Job Description

Anova Vacancies – Community Coordinator

Community Coordinator

About the Program

Main Purpose of the Role
The Community Coordinator ensures the smooth day-to-day operation of community activities. This role provides oversight of all work within the community, tracks performance and targets, and ensures routine reporting for effective programme implementation.

Roles and Responsibilities

Outreach Supervision

• Oversee the delivery of comprehensive services to AGYW, their partners, and other stakeholders through Health and Wellness Counsellors using detailed micro-planning.
• Coordinate interventionists’ activities to cover all designated community sites.
• Conduct regular service mapping with interventionists to identify gaps and opportunities.
• Ensure community safe spaces consistently provide the My Journey Programme package of services.
• Hold regular meetings with interventionists, including Health and Wellness Counsellors and Peer Educators, to review progress and resolve challenges.
• Monitor interventionists’ activities, providing support to ensure performance, confidentiality, and commitment.
• Supervise peer educators and staff involved in community activities.
• Address performance and operational challenges with interventionists and escalate to the programme manager when needed.
• Collaborate with peer educators, counsellors, and linkage officers to ensure effective referrals and follow-ups.
• Support mobilization of AGYW for dignity packs and hygiene services, identifying eligible individuals.
• Conduct monitoring visits to community sites and provide ongoing support to interventionists.

Networking, Leadership, and Advocacy

• Liaise with paralegals, human rights actors, public health facilities, DSD, and SAPS to strengthen community engagement.
• Work with interventionists to encourage AGYW to access health services, know their HIV status, and participate in programmes.
• Represent the programme at meetings and forums as required.
• Support district-level youth networks, including Y-Key Pops initiatives.

Programme Coordination

• Collaborate with the programme manager to implement operational plans at assigned sites.
• Monitor stock levels of hygiene and dignity packs, ensuring timely distribution by interventionists.
• Identify service gaps for AGYW and develop strategies with the programme manager to address them.
• Conduct regular size estimations, complete micro-planning tools, and contribute to research activities when requested.
• Respond to internal and external enquiries regarding programme activities.

Reporting, Administration, and Facilitation

• Verify and collect weekly and monthly reports from peer educators.
• Consolidate data with the support of data capturers and prepare monthly and quarterly reports for the M&E officer and programme manager.
• Perform relevant administrative tasks to support programme operations.

Personal Development

• Participate in trainings, workshops, and information sessions to enhance knowledge and skills.
• Stay updated on developments in HIV/AIDS, STIs, TB, youth programmes, key populations, and human rights.

Organisational Responsibilities

• Attend staff meetings, briefings, and debriefings as required.
• Undertake additional responsibilities delegated by management.
• Represent the organisation professionally, upholding its principles and values.
• Act as a role model to promote positive behaviour among interventionists.

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