HIV Outreach Specialist

University of Mississippi Medical Center; Jackson, Northern (MS, KY); Hybrid; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, MS is seeking an HIV Outreach Specialist to provide direct and indirect client services that support linkage and retention in care for people living with HIV. You will engage with priority populations, perform peer counseling, and deliver HIV education to clients and potential clients.

This full-time role requires strong interviewing and communication skills, comfort discussing HIV and STI risks, and the ability to connect clients with

Qualifications

• Requires degree (Associate or Bachelor's) or HS diploma with 2 years in peer counseling or outreach.
• Comfort discussing HIV, STI, and related risks with peers.
• Experience in customer service and health education.

Responsibilities

• Provide non-medical support for PLWH, including peer counseling and outreach.
• Locate and re-engage PLWH lost to care and address barriers.
• Facilitate linkage to care with open communication with PLWH.
• Maintain contact with high-risk clients to prevent dropout from care.
• Collaborate to provide HIV/STD education and linkage to services.
• Input data and maintain Ryan White databases for reporting.

Skills

Interviewing

Customer service

Community engagement

Verbal communication

Written communication

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Data entry

HIV knowledge

Public health outreach

Education

Associate degree

Bachelor's degree

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

PC software

Ryan White reporting

Job description

## Job Title:HIV Outreach Specialist## Job Summary:To provide direct and indirect client services to support linkage and retention in care for HIV/AIDS clients, supports all aspects of community engagement and outreach, seeks and connects PLWH (People Living with HIV) to available support services. Counsels medication adherence, and safe sex practices. Candidates do not have to have a diagnosis of HIV infection.## Education & Experience**Education and Experience Required:**Degree (Associate or Bachelor) or High School Diploma/GED and two (2) years of peer counseling, community outreach, or case management experience.**Certifications, Licenses or Registration Required:**N/A## Knowledge, Skills & Abilities**Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:**Interviewing skills. Knowledge of customer service principles and procedures, knowledge of community engagement, and health related issues, verbal and written communication skills, interpersonal skills to interact with a wide range of constituencies; ability to multi-task and use creative problem solving. Must be comfortable discussing HIV, sexually transmitted infections, alternate lifestyles, and associated risks with peers. Must be comfortable engaging individuals who may be mentally ill, homeless, HIV positive, or have substance abuse issues. Skill in the use of personal computers and related software applications.****Responsibilities:***** Provides specialized, non-medical support for PLWH, including peer counseling, outreach activities, and HIV education to clients or potential clients.* Locates and re-engages PLWH who have been lost to HIV care, determining the barriers that contributed to them leaving care and addressing those barriers.* Facilitates linkage to care by maintaining open communication with PLWH using various communication techniques.* Maintains ongoing contact with current clients who are at a higher risk of dropping out of HIV care.* Collaborates with others to provide HIV/STD education and linkage to care to those priority populations who are more at risk for HIV.* Collaborates with internal and external individuals and agencies to connect clients to available services and resources available to PLWH.* Inputs data and helps maintain Ryan White specific databases in order to meet all Ryan White reporting requirements and facilitates and maintains tracking and reporting of calls, community engagement and outreach activities also for reporting purposes.* The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive.**Physical and Environmental Demands:** Requires occasional working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours, frequent travelling to offsite locations, frequent activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, constant work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, frequent bending, occasional lifting and carrying up to 75 pounds, occasional climbing, occasional crawling, occasional crouching/stooping, constant driving, occasional kneeling, frequent pushing/pulling, constant reaching, frequent sitting, constant standing, occasional twisting, and constant walking. (occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%, constant-51% or more)## Time Type:Full time## FLSA Designation/Job Exempt:No## Pay Class:Hourly## FTE %:100## Work Shift:## Benefits Eligibility:## Grant Funded:## Job Posting Date:09/16/2026