Community Organizer

**JOB DESCRIPTION: COMMUNITY ORGANIZER WADALA AAHAR PROGRAM
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 targets four large public health areas: Maternal and Newborn
Health, Child Health and Nutrition, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Prevention of Violence against Women
and Children.

Our approach is two-pronged: it recognises that in order to improve urban health standards, our initiatives
must target both care seekers and care providers. We work at the community level to empower women and
slum 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.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM (GIVE PROGRAM NAME AND WRITE IN BRIEF ABOUT THE PROGRAM YOU ARE HIRING FOR)

SNEHA’s Aahar program intervention has worked in partnership with the systems and communities. We now
believe that we should gradually increase the responsibility of ICDS services to enable them to undertake
critical activities relevant to child health and nutrition, with progressively reduced support from SNEHA
Community Organizers and other levels of staff. This will involve considerable investment in capacity building
of all cadres of ICDS staff by SNEHA staff.

While we address issues on the supply side, we accept that we need to address the awareness and uptake of
ICDS services by the community. To increase knowledge and bring about behavior change in the community, we
have worked on educating mothers and care givers on different aspects of child health and nutrition,
sanitation, hygiene and the services they are entitled to from ICDS and MCGM. We would now like to further
build capacity of the community to expect, demand and negotiate availability and improved quality services
from ICDS and on the other hand, to demonstrate their responsibility for the community mothers and young
children. We will facilitate the community to act as the catalyst for sustained change.

SNEHA has focused its efforts in the Aahar program on reduction of malnutrition i.e on moderate and severe

malnourished children through well supervised protocolized intervention. We would now like to increase the

scope of our work to prevention of malnutrition by also focusing on normal children to prevent growth faltering

and reduce children slipping into moderate and severe malnutrition.

**THE ROLE **

Area mapping, household and beneficiary registration

Maintaining data of all designated households, individual beneficiary in commcare and if required in physical
registers/book’s

Prepare monthly calendar of activities/events.

Formation and strengthening of community groups and their regular meetings,

Organizing community campaigns

Liaison with service providers-ICDS, MCGM health post staff’s

Initiate referrals for individuals and families who need help with nutrition, illness and violence

Home visits to assess health and nutrition status of pregnant-lactating women, 0-2 year children

Deliver appropriate information, provide counselling and support to access appropriate services,

Create referral network within SNEHA staff’s, CAG (Community Advisory groups), ICDS Sevikas and health post
staff and provide referral services for beneficiary, build capacity of beneficiary for self-referral to access MCH
services

Mobilizing stakeholders for the community events-ICDS/MCGM/CAGs (Community Advisory groups)

Capacity building of CAG(Community Advisory groups)s to mobilise community (MWRA, pregnant-lactating
mothers, children for all the activities including events, immunization camp, anthropometry, workshops or
other services in the community.

To conduct anthropometry with or without ICDS sevikas in community in association with CAGs(Community
Advisory groups and volunteers )

Tracking, follow-up and referral of all malnourished children, pregnant women

Updating commcare data on daily basis

Periodic reporting to supervisor for performance review and change in strategies

Identifying and report all deaths of women and children to supervisor.

**RESPONSIBILITIES **

Daily home visits) to beneficiaries

Coordination with stakeholders (ICDS, MCGM, CAGs) for activities planning

Individual capacity building of CAGs(Community Advisory groups) for community development and coordination
with system for the service and monthly meetings and trainings of CAGs

Periodic anthropometry

SAM/MAM Parents Meetings

Monthly community events

Collect monthly data from system

Referrals

Participate in team discussion, stakeholder’s meetings for program implementation

Daily updating of Comcare data

Working with volunteers, monthly volunteer training and meetings

Other tasks assigned by the program officers

Identification and referral, follow up, home visit, group meeting of T.B. patients

**MANAGEMENT & REPORTING **

Report daily to the Program O