Program Officer

**SNEHA CENTRE, M AND M/EAST WARD**

**ABOUT SNEHA**

A secular, Mumbai-based non-profit organisation, SNEHA believes that investing in women's health is

essential to building viable urban communities. SNEHA is a 450+ person strong, innovative and

progressive organization that works on health and nutrition in urban slum pockets with women and

their families. SNEHA follows the life-cycle approach to health and nutrition, by intervening at critical

junctures (adolescence, preconception, conception, pregnancy, postnatal, infancy and toddlerhood,

and family planning) to ensure improved health and nutritional outcomes for women and children

living in some of Mumbai’s most vulnerable and deprived slums and in the Mumbai Metropolitan

Region (MMR) as well.

SNEHA recognises that, in order to improve urban health standards, our initiatives must target both

care seekers and care providers. We work with communities residing in informal settlements to

empower women and communities to be catalysts of change in their own right and collaborate with

existing public health systems and healthcare providers to create sustainable improvements in urban

health. We currently have 11 programs running across SNEHA which are Maternal and Newborn

Health (MNH), Child Health and Nutrition (CHN) - Aahar, Empowerment, Health and Sexuality of

Adolescents (EHSAS), Prevention of Violence against Women and Children (PVWC) (e) SNEHA Centre,

SNEHA Shakti, Healthy Cities Project (HCP), Samagra, Palliative Care, Livelihood Generation, Central

Operations, Research and IM.

**ABOUT THE PROGRAM**

SNEHA Centre Program addressed planned parenthood, maternal health and nutrition, sexual and

reproductive health, child health and nutrition also the prevention of violence against women and

children using an integrated life cycle approach that addresses the intergenerational cycle of

malnutrition. The model encompasses thematic areas viz. maternal and newborn health, child health

and nutrition, family planning, and prevention of violence against women and children. The

intervention was conducted through trained Community Organizers to improve maternal and child

health services through collaborative activities with the government system. The project adopts this

approach and works to create a collective vision and facilitates individuals, families, communities, and

health systems to realize that vision. The project aims to improve the health and nutritional status of

married women and children under five years of age in vulnerable communities of Mankhurd-Govandi

**ABOUT SNEHA CENTER - Anganwadi Adoption Program**:
SNEHA Centre program has implemented Direct Intervention (directly working with the community)

and Indirect Intervention (working through community volunteers) in the four vulnerable

communities of Mankhurd and Govandi to prevent and treat malnutrition among children.

As we move ahead, the program aims to move towards sustainability through two major projects. One

of them is the 'Saksham Anganwadi'/' AAWC' Project where we aim to strengthen the system
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Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) by building the capacity of Anganwadi Sevikas along

with the provision of mentoring and supportive supervision to them. This new initiative of SNEHA is

to positively respond to and support the ʻAnganwadi Adoptionʼ GR issued by the Ministry of Women

and Child Development, Maharashtra in the year 2023.

**THE PROFILE**

The Program officer (PO) will be responsible for providing comprehensive support to adopted

Anganwadis for optimal service delivery of health, nutrition, and child development under the ICDS

scheme The PO will be primarily responsible for capacity-building, providing mentoring, and

supportive supervision to the ICDS staff and community volunteers. PO will be responsible for

achieving the program deliverables and key result areas of the Adoption of Anganwadi (AAWC)

Project. for improving maternal-child health and nutrition status and increasing the service uptake of

ICDS services. The PO will be working with 16-20 Anganwadi Sevikas directly.

**JOB LOCATION: M/EAST WARD MUMBAI DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES**:
The roles of the program officer will be as follows:
1. Conducting a Need assessment survey of Anganwadis.

2. To develop rapport with ICDS staff and supervisors, and understand the roles and

responsibilities of ICDS Sevikas and Supervisors in detail

3. Conduct AW mapping-knowing your AWC

4. Visiting AWC area, creating AW profile

5. Design monthly activity/work plan considering activities of AW Sevika

6. Achievement of program deliverables to increase uptake of ICDS services.

7. To visit Anganwadi daily as per protocol.

8. Mentor and provide supportive supervision to ICDS Sevikas through home visits.

9. PO will visit assigned AWCs, will observe the preschool activities, hot cook food distribution,

Sevika's interactions with parents, observe whether Anthro scales are in working conditio