Job Opportunity for Prison Peer Mobilizer at Lepra Society in Multiple Locations

LEPRA Society is a pan-India health and development organization working for the people affected by Leprosy and other neglected diseases to transform their lives and overcome poverty, discrimination and disability. LEPRA endeavors to diagnose, facilitate treatment to those affected and help them to rehabilitate into the mainstream of the society. LEPRA works in collaborations with the Government and other funding agencies to reach into most inaccessible villages of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh states.

LEPRA Society in partnership with Saathii (Principle Recipient) of Global Fund, supporting the program of EMTCT, BT and Prison Intervention to implement Subhiksha +project Lepra , covering districts of Madhya Pradesh.

LEPRA is looking for Prison Peer Mobilizer, Two positions one for Barwani, Alirajpur and Khargone District, and other for Gwalior, Morena, Datia and Bhind Districts.  These positions is for immediate placement.

What PPM would do

• Sensitize Prisons’ and OCS officials on health rights of the inmates and about the services to be delivered under the program.
• Coordinate with district health functionaries and other stakeholders to ensure their support in providing testing and treatment facilities to the inmates.
• Get permissions from Prisons and OCS and organize HIV, TB, STI and HCV screening camps with support of local SA-ICTCs, DTO, DSRC, and NVHCP officials.
• Facilitate establishment of District Oversight Committee (DOC) involving prisons, OCS, district health functionaries (such as DAPCU / DNO, DTO, TI projects, DLNs / CSC, SA-ICTC, DSRC, other health officials) and ensure regular meetings of the DOC to develop a coordination mechanism at the district level.
• Sensitize prison officials on issues related to HIV and other infectious diseases and conduct site-sensitization activities
• Coordinate with prison and OCS officials for the selection of the Prison Peer Volunteers (PPV).
• Train the PPVs on HIV and other related health issues and the project’s intervention model
• Organize various IEC and recreation activities inside prisons and OCS (such as mass awareness generation sessions, group counselling sessions, competitive games and activities)
• Educate inmates on prevention and harm reduction, positive living and treatment adherence through IEC/BCC activities and one-to-one and group counselling.
• Work in close coordination with the local SA-ICTC, ARTC, DSRC, DTO, and OST centers to ensure HIV, STI, and TB testing and treatment services for prisons and OCS inmates
• Saturate the coverage of inmates in prisons and OCS allocated to the PPM, and ensure HIV services for all new inmates
• Coordinate with prison and OCS authorities and district health functionaries towards ensuring all STR cases are sent for confirmatory testing and treatment linkages
• Support the PPVs in providing counseling on positive living and treatment adherence to the HIV+ inmates, and in educating those inmates on various social protection schemes and motivating them to avail the schemes
• Support the SPC in coordinating with relevant authorities towards establishing F-ICTC, LAC, and S-OST (as per requirement) inside prisons. Provide support to prison officials in strengthening the facilities and for ensuring timely submission of reports from those facilities to the relevant authorities
• Coordinate with the PPVs towards motivating the HIV+ inmates for giving consent to visit their families. Accordingly coordinate with the local CSCs / DLNs / TI projects for ensuring home visits for motivating the spouse / partner of the HIV+ inmates for getting tested for HIV, and educating and linking the family members to various social protection schemes
• Coordinate with the DOCs for ensuring post-release linkages of inmates to HIV-TB services in their respective native districts
• Represent the project in the district review meetings, and other meetings as per project requirements
• Ensure accurate and timely submission of the project reports and documents, including updating the Monthly Progress Report, Positive Line List, supporting documents, and formats to the SPC
  Ensure timely submission of SIMS reports from all the Prisons F-ICTCs in coordination with their parent ICTCs.
• Ensure accurate and timely submission of monthly plan, daily log, timesheets, travel advance requests, and expenses claims and bills to the SPC
• Support in development of IEC materials to be used in the prison setting
• Assist in research study to be undertaken within the prison settings
• Assist the SPC in preparing monthly, quarterly, and annual reports
• Ensure that all inmates are provided with a copy of the Resource Directory at the time of their release from the prisons and OCS, so that they are able to access those services, so that all the HIV+ inmates can find and reach the local DLNs / CSC and ARTC in their native districts, and other inmates (non-HIV+) can find and reach the local TI projects and other HIV related service provides in their native districts
• Undertake any other activities as instructed by SACS / TSU and / or reasonably required by the project and the organization.
• Reporting to: State Prison Coordinator (SPC). The PPM will be working at the district level covering 3-4 districts (or more, depending on the number of prisons and inmates) and would be responsible for implementing project activities and for achieving the project deliverables in their respective geographies.

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND SKILL-SET

• Graduate with computer skills or twelve pass with minimum two years of experience of working on HIV projects as a field staff (experience of working on prison interventions / GFATM projects, or TI/LWS projects will be an added advantage). The qualification criteria will be relaxed for suitably experienced candidates living with HIV and/or TB, ex-convicts, and individuals belonging to key populations or other vulnerable groups.

Remuneration : Rs.14,000 (CTC) per month; Please note that this position is till 31.12.2022, and  will  be extended after the confirmation of PR  for another year.

How to apply?

 If you have the skills and necessary experience and are interested in this role please email your application along with detailed resume in the specified format downloaded from www.leprasociety.in (careers column) to hrd@leprahealthinaction.in specifying the REF.NO: PPM706 in the subject line.