JOB DESCRIPTION: COMMUNITY ORGANIZER, MCH-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: INDIRA 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 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
– Handling mobile base applications (comcare, Teamcare for program)
– Familiarity with government systems, schemes
– Negotiation skills.
APPLICATION:
Interested applicants can send their updated CVs to: [email protected] with Subject line-“Community
Organizer_SNEHA Center”