Position: Community Engagement officer

Location: Pavlodar or East Kazakhstan Regions, Kazakhstan

Report to: EpiC Kazakhstan Project Manager

Project Description:

FHI 360 Kazakhstan is seeking applications for the position of Community Engagement officer for the Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project in Kazakhstan.

Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) is an eight-year global project funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). EpiC is dedicated to achieving and maintaining HIV epidemic control and the project provides strategic technical assistance (TA) and direct service delivery (DSD) to break through barriers to 95-95-95 and promote self-reliant management of national HIV programs by improving HIV case-finding, prevention, and treatment programming. FHI 360 through EpiC in Kazakhstan focuses on HIV case finding in the community, and treatment initiation, adherence, and retention support for people living with HIV (PLHIV), with a focus on select key population (KP) groups. While EpiC takes a regional approach in the overarching management of the Central Asia project, each country has its own respective targets, priority focus areas and expected deliverables.

Job Description

The Community Engagement Officer will provide leadership on a wide spectrum of client-based differentiated service delivery strategies and interventions for men who have sex with men (MSM) and people who are transgender (TG) that will strengthen HIV prevention, care, treatment, and support across the cascade to help reach the 95:95:95 goals by 2030.

Position Description:

• Provide overall assistance to community-based organizations (CBOs) working with the target population (MSM, TG) to ensure successful implementation of the work plan and achievement of the project’s targets and goals.
• Provide guidance to the assigned CBO subpartners to ensure timely results against project targets.
• Lead and oversee community mobilization activities to address structural and social barriers to accessing services and fulfillment of rights of TG/MSM, skills development in community mobilization, and shaping policy.
• Engage with key stakeholders (MSM Network, other KP led civil society, Regional AIDS Centers and other medical facilities.) to develop and implement a strategy for mentorship and capacity development in community mobilization, advocacy, gender, service delivery and organizational development.
• Collaborate with different KP community leaders, state governments NGOs and CSOs in the Project regions.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree, public health, social sciences, or related field highly desired; OR a minimum of 3 years of professional work experience in the field of Public Health and HIV;
• A minimum of 3 years of progressively responsible experience in working on community engagement, mobilization, advocacy or related activities with Kazakhstan MSM and TG;
• Demonstrated ability to be able to effectively work with MSM and TG and effectively coordinate with a range of stakeholders including government, community and other civil society organizations, and the private sector;
• Demonstrated ability to be able to effectively work with MSM and TG and effectively coordinate with a range of stakeholders including government, community and other civil society organizations, and the private sector;
• Demonstrated working knowledge of U.S. Government program management regulations; and
• Demonstrated written, presentation, communication and organizational skills in Russian and/or Kazakh. Advanced level of English is strongly preferred.

The position will ideally be based in Pavlodar or Ust-Kamenogorsk, or Almaty as the second option, Kazakhstan and work out of the FHI 360 Country office. Preference is for Kazakh national and internal candidates.

Suitably qualified candidates openly living with HIV and/or who are representative of the key populations affected by HIV are also actively encouraged to apply.

This job posting summarizes the main duties of the job. It neither prescribes nor restricts the exact tasks that may be assigned to carry out these duties. This document should not be construed in any way to represent a contract of employment. Management reserves the right to review and revise this document at any time.

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