Peer Educator

YRG Care; Peddapalli; On-site; INR 167,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

YRG Care invites a dedicated Peer Educator to support the outreach team in planning service delivery for HIV/AIDS programs. You will engage at-risk groups and partners, promote condom use, encourage regular medical checkups, testing, and access to preferred clinics.

You will work to strengthen community motivation, coordinate micro-plans, and ensure supplies and reporting to drive effective program implementation across hotspots.

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills; ability to engage with diverse community groups.
• Knowledge of local community structures and power dynamics.
• Ability to work in small teams and flexible ways of working.
• Ability to maintain simple field records and complete tasks in a timely manner.
• Candidate should identify with community issues and motivate change.
• Good rapport-building and motivational skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan micro-plans and demand analysis of commodities.
• Prepare weekly/monthly action plans for each hotspot and ensure supply of needles, syringes, condoms, lubricants, and materials.
• Consult with community members and stakeholders to ensure field-level support for project implementation.
• Follow up STI/HIV cases and conduct home visits to HRGs who did not attend testing or services.
• Engage stakeholders to ensure smooth programme implementation and community participation.
• Identify preferred providers for delivering project services after appropriate training.
• Maintain records of condoms and supplies distributed to field teams.
• Provide data and information required for reports.

Skills

Strong communication

Community structures knowledge

Teamwork

Field records keeping

Community motivation

Rapport building

Issue identification

Education

Literacy

Job description

Role Summary

The Peer Educator will be responsible for supporting the outreach team in planning of service delivery by the project. The peer educators would be responsible to identify individual or groups who are at risk of HIV/AIDS and their partners who require services including the networks. Peer educator will make inroads to these networks and motivate them to use condoms, recognize the need for regular medical checkup and visit to preferred providers or clinics, recognize the need for HIV testing and safe disposal of used condoms/needles and syringes. Will motivate the individuals or groups to improve their self-esteem and communities to access services and other social development benefits.

Key Responsibilities

Planning and Management

• The Peer Educator along with other project staffs would be responsible for preparing micro- plans, calculate demand analysis of various commodities.
• Prepare weekly / monthly action plan for each hotspot, ensure supply of needles/syringes, condoms, lubes, BCC materials adequately for each hotspot.
• Should discuss with the community members and other stakeholders in preparing micro plan ensuring that field level support is ensured for smooth implementation of the project.
• Should ensure follow up of STI cases, HIV positive cases, home visit to HRGs who have not turned up for RMC or HIV testing.

Advocacy and Networking

• Will discuss and rope in support of the stakeholders in smooth implementation of the Programme in the area.
• Will be working with various power structures within and outside the community and would ensure their effective participation in the Programme.
• Will identify and use preferred providers for delivering the project services after due training by SACS or DAPCU or TSU.

Commodity Supplies and Management

• Will support the ORW will maintain records of free condoms or needles and syringes on lubes received from the project and distributed by self or peer educators.

Reporting

• Provide data/information required for preparation of reports.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Preferably should be literate with good knowledge of the local community and for FSW, MSM and TG / Hijra PEs should be from the same target group.
• In case of Migrants project -40% of the total peers should be from the community which represent highest number of migrants from source States.
• In case of truckers project -40% of the total peers should be ex-truckers or helpers and are currently in the profession or are working with any other jobs.
• In case of IDU or FIDU projects - ex-users or community members be preferred.
• The peer educator selection should be done through a process of peer progression among the volunteers who are associated with the project by way of helping in community sensitization, clinic services.
• The peer educators should be from the community in terms of their occupation, typology and age groups.
• Stakeholders, pressure groups or members of power structures, family members of the target population should not be preferably be engaged as peer educators.

Knowledge and Skills

• Should have strong communication skills and knowledge about community structures, community dynamics, power structures within and outside the community which controls the community.
• Ability to work in small teams, and flexible ways of working
• Ability to maintain simple field records and have attitude to work in a team to complete pending works.
• Should be identifying with the issues of community and should not idolize with the behaviors.
• Should be a good community motivator and should have rapport building skills.

Training Requirements

• Micro-plan preparation and updating; condom demonstration and re-demonstration; basics of STI and HIV/AIDS; basics of NSEP/OST Programme; advocacy and networking; and safe disposal of used needles and syringes from the field.

Peer Educator Norms

• FSW and MSM TIs: 1 Peer Educator per 60 HRGs.
• TG/Hijra TIs: 1 Peer Educator per 40 HRGs.
• IDU TIs: 1 Peer Educator per 40 HRGs.
• Additional FIDU in an existing IDU TI: 1 Peer Educator per 40 FIDUs.
• Truckers: 1 Peer Educator per 1,000 LDTs.
• Destination migrants: 1 Peer Educator per 700-1,000 destination migrants.
• Core composite TIs with FSW and MSM, TG/Hijra, or IDU components: norms as applicable above.

Additional Duties

• Undertake any other responsibilities assigned by the supervisor in support of project objectives.