Key Responsibilities:

•  Assists service beneficiaries living with HIV to identify and overcome barriers that interfere with achieving health-related personal goals and to help ensure that they effectively navigate and remain within the continuum of HIV services.
• Provide education and support for ART enrollment, adherence and retention in treatment to service beneficiaries by visiting PLHIV in the community or at home (minimum 80 beneficiaries but not limited to)
• Support to promote messages on positive prevention, treatment literacy, adherence and retention using details strategic communication materials.
•  Conduct quality of community care services including referral and follow up for community-led testing for HIV for Index testing and recording and reporting.
•  Use digital information, education and communication (IEC) materials in mobile phone tablets.
•  Support to conduct support group meeting, PGDs and/or creative events and S&D reduction training as needed.
• Promote Undetectable=Untransmittable (U=U), HIV self-testing community-led testing for HIV.
• Conduct HIV test for triage for partners, biological children and network members of HIV positive index clients in the community following National Community-led Testing Guidelines.
• Closely coordinate with Lab personnel for confirmatory HIV tests as needed.
• Provide education of nutrition, family planning, TB treatment, Gender-based violence including intimate partner violence, water and sanitation hygiene (WASH) as required. Refer as needed using updated referral directory.

Duty Station: Koshi province (Itahari, Biratnagar, Birtamod).

Minimum Qualification:

•  Minimum 8 class passed with minimum 2 years’ experience in PEPFAR supported HIV/AIDS, STI prevention program.

Preferences:

•  Preference will be given to the candidates from KPs and PLHIV group.
• Knowledge of local languages will be beneficial.
• Advantage of two wheelers driving license holder.
• Female and local candidate will be given priority.
• Flexibility of working in off-hours (beyond standard office time) as needed.

Type of employment: Time Based Employment (Contract, full-time)

Total vacant position: Few

Exam Schedule:

Written test followed by interview and skill test;

• Date: 2081 Ashoj 07 (23 September 2024),
• Time: 11:00 AM
• Venue: AMDA Nepal (EpiC Project), Iaitabare-4, Itahari, Sunsari.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the further selection process. No telephone inquiries will be entertained, and any inappropriate recommendation might automatically disqualify the candidate from further processing. AMDA respects child rights and strictly follows the child safeguarding policy of the organization. AMDA is an equal opportunities employer and strictly follows merit-based selection. Qualified women, person with disabilities candidates and/or from underprivileged communities and local people with appropriate qualifications and competencies are strongly encouraged to apply. AMDA Nepal reserves the right to qualify/disqualify applications in any case.

AMDA Nepal highly encourage the candidates to apply for the relevant position for those working under its umbrella, especially in HIV/AIDS related projects and considered high respect with preference.

AMDA Nepal

Gorkarneshwar -6, Jorpati, Kathmandu, Nepal

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