Community Organizer

**JOB DESCRIPTION: COMMUNITY ORGANISER (MALE ENGAGEMENT), SNEHA CENTRE,**
**GAUTAM NAGAR, GOVANDI
**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 1000 day 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.

**ABOUT SNEHA CENTER SUSTAINABILITY INTERVENTION**:
SNEHA centre has implemented 3 years direct intervention in Gautam Nagar and Dr. Zakir Hussain

Nagar communities and post March 2019 we are working in a close partnership with communities and

health systems.. The approach of this intervention is to bring positive health seeking behaviour by

creating awareness, building individual’s capacity for accessing public health and nutrition services

and building capacity of all stakeholders (ICDS, MCGM, Community) for collaborative actions and

convergence for MCH indicators, and contribute for building self-reliant communities.

**THE PROFILE: **

Responsible for mobilizing and generating awareness among men to Creating a pool of

community volunteers from men and youth who will become our advocates in the community to

sustain our work at community level.

Organizing awareness campaigns on the issue of, gender equality, violence against women

and children, Family Planning use by men and increasing participation of men for family's

nutrition and health-related decisions.

Mobilizing stakeholders for the meeting and events.

Monthly calendar of activities.

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

and support to access appropriate services.

Formation and strengthening of community groups and their regular meetings, organizing
community

Mobilizing community participation for all the activities, services in the community.

Updating commcare data

Periodic review of work and strategies.

**JOB LOCATION: GAUTAM NAGAR, GOVANDI**

**DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: **

Daily home visit to beneficiary -individual/group

Weekly group meetings

Monthly community events

Referrals

Participate in team discussion about program implementation

Daily updating of commcare 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 10th class pass

Interest in child health and nutrition

Fluency in Hindi and Marathi.

Some work experience in social work

Self-starting and self-monitoring abilities.

Experience in advocacy with a range of stakeholders for change in policy and practice

Experience in community mobilization.

Preferably from the community in which they will work and with some exposure if not work

experience.

**SKILLS & COMPETENCIES **

Good communication, counselling and networking skills; documentation skills;

Flexibility in time management.

Willingness to travel within slum community

Familiarity with government systems, schemes

Negotiation skills.

**APPLICATION**:
line-**SNEHA-CONTINUUM** **OF** **CARE-SN