Advocacy Officers job at ABS Consulting Group

Purpose of the Job:

To raise awareness, promote policy changes, and support resource mobilization for the prevention and control of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Developing and implementing advocacy strategies by setting advocacy goals, identifying target audiences, and choosing appropriate advocacy methods and tools.
• Conducting research and analysing socioeconomic and cultural contexts, gathering evidence, and identifying key issues that are crucial for effective HIV/AIDS advocacy.
• Building relationships and coalitions and collaborating with other organisations, stakeholders, and community members to strengthen HIV/AIDS advocacy efforts.
• Engaging with policymakers and the public through lobbying, public awareness campaigns, and media outreach to influence HIV/AIDS related policies.
• Monitoring and evaluating advocacy outcomes, tracking progress, and assessing the impact of advocacy efforts for continuous improvement.
• Providing health education services in communities, schools, and institutions to teach them on effective strategies for HIV/AIDS prevention, control, and Health Promotion.
• Coordinating community health advocacy and education initiatives through meaningful engagements with Village Health Teams and other related community resources.
• Developing and managing feedback mechanisms for advancing Health advocacy, Promotion, and Education.
• Conducting continuous capacity development of the community health teams in health advocacy, education, and promotion;
• Preparing and submitting periodic activity reports.

Person Specifications

(a) Academic Qualifications

An Honours Bachelor’s Degree in either Social Sciences, Public Health, Community Psychology, Sociology, Social Work and Social Administration, Human Rights, Gender and Women Studies, Development Studies, Mass Communication, or Health Promotion and Education from a recognised University or Institution.

(b) Work Experience

Nil

(c) Required Competences

(i) Technical Competences

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Research and analytical skills
• Strategic thinking and planning
• Networking and relationship building
• Policy Management
• Records and information management
• Change management
• Analytical and critical thinking

(ii) Behavioral Competences

• Respect
• Responsiveness
• Pro-activism,
• Teamwork
• Ethics and integrity
• Result orientation
• Assertiveness and self-confidence
• Creativity and innovation

• Developing and implementing advocacy strategies by setting advocacy goals, identifying target audiences, and choosing appropriate advocacy methods and tools.
• Conducting research and analysing socioeconomic and cultural contexts, gathering evidence, and identifying key issues that are crucial for effective HIV/AIDS advocacy.
• Building relationships and coalitions and collaborating with other organisations, stakeholders, and community members to strengthen HIV/AIDS advocacy efforts.
• Engaging with policymakers and the public through lobbying, public awareness campaigns, and media outreach to influence HIV/AIDS related policies.
• Monitoring and evaluating advocacy outcomes, tracking progress, and assessing the impact of advocacy efforts for continuous improvement.
• Providing health education services in communities, schools, and institutions to teach them on effective strategies for HIV/AIDS prevention, control, and Health Promotion.
• Coordinating community health advocacy and education initiatives through meaningful engagements with Village Health Teams and other related community resources.
• Developing and managing feedback mechanisms for advancing Health advocacy, Promotion, and Education.
• Conducting continuous capacity development of the community health teams in health advocacy, education, and promotion;
• Preparing and submitting periodic activity reports.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Research and analytical skills
• Strategic thinking and planning
• Networking and relationship building
• Policy Management
• Records and information management
• Change management
• Analytical and critical thinking
• Respect
• Responsiveness
• Pro-activism
• Teamwork
• Ethics and integrity
• Result orientation
• Assertiveness and self-confidence
• Creativity and innovation

• An Honours Bachelor’s Degree in either Social Sciences, Public Health, Community Psychology, Sociology, Social Work and Social Administration, Human Rights, Gender and Women Studies, Development Studies, Mass Communication, or Health Promotion and Education from a recognised University or Institution.