X10 Community Facilitator at NACOSA
Born out of a national convention to draft the first national strategic plan for AIDS, NACOSA is now a leading national civil society organisation working collectively to build stronger, more equal, and healthy communities free from the burden of HIV. We do this by strengthening community systems, mobilising and managing resources, facilitating networking and collaborations, providing and enabling access to services and advocating, learning and sharing widely.
NACOSA works at all levels across the country – from international donor agencies, the corporate sector and national government, right through to sub-district services and small, community groups. Strengthening community systems for NACOSA focuses on building networks for Community Based Organisations and Community Leadership.
X10 Community Facilitator at NACOSA
Key Performance Areas:
The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, Aids-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) programme provides a comprehensive package of core interventions to address key factors that make adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) particularly vulnerable to HIV. These include structural factors, such as gender-based violence, exclusion from economic opportunities, and a lack of access to secondary school. DREAMS layers multiple interventions at once so that AGYW are surrounded with critical support to keep them safe from HIV and other risks.
The Community Facilitator position will support and deliver on NACOSA’s USAID funded Community-based Violence Prevention and Linkages to Response in SA Programme. This HIV and GBV Prevention Programme focuses on delivering evidence-based group interventions to adolescent girls and young women and adolescent boys and young men (aged 15-19 and 20-24years). It further focuses on linkages and layering to secondary interventions services such as post violence care services to survivors who disclose, sexual reproductive health services, family strengthening and economic strengthening interventions.
Community Facilitators will support the implementation of the No Means No Self-defense intervention, Sexual Reproductive Health, Financial Literacy, linkages and layering as well as mentoring intervention in 6 Health Sub-Districts of the Cape Metro.
Positions are available in the following sub districts within the Western Cape- Khayelitsha, Tygerberg, Northern Sub District, Southern Sub District and Western Sub District.
Community Facilitators X10
RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:
Travel daily within the community to perform demand creation, identifying and recruiting beneficiaries into the DREAMS programme according to the prescribed process.
(May at times be needed to travel and assist outside of allocated sub-district)
Facilitate profiling and needs assessment of participants.
Provide foundational training and mentoring which is engaging, fun, and impactful and any other training that may be deemed appropriate and beneficial to the participant.
Assist to secure resources when needed i.e. (identify safe spaces in the community for group training sessions).
Ensure weekly / monthly / quarterly targets for training and mentoring are met.
Provide ongoing mentoring and support to participant enrolled in the DREAMS programme.
Facilitate complete and accurate transfer of on-site referral requests to partnered organisation/s.
Adhere to all administration processes and submit complete and accurate documents to Team Leader within the prescribed time frame.
Attend weekly team meetings, ad hoc programme meetings, and training, planning and reporting daily, weekly and monthly.
REQUIREMENTS:
Minimum of Grade 12/Matric or equivalent.
Reside in the community where the programme will be implemented.
Experience in group-based facilitation (Youth Facilitator, Community Care Worker, DREAMS Ambassador).
Experience working within a GBV (Gender Based Violence) programme-preferred.
Proficient in English and one other South African language (spoken in allocated district).
Ability to work under pressure and strong interpersonal skills.
Driver’s License advantageous.
COMPETENCIES:
Passionate about empowering youth
Proven ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Demonstrate sensitivity, respect, honesty and maturity in interactions.
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