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– Caregiver (Part-Time, Women Only)
– Co-Coordinator for Community Outreach (Men Only)
Shakti Shalini is Hiring an Caregiver (Part-Time, Women Only)! Apply Now!
Shakti Shalini is a Delhi based NGO founded in 1987 that responds to gender and sexual violence, discrimination, and inequality via survivor support services, preventative programs, educational enhancement, literary productions, and media outreach.
About Pehchan Home
Pehchan, connoting “identity”, is Shakti Shalini’s shelter home for women in distress. Women, often with children, travel from all parts of India in search of a safe, secure, and supportive space at Pehchan. It is a small establishment that can house ten, and at most twelve, women (with or without children) at a time. All cost of living of the women and children (food, sanitation, medication, travel, clothes, etc.) and of upkeep of the home is borne by Shakti Shalini.The services provided to the survivors will include counseling and crisis intervention, food and nutrition, sanitation and hygiene, security and confidential location, physical and mental healthcare, sexual and reproductive healthcare, legal counseling and litigation aid, skills development and vocational training, educational and income generation support, rehabilitation and reintegration, and follow-up. The residents are regularly provided with various vocational and skill development classes for eg. computer, cutting and tailoring, beauty culture, and basic literacy. Creative sessions including theatre, poetry, dance, film screening, painting, art, and craft are also regularly conducted. For the safety and well-being of our survivors, Shakti Shalini ensures that Pehchan Shelter Home is functional and operative, equipped with basic amenities of food and nutrition, sanitation and hygiene, clothing and personal care products to support women in distress. The operation of Pehchan includes, at all times, ensuring that the location of the space is not disclosed publicly or to the social relations of the women residing within it so as to ensure security and confidentiality. The duration of a survivor’s stay at the shelter home is not pre-determined. It is dependent on the need of the survivor as the pace of recovery as well as the situation of each survivor is unique and requires a personalized approach. Pehchan is able to accept a maximum of 10 women (with or without children) at a time however, exceptions are made in case of a severe crisis or if a woman seeks urgent help post sunset.
Pehchan, connoting “identity”, is Shakti Shalini’s shelter home for women in distress. Women, often with children, travel from all parts of India in search of a safe, secure, and supportive space at Pehchan. It is a small establishment that can house ten, and at most twelve, women (with or without children) at a time. All cost of living of the women and children (food, sanitation, medication, travel, clothes, etc.) and of upkeep of the home is borne by Shakti Shalini.The services provided to the survivors will include counseling and crisis intervention, food and nutrition, sanitation and hygiene, security and confidential location, physical and mental healthcare, sexual and reproductive healthcare, legal counseling and litigation aid, skills development and vocational training, educational and income generation support, rehabilitation and reintegration, and follow-up. The residents are regularly provided with various vocational and skill development classes for eg. computer, cutting and tailoring, beauty culture, and basic literacy. Creative sessions including theatre, poetry, dance, film screening, painting, art, and craft are also regularly conducted. For the safety and well-being of our survivors, Shakti Shalini ensures that Pehchan Shelter Home is functional and operative, equipped with basic amenities of food and nutrition, sanitation and hygiene, clothing and personal care products to support women in distress. The operation of Pehchan includes, at all times, ensuring that the location of the space is not disclosed publicly or to the social relations of the women residing within it so as to ensure security and confidentiality. The duration of a survivor’s stay at the shelter home is not pre-determined. It is dependent on the need of the survivor as the pace of recovery as well as the situation of each survivor is unique and requires a personalized approach. Pehchan is able to accept a maximum of 10 women (with or without children) at a time however, exceptions are made in case of a severe crisis or if a woman seeks urgent help post sunset.
