Advocacy and Policy Associate at Housing Works

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Are you interested in joining the movement for health equity? Apply by FEBRUARY 3, 2015 to be a Global Health Corps Fellow. Visit our website to apply. Candidates who apply through VolunteerMatch will not be considered!

Global Health Corps is a one-year paid fellowship that pairs young professionals with organizations (fellowship placement organizations) that require new thinking and innovative solutions. We believe that great ideas don't change the world, great PEOPLE do! The fellowship begins in July 2015 and extends through August 2016. Fellows engage in professional development training, mentorship and thoughtful community-building, and continue to draw upon their fellowship experience and the GHC alumni network as they build careers of lasting impact.

Applicants can apply for up to 3 different fellowship positions, such as the one described below. To see the full list of fellowship positions, go to: http://ghcorps.org/fellows/apply/through-placements/.

Fellows are placed in organizations in pairs - one international fellow and one local fellow from the placement country - creating a fellowship team that is a central part of the fellowship experience.

About the Fellowship Placement Organization:
Housing Works, a nonprofit founded in 1990 to combat the dual crises of homelessness and AIDS in New York City, has served over 25,000 New Yorkers since its inception. Housing Works provides housing, care management, primary care, job training, preventative services, outreach, legal support, and various other supportive services to over 5,500 people every year. It’s entrepreneurial enterprises like the Housing Work’s Bookstore Cafe, Thrift Shops, and The Works Catering all support Housing Works’ client services and our local, state, and national advocacy efforts.With Governor Cuomo’s recent commitment to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in New York State by 2020, we are already hard at work with the Governor’s Ending the Epidemic Task Force, internally, with other organizations, and with the community, to make this goal a reality. Only by addressing the social drivers of HIV/AIDS like poverty, education, and homelessness, can we end this epidemic.

Fellowship Position Overview:
Housing Works Advocacy’s primary goal is to end AIDS as an epidemic globally by 2030. New York State has committed to the goal of ending AIDS as an epidemic by 2020, and leading multinational health bodies have similarly committed to achieving this goal in the first half of this century.Housing Works advocacy is focused primarily on social drivers of ongoing HIV epidemics, including poverty, housing instability, food insecurity and social marginalization. The Advocacy and Policy Associate will contribute to this work through involvement in community-based participatory research conducted directly by Housing Works and academic partners, by researching and documenting successful, cost-effective social and structural HIV prevention and care interventions, and by helping to develop and articulate evidence-based health care delivery and public health policies and advocacy tools.

Responsibilities:
Work with Housing Works providers and academic partners to collect and analyze data to examine outcomes of HIV prevention and treatment interventions designed to address social drivers of HIV risk and health outcomes
Conduct research of the existing literature on the social drivers of HIV and summarize results
Assist with the development and programming of expert consultations at the state, national, regional and global levels
Develop policy papers and advocacy tools to translate research into effective public policy

-Monthly living stipend
-Housing
-Utilities stipend
-Health insurance
- A professional development grant of $600
-A completion award of $1500
-An advising program that pairs each fellow with an advisor in his/her area of work or interest
-A two-week Training Institute at Yale University in the United States to begin the fellowship
-A five-day End-of-Year retreat in East Africa to finish the fellowship
-Three multi-day trainings during the year
-Travel to and from placement site, all trainings, and retreats
-Professional development and personal support from a dedicated in-country program manager
-Personal development and accompaniment program led by Still Harbor