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Position Title:             Program Intern

Location:                     DREAMS Bulawayo Office

Supervisor:                  Provincial Coordinator

Project Summary

The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe women (DREAMS) program in Zimbabwe is focused on reducing new HIV infections amongst adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) by 40% by September 2021. The DREAMS program is being implemented in six priority high HIV burden districts in Zimbabwe i.e. Bulawayo, Chipinge, Gweru, Mazowe, Makoni, and Mutare. Under FHI360’s the DREAMS Project primary role in is to deliver a comprehensive curriculum on HIV prevention, gender norms and social asset building targeted at AGYW in school, out of school and their sexual partners at community level. The core package of interventions consists of social asset building, social protection, family and caregiver skills building, community norms activities that are complemented by provision of youth friendly sexual and reproductive health services.

Basic Function

Under the supervision of Provincial Coordinator, the Program Intern will be responsible for the provision of programmatic and administrative support to the Program team for effective program implementation.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Support the Program team with pre-planning, organization and management of trainings/workshops
• Support team with travel arrangement for Program team, including requisition generation.
• Provide administrative support to the Program team.
• Manage and schedule appointments and meetings as relevant.
• Schedule routine program team meetings; maintain minutes and ensure follow up on action items arising from minutes.
• Support with managing all printing and photocopying assignments, development and reproduction of documents for the program department.
• Performs any other duties as assigned.
• Support with filing of program documentation Deliver out of school HIV and GBV prevention sessions

Knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Ability to learn and work in a team.
• Excellent written, oral, interpersonal and organization skills.

Qualifications and requirements:

• A Level Certificate
• Former DREAMS beneficiary
• Experience in working with DREAMS beneficiaries
• Demonstrated success in multicultural environments is required

This job description summarizes the main duties of the job. It neither prescribes nor restricts the exact tasks that may be assigned to carry out these duties. This document should not be construed in any way to represent a contract of employment. Management reserves the right to review and revise this document at any time.

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