Community Organizer Sneha Center

**JOB DESCRIPTION: COMMINITY ORGANIZER, SNEHA CENTER
**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 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 address 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 critical first 1000day period, the period from the start of a mothers

pregnancy through her child’s second birthday. The model encompasses thematic areas viz. maternal and new

born health, child health and nutrition, family planning and prevention of violence against women and children.

The intervention strategies include home visits by trained community organizers to identify health problems,

monthly anthropometry of children to identify malnourished children, provide health information for a

range of services, community awareness sessions, life skills education sessions for adolescents, counselling

services and community based distribution of contraceptives, anemia screening camps for pregnant and lactating

mothers. The intervention model includes public health systems to improve referral linkages and to increase

utilization of health care services provided by them. 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 of children under six years of age

in vulnerable communities of Mankhurd
- Govandi.

**THE PROFILE: **

Maintaining all designated households, individual beneficiary information in registers or comcare.

Prepare monthly calendar of activities/events

Utilizing team care app data for daily/monthly planning for home visits

Home visits to assess family health, deliver appropriate information and preliminary counselling and support to

access appropriate services, counselling and required referral services for beneficiary

Mobilizing stakeholders for the events-ICDS/MCGM/CAGs

Formation and strengthening of community groups and their regular meetings, organizing community
campaigns and liaison with service providers; referrals for individuals and families who need help with nutrition,
illness and violence

Mobilizing community (MWRA, pregnant-lactating mothers, adolescents, men, CAGs for all the activities

including events, anemia camp or other services in the community.

Updating comcare data.

Periodic review of work and strategies.

Identifying all deaths of women and children and supporting verbal autopsies.

To improve the nutritional status and health of children (0-2 years), adolescents and married women in

vulnerable communities of Mumbai

**JOB LOCATION: JANATA NAGAR, MANKHURD**

**DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: **

Daily home visit to beneficiary individual/group

Periodic anthropometry

Monthly menstrual surveillance

SAM/MAM Parents Meetings

CAG meetings

Monthly community even

Referrals

Participate in team discussion, stakeholders meetings about program implementation

Daily updating of comcare data

**MANAGEMENT & REPORTING **

Report daily to the Program Officer

Participate in bi monthly staff meetings, weekly centre level meetings, trainings etc.

Manage data capture, storage and reports.

**QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE **

Education to at least 8 class pass

Interest in child health and nutrition

Fluency in Hindi and Marathi.

Some work experience in soci