Position: Project Officer – Employer Led Model (ELM).

Organization: Hindustan Latex Family Planning Promotion Trust

Location: Maharashtra

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

Key responsibilities include

• Prepare inventory of prospective industries/agencies/institutions which employ large number of informal workers/migrants in the State.
• Organize State/Regional levels ensitization meeting on employer led models/PPP interventions amongtheseagencies.
• Regular coordination/visits/correspondence with prospective agencies to sensitize and motivate to take up such interventions.
• Conduct site visits to undertake feasibility visits to health infrastructure/health staffs to initiate STI/HIV related services.
• Facilitate preparation of proposals for implementation of interventions by the employers/institutions/agencies.
• Facilitate rollout by conducting ensitization meeting among the senior management or regular follow up with the senior management.
• Facilitate training of the staffs to implement communication sessions, referrals to HIV facilities in the area.
• Facilitate with the prospective employers/agencies/institutions to rollout HIV related services (HIV Testing, STI treatment, ART provisioning) in coordination with the respective divisions of SACS.
• Facilitate condom social marketing/provision of condoms in the clinics through SMO or existing mechanism of social marketing programme with SACS.
• Ensure coordination at the site level through regular meeting with the coordination committee and available HIV related facilities for smooth referral linkages.
• Coordinate with other agencies such as DAPCU,TSU,SMO and other divisions of SACS to rollout different activities as proposed in the proposal by the employer/institution/agency.
• Facilitate roll out prison HIV intervention in the state
• Ensure reporting of the facilities in case the employer/institution/agency have been providing HIV related services.

The Program Officer would be responsible for rolling out of employer led/PPP interventions across the entire State in close coordination with various divisions of SACS.S/he would closely work with the industry bodies and employer associations in the State to implement the activities.

Reporting to: The officer will be reporting to the Technical Expert– TI on all issues associated with his/her work responsibilities in TSU States.

Essential:

Desired Candidate Profile

• Master Degree in Social sciences, Public Health, Management or a related field.
• The candidate should have minimum work experience of 3years in managing business operations. Experience in engaging with industry bodies, employer associations is desired.
• The suitable candidate will be familiar with the organization and functions of the state and local business partners, industry associations, employer bodies.
• S/he will have excellent written and verbal communication skills in local languages and the ability to work well in an inter-disciplinary team.
• Strong analytical and negotiation skills
• Demonstrated ability to analyze policy issues and to communicate findings and policy recommendations to a variety of audiences.
• Willingness to travel extensively.
• Excellent knowledge of Local language and English (Speaking, Reading and Writing)
• Previous experience in the state is essential.

Remuneration:  Salary will commensurate with experience of the candidate and past salary drawn.