29th October 2026 Vacancy for Field Assistant – Muktha Program Karnataka
Project: Muktha- Establishing a Health System Response to women and children facing Gender Based Violence in Bengaluru, Karnataka
Number of Positions: 01
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
CEHAT, the Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes, is looking for Field Assistant to support the efforts of establishing a health system response to violence against women and children in the five hospitals where this is implemented, namely- Bowring and Lady Curson Hospital, GHIS Gosha, Chikballapura District Hospital, Jayanagar General Hospital, KC General Hospital.
The intervention includes, capacity building of Health professionals through a cascade approach to enable awareness across hospital staff related to gender based violence (GBV), development of standard operating procedures to respond to GBV, introduction of documentation registers to record number of women and children identified as GBV survivors, setting up a crisis counselling unit comprising of counsellors from the hospitals trained to respond to the varied needs of GBV survivors and creation and dissemination of IEC materials in and around the hospitals.
Job Description :
Roles and responsibilities:
• To coordinate with Nodal Officers of 5 hospitals and ensure bi- monthly training of Doctors, Nurses and support staff on Violence Against Women (VAW)
• To be able to conduct core group meetings to discuss the referral network for identification and LIVES for survivors of Domestic violence.
• To create a six-monthly calendar for hospital level activities (trainings, core group meetings etc.)
• To support hospitals for documenting number of identified and referred cases of VAW and generate a monthly report for each hospital in consultation with Nodal officer.
• To liaise between Hospitals and NHM office for reporting
• To carry out any additional activities as suggested by Project in Charge
Essential Skills:
• Understanding of public health, gender and social determinants of health and primary healthcare.
• Willingness to undertake fieldwork and travel to all the five hospitals
• Ability to conduct/ support in trainings.
• Good written and oral communication and report-writing skills in Kannada and English.
• Good organisational and coordination skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Proficiency in Kannada, English (spoken and written) & Hindi.
Qualification and Experience:
• Postgraduate degree in Public Health, Social Work, Social Sciences, Gender Studies or a related field.
• 2–4 years of relevant experience in public health, support service for VAW
• Capacity building activity in a health set up.
Remuneration: Will be commensurate with qualifications and experience
Last date for receiving application: 20th November 2026
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Application with an up-to-date CV with two references to be emailed at recruitcehat@gmail.com