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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 Community Outreach Workers for Women and Girls is expected to function as a frontline, grassroots activist engaged directly and rigorously with the women and girls of the five targeted socio-economically marginalised communities. She must engage with the women and girls of the five communities every day through door-to-door outreach, meetings, and sessions. Her ultimate mission would be to facilitate the awareness and sensitisation of women and girls so that they may challenge patriarchy, gender norms, understand the different manifestations of gender/ sexual violence and abuse, 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 women and girls, as individuals, as well as with their families and friends circles.
• Identify women and girls demonstrating leadership and passion for gender equality and put together protection committees with them in each community.
• Regularly conduct protection committee meetings with the women’s and the girls’ committees in each community.
• Design and facilitate the protection committee meetings as per the responses/ needs/ interests/ priorities of the women and girls and a proper planning of gender sensitisation.
• Build a rapport and relationship of trust with the women and girls, their families and friends.
• Find creative ways of building trust and rapport. This could include engaging with women and girls through the activities and issues that are of their interest.
• Be creative and innovative in finding ways to facilitate women and girls to challenge norms and ask critical questions on subjects of gender, sex, sexuality, violence and abuse, health, safety, rights, freedoms.
• Support women and girls 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 women and girls of the communities that would aid them in preventing violence, in leading healthier lives, and in raising their overall quality of resources.
• Support women and girls 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 women and girls and work with the Shakti Shalini team to plan for the same.
• Facilitate and encourage women and girls 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 women and girls 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 documentation and reporting 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, guidelines, 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 quality, and fighting gender/ sexual violence at the grassroots level.
  • 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.