Job Opportunity for Training Consultant at SNEHA in Mumbai

POSITION: Training Consultant (Coordinator level), ASHA Training in BMC
Program Name: ASHA Capacity Building project, Public System Partnership program
Location: Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)
Duration: September 2023 to October 2024

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 a 450+ person strong, innovative and progressive organisation 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 Mumbaiʼs 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 Child Health (MCH), Public System partnerships (PSP), Empowerment, Health and Sexuality of Adolescents (EHSAS), Prevention of Violence against Women and Children (PVWC) (e) SNEHA Centre, SNEHA Shakti, Healthy Cities Project (HCP), Palliative Care, Livelihood Generation, Central Operations, Research and IM.

About the program: Public Systemʼs Partnerships – Building Bridges

SNEHAʼs Public System Partnerships Program works in partnership with Public healthcare system and
vulnerable communities towards strengthening primary healthcare, establishing maternity referral linkages and empowering Mahila Arogya Samiti groups across seven Municipal Corporations of Mumbai Metropolitan Region to ensure better outcomes for pregnant mothers and newborns. The main purpose isto impact Maternal and Child health indicators in urban slums.

To address the increasing population in the jurisdiction of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and meet the health needs of the community, the municipal corporation has undertaken the large-scale recruitment of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA workers). In order to enhance the capabilities of these outreach health workers, SNEHA intends to collaborate with the municipal
corporation. The aim is to provide support to ASHA workers in strengthening community processes and improving outreach efforts for key health indicators.

This collaboration between the BMC’s public healthcare system and SNEHA will contribute to the capacity building of ASHA workers. It will enable them to effectively engage with the community and address various health-related challenges. By working together, SNEHA and the municipal corporation aspire to enhance the overall healthcare services provided to the vulnerable population of BMC.

Consultant Profile:

A skilled individual who can design the training curriculum, modules, and materials based on the specific needs of ASHAs and will have expertise in developing engaging and interactive training content in accordance with the modules of National Health Mission (NHM) and Unicef. Hence the Training Consultant is expected to have in-depth knowledge and expertise in various health-related subjects, community engagement, and capacity building so that he/she can lead the training sessions, deliver the content effectively, and engage participants in interactive learning activities.

The training consultant is expected to work for 40 hours per week during the contract period and will report directly to the Associate Program Director of the Public System Partnership program. He/She will have to closely work with the team members from other programs of SNEHA especially intervening in BMC. He/She will have to coordinate with the trainers groups and different levels of healthcare authorities for smooth execution of the training program. He/She will be responsible for contributing to the organisational value, culture and work of SNEHA to an appropriate degree.

Duties & Responsibilities:

1. Designing & collating the training materials and content in alignment with the modules and guidelines of the NHM.

2. Coordinating with the SNEHA team and healthcare authorities of the BMC to prepare the engaging training calendar.

3. Overall planning, coordination for scheduling the training and ensuring the implementation of the training as per the calendar.

4. Coordinating with the ward officials of BMC for logistical arrangements required for the training.

5. Design and evaluate the knowledge assessment tools and feedback tools considering the nature of training and accordingly brainstorm on the designing of the training content in coordination with M&E.

6. Preparing the training reports as per the need of the SNEHA and public healthcare authorities of the Brihan mumbai Municipal Corporation.

7. Budgeting and preparing training expenditure vouchers and ensuring the approvals from respective personnels.

8. Oversee the designing and development of BCC, IEC materials and relevant collaterals required for the facilitation of the training sessions based on the needs of the ASHAs in municipal corporation.

9. Responsible for the record and maintenance of the data related to the ASHAs trained and the outcome of the training assessment.

10. Periodical debrief and coordination with the Trainers group for planning and facilitation of effective training sessions.

Essential Requirements: (Competencies, Qualification & Experience)

1. Experience in literature review for designing the training curriculums, assessment tools, planning , organising, and delivery of training programs and have ability to maintain role boundaries and exceed with innovations.

2. Excellent interpersonal communication skill, presentation skill, analysis of complex documents and data, self starter, negotiation skill.

3. Master in Social Work, Public Health, Health Management and/or any related subject with sound and considerable academia from a recognised university.

4. Minimum 5 to 7 years of proven experience of designing and facilitating training sessions in the public healthcare domain.

5. Willing to travel across Mumbai & suburbs as per the requirement.

6. Good communication skills in Marathi and Hindi language. Command on English writing skills.

7. Experience of working with public health systems including ministries, municipal corporations and informal settlements will be the added advantage.

8. Interest in maternal and child health, nutrition, adolescent health and family planning.

Applications to be sent via email to niyati.jethwa@snehamumbai.org with Subject line: “Training Consultant -ASHA capacity building Project”.