Thank you for your interest in NASTAD’s Emerging Community Leaders Program (ECLP). Community-based organizations (CBOs) face a myriad of challenges pertaining to organizational sustainability, adequate funding, and providing emerging leaders with tailored mentorship and coaching to further their growth within the organization. NASTAD recognizes the need to increase the capacity of emerging leaders in CBOs and seeks to equip them with skills, mentors, and introspection to help them create concrete strategies to address organizational sustainability, while also advancing in their varied personal career trajectories. The ECLP serves as a space, rooted in social justice, for CBO staff to engage in critical conversations about job advancement; overcoming institutional barriers to health and racial equity; managing emotions and burnout; creating healing-centered workplaces; successful staff and project management; strategies to advance organizational sustainability; effective communication; and more. The ECLP is specifically designed to create support networks and connect peers working in CBO HIV, viral hepatitis, or drug user health programs.
Please complete the application using this survey, including attaching all supporting documents, by September 18, 2024. The Selection Committee will only review complete applications submitted via this Alchemer.
IDEAL ECLP CANDIDATES POSSESS:
A junior to senior level position in an HIV, viral hepatitis, or drug user health program.
A strong professional work history that demonstrates increasing development of skills and increasing responsibilities;
- NASTAD highly encourages candidates to apply who identify as people of color, identify as LGBTQIA2S+, are from smaller CBOs, and have reduced organizational capacity to support professional development opportunities
Appropriate professional position to share and communicate their work with CBO colleagues and the general public;
Expressed desire and passion for exercising leadership in the field of HIV, viral hepatitis, and drug user health;
Understanding of concepts pertinent to social justice, racial equity, and health equity;
Ability to prioritize one in-person convening, on J
anuary 27 – 31 in Fort Lauderdale, FL;
Commitment to participate in the entire year-long training program; and
Strong recommendations from their CBO and other professional colleagues.
For specific questions about the program or the application process, please contact Rachel Browning at rbrowning@nastad.org.
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