Position: Community Organiser

Organization: SNEHA

Location: Wadala

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 meetings,
•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, 0-2 year children
•Deliver appropriate information, provide counselling and support to access appropriate services,
•Create referral network within SNEHA staff’s, CAG (Community Advisory groups), 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 (Community Advisory groups)
•Capacity building of CAG(Community Advisory groups)s 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(Community Advisory groups and volunteers )
•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.


RESPONSIBILITIES

•Daily home visits) to beneficiaries
•Coordination with stakeholders (ICDS, MCGM, CAGs) for activities planning
•Individual capacity building of CAGs(Community Advisory groups) for community development and coordination with system for the service and monthly meetings and trainings of CAGs
•Periodic anthropometry
•SAM/MAM Parents 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
•Working with volunteers, monthly volunteer training and meetings
•Other tasks assigned by the program officers
Identification and referral, follow up, home visit , group meeting of T.B. patients

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
•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.
•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.