Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, July 14, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
REF:TS/HR/ PMGT/22
Classification: Contract, Full-time
Reports to: DREAMS District Technical Officer Salary: Commensurate with training and experience
Duty Station: LPHS Ank01e-Mbarara Cluster
Directly Supervises: None

Main Purpose of the Job: The district DREAMS champion's main responsibility will be to engage Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYWs) in her district in order to identify HIV predisposing factors unique to them and bring these to the attention of the implementing partners DREAMS technical team. They will also provide guidance on implementation modalities that are proposed by the AGYWs in a bid to reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS among them. The DREAMS champion will further participate in advocacy engagements by working with communities to protect AGYWs and promote DREAMS programming to other district AGYW stakeholder including Local government authorities for possible adoption.

Key Outputs
• Increased uptake of DREAMS services by the target population
• Improved DREAMS programming to reach the most vulnerable AGYWs using youth friendly engagement approaches that facilitate enrolment and package completion
• Increased community engagement in AGYW related interventions offered through the
• PEPFAR program
• Confident and passionate DREAMS champions with the ability to mobilize and advocate for sustainable AGYW programs

Key Duties and Responsibilities
• Work closely with CDOs, sub county ambassadors and group peer leaders to identify and build a pool of DREAMS ambassadors up to the parish level and subsequently oversee their work.
• Plan and facilitate workshops with PEPFAR DREAMS Ambassadors and provide mentorship supporting identification, reporting and follow-up of VAC and SGBV cases in assigned District.
• Champion the roll out PrEP services to AGYW with very high risk of HIV infection.
• Foster community involvement in the DREAMS program for increased community buy in and community commitment to protect and link vulnerable AGYW at risk to DREAMS services.
• Participate in advocacy and coordination platforms at district level technical meetings with the IPS to ensure voices of AGYW are heard during decision making on priorities that affect AGYW.
• Work with Sub County and Parish Coordinators to ensure community safe spaces for AGYW are functional and actively maintained to support DREAMS service layering.
• Support implementation and monitoring of the DREAMS program in the assigned District and documentation success stories and any service delivery issues.
• Support quality improvement activities and promote DREAMS Programming as a for positive youth development program at the district and any other foru necessary.
• Generate public attention about the DREAMS program and factors that girls and young women in the community predisposing them to risk of acqu
• Any other duties assigned by the supervisor.

Person Specifications: DREAMS Ambassador
Minimum Academic Qualifications: Must have completed at least a Uganda Advanced Certificate Education ("A" Level) or possess. A Diploma or relevant equivalent qualification in the field of Humanities will be an added advantage.

Required Experience and Exposure
• Experience of working with TASO will be very vital
• Must be 18-24 years old
• Should be available to work full time
• Must be able to read and write in both English and the local language of the DREAMS District
• Should be a beneficiary and or engaged in the DREAMS program for at least one year and, a resident in that DREAMS district
• Experience in activism, community mobilization and youth empowerment and engagement
• Experience in conducting community mapping and report writing
• Experience in working with or counselling adolescents is an added advantage
• Experience of capacity strengthening through formal and informal training

Special Knowledge
• Knowledge of Quality DREAMS-AGYW standards, methodology and tools
• Knowledge of community mobilization and facilitation techniques
• National gender and HIV/AIDS frame work including policies and procedures Report writing
• Experience in working and counselling AGYWs

Key Skills
• Exhibit natural leadership skills
• Good training, facilitation, and coordination skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to work effectively in a team
• Basics in Counseling skills
• Computer skills in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to plan strategically, and communicate with key actors in a dynamic and unpredictable operating environment Problem solving and decision making
• Understanding of gender, age and other socio-cultural factors
• Ability and willingness to work in a participatory manner with a diverse range of AGYW and communities

Physical Availability
• Ability to permanently reside in the district of operation
• Ability to work under minimal supervision but with accuracy

Other Qualities/Attributes: Integrity, Emotional control, Confidentiality, player, Self-driven, Empathy and Ability to handle pressure and wor Ati supervision.

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Level of Education: Professional Certificate

Job application procedure
Only qualified candidates who meet all the above requirements are invited to submit their resume, copies of certified academic certificates, testimonials and three referees, two of who should be the present employer / immediate supervisor or last employer if unemployed, or any other if it is the first employment being applied for. None of the referees should be a relative, friend or business associate. All referees' designations should be stated and contact details included i.e. physical address, telephone/ mobile numbers and email contacts.

Note:
• All interested candidates MUST fully fill the TASO Online Job Application Form, scan and save all the relevant documents in one folder and forward only online applications with the relevant credentials on the Online Application Form
• TASO does not receive applications via social media especially NOT Facebook or WhatsApp
• TASO does not use an Agency to recruit except when indicated on the advert.
• TASO does not ask for money for Applications
• Only the TASO Human Resources Office handles Job Applications.
• While TASO appreciates all the interested applicants, only shortlisted candidates are contacted for interviews. In case you do not hear from TASO one (01) month after the closing date, please consider yourself unsuccessful.

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