Preventions Program Coordinator at AIDS Healthcare Foundation 192 views1 applications


AIDS Healthcare Foundation is a Los Angeles-based global nonprofit provider of HIV prevention services, testing, and healthcare for HIV patients.

Preventions Program Coordinator

Responsibilities

  • Provides leadership and support to all HIV Testing and Prevention Initiatives activities including planning, implementation, mobilization, and project evaluation;
  • Initiates and maintains collaborative linkages with health centers, NGO’s, CBOs, Civic leaders, National AIDS control program, and other relevant institutions;
  • Takes the lead in program expansion and implementation in new districts/ areas;
  • Leads the team in the preparation of monthly reports, and quarterly and annual work plans/reports for the initiative;
  • Participates in advocacy for prevention and rapid testing models in line with AHFs principles;
  • Participates in budgeting of all program activities;
  • Supports staff to ensure efficient management, and projections are made for logistics and supplies for HCT and prevention;
  • Identifies training needs and conducts training of health workers in HCT and prevention in collaboration with various partners;
  • Participates in review and development of training manuals, protocols and operational procedures for HIV Testing and Prevention Initiatives;
  • Plans and conducts support supervision activities for the participating health units, and communities to monitor quality of HCT activities, and provide technical support to the health workers, and community members supporting the project;
  • Provides operational management for the project office to ensure smooth running of the project activities;
  • Participates in resource mobilization and acquisition for the project;
  • Directly supervises 2 employees.
  • Responsibilities include participation in orientation and training of staff; assigning and directing work
  • Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

  • Minimum qualification of a Bachelors degree in Nursing, Social Sciences, Higher Diploma in Nursing or community health
  • A minimum of 5 years experience in a similar position working in an HIV/AIDS related field.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

  • Must be duly registered by the Kenya Nursing Board Council;
  • Be in possession of an annual practicing license

Other Skills And Abilities

  • Must be able to travel 50 -70% of the time;
  • Needs to be sensitive to patient population and issues surrounding HIV/AIDS;
  • Familiarity with word processing and data base management principles;
  • Ability to prioritize tasks in a rapidly changing environment;
  • Good command of up-to date knowledge and practices in HIV/AIDS treatment and care;
  • Ability to write abstracts and understand basic research concepts;
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills;
  • Ability to prepare reports, provide team leadership and guidance;
  • Be a strategic thinker, have good organizational, and planning skills and ability to prioritize tasks and work quickly and accurately to meet deadlines;
  • Ability to communicate effectively in English in a variety of settings such as staff meetings, discussions with partners, and training workshops;
  • Flexible, proactive and able to organize work independently as well as work in a team.

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AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is a Los Angeles-based global nonprofit provider of HIV prevention services, testing, and healthcare for HIV patients. AHF currently claims to provide medical care and services to more than 600,000 individuals in 15 U.S. states and 36 countries worldwide.

In 1987, activists Chris Brownlie, Michael Weinstein, Sharon Raphael, PhD, Mina Meyer, MA, and other advocates were among the earliest champions of the AIDS hospice movement as co-founders of the Los Angeles AIDS Hospice Committee, the catalyst organization which gave rise to the AIDS Hospice Foundation and, ultimately, to today’s AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

As members of the inaugural AIDS Hospice Committee, Brownlie, Weinstein, Myer, Raphael, Paul Coleman and others were involved with the planning and negotiations for the opening of Chris Brownlie Hospice on the grounds of the Barlow Respiratory Hospital. In those early years, following an emotional plea for hospice care to the Los Angeles County Commission on AIDS and a protest and picketing of then-Supervisor Mike Antonovich’s home, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors eventually committed $2 million to AIDS care. The group began converting a facility in Elysian Park that had been Barlow’s old nursing quarters into Chris Brownlie Hospice—the County’s first AIDS hospice—which was named in Brownlie’s honor when it first opened December 26, 1988. Meyer, who also served as Treasurer of the AIDS Hospice Committee, was honored in 1987 by the Los Angeles AIDS Hospice Committee with its ‘Heart of Gold Award’ for her early work in the effort to formulate AIDS hospice care in Los Angeles.

The 25-bed hospice—the first of three operated by AHF, including the Carl Bean House and Linn House, which opened in 1992 and 1995, respectively—provided 24-hour medical and palliative care to people living through the final stages of AIDS. Brownlie died at the age of 39, on November 26, 1989, less than a year after the hospice named in his honor first opened, survived by his father, sister, brothers, his longtime partner, Phil Wilson and countless friends and fellow AIDS activists. In addition to Brownlie, over 1,000 people had been given dignified, specialized, compassionate final care at the Chris Brownlie Hospice by the time it ended hospice operations in September 1996. The building that housed the Brownlie Hospice went through its own rebirths, housing various departments of AHF, including the headquarters for AHF’s Public Health Division, before the organization officially turned the property back over to the City of Los Angeles with a sunset memorial ceremony on Saturday, January 26, 2013.

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0 USD Nairobi CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Aids Healthcare Foundation AIDS Healthcare Foundation is a Los Angeles-based global nonprofit provider of HIV prevention services, testing, and healthcare for HIV patients.Preventions Program CoordinatorResponsibilities
  • Provides leadership and support to all HIV Testing and Prevention Initiatives activities including planning, implementation, mobilization, and project evaluation;
  • Initiates and maintains collaborative linkages with health centers, NGO’s, CBOs, Civic leaders, National AIDS control program, and other relevant institutions;
  • Takes the lead in program expansion and implementation in new districts/ areas;
  • Leads the team in the preparation of monthly reports, and quarterly and annual work plans/reports for the initiative;
  • Participates in advocacy for prevention and rapid testing models in line with AHFs principles;
  • Participates in budgeting of all program activities;
  • Supports staff to ensure efficient management, and projections are made for logistics and supplies for HCT and prevention;
  • Identifies training needs and conducts training of health workers in HCT and prevention in collaboration with various partners;
  • Participates in review and development of training manuals, protocols and operational procedures for HIV Testing and Prevention Initiatives;
  • Plans and conducts support supervision activities for the participating health units, and communities to monitor quality of HCT activities, and provide technical support to the health workers, and community members supporting the project;
  • Provides operational management for the project office to ensure smooth running of the project activities;
  • Participates in resource mobilization and acquisition for the project;
  • Directly supervises 2 employees.
  • Responsibilities include participation in orientation and training of staff; assigning and directing work
  • Other duties as assigned.
QualificationsEDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
  • Minimum qualification of a Bachelors degree in Nursing, Social Sciences, Higher Diploma in Nursing or community health
  • A minimum of 5 years experience in a similar position working in an HIV/AIDS related field.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
  • Must be duly registered by the Kenya Nursing Board Council;
  • Be in possession of an annual practicing license
Other Skills And Abilities
  • Must be able to travel 50 -70% of the time;
  • Needs to be sensitive to patient population and issues surrounding HIV/AIDS;
  • Familiarity with word processing and data base management principles;
  • Ability to prioritize tasks in a rapidly changing environment;
  • Good command of up-to date knowledge and practices in HIV/AIDS treatment and care;
  • Ability to write abstracts and understand basic research concepts;
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills;
  • Ability to prepare reports, provide team leadership and guidance;
  • Be a strategic thinker, have good organizational, and planning skills and ability to prioritize tasks and work quickly and accurately to meet deadlines;
  • Ability to communicate effectively in English in a variety of settings such as staff meetings, discussions with partners, and training workshops;
  • Flexible, proactive and able to organize work independently as well as work in a team.
2017-06-06

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