Job Status: Part-Time, Two Days and Two Nights (Weekends)
Job Title: Caregiver (Part-Time), Pehchan, Shelter Home for Women in Distress, Shakti Shalini
Job Description: The part-time shelter home caregiver is part of Shakti Shalini’s Pehchan Shelter Home for women in distress team that is dedicated to the support and empowerment of women as well as the children accompanying them for the duration of their stay at the shelter home. The caregiver will be expected to facilitate the activities of the shelter home and respond to all immediate needs and concerns during the course of her work hours. Her conduct in the shelter at all times must be caring, sensitive, encouraging, measured, mature, and consistent with Shakti Shalini’s ideological commitment to gender equality, individual agency, democratic and inclusive manner of functioning.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- The part-time caregiver is required to oversee the operations of Pehchan Shelter Home for Women in Distress by Shakti Shalini during her work hours, which would include management of infrastructural/ communications concerns/ health and dietary needs/ activity schedules/ additional programs or requirements of the residents of the shelter home, either through direct problem solving or through reference to concerned persons.
- Apart from overseeing immediate material and physical needs of the shelter and its residents, the care-giver will be required to display mature, caring, sensitive, non-judgmental, respective, and empowering behaviour at the shelter home at all times in alignment with Shakti shalini’s commitment to gender equality and individual agency.
- The caregiver will be required to conduct activities at the shelter home during her work hours if and when planned mutually within the shelter team or in coordination with other project teams.
- The caregiver must report closely to the shelter home coordinator in all aspects of her work, challenges faced, and decision-making. The caregiver may additionally consult with other members of her team when required.
- The caregiver will have to coordinate closely with the full-time night caregiver to ensure that entry and exit timings are well matched and the shelter is not left unattended.
- The caregiver will be required to maintain all shelter home records and documentations as per the established system and instructions of the shelter home coordinator.
- The caregiver will be required to maintain documentation of any additional work carried out by her during her work hours and may consult the coordinator for the same.
- In case of an emergency, the shelter caregiver must immediately contact the shelter coordinator first. If additional aid is required, she may contact the counselors, operations leads, and honorary secretary.
- The caregiver is encouraged to be part of pan-organisation events and programs as far as time and alternate obligations permit.
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.
- Able to work with individuals of different age groups and educational levels.
- Able to create an environment that emphasises the 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 communication with all stakeholders
- Possess a sensitivity towards gender and gender/sexual violence.
Eligibility:
Academic: Must hold a BA/ Undergrad level qualification.
Work experience: Minimum one year experience in a field of social work or caregiving.
Joining Date:
Earliest Possible (negotiable).
Reporting:
Report to the Coordinator, Pehchan, Shelter Home for Women in Distress.
Salary:
₹12,000 per month with meals provided during work hours.
How to Apply:
Please mail your CV and Cover Letter to [email protected]
Selection Process:
Review of CVs and Cover Letters followed by an Interview for shortlisted candidates.
Application deadline: 6:00pm, Friday, 30th June, 2023
To know more about Shakti Shalini, please visit shaktishalini.org.
Please share with interested individuals!
Shakti Shalini is Hiring an Co-Coordinator for Community Outreach for Men and Boys! Apply Now!
Shakti Shalini is a Delhi based NGO founded in 1987 that responds to gender and sexual violence, discrimination, and inequality via survivor support services, preventative programs, educational enhancement, literary productions, and media outreach.
