PROGRAM OFFICER

Job Description

The roles of program officer will be as follows:

Achievement of program deliverables and key result areas on different components of child

health and nutrition, maternal and newborn health, family planning and service uptake for

To improve primary and secondary outcome indicators of the program.

Monitoring and supervision of community organizers to achieve monthly deliverables

Mobilization and formation of community action groups and volunteers to take ownership for

Ongoing training and capacity building of the team.

To undertake planning and support team for effective implementation of planned activities.

Preparing event budgets and prepare center budgets.

Liasoning with government systems like - ICDS, MCGM, Police and BMC department as per the

Develop a good rapport with the peers and supervisor.

Develop domain knowledge and contribute to development of behavior change communication

To guide team to support community volunteers to lead collective actions in the community

Facilitating sessions with stakeholders for Maternal and child health, Government services and

Any other activities assigned to fulfil programmatic outcomes and goals eg community events,

any research data required from community for any program related research work.

Organizing awareness campaigns on the issue of sanitation and hygiene, Family Planning

To coordinate with Health post, ICDS and police for convergence while conducting community

To coordinate with local groups of youth, CBO s and NGO s to network to collaborate our

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Coordinating with field teams for ensuring implementation of project activities

Planning, supervision and monitoring of field teams.

Capacity building of team and other stakeholders

Coordination and Liasoning with ICDS, MCGM and stakeholders

Implementation of protocolised meetings with stakeholders, events, activities as per budget

Education - Graduation (Full time course) - with minimum 4 years of relevant experience in

community development with any of the two of the thematic area (child health, maternal

health, family planning and working with social welfare dept of govt.)

Ability to maintain role boundaries

Interest in different themes like community development, child health and nutrition, family

planning, and maternal and new-born health

Fluency in English, Hindi and Marathi.

Ability to handle community issues.

To take daily reports from community organisers

Report weekly to the Program coordinator

Managing pictures and documents of meetings, activities and events timely.

Manage data and ensure data entry by CO in commcare application daily.

Crosschecking of data collected from system and ensure data entry in commcare application.

Contribute to the organizational culture and work of SNEHA to an appropriate degree

Participate in the SNEHA activities

PERSON SPECIFICATION REQUIREMENTS ESSENTIAL

Excellent skills of interpersonal communication, presentation skills, writing in Hindi and English

Experience in training on maternal child health, government schemes and community

Belief in working with Government departments

Experience in documentation, quantitative and qualitative data interpretation

Excellent MS office skills (Word, excel and power point)

Self-starting and self-monitoring abilities.

Willingness to learn new schemes and skills

Willingness to travel within Mumbai, Maharashtra and India and willing to participate for

exposure visit s in other states of India.

Familiarity with government systems, ministries, departments and informal settlements in

Negotiation skills.

Keyskills :
community developmentorganizational culturequalitative datadata entrybehavior changecapacity buildingfamily planningchild healthpublic healthchange communicationcommunity mobilizationinterpersonal communicationpresentation skillsbehavior chan