Community Organizer

**PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN
**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 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’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.

In collaboration with University College London, the Program is working on a major cluster randomized controlled trial (cRCT)
testing the effects of community interventions for primary and secondary prevention of violence against women and girls. In
informal settlements of Mumbai, we are testing the effects of community mobilization through groups and volunteers to
prevent violence against women and girls. In India, 29% of women report physical violence in the last year, 7% sexual violence,
and 30% multiple forms of violence, causing physical, mental, societal, and economic harms. Reviews suggest community
mobilization as a promising approach, but there have been few large enough trials of prevention programs. Our community
intervention has been developed over 16 years of programmatic experience and two years of preparatory research, and our
understanding of its effects is encapsulated in a theory of change. We will compare 24 areas receiving support services,
community group, and volunteer activities with 24 areas receiving support services only, primarily in terms of effects on
occurrence of intimate partner violence and domestic violence in the last year. We will also examine disclosure of violence
to support services, community attitudes to violence, bystander intervention, gender equality, and occurrence of non-partner
sexual violence. Backed by public engagement, advocacy, and open publication, our vision is of a replicable community-led
intervention to address the public health burden of violence against women and girls.

**THE PROFILE**
The Community Organizer will be responsible for implementation of intervention activities in one intervention cluster and
will be based in the community office.

**Description
**The post-holder will implement the project activities in the intervention cluster. They will have community mobilization and
group work skills. They will demonstrate flair, enthusiasm, innovation, and leadership when faced with challenges in the

community, and will provide immediate response to local occurrences. The Community Organizer will be willing to work on

issues around gender and violence against women and children in the community.

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

**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
**Overall efficient day-to-day implementation of activities in the intervention cluster
**Implement the plan for the intervention cluster with her program officer on daily basis.

Conduct intervention activities such as community mobilization, group meetings, training sessions, management of
volunteers, and organizing events and campaigns.

Refer and accompany beneficiaries to police, public health providers, and othe