Reports to Project Manager. The incumbent will work to mobilize, educate, and support adolescent boys and young men (ABYM) aged 15-24 in Lusaka. The role focuses on linking youth to youth-friendly HIV and sexual-reproductive health services, promoting safer behaviours, and strengthening community-health facility collaboration across designated catchment areas.
Main Duties
- Supervises Peer Educators during regular outreach in schools, markets, sports grounds, churches, youth clubs and informal settlements.
- Leads efforts to identify and reach hard-to-reach ABYM (out-of-school, informal workers, high-risk hot-spots).
- Mobilizes ABYM and AGYW to access HIV testing, PrEP, VMMC, STI services, condoms and SRHR information at Men’s Clinics, health facilities and mobile sites.
- Oversees Peer Educators in delivering small-group and one-on-one education on HIV prevention (U=U, PrEP, condoms, VMMC), SRHR, STI prevention, contraception and safer sex.
- Promotes gender-equitable norms, positive masculinity, non-violent relationships and informed consent.
- Provides clear service information and refer clients using standard referral tools; follow up on PrEP initiation, VMMC appointments and return visits with facility staff.
- Supports Peer Educators in youth advisory meetings, planning sessions and community dialogues.
- Collects and share peer feedback on service quality, barriers and improvement suggestions with CIDRZ and facility teams.
- Assists in organizing youth-led events, campaigns and Men’s Clinic promotions.
- Maintains accurate records of sessions, people reached (disaggregated by age and sex) and referrals using project tools/registers.
- Submits weekly and monthly activity reports to the Project Manager.
- Participates in review meetings, debriefs and training updates as required.
- Works closely with facility staff, Peer Educators, CIDRZ field teams, youth networks and community-based organisations.
- Represent the project and CIDRZ professionally in all stakeholder interactions.
Qualifications
- Grade 12 School Certificate.
- Minimum of a Diploma or Degree in Clinical Medicine, Nursing, Public Health or Social Work
- Male aged 20 years and above
- Prior experience working in a Men’s Clinic or Adolescent-Youth Friendly Corner (as provider or coordinator) is highly desirable.
Suitably qualified candidates are invited to apply. However, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
