THE ROLE:

• Area mapping, household and beneficiary registration.
• Maintaining data of all designated households, individual beneficiary in commcare and if required in physical registers/book’s.
• Prepare monthly calendar of activities/events.
• Formation and strengthening of community groups and their regular meeting
• Organizing community campaigns
• Liaison with service providers-ICDS,MCGM health post staff’s
• Initiate referrals for individuals and families who need help with nutrition, illness and violence
• Home visits to assess health and nutrition status of pregnant-lactating women, 0-5 year children
• Deliver appropriate information , provide counselling and support to access appropriate services,
• Create referral network within SNEHA staff’s, CAG, ICDS sevikas and health post staff and provide referral services for beneficiary, build capacity of beneficiary for self-referral to access MCH services
• Mobilizing stakeholders for the community events-ICDS/MCGM/CAGs
• Capacity building of CAGs to mobilise community (MWRA, pregnant-lactating mothers, children for all the activities including events, immunization camp, anthropometry, workshops or other services in the community.
• To conduct anthropometry with or without ICDS sevikas in community in association with CAGs
• Tracking, follow-up and referral of all malnourished children, pregnant women
• Updating commcare data on daily basis
• Periodic reporting to supervisor for performance review and change in strategies
• Identifying and report all deaths of women and children to supervisor.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Daily home visits / joint visits to CAGs / beneficiaries
• Coordination with stakeholders (ICDS, MCGM, CAGs) for activities planning
• Individual capacity building of CAGs for community development and coordination with system for the services.
• Periodic anthropometry
• SAM/MAM Parents Meetings
• CAG meetings
• Monthly community events.
• Collect monthly data from system
• Referrals
• Participate in team discussion, stakeholder’s meetings for program implementation
• Daily updating of Comcare data
• Other tasks assigned by the program officers

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE

• Education to at least 10th class pass
• Interest in maternal -child health and nutrition and community development
• Believe in working with Government departments
• Fluency in Hindi and Marathi.

MANAGEMENT & REPORTING

• Report daily to the Program Officer
• Participate in center level, program level, organization level trainings and meetings.
• Maintain field data, photo, case stories of change/success and events/ monthly reports.

PERSON SPECIFICATION REQUIREMENTS ESSENTIAL:

• Experience of working in community with NGOs, government program’s or CSR project’s
• If do not have work experience, then preferably from the community in which they will have some exposure of community issues
• Good communication, counselling and documentation skill (Hindi)
• Experience in advocacy, networking with a range of stakeholders for change in policy and practice
• Self-starting and self-monitoring abilities.
• Willingness to learn new schemes/concepts and skills
• Ability to handle community issues.
• Flexibility in time management.
• Willingness to travel within slum community
• Handling mobile base applications (commcare application for program)

DESIRABLE

• Familiarity with government systems, schemes
• Experience in community mobilization, development
• Negotiation skills

APPLICATIONS

Interested applicants can send their updated CVs to: xxxxxxx@snehamumbai.org with Subject line-SNEHA- CHILD HEALTH AND NUTRITIONCOMMUNITY ORGANIZER-DHARAVI.