Program Officer Pvwc

**OPENING FOR: PROGRAM OFFICER - PREVENTION OF VOILENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN
**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, Adolescent Health and Sexuality, and Prevention of Violence against Women
and Children.

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.

**ABOUT THE PROGRAM ON PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN**

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, mobilise 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.

**VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN**

SNEHA is embarking on a new project ‘Ensuring children’s safety and well-being by building an ecosystem of
non-tolerance to violence against children - a socioecological approach with the involvement of children,
parents and community members’. The project will be nested under a flagship program of SNEHA known as
SNEHA Centre program. This program is being implemented in 4 clusters of Govandi comprising of
approximately 4000 households with a focus on improving the health and nutritional status of children younger
than six years of age, women and adolescents. The program is an integrated family centric model where in
women facing domestic violence are supported with counselling, legal and psychological support services. This
new initiative will work on two major pillars of intervention: (1) Primary prevention and
(2) Comprehensive service-delivery. The primary prevention component will entail community outreach,
group-based workshop with children to enable them to talk about difficult issues in their lives and sessions
with parents focusing on efficient parenting and integrating gender socialisation as a part of understanding
parenthood. The service-delivery component will entail establishing counselling and mental health services for
children undergoing any form of abuse or violence. Mental health interventions will include art-based and play
therapy for children to build their confidence and self-expression. The project will interface with government
and non-government organisations to build networks and referral mechanisms for addressing issues of abuse
and violence against children.

**THE PROFILE**

The Program Organiser will be responsible for implementation of group-based activities in one intervention
area. The primary role will be mobilisation of children and parents and organising them for group work.

The post-holder will implement the project activities in the intervention areas. They will have community
mobilisation and group work skills and work along with the COs. They will demonstrate flair, enthusiasm and
commitment, when faced with challenges in the community, and will provide immediate response to local
occurrences. The Program Officer will be willing to work on issues around gender and violence against women
and children in the community.

The Community Program Officer reports to the Program Coordinator and maintains day-to-day contact with all
her colleagues and supervisors.

**DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
**_Overall efficient day-to-day coordination of violence against children in all project sites _**

1. Implement the plan for the intervention cluster with her/his program coordinator on daily basis.
2. Carry out community mobilisation for group meetings, conduct training sessions, management of

leaders amongst the volunteers

3. Planning and ensuring execution of primary prevention activities with the community mobilisation team
to organisecampaigns.

4. Coordinating with the Program Coordinator and building a cohort of community volunteers
5. Identify, refer and accompany beneficiaries to police, public health providers, CBOs and community

leaders and otherorganisations in the intervention areas that will help in the work in the community.

6. Home visits to maintain rapport with parents.
7. Make weekly and monthly activity plans with the supervisor.
8. Collect data and report on a timely basis to the community program officer. Enter the field