Community Organizer

**COMMUNITY ORGANIZER - MALE, PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN
**ABOUT SNEHA**

A secular, Mumbai-based non-profit organization, SNEHA believes that investing in women's health is essential
to building viable urban communities. SNEHA is 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, 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 recognizes 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 health care providers to create sustainable improvements in urban health. We have currently 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‟s Program on Prevention of Violence against Women and Children (PVWC) aims to develop high‐impact
strategies for primary prevention, ensure survivors‟ access to protection and justice, empower women to claim
their rights, mobilize communities around „zero tolerance for violence‟, and respond to the needs and rights of
excluded and neglected groups. The Program prioritizes enhanced co-ordination of the state response to crimes
against women through a convergence approach that works with government and public systems to reinforce
their roles in assuring basic social, civil and economic security.

The program conducted a Randomized Control Trial in 24 clusters of Wadala in collaboration with University
College London. (CRCT) testing the effects of community interventions for primary and secondary prevention of
violence against women and girls. It was to test the effects of community mobilization through groups and
volunteers to prevent violence against women and girls. To deepen its intervention further, we have extended
our intervention beyond the trial through the project called “ Nityam”. Apart from deepening our work in
intervention areas, we will begin working in the new areas working with equal groups of men and women. We
will follow two approaches, one of response based intervention in the intervention areas and the other of

positive prevention in the new clusters.

**THE PROFILE**

We are looking for a Male Community Organizer will be responsible for implementation of intervention
activities in new intervention clusters and will be based in the community office.

**Description**

The post-holder will implement the project activities in the designated intervention clusters. They will have
community mobilization and group work skills especially working with men. They will demonstrate flair,
enthusiasm, innovation, and leadership when faced with challenges in the community, and will provide
immediate response to local occurrences. The Community Organizer will be willing to work on issues around
gender and violence against women and children in the community. The Community Organiser reports to the
Community Program Officer and maintains day-to-day contact with all his colleagues and supervisors.

**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Overall efficient day-to-day implementation of activities in the intervention cluster
- Implement the plan for the intervention cluster with his program officer on daily basis.
- Conduct intervention activities such as community mobilisation, group meetings, training sessions,
- management of volunteers, and organising events and campaigns.- Refer and accompany beneficiaries to police, public health providers, and other organisations in the
- intervention areas.- Make weekly and monthly activity plans with the supervisor.
- Collect data and report on a timely basis to the community program officer. Enter the field data on a- Maintain documentation required in the project such as details of identified and referred cases and
- case studies.- Ensure confidentiality and anonymity of the beneficiaries in the project.

**JOB LOCATION - **Wadala***

**QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE**
- Educational qualification: Minimum HSC.
- At least one-year experience of community work preferable.
- Oral and written command of Hindi, Marathi and working knowledge of English.

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