioned schedule or coaching individually in need.

Reporting Administration finance and logistics

• Reports to Project Officer for related activities on weekly basis during weekly meetings and actively contributes in staff meetings;
• Ensure outreach workers are fully competent and correctly using M&E and reporting systems;
• Perform any other duties as required by Project Officer or LPK Program management team
• Fill their own supervision and feedback reports (weekly and monthly); check the diaries and reports of the outreach workers under her supervision and submit to the Project Officer in time.
• Guarantees the compliance to LPK guidelines such as Code of Conduct data accuracy outreach reports.

Qualifications :

• Must have direct experience of outreach work (at least 1 year) and good Communication skills - understand and be able to give feedback on good interactive communication techniques. Excellent communication skills among staffs as well as outside contacts.
• Sound HIV prevention knowledge as well as good knowledge of target population. 
• Must be able to lead and mentor a small team of outreach workers in program development and ability in recruiting of outreach worker to support program needs.
• Able to write and read in Myanmar and English; middle school education completed (or) 8th Standard preferred.

Additional Information :

09 09

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Contract