Ad-hoc Community Care and Support Staff at Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

Locations: FCT, Benue, Nasarawa, Enugu, Imo, Rivers, Delta and Lagos

Project Background

• The Faith-Based Action for Scaling up Testing and Treatment for the Epidemic Response (FASTER) project, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is designed to accelerate progress in pediatric HIV diagnosis and treatment in partnership with governments, civil society organizations (CSOs), the private sector, and faith-based organizations
• FASTER will catalyze progress towards achieving UNAID’ 95-95-95 targets by addressing structural barriers to pediatric HIV testing and treatment.

Specific Responsibilities

• Support the implementation of FASTER project technical strategies and activities design to respond to the program priority actions to address OVC Case Management & Referral Coordination, Adolescent program and HIV/AIDS pandemic across various communities.
• Support the referral coordination and linkages between communities and facilities across the focal state.
• Support the strategies towards strengthening sub-national coordination platforms for effective OVC Case management and referral coordination technical strategies.
• Facilitate the effective referral coordination platforms across various LGAs being supported FASTER project
• Facilitate effective representation of the FBOs and FBO networks in HIV/OVC TWG activities at the state levels
• Strengthen the capacity of OVC implementing Partners on HIV counselling and testing, PMTCT and Early Infant Diagnosis (EID), improving referral and counter-referral systems between communities and facilities.
• Support the scale up of community-based model for the engagement of community structures to improve case-finding for infants delivered outside of facilities.
• Work with IPs to scale – up the use of age-specific HIV Risk screening tool for determining children and adolescents at risk of HIV and prioritizing them for HIV testing in community and facility settings.
• Support the development of effective strategies for linkage to care and treatment of children living with HIV.

Qualifications and Skills

• A Bachelor's Degree in Health, Social Sciences or related discipline.
• Ability to work both in a team and independently and ability to transfer knowledge through formal and informal training
• Technical experience with programming to address cross-gender issues and concerns among children and adolescents is highly required.
• Strategic, analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to make sound judgment and decisions.
• Strong communications and presentation skills; able to develop tailored and persuasive messaging for varied audiences.