Male Program Officer

**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 multiple programs running across SNEHA which are Maternal and Child Health (MCH),
Empowerment Health and Sexuality of Adolescents (EHSAS), Prevention of Violence against Women and
Children (PVWC), Public Systems Partnership (PSP), SNEHA Shakti, Livelihood Program, Palliative Care and
various domains/departments under Central Operations, Research & Information Management.

**ABOUT THE PROGRAM
**SNEHA’s Maternal and Child Health program seeks to improve the quality of delivery of maternal and
neonatal health care in urban slums by building an accountable healthcare system as well as to empower
communities to be responsible for addressing women’s and newborns’ integrated health needs.
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 Bhiwandi.

**JOB LOCATION: Bhiwandi, Nizampur Municipal**

**DUTIES**:
**Job Description
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1. Responsible to carry out sessions with beneficiaries on thematic areas of gender, sex, sexuality,

sexual and reproductive health and gender based violence and field level implementation.

2. Facilitate content delivery with community beneficiaries /Change Agents on topics

of Civic engagement, leadership development

3. Responsible for monitoring and guiding Community Organizers for community mobilization.

4. Assisting PC in managing the administration and finance related compliance for the project

5. Working with frontline workers from public systems to coordinate with them.

8. Facilitating sessions with men or parents to create buy in and dissipate myths and

misconceptions on health and their services and work on NCD/TB screening referrals & follow

up.

9. Documentation of processes related to group education and working closely with PC to

enhance conceptual learning among men.

10. Supporting PC and CO to facilitate interface between public system staff and community volunteers.

**RESPONSIBILITIES:
**1. Coordinating with community organizers for mobilization of families and their men for group
session, events etc.

2. Conduct group sessions with community people as per program protocol

3. Ensuring all group sessions, parents meetings, and events conducted as per protocols

4. Planning, implementing, documentation of assigned activities

5. Coordination with intervention team for support, follow-up/feedback

6. Administrative tasks if applicable

**MANAGERIAL (Leadership) COMPETENCIES:
**To plan group session/events/parents meeting

Report weekly to the Program Coordinator

Manage data and ensure data entry by group sessions in commcare on decided frequency

Contribute to the organizational culture and work of SNEHA to an appropriate degree

Participate in the SNEHA activities

**PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES (Essential): **

Excellent skills of interpersonal communication, presentation skills,

writing in English

Experience in documentation, quantitative and qualitative data

interpretation Excellent MS office skills (Word, excel and power

point)

**QUALIFICATION / EXPERIENCE: **

Graduation (Full time course) - with minimum 4 years of relevant experience in child

health, maternal health, family planning and violence, adolescents, community

development

Ability to maintain role boundaries

Interest in different themes like child health and nutrition, family planning, NCD/TB

and maternal and new-born health

Fluency in English, Hindi and Marathi.

Self-starting and self-monitoring abilities.

Flexibility in time management.

Willingness to travel within