Advocacy Officer

3 weeks ago

Durban, South Africa TB HIV Care Full time

**Job Advert Summary**:
**Purpose of the position**:
***The People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) Advocacy Officer will be responsible for the advocacy and engagement of stakeholders and players in the district of programme implementation. He/she will manage the engagement of stakeholders, sensitisation trainings, human rights defenders and the respective reporting on these issues.

**Minimum Requirements**:

- Social sciences degree/public health
- Minimum 2 years’ experience in lobbying/advocacy/human rights or programming in the public health or HIV field
- Experience in advocating for minority KP health, social and legal rights
- Experience in harm reduction and PWID programming beneficial
- Computer literate in MW Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Fluent in English and isiZulu
- Valid code 8 drivers licence

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Network and advocate for the human rights and needs of people who use/inject drugs
- Human rights defenders support and supervision
- Reporting, administration and facilitation
- Train peer educators on the human rights violations standard operating procedure (SOP) and data tools
- Work closely with the human rights defenders to ensure successful referral and follow-up
- Conduct sensitisation trainings to stakeholders per quarter

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