About Pehchan Home
Pehchan, connoting “identity”, is Shakti Shalini’s shelter home for women in distress. Women, often with children, travel from all parts of India in search of a safe, secure, and supportive space at Pehchan. It is a small establishment that can house ten, and at most twelve, women (with or without children) at a time. All cost of living of the women and children (food, sanitation, medication, travel, clothes, etc.) and of upkeep of the home is borne by Shakti Shalini.The services provided to the survivors will include counseling and crisis intervention, food and nutrition, sanitation and hygiene, security and confidential location, physical and mental healthcare, sexual and reproductive healthcare, legal counseling and litigation aid, skills development and vocational training, educational and income generation support, rehabilitation and reintegration, and follow-up. The residents are regularly provided with various vocational and skill development classes for eg. computer, cutting and tailoring, beauty culture, and basic literacy. Creative sessions including theatre, poetry, dance, film screening, painting, art, and craft are also regularly conducted. For the safety and well-being of our survivors, Shakti Shalini ensures that Pehchan Shelter Home is functional and operative, equipped with basic amenities of food and nutrition, sanitation and hygiene, clothing and personal care products to support women in distress. The operation of Pehchan includes, at all times, ensuring that the location of the space is not disclosed publicly or to the social relations of the women residing within it so as to ensure security and confidentiality. The duration of a survivor’s stay at the shelter home is not pre-determined. It is dependent on the need of the survivor as the pace of recovery as well as the situation of each survivor is unique and requires a personalized approach. Pehchan is able to accept a maximum of 10 women (with or without children) at a time however, exceptions are made in case of a severe crisis or if a woman seeks urgent help post sunset.
Pehchan, connoting “identity”, is Shakti Shalini’s shelter home for women in distress. Women, often with children, travel from all parts of India in search of a safe, secure, and supportive space at Pehchan. It is a small establishment that can house ten, and at most twelve, women (with or without children) at a time. All cost of living of the women and children (food, sanitation, medication, travel, clothes, etc.) and of upkeep of the home is borne by Shakti Shalini.The services provided to the survivors will include counseling and crisis intervention, food and nutrition, sanitation and hygiene, security and confidential location, physical and mental healthcare, sexual and reproductive healthcare, legal counseling and litigation aid, skills development and vocational training, educational and income generation support, rehabilitation and reintegration, and follow-up. The residents are regularly provided with various vocational and skill development classes for eg. computer, cutting and tailoring, beauty culture, and basic literacy. Creative sessions including theatre, poetry, dance, film screening, painting, art, and craft are also regularly conducted. For the safety and well-being of our survivors, Shakti Shalini ensures that Pehchan Shelter Home is functional and operative, equipped with basic amenities of food and nutrition, sanitation and hygiene, clothing and personal care products to support women in distress. The operation of Pehchan includes, at all times, ensuring that the location of the space is not disclosed publicly or to the social relations of the women residing within it so as to ensure security and confidentiality. The duration of a survivor’s stay at the shelter home is not pre-determined. It is dependent on the need of the survivor as the pace of recovery as well as the situation of each survivor is unique and requires a personalized approach. Pehchan is able to accept a maximum of 10 women (with or without children) at a time however, exceptions are made in case of a severe crisis or if a woman seeks urgent help post sunset.
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: Co-Coordinator, Communi
Job Description:Shakti Shalini’s Community Outreach Program is a part of our Mechanisms for the Prevention of Gender and Sexual Violence. 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 Co-Coordinator, Community Outreach for Men and Boys is expected to envision, design, and implement grassroots feminist community mobilisation with the men and boys of five targeted socio-economically marginalised communities. He will be overseeing a team of two community outreach workers, both men, whom he must be able to direct and guide toward the mission of the project. He must, with his team, build a relation of trust with the men and boys of the communities as well as their families and friends via door-to-door outreach, meetings and sessions, active listening and communication, and problem-solving. He must himself, and through effective management of his team, ensure that men and boys from the communities carrying potential and interest emerge as grassroots changemakers for gender equality who take up leadership within their communities to prevent and respond to gender/ sexual violence. The job is rigorous and requires a steady, self-motivated passion to bring about cultural and ideological change at the grassroots.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Understand the vision and mission of Shakti Shalini to work toward gender equality and, specially, to prevent gender/ sexual violence.
- Understand the specific role of the Community Outreach Project run by Shakti Shalini to prevent gender/ sexual violence.
- Understand the vision and mission of focussing on men and boys for the prevention of gender/ sexual violence.
