About the Opportunity

ICWEA is recruiting 18 HIV Prevention Champions, six from each project city, who will play a key role in promoting HIV prevention literacy, supporting community-led advocacy, mobilising their peers, and connecting AGYW to HIV prevention information and services.

Selected champions will receive training, mentorship, and ongoing technical support to strengthen their leadership and advocacy skills.

Who Should Apply?

Applicants should:

• Be a young woman aged 15–35 years.
• Be a resident of Kampala Metropolitan, Mbarara City, or Hoima City.
• Be passionate about HIV prevention, gender equality, and community leadership.
• Have experience in peer support or community mobilisation, with clear examples of supporting AGYW to access health services, information, or their rights.
• Be willing to participate in project training and community activities.
• Demonstrate commitment to improving the health and wellbeing of adolescent girls and young women.

ICWEA strongly encourages applications from women in all their diversity, including young women with disabilities, students, out-of-school young women, sex workers, women who use drugs, and pregnant or breastfeeding women.

What You’ll Do

As an HIV Prevention Champion, you will:

• Raise awareness of HIV prevention options within your community.
• Support demand creation for HIV prevention services.
• Mobilise and educate peers on sexual and reproductive health and rights.
• Link AGYW to HIV prevention information and health services.
• Document community experiences and contribute to community-led advocacy.

• Raise awareness of HIV prevention options within your community.
• Support demand creation for HIV prevention services.
• Mobilise and educate peers on sexual and reproductive health and rights.
• Link AGYW to HIV prevention information and health services.
• Document community experiences and contribute to community-led advocacy.

• Peer support
• Community mobilisation
• Advocacy
• Leadership

• Young woman aged 15–35 years.
• Resident of Kampala Metropolitan, Mbarara City, or Hoima City.
• Passionate about HIV prevention, gender equality, and community leadership.
• Experience in peer support or community mobilisation, with clear examples of supporting AGYW to access health services, information, or their rights.
• Willing to participate in project training and community activities.
• Demonstrated commitment to improving the health and wellbeing of adolescent girls and young women.