Location: Punjab (assigned health block within district)
Experience: Freshers and recent graduates welcome; background in social work or public health preferred
Compensation: Competitive
Closes on: 15 June 2026
Bahaar Foundation
Bahaar Foundation works to improve rural healthcare across Punjab by empowering local women to become Community Health Entrepreneurs (CHEs). The team is setting up 10,000 to 12,000 CHEs, one per village, over the next two years. Each CHE serves as a first point of contact for preventive, promotive, and basic curative health services in her community, working closely with government and private partners to bring care closer to home.
Role
Support a group of Community Health Entrepreneurs in an assigned block to help them grow their income, build community trust, and deliver health services with confidence. Spend most days in the field, mobilizing communities, mentoring CHEs, and building local partnerships.
Responsibilities
- Support CHEs in reaching households, SHGs, youth groups, and panchayat members to drive service uptake.
- Help CHEs run village outreach on topics like BP, sugar, anemia, eye health, menstrual hygiene, WASH, and preventive care.
- Organize health camps, screening drives, and awareness meetings with CHEs.
- Introduce CHEs to village leaders, ASHAs, ANMs, AWWs, and SHG groups to build trust.
- Provide daily and weekly hands-on mentoring to CHEs in the assigned block.
- Help newly onboarded CHEs become active in the field within set timelines.
- Guide CHEs on customer interaction, follow-ups, and screening practices.
- Ensure CHEs follow SOPs for screenings, POC kit use, referrals, and reporting.
- Solve day-to-day field challenges like low service uptake or device issues.
- Identify low-performing CHEs and support their reactivation.
- Escalate unresolved issues to the Project Coordinator on time.
- Support CHEs in using the SAATH App for service entries, follow-ups, and case records.
- Submit regular activity updates, photos, success stories, and field observations.
- Maintain village visit logs and community feedback records.
- Build strong working ties with block health officials, ICDS supervisors, SHG leaders, and panchayats.
- Represent Bahaar Foundation in block and district review meetings.
- Promote positive community acceptance of CHE services through local advocacy.
Requirements
- Recent graduate in social work, public health, or a related field preferred.
- Freshers with a strong interest in field work and community engagement may also apply.
- Local resident of the assigned block (preferred).
- Good communication skills in Punjabi and Hindi.
- Able to travel within the block by cycle, scooty, or on foot; owning a vehicle is a bonus.
- Strong ownership, accountability, and ability to solve field issues on your own.
- Passion for community welfare and women's empowerment.
- Energetic, approachable, and field-oriented attitude.
Benefits
- Monthly honorarium/salary as per program norms
- Travel allowance/reimbursement as per policy
- Opportunity to directly impact women entrepreneurs and their communities across Punjab.
Apply
Interested candidates can send their updated resume throught the below button. Mention "Block Coordinator" in the subject line of your email
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