Community Engagement Manager

The COLOURS Organization is a program partner of the Urban Affairs Coalition (UAC). The COLOURS Organization’s mission is to impact, improve, and empower the lives of communities of color, especially those of the African Diaspora, within the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area across all genders and sexualities. With an intentional focus on LGBTQ communities, through holistic wellness & safety, intersectionality, and community mobilization, we strive to support and uplift the experiences of those too often left in the margins.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Community Engagement Manager will oversee all programs and events focus on community engagement and social determinants of health. Develop programs and events that provide access to behavioral health support, to include HIV-related educational guidance. The incumbent oversees the planning and coordination of all COLOURS events and programs that support client engagement, recruitment, program retention and volunteers. Will ensure that all programs are sync to an educational component that includes a mobilizational and comprehensive sexual wellness processes. Ensuring that all clients are linked to ambulatory/outpatient medical care, substance abuse treatment, behavioral health services and other identified supportive services to include referral and successful linkage to HIV testing services, STD screening, PrEP, medical care, and other appropriate ancillary supportive, health and human services, including other internal COLOURS services. Below is an overview of various administrative duties:

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and manage all community engagement programs to raise awareness regarding HIV prevention and other health disparities;
• Coordinate all events to engage priority population and gather information on relevant HIV prevention issues and needs;
• Create and coordinate the Community Advisory Boards activities for the program based on assigned areas to ensure that contract objectives are met;
• Create, implement and evaluate community mobilization social marketing campaigns;
• Provide daily oversight and monitoring of all community engagement and processes, ensuring that services are met;
• Function as senior management and administrative supervisor;
• Manage the operational development of the Community Engagement Department;
• Assist in developing programs and events that will enhance Testing and Linkage to Care Services;
• Provide staff with programmatic training;
• Assist in the development of educational materials for review and distribution via social media;
• Disseminate HIV prevention and other health information through educational presentation and outreach activities;
• Actively recruit and engage clients to HIV antibody testing and STI screening through outreach;
• The ability to provide HIV antibody testing and STI screening;
• Link all clients to appropriate quality social and/or medical services to maintain HIV-free status and or other health/social services;
• Encourage the adoption of appropriate safer sexual behaviors associated with drug use;
• Maintain appropriate documentation of services and prepare reports as directed by management, agency policies and procedures;
• Provide individualized and/or group presentations;
• Adhere to OSHA guidelines, i.e., infection control, exposure control (blood borne pathogens and chemical hazards);
• Additional duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Three to five years of management experience;
• Preferred candidate – Bachelor’s degree or higher in either Business Administration, Education, Event Planning, Public Health, Social Services, or related fields;
• Knowledge of HIV prevention and Harm Reduction strategies required;
• Clinical experience with HIV prevention and harm reduction strategies;
• Demonstrates excellent oral and written communication skills;
• Demonstrates understanding of the cultural and ethnic diversity of sexual and gender minority people of color;
• Ability to multi-task;
• Willingness to travel to partnering agencies, client appointments, boards and committees that support program outcomes;
• Flexible to work evenings and weekends - Required

REPORTING RELATIONSHIP: Executive Director