Community Engagement Advisor

**JOB DETAILS**

**Position Title**:Community Engagement Advisor

**Location**:Hanoi, Vietnam

**Duration**:January 1, 2025 - September 30, 2025

**ABOUT UCSF**

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. It is the only campus in the 10-campus UC system dedicated exclusively to the health sciences. We bring together the world’s leading experts in nearly every area of health. We are home to five Nobel laureates who have advanced the understanding of cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, aging and stem cells.

About GSI: The Center for Global Strategic Information and Public Health Practice (GSI) believes that the road to achieving the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets - by the year 2030, 95 percent of all people living with HIV will know their HIV status, 95 percent of all people with diagnosed HIV will receive antiretroviral therapy, and 95 percent of all people receiving antiretroviral therapy will have viral suppression - begins by translating the right knowledge into the right decisions. Since 2000, we have furthered data-driven science in the countries where we work. We help strengthen the capacity of stakeholders to collect, synthesize and use strategic information to inform, guide and monitor evidence-based responses to the HIV epidemic. Our support helps countries control their HIV epidemics to reach the 95-95-95 targets by 2030.

About IGHS: UCSF’s Institute for Global Health Sciences (IGHS) is dedicated to improving health and reducing the burden of disease in the world’s most vulnerable populations. It integrates UCSF expertise in all of the health, social, and biological sciences, and focuses that expertise on pressing issues in global health. IGHS works globally to achieve these aims. IGHS seeks to improve health worldwide, especially in developing countries, through research that informs policy.

This position will be hired through a third-party employment organization.

**PROJECT SUMMARY (FOR PROGRAM STAFF)**

At UCSF, the **A**lliance for **C**ountry-led **C**ontrol of the HIV **E**pidemic by **L**everaging **E**fficient **R**esource **A**llocation **T**o achieve **E**quity (ACCELERATE) project is housed in GSI and within the larger IGHS. ACCELERATE in Vietnam aims to leverage a global network of HIV expertise and peer learning that supports the translation of HIV science in Vietnam through innovations, policy, and leadership; enhances systems and capacity for high quality equitable care; and provides stop-gap support for new medicines, best practices, and technologies, with the goal of catalyzing excellence in Vietnam’s HIV program through visionary, supportive, and proactive collaboration. This project will promote person-centered HIV services through targeted technical assistance (TA) and building local capacity within the Ministry of Health (MOH) at the national and policy level and its provincial and site affiliates for adoption and implementation. The scale-up of HIV biomedical innovations and technologies and community-facility linkages and engagement will be critical to advancing health equity and person-centered care.

**SUMMARY OF ROLE**

The Community Engagement Advisor should be an individual with a lived experience of living with HIV and/or being a member of key population (KP) group, or demonstrated experience of thoughtful, productive work with both of those groups. This position will work closely with the Government of Vietnam (GVN) U.S. CDC Vietnam staff, and community partners, including community advisory boards (CABs) to provide technical support to build capacity and identify program quality gaps, respond to those gaps, and document improvements in treatment access, viral load, provision of KP friendly, competent and appropriate care and broad HIV health literacy among clients and PEPFAR-supported sites. This will include community engagement for a study on the benefits of U=U messaging and supporting the Vietnam Network of People Living with HIV (VNP+) to implement the second round of Stigma Index 2.0. Working closely with the UCSF Quality Improvement Lead and in coordination with the HIV Program Director and Clinical Advisor, this position will help to identify equity gaps, review current efforts in facility-based stigma reduction, and scale-up innovations found to be effective, relying on community advisory boards (CABs), scorecards, quality improvement for stigma and discrimination, and other models that promote community co-design and health literacy. Once interventions have been implemented, this position will work with CABs to facilitate community-led monitoring (CLM), strengthening CAB and community networks, which should inform the HIV program’s efforts to reduce stigma and discrimination and promote well-being and quality of life for HIV service users.

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