PROGRAM OFFICER

Job Description

THE ROLEThe Program officer will be responsible for undertaking activities to work with the groups of community volunteers, CBOs (Community base organization), adolescent and to increase male participation in the community in reference to all components of SNEHA Centreprogram (child health and nutrition, maternal and newborn health, Adolescent health, family planning component and prevention of violence against women and children). S/he will be work with 10 community organizers and will be responsible for 5 community organizers.Achieving of Program deliverables and key result areas on different components of child health and nutrition, maternal and new born health, Adolescent health, family planning and prevention of violence against women and children.PO is expected to improve primary and secondary outcome indicators of the program.Monitoring and supervision of community organizers to achieve monthly deliverablesMobilization and formation of community action groups and volunteers to take ownership for On-going training and capacity building of the team/ Community volunteers/ AdolescentMobilizing and generating awareness among men to sustain Men s work of SNEHA Centre Formation of men s group in the community.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.To guide community volunteers to lead collective actions in the community.Responsible to carry out sessions with adolescents on thematic areas of gender, sex, sexuality, sexual and reproductive health and gender based violence and field level implementation.Facilitating sessions with parents to create buy in and dissipate myths around services provided, especially anaemia and mental health screening/gynaec referrals for Reproductive HealthAny other activities assigned to fulfill programmatic outcomes and goals eg community events, any research data required from community for any program related research work.Facilitate content delivery with older adolescents/Change Agents on topics of Civic Organizing awareness campaigns on the issue of sanitation and hygiene, gender equality, violence against women and children, Family Planning, Adolescent issuesTo coordinate with Health post, ICDS and police for convergence while conducting communityTo coordinate with local groups of youth, CBO s and NGO s to network to collaborate ourDocumenting all session, events, case stories, process of group formation and program relatedAssisting PC in managing the administration and finance related compliance for the projectDevelop a good rapport with the peers and supervisor.Develop domain knowledge and contribute to development of behaviour changeExcellent skills of interpersonal communication, presentation skills, writing in EnglishExperience in documentation, quantitative and qualitative data interpretationExcellent MS office skills (Word, excel and power point)Education - Graduation (Full time course) - with minimum 4 years of relevant experience in any 2 of the thematic area (child health, maternal health, family planning and violence)Ability to maintain role boundariesInterest in different themes like child health and nutrition, family planning, prevention of Violence against women, Adolescent health and children and maternal and new-born healthFluency in English, Hindi and Marathi.Self-starting and self-monitoring abilities.Willingness to travel within Mumbai, Maharashtra and India.To take daily reports from community organisersReport weekly to the Program coordinatorManage data and ensure data entry by CO in comm care daily, utilization of Teamcare app for Contribute to the organizational culture and work of SNEHA to an appropriate degreeParticipate in the SNEHA activitiesFamiliarity with government systems, ministries, departments and informal settlements in Negotiation skills,

Keyskills :
qualitative datacapacity buildingdata entrydata interpretationdaily reportspresentation skillsgender equalityoffice skillsfamily planningcontent deliveryleadership developmentchild healthcommunity mobilizationpublic healthms officereproduct