Maternal & Child Health - Building Bridges Training

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**POSITION NAME: TRAINING COORDINATOR**
**PROGRAM NAME: MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH - BUILDING BRIDGES, BHIWANDI**

**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 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 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 health care providers to create sustainable improvements in urban health. We have currently 11
programs running across SNEHA which are Maternal and Child Health (MCH), Public System partnerships (PSP),
Empowerment, Health and Sexuality of Adolescents (EHSAS), Prevention of Violence against Women and
Children (PVWC) (e) SNEHA Centre, SNEHA Shakti, Healthy Cities Project (HCP), Palliative Care, Livelihood
Generation, Central Operations, Research and IM.

**ABOUT THE PROGRAM: Maternal and Child Health (MCH) - Building Bridges, Bhiwandi**
**Focused Community Intervention in 10,000 households in the three communities of Bhiwandi.**

The Maternal and Child Health (MNH) program of SNEHA has been working in Bhiwandi since 2016; directly
working with in 10,000 Households (HHs) and indirectly working with the public health systems of BNMC

spanning 12 intervention areas across 3 Health Posts and one state run - Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital.

The MCH program is committed to improve the health status of women and children in the most vulnerable
urban slum areas. The program has been working with the most vulnerable communities to fill in imbalanced
gaps in accessing health care services between population groups and promote health and well-being.

The programme reaches out to married women in the reproductive age (MWRA) between the age of 15 to 49
years, covering women in the antenatal and postnatal stages, couples for family planning counselling and
children in the 0-6 years’ age group for immunization, home based care of the low birth weight babies,
nutrition, early and exclusive breast feeding and early identification and treatment for infectious disease. The
MCH frontline workers conduct home visits to counsel pregnant women and mothers with infants, on antenatal
and postnatal care, caring for new-borns and immunization for children. They also organise community
awareness activities like street plays, exhibitions and mass campaigns on topics like breastfeeding,
complementary feeds, immunization and importance of handwashing. They also support the public health
system during immunization camps, surveys for COVID-19, training of volunteers and regular capacity building
of government public health workers, sevikas of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Accredited
Social Health Activists (ASHAs).***

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**THE PROFILE**

This position is responsible for planning, organizing, conducting, monitoring training activities & developing

training modules along with documenting the trainings and processes for MCH program team as well as

supporting the Program Coordinators, Program Officers and Community Organizers in planning the capacity

building sessions for the public health care providers and other cadres across the intervention. The person will

be housed in MCH program for the monitoring purposes, will also closely work with the Monitoring and

Evaluation Team to facilitate pre and posts tests and obtain, document analysis of the same. He/She is

expected to coordinate with program teams specifically with coordinators for regular updates and reporting

purposes.

**JOB LOCATION: BHIWANDI NIZAMPUR MUNICIPAL CORPORATION (BNMC)**

**DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Capacity building of the Program team**:
1. Capacity building of program team by identifying capacity building needs of the Program Coordinators
(PC) Program Officers (PO), Community Organisers (CO), and other cadres and organizing training as
per the needs

2. Prepare training calendar for the program

3. Design training curricula with assistance of Associate Program Director and Program Director.

4. Prepare pre-post evaluation and feedback tools considering the nature of training.

5. Preparing training budget and monitor the utilization of the budget

6. Collaborating with Learning and