- Brain storm and design a thorough plan for the mobilisation of men and boys for gender equality in the five target socio-economically marginalised communities consisting of both, long-term and short-term aspects.
- Carry out community need assessments, base-line surveys, and create community profiles.
- Oversee, manage, and participate in the implementation of the designed plan with a team of two men community outreach workers.
- Provide thorough, efficient, effective, sensitive, supportive, and nurturing leadership and guidance to the two men community outreach workers.
- Visit the communities on a regular basis with the team of workers for door to door outreach with men and boys of the communities, as well as with their families and friends circles, in order to establish a strong relationship of trust and care with them.
- Identify men and boys demonstrating leadership and passion for gender equality and put together protection committee meetings with them in each community. Lead the team of workers to fulfil the same targets.
- Conduct protection committee meetings with the men’s and the boys’ committees in each community. Lead the team of outreach workers to do the same.
- 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. Lead the team of workers to do the same.
- 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. Lead the team of workers to do the same.
- 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. Lead the team of workers to do the same.
- 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. Lead the team of workers to do the same.
- 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. Lead the team of workers to do the same.
- Support men and boys in accessing available resources to upgrade their quality of lives where required. Lead the team of workers to do the same.
- 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. Lead the team of workers to do 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. Lead the team of workers to do the same.
- 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. Lead the team of workers to do the same.
- Carry out consistent, creative, and wide-ranging networking and partnership building on behalf of Shakti Shalini, with legal, health, and gender experts who can collaborate with the organisation and conduct awareness with the communities as well as build the capacities and skills of the community outreach team.
- Manage all communications with the Community Outreach Project partners and collaborators through formal channels, and in an effective and skilled manner as a representative of the organisation.
- Effectively represent the project to funders, donors, and external partners when required.
- Ensure that the team of workers conduct regular and proper quality documentation of all activities taking place within the project.
- Upgrade the documentation systems of the project as and when required.
- Begin implementation of the monitoring and evaluation systems of the project.
- Compile monthly, quarterly, six-monthly, and annual reporting of the work done with men and boys and submit the same to the reporting person.
- Provide mentorship to interns and volunteers who want to work with men and boys within the Community Outreach Project.
- Provide regular updates to Shakti Shalini’s Media Team regarding the progress of the project.
- Ensure that billing of all project expenses takes place as per the accounting systems of the organisation.
- Ensure that all administrative needs of the project are identified and submitted to the administration and management of the organisation in a timely manner.
- Ensure the proper care and maintenance of equipment and resources provided to the project.
- Function in close coordination with the entire 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 English (Reading, Writing, Speaking)
- 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 quality, 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 mobilising men and boys for the same.
- Understands how to work with men and boys to rework social conditionings of masculinity and challenge gender norms.
- A strong critical thinker with an understanding of gender, violence, masculinity, sex, sexuality, health, rights, and freedoms.
- 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 lead a team with effectiveness, sensitivity, care, organisation, planning, and balanced leadership.
- Possesses an attention to detail, strong time-management skills, good planning and coordination abilities, and the capacity to strategise, problem-solve, and delegate tasks effectively.
- 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.
Eligibility:
Academic: Must hold an MA in Social Work or a related subject.
Work experience: Minimum two years experience in the social sector, preferably in community based-work and/ or gender-based work.
Joining Date:
Earliest Possible (negotiable).
Reporting:
Report to the Operations Lead, Shakti Shalini.
Salary:
₹35,000/- month for the probation period of first six months. ₹37,000/- month if offered a permanent employment through a performance review at the conclusion of the probation period. Job security and annual increments built in.
How to Apply:
Please complete the following assessment form: https://forms.gle/CQxgHXSNv55Qkgx36
Selection Process:
Review of Assessment Form and accompanying documents, interviews, and a practical application round.
Application deadline: 6:00 PM, Friday, 14th July, 2023
To know more about Shakti Shalini, please visit shaktishalini.org.
Please share with interested individuals!