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Position Type: Program Manager, National Youth Awareness
Hours: 37.5 hrs/week
Contract: 1 year contract, full-time, with possibility of renewal
Salary: $65,000 + benefits
Ideal Start Date: October 2, 2023
Reports to: VP, National Awareness

About CANFAR

The Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR) was founded in 1987 and aims to end Canada’s HIV epidemic by leading national strategies to increase prevention, testing, and linkage to care, and to end HIV stigma. Fueled by fundraising, CANFAR supports research, builds awareness, and cultivates partnerships. Over the past three and a half decades, CANFAR has invested more than $24 million in close to 500 grants to HIV/AIDS research projects that have led to tremendous breakthroughs in HIV prevention, testing, access to treatment, stigma, and the search for a cure.

Annually, CANFAR reaches over 1 million youth across Canada, providing them with vital information on HIV prevention and sexual health. Since 1993, CANFAR has produced and distributed free educational materials to secondary school teachers to empower young people to make safer and healthier decisions around their sexual health and well-being. CANFAR’s national youth awareness program, Sexfluent, builds on three decades of success and expertise in providing Canadian youth with free, accurate and accessible information on HIV.

Sexfluent.ca, launched in 2021, is an online educational platform that provides youth between the ages of 15 and 25 with information on sexual health, mental health, and harm reduction in a non-judgmental and approachable way, empowering youth to take charge of their health and sexuality. Sexfluent offers an open and inclusive space for youth to access educational content on stigmatized topics, such as HIV, sexually transmitted infections, testing, gender identity, sexuality, pleasure, and safer substance use.

Job Summary

Under the supervision of CANFAR’s VP of National Awareness, the Program Manager of National Youth Awareness will lead CANFAR’s youth-focused educational programs, including program planning and reporting, campaigns and content creator management, educational content development, partnership-building and advisory committee engagement, impact measuring and evaluation, youth outreach and engagement, and national knowledge dissemination. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Reporting to the VP of National Awareness, the Program Manager of National Youth Awareness will be responsible for:

  1. Executing the program plan and developing annual funder impact reports.
  2. Coordinating internal and external resources to ensure the timely execution and completion of deliverables for projects.
  3. Leading and maintaining the growth of Sexfluent’s online awareness campaigns, including producing and managing at least two content calendars, supporting the development of educational content and copywriting for social media, website blog posts and outreach, and content development and execution of community campaigns, as well as other distribution and scaling efforts.
  4. Managing the Sexfluent Squad and other content creators, their timeline and deliverables, and other educational content creation – both internal and external.
  5. Conducting and researching national outreach opportunities with community organizations working with Indigenous youth, 2SLGBTQIA+ youth, and street-involved youth to expand Sexfluent’s footprint and network, nationally, as per the goals of CANFAR’s national youth awareness program.
  6. Building and maintaining community partnerships to enhance and grow Sexfluent’s reach and impact with relevant audiences, and tracking the impact of these partnerships.
  7. Conducting consultations with youth participants to better understand and respond to their sexual and mental health needs, informing the ongoing evolution and improvement of CANFAR’s youth digital platform.
  8. Developing and updating the program plan to meet the needs of youth and program growth targets, while creating and executing the program measurement and evaluation tools.
  9. Supporting CANFAR’s CIHR-funded community-based research study evaluating Sexfluent by working with the VP of National Awareness to share and implement the findings.
  10. Conducting outreach with university and college campuses to establish national networks of CANFAR Clubs, and assisting with development of the program.
  11. Supporting CANFAR’s communications on its youth awareness programs for use in CANFAR’s communication channels, including social media, website, newsletters, and other publications or initiatives.
  12. Finding and creating opportunities for Sexfluent and CANFAR’s exposure to youth workers, teachers, youth-serving organizations, and others that support youth.
  13. Participating positively as a member of the CANFAR team.
  14. Serving as custodian of CANFAR’s brands, including Sexfluent, and reputation – ensuring that the CANFAR brand is positioned and represented in such a way that will benefit the Foundation and protect and enhance its reputation.
  15. Assisting with other CANFAR programs and events as needed.

Qualifications/Skills required:

  1. Bachelor’s degree, certificate or equivalent in Public Health or Global Health, International Development Studies and/or Community Development, Sociology, Women’s and Gender Studies, Sexual Diversity Studies, Social Work, or a related field.
  2. Minimum 3 years of experience in project or program management, evaluation, and budget monitoring.
  3. Minimum 3 years of experience working in a related non-profit or youth sector and/or educational programming.
  4. Strong understanding of HIV/AIDS and associated issues, including structural inequities, as related to CANFAR’s mission.
  5. Strong organizational management skills with demonstrated ability to prioritize, self-manage, and manage both internal and external resources to ensure timely deliverables on projects.
  6. Strong critical thinking and analytic skills.
  7. Flexible problem solver, innovative or creative thinker and solutions-oriented professional, with demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with others in a fast-paced environment.
  8. Strong written and oral communications skills, with proven experience in report writing and presentations.
  9. Fluency in French (oral and written) an asset.
  10. Passion and interest in advancing social causes, youth education, community engagement, and relationship-building.

CANFAR is committed to employment equity and believes that people with lived experiences play an important role in innovation, engagement, and de-stigmatization of HIV and sexual health-related educational programming. As such, we encourage applications from people with lived experiences, including youth, people from communities disproportionately impacted by HIV, including those living with HIV, as well as people of all gender identities and sexual orientations, people of Indigenous background, racialized people, and people with diverse abilities.

Please submit your resume and cover letter to: rma@CANFAR.com by September 25, 2023.

Note: We are looking to hire as soon as possible, so the earlier you submit your application, the better.

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We thank all applicants; however only those selected for interviews will be contacted.