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About the Role
The Outreach Specialist engages community members, identifies individuals at risk for HIV, and connects them to prevention services. This role conducts field and digital outreach, builds partnerships, and promotes awareness and access to care in Manhattan. The Specialist provides education, brief interventions, and linkage support, while maintaining documentation and contributing to program goals. They act as a frontline representative, reducing barriers to care and improving community health outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Screen, recruit, and enroll individuals within the target population to prevention services
- Provide rapid HIV and Hep C Testing at mobile and venue-based events and site-based as needed
- Provide pre- and post-test counseling and partner notification services in accordance with State and Federal regulations
- Provide linkage to clinical services, including HIV primary care, PrEP/PEP care, and other clinical services
- Perform sexual history assessments utilizing the GOALS framework
- Provide comprehensive prevention health education
- Participate in community events, such as health fairs, LGBT events, testing events, etc.
- Provides presentations for internal and external programs to promote the program services
- Assist with the planning and implementation of event to increase client engagement
- Participate in weekly supervisory sessions with the Program Manager
- Complete documentation of client assessments, consent forms, and demographic information
- Re-engage clients for care, case management, and supportive services by identifying barriers to engagement and sharing insights or trends during supervision and team debriefs
- Coordinate with Navigation and Clinic teams to ensure smooth appointment scheduling and client follow-through
- Provide accurate and affirming information about PrEP, including oral and injectable options
- Use motivational interviewing and culturally responsive communication to assess client interest and readiness
- Maintain a professional and supportive tone that encourages client engagement and builds trust
- Participate in ongoing training and coaching sessions to strengthen outreach and communication skills
- Conduct all programmatic outreach activities (e.g. street outreach, shelters, piers, day centers, parks, health fairs, soup kitchens, house balls and other venues where LGBTQ youth are known to gather)
Requirements
- High School Diploma or GED with relevant work experience required
- Minimum 1 year of relevant non-profit employment experience required (i.e. outreach, testing, group facilitation, case management, etc)
- Knowledge of HIV/AIDS, homelessness, substance use and mental illness, and LGBT youth issues
- Good problem-solving skills and ability to work autonomously
- Strong documentation/computer skills (Word, Excel, etc)
- Good verbal and written communications skills
Skills
- HIV/AIDS knowledge
- Homelessness knowledge
- Substance use knowledge
- Mental illness knowledge
- LGBT youth issues knowledge
- Problem-solving
- Autonomous work
- Documentation
- Computer skills (Word, Excel, etc.)
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
- Motivational interviewing
- Culturally responsive communication
Location
- Manhattan
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Commensurate with experience
Education Level
- High School Diploma or GED
Salary/Compensations
- $20/hr - $23/hr
Benefits
- Three comprehensive healthcare plans
- PTO accrual up to 30 days in the first year
- Educational benefit for tuition loan reimbursement, tuition costs, and textbooks
About the Company
- Housing Works was founded in 1990 with a long-term commitment to AIDS advocacy.
- Established New York State’s first harm reduction-based, OASAS-licensed outpatient drug treatment program.
- Services include Health Home care management, behavioral health, and syringe exchange programs.
- Operates 10 high-end thrift shops in Manhattan and Brooklyn and a Bookstore Cafe in Soho.
- Fights for funding and legislation to ensure that all people living with HIV/AIDS have access to quality housing, healthcare, HIV prevention, and treatment, among other lifesaving services.
Equal Opportunity
- Housing Works provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.
- Complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.
- Does not request prior salary information during the hiring process.
- This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
- This position is included in a bargaining unit of Housing Works’ New York City employees represented by a labor union known as the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union (“RWDSU”).