Start Date: August 18th, 2025

End Date: July 6th, 2026

About the Position: 

The STI Outreach Specialist (AmeriCorps) is a new AmeriCorps position on San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium (SFCCC)’s Street Outreach Services (SOS) team. The position will be responsible for coordinating the launch of a new service in our mobile clinic serving un-housed people, including roll out of rapid (point-of-care) testing for HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis, and development of appropriate resource linkages for patients. The position will work closely with the SOS outreach team and support general health outreach to un-housed people.

About the Organization: 

SOS is the mobile outreach component of the San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium's Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) program. Since 1988, SOS has provided high-quality, nonjudgmental health services directly to un-housed people in places where they live and congregate. Through SOS's affiliated Vet SOS program, SOS offers free veterinary care to the companion animals of un-housed San Franciscans as a creative way of linking their human guardians with health care services. 

Traveling in a medical van to sites throughout San Francisco, the dedicated SOS team of doctors, nurses, outreach workers, and volunteers creates “clinics without walls” at soup kitchens, on city streets, under freeway overpasses, and in parks. By going directly to un-housed people, the SOS team builds relationships of trust, and breaks down the barriers that keep un-housed people from the care they need and deserve. Each year over 1,000 un-housed San Franciscans receive care from SOS, improving their lives and the health delivery system.

• Developing and providing health education for the community

• Utilizing partnerships and data to coordinate referrals

• Providing education to clients and referring them to providers

• Providing health education to at-risk populations

• Developing and distributing new materials geared towards patients, clients, and/or organizations

   

• Team-Oriented
• Flexible
• Comfort speaking with others, individually or in groups.
• Community engagement/outreach skills
• Compassionate

• Knowledge of AmeriCorps/Health Corps member requirements
• Skill with Microsoft Office or other software for a variety of data processing operations involving a range of problem solving, record keeping, correspondence, and service tracking options.

• Member uses initiative in carrying out recurring assignments following set procedures, independently
• The supervisor assigns service activities, advises on changes in procedures, and is available for assistance when required

• The service activities are reviewed for accuracy through spot checks, through complaints from customers, and through observation of the member at service.

• Written and oral guides provide specific instructions for doing service.

• Member has to develop, analyze, or evaluate information before the service position can progress
• The facts or conditions of the service position are clear cut, predictable, and apply directly to the assignment

• Personal vehicles are not required for this position. The organization is accessible via public transportation.
• The member will:
  • Serve approximately 40 hours per week
  • Serve Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm
• Dress Code: 
  • Member will spend a significant amount of time performing outreach in outdoor locations and must dress appropriately for heat, cold, rain, etc. SOS t-shirts, sweat jacket, rain jacket, and waterproof boots will be provided. No open-toed shoes, shorts, torn clothing, or profanity.

• Unusual physical demands involving climbing, lifting, stooping, and reaching, etc.

• Special safety regulations or precautions that must be observed

• Unsafe or hazardous surroundings or working conditions

• A Note from the Host Site: Members must be able to lift supplies boxes. Member must wear SOS clothing and ID badge when conducting outreach. Member must be able to walk outdoors in all types of weather in areas of San Francisco inhabited by un-housed people living on the street, in tents, vehicles, and encampments. Member will be working in a medical clinic setting and must observe all safety protocols, including for COVID, blood-borne pathogens, needle stick prevention, etc. Member will be trained on all of the above and will always work as part of a team.

• No language other than English is required.
  • Proficiency and skill with Spanish, Cantonese, and/or Mandarin would be useful to the member to communicate with a wide range of people (administrators, teachers, parents, dentists, and children).

• Upon Conditional Acceptance of an NHC AmeriCorps Position, all AmeriCorps members must complete TrueScreen Background Checks to be formally placed in the AmeriCorps Program.

• No Background Checks or Health Exams required beyond what is required of NHC AmeriCorps Members.