Field Coordinator

Nepal Agroforestry Foundation (NAF)

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Field Coordinator 

Nepal Agroforestry Foundation (NAF) is a leading non-profit making National NGO and a clearing house for agroforestry in Nepal established in 1991 by leaders of community-based organizations (CBOs), Agroforestry practitioner farmers, various professionals of Nepal and is registered under the Social Welfare Council, Government of Nepal. NAF, as an umbrella organization, provides innovative agriculture techniques and agroforestry/community forestry support to CBOs, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community forest users groups (CFUGs), and savings & credit cooperatives (SCOs) and is committed to strengthen the capacities of poor and marginalized communities and groups to meet their basic needs. NAF directly or with its collaborative partners has taken on the challenges to develop innovative agricultural techniques, and forest gardening in private as well as community lands that could benefit farmers’ production system and would contribute to income diversification, food security, sustainable land use and consequently, social and economic development of rural communities.  It provides information, guidance and support to local authorities, cooperatives and farmers in setting up a sustainable agricultural and agroforestry system. NAF programs has helped to strengthen the capacity of local farmers to adapt agroforestry, to build resilience of rural people, improve and empower the rural women, in the several working areas mostly in mid hills and mountain areas. 

NAF announces job vacancy for the following position. 

1. Field Coordinator (Full Time) Number of Position: One (1)

Major Responsibilities: 

• Field Coordinator- Rasuwa based projects, (mainly coffee and other tree planting)   will be responsible for program/project development, planning, implementing, communication, coordination and reporting activities including overseeing and controlling financial activities or other tasks of the relevant project as directed by the management and in close coordination with collaborating PARTNERS such as local governments and ASIA Nepal.
• Project monitoring, evaluation and reporting and contribute in program planning and strategy development together with staff management and team building.
• Supervise, guide and mentor sub ordinates, produce event report as well as monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and annual reports maintaining district and field level database in line with project results and output indicators.
• Collect, compile, analyze and report the field data for research and knowledge development purpose including case studies and success stories.
• S/he will be responsible to the Director of NAF and report to partner and support agencies (mainly to ASIA Nepal)
• Monitor project activities regularly and report to director of NAF and Project manager in ASIA-Nepal
• Ensure that the project activities are effectively delivered according to the project plan and time frame
• S/he has to lead for the collection of field data as per the needs of the community to develop new project proposal and should actively participate for writing project proposal.
• S/he is responsible to crosscheck all the financial documents before sending to NAF HQ and ASIA 

Required Qualification and Skills: 

• Minimum Bachelor Degree in Agriculture or Forestry related fields (Master degree is preferred),
• Minimum 5 years of experience on Program /Project Development, Planning Management, Implementation, Monitoring and Reporting.
• Strong communication, presentation, writing and speaking skills both in English and Nepali, 
• Strong knowledge of project management, resource management, administrative works and computer applications
• Knowledge in coffee planting and management, and forest gardeningactivities
• Knowledge about monitoring tools like KoBo and GIS will be plus

Project Duration: 7 months (possibility for extension to 3 years)

Duty Station: Project Support Office, NAF, Rasuwa.

Interested candidates are required to send an application along with updated CV with recent PP size photo to nafnepal@gmail.com within 5:00 PM, August 9, 2022 mentioning the expected salary in the application. Women candidates and candidates from Dalit, Janjati, Madhesi/Terai, and other minority communities are highly encouraged to apply. Telephone inquiries will not be entertained.

The short listed candidate will be contacted for further selection process. NAF reserves the right to reject any or all applications without assigning any reasons.