The volunteer Canadian Territories Representative’s position will be of interest to CTAC members living in any of the Canadian Territories who can commit their knowledge, skills, background or experience to the following roles and responsibilities:

• Possess knowledge and experience in HIV/AIDS treatment information from a personal, consumer, clinical and/or organizational perspective.
• Demonstrate an awareness of HIV/AIDS treatment issues
• Demonstrate effective public relations and networking skills, particularly with consumer groups, community-based AIDS/PLWA-driven organizations, pharmaceutical industry, and governments
• Facilitate the communication between the provincial CTAC membership and CTAC nationally
• Identify and advocate for access to treatment access issues, nationally and provincially.
• Coordinate provincial member responses around treatment access issues (national and provincial). This may involve organizing meetings or teleconferences, letter writing, etc
• Act as a resource to CTAC members in the Territories and to help educate members on treatment access advocacy issues
• Encourage and help build CTAC membership in The Territories
• Represent the Territories on the CTAC Council, which requires travel one to three times per year for face-to-face meetings and related CTAC events, at CTAC’s expense
• Actively participate on CTAC committees including Provincial Representatives Committee.
• Disseminate provincial treatment advocacy information through the CTAC Newsletter and Website.
• Provide timely summary reports to the CTAC Board of Directors on advocacy work.
• Be prepared to commit an average of 5 hours per week to the organization, depending on the work undertaken
• Commit to a 24-month term, as a provincial representative on the CTAC Council, at which time another election will take place.
• Help co-ordinate skills building events and advocacy campaigns in the Territories organized by the CTAC Board.
• Work with local and regional organizations towards providing access to treatment education and skills building.
• Be prepared to actively participate in a broad range of advocacy efforts, committees and ad-hoc groups.
• Possess excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Have reliable access to various modes of communication, including e-mail.
• Not be in a conflict of interest position, in particular based on their employment with any of CTAC’s funders or targets of CTAC’s active advocacy work

Please send an e-mail to ctac@ctac.ca if you are interested in this position.