Shakti Shalini is hiring a Community Outreach Worker for Men and Boys
Community Outreach Project
Prevention of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) (Men Only)
Shakti Shalini is a Delhi-based NGO founded in 1987 that responds to SGBV, gender discrimination, and inequality via survivor support services, community mobilisation, skilling, youth mentorship, and digital outreach.
Job Status: Full-Time, Five Days a Week, Eight Hours Per Day (flexibility in the specific days and hours would be required depending on requirements of the target field)
Job Title: Community Outreach Worker for Men and Boys, Prevention of SGBV, Shakti Shalini
Remuneration: Rs. 23,000/ month for the probation period of first six months. Rs. 25,000/ month if offered a permanent employment through a performance review at the conclusion of the probation period. Annual increments built in.
Joining: As soon as available post selection
Job Description:
Shakti Shalini’s Community Outreach Project is a part of Prevention of SGBV Program. The Community Outreach Program is a form of direct grassroots intervention in five socio-economically marginalised communities in South-East Delhi located in and around Nehru Nagar, Ashram Chowk. This program aims to form four protection committees in each community, one committee each for men, women, adolescent boys, and adolescent girls, consisting of and led by the community residents themselves. The hope of this program is to facilitate grassroots change makers within all five communities who become active and sustainable champions of gender equality. The daily schedules of this program include door to door engagements, regular meetings, awareness and aid camps and workshops. The Community Outreach Program is focussed on an ideological and cultural change at the grassroots level for gender equality.
The Community Outreach Worker for Men and Boys is expected to function as a frontline, grassroots activists engaged directly and rigorously with the men and boys of the five targeted socio-economically marginalised communities. He must engage with the men and boys of the five communities every day through door-to-door outreach, meetings, and sessions. His ultimate mission would be to facilitate the awareness and sensitisation of men and boys so that they may challenge patriarchy, gender norms, understand the different manifestations of gender/ sexual violence and abuse, rework their own relationship with masculinity, and become champions of gender equality and gender justice within their own communities. The job is rigorous and requires a steady, self-motivated passion to bring about cultural and ideological change at the grassroots.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Go to the communities everyday for door to door outreach with men and boys, as individuals, as well as with their families and friends circles.
- Identify men and boys demonstrating leadership and passion for gender equality and put together protection committee meetings with them in each community.
- Regularly conduct protection committee meetings with the men’s and the boys’ committees in each community.
- Design and facilitate the protection committee meetings as per the responses/ needs/ interests/ priorities of the men and boys and a proper planning of gender sensitisation.
- Build a rapport and relationship of trust with the men and boys, their families and friends.
- Find creative ways of building trust and rapport. This could include engaging with men and boys through games and activities that are of their interest.
- Be creative and innovative in finding ways to facilitating men and boys to challenge norms and ask critical questions on subjects of masculinity, gender, sex, sexuality, violence and abuse, health, safety, rights, freedoms.
- Support men and boys who show potential and interest to learn how to respond to gender/ sexual violence so that they may become independent agents responding to and preventing gender/ sexual violence within their communities.
- Search for resources and material to share with the men and boys of the communities that would aid them in preventing violence, in leading healthier lives, and in raising their overall quality of resources.
- Support men and boys in accessing available resources to upgrade their quality of lives where required.
- Identify the health, legal, and safety needs of the communities as represented by the men and boys and work with the Shakti Shalini team to plan for the same.
- Facilitate and encourage men and boys to participate in the legal awareness, health awareness and health aid, and gender sensitisation camps and workshops conducted by the Community Outreach Projects.
- Facilitate any survivors of gender/ sexual violence amongst men and boys to connect with survivor support services available within Shakti Shalini, all the while maintaining strict confidentiality, respect, sensitivity, and non-judgmental approach toward the survivor.
- Conduct rigorous documentation and reporting of all activities as per the formats and requirements of the organisation.
- Conduct quarterly monitoring and evaluation of all activities as per the formats and requirements of the organisation.
- Function in close coordination with the Community Outreach Team, and the extended organisation teams.
- Work in careful synchronisation with the protocols, approaches, ethics and policies governing the Community Outreach Project, the Community Centre, and the extended organisation.
- Participating in all pan-organisational activities/ events/ meetings.
Necessary Skills:
- Good communication skills in Hindi (Reading, Writing, Speaking)
- Basic English communication skills.
- Committed to making an impact at the grassroots level, which includes being patient and accommodating towards the challenges and complexities of working with marginalised communities.
- Committed to the mission of gender equality, and fighting gender/ sexual violence at the grassroots level.
- Understands the importance of the collaboration of men and boys in the mission for gender equality, and is committed to contributing toward the same.
- Able to work with individuals of different age groups, religions, castes and tribes, and educational levels.
- Able to work everyday with very limited resources and in extreme weather conditions while on field.
- Able to work with principles of equality, critical thinking, dignity, agency, regular awareness and sensitisation, and confidence and self-esteem raising.
- Able to maintain a non-judgmental, empathetic, understanding and respectful approach in all their work.
- Good people, relational, and communication skills to be able to create and nurture bonds of trust and care.
Reporting:
Report to the Co-Coordinator, Community Outreach for Men and Boys, Prevention of SGBV, Shakti Shalini.
Eligibility:
- Minimum two years experience in the social sector, preferably in community based-work and/ or gender-based work.
- Must hold a BA/ Undergrad level qualification, preferably in Social Work or a related subject.
Application deadline: Sunday, 27th September, 2026
Selection Process: Screening of assessment form followed by interview
To apply fill this assessment form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFwK5RfzZoVYZa8I-SPHGiO4ZneZktD57_ZP23hgf0VHnIVQ/viewform
To know more about Shakti Shalini visit: www.shaktishalini.org