Main purpose of the job:
- To support stakeholder engagement activities, projects, and events for the Key Populations Programme
- Along with Senior Advisor for Community Engagement, forge and maintain existing relations with the key populations’ community (female sex workers and transgender people), department of health, funders, thought leaders, and civil society organizations nationally, regionally, and globally
Location:
- Parktown – Johannesburg
Key performance areas:
The Wits RHI Key Populations Programme is looking for a dynamic and energetic individual to support our community engagement strategy.
- Support community engagement activities, strategies, projects, and events for the Key Populations program
- Create strategic plans to help facilitate community involvement and put them into action with the support of the community engagement lead
- Build relationships with the community, institutions, and organizations as well as maintain and elevate existing relationships
- Represent Wits RHI’s interests and present progress, achievements and lessons learned to key stakeholders
- Support online outreach strategies by developing relevant messages for online platforms (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp) to ensure maximum reach to female sex workers and transgender people
- Support the development and distribution of information, education, and communications (IEC) material targeted toward sex workers and transgender people
- Identify new platforms and strategies to encourage the uptake of services by female sex workers and transgender people
- Support the monitoring and evaluation of the impact of demand-creation strategies
- Conduct outreach training workshops to site teams, with support from the senior team
- Utilize advocacy channels to promote accessible and acceptable health services for female sex workers and transgender people
- Participate in multi-sectoral engagements with government departments and other stakeholders to advocate for health equity for sex workers and transgender people
- Support client feedback mechanisms and dissemination of results to ensure the provision of quality services for the key populations’ community (including coordination of Community Advisory Boards)
- Support the conceptualization, design, and execution of research studies conducted by the Key Populations Programme team
Required minimum education and training:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, Social Sciences, or equivalent experience
- Familiarity with key populations programming and current advocacy issues affecting the community
- Able to sensitively communicate and work with sex workers and transgender people in community settings
- Experience in community engagement, communications, or public relations
- Experience in donor-funded programs
- Proficiency with using social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong organizational skills and readiness to work on several projects simultaneously
- Professionalism and diplomacy when dealing with stakeholders
Desirable additional education, work experience, and personal abilities:
- Motivated, passionate, people-oriented, and proactive communicator
- Energetic individual with an ability to manage complex situations, manage stress and deliver goals pro-actively
- Excited to create meaningful engagement between various stakeholders and the program
- Ability to work under tight deadlines with minimum supervision
- Organized with a thorough and accurate approach to work and attention to detail
TO APPLY:
- Only if you do meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV.
- Please Apply Online and complete your registration on Ditto Hire (our application tracking system) to enable and protect you as a candidate to accept the new POPIA terms and conditions. This will then create your permanent profile with which you can apply for all jobs as advertised by AJ PERSONNEL. However, you may remove your profile from AJ PERSONNEL when you are no longer in the job market.
- AJ Personnel is fully POPIA Compliant.
- Please take note that the applicants who do not adhere to the above criteria will not be considered for the respective position.
- The closing date for all applications: 02 November 2022.
- Wits Health Consortium will only respond to shortlisted candidates.
- Candidates who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date can consider their applications to be unsuccessful.
Please note:
- Our Client, WHC – RHI, maintains mandatory Covid-19 requirements, and as such only Covid-19 vaccinated incumbents will be considered for positions.
- WHC, in accordance with its Employment Equity goals and plan, will give preference to suitable applicants from designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and subsequent amendments thereto.
- AJ Personnel is only responsible for advertising the advertisement on behalf of their client Wits Health Consortium.
- AJ Personnel does not have any salary or other information regarding the position.
About The Employer:
Background
The Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (Wits RHI) is a renowned African-led research institute that seeks solutions to Africa’s health challenges.
It is located within the University of the Witwatersrand and addresses some of the greatest public health concerns affecting our region, including HIV and its related problems, sexual and reproductive health, and vaccinology.