Project Coordinator

Rural Women Upliftment Association (RWUA)

Vacancy Announcement

Published date: 23 December 2024

Rural Women Upliftment Association (RWUA) was established on 22 Kartik, 2050 B.S. at Sarlahi District of Madesh Province, Nepal. It is a non-governmental and non-profit social organization that is well-established and prominent and works as a change agent in the area of women empowerment and community development in the Sarlahi district. The long-term experiences in the area of community development and women’s Upliftment have made it the organization easy to organize the community for positive changes over their own for the last 32 years. This is women women-headed organization and the majority of executive members are women. It works with a mission to improve the lives of people through economic, social, cultural, and physical transformation. It has been implementing several projects in Sarlahi District in the partnership.

RWUA invites applications from interested qualified and eligible candidates (Nepali citizens only) who are reliable, accountable, and have the ability to deliver results with the highest level of integrity for the following positions under Save the Children Partnership (SIDA)SANKALPA projects in the Sarlahi district.

Project: Civil Society Organization Strengthening Program (SIDA/SANKALPA)

Position: Project Coordinator-1

Work Station: Sarlahi District

Project Overview: The (SIDA) SANKALPA program; has the goal of contributing to a strong civil society that demands and supports the fulfilments, of children’s rights-holding states to account for mobilizing and empowering CSOs, children, and their communities. Toward this goal, the program will work in four areas

1) Civil society strengthening

2) Children’s agency

3) Child rights

4) Civic space.

Key Responsibility of the position:

1. Program Planning and Implementation

Overall Project management and quality delivery

• Ensure timely planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of project activities.
• Manage day-to-day operation and project activities in coordination with the board, senior management team, Finance, and MEAL team.
• Ensure the safeguarding of children, vulnerable groups (including people with disabilities), and those at risk during the planning, implementation, and monitoring of program activities.
• Coordinate with governments, NGOs/INGOs, and other stakeholders as appropriate to ensure optimum collaboration in maximizing the project result.
• Manage relationships and communication with consortium members including Save the Children.
• Organize in carrying out dialogues and workshops to promote CSO capacity and civic space.
• Establish partnerships with Province and Local Governments, UN agencies, I/NGOs, CBOs, media, and other stakeholders for effective advocacy on the issues of children, adolescents, and youth.

Organizational Development

• Facilitate the organization to conduct an organizational capacity assessment (OCA) to identify the gaps and needs of organizational development (OD) and support to develop and implement the organizational capacity development plan.
• Lead to design, development, and implementation of programs, policies, and strategies to meet organizational development needs and program goals.
• Execute tools, techniques, and methodologies to monitor and review organizational capacity development plans in coordination with the senior management team and executive board.
• Led to organize various capacity-building pieces of training for the senior management team, particularly on GESI, climate change and resilience, child rights programming, child programming, and conflict sensitivity.

Child-led Advocacy and Lobby

• Facilitate children to form their network at the local and district level and capacitate them to promote meaningful participation.
• Lead to apply all nine basic requirements of meaningful child participation while engaging with children and the child club network.
• Organize capacity-building initiatives to strengthen children’s agencies and support them in carrying out child-led initiatives to influence the decision-making process at local, district, and province levels.
• Facilitate child club networks by organizing child-led initiatives against the issues affecting them at local, district, and provincial levels.
• Support the implementation of local-level endorsement guidelines.

Strengthening Province and Local Networks and Alliances of CSOs

• Lead capacity-building initiatives of CSO's networks/alliance at the district and local levels on tools and processes of evidence-based advocacy.
• Lead to facilitate in forming/re-forming/mobilization of district & local level network/alliances.
• Facilitate CSOs to have a platform to exchange their progress, learnings, and challenges.

2. Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) and Documentation

• Monitor the ongoing project intervention with proper monitoring tools and BFCs/GEDSI Budget Analysis
• Ensure all the project interventions are implemented in accordance to the minimum quality benchmark.
• Support team in best utilize the provided digital platforms to input correct data and regular review and analysis of the data and information.
• Lead the team to maintain integrity in data/information management & submit in a timely manner.
• Produce quality progress reports & documents capturing program learnings and good practices.
• Ensure innovative approaches, good practices, challenges, and achievements are documented.

3. Representation, Coordination/Networking, and Collaboration

• Represent the organization/project at local, district, and province levels.
• Coordinate, collaborate, and information sharing with the province and local governments, UN agencies, I/NGOs, media, civil Societies, and community-based organizations.
• Establish and maintain relationships with province & local governments and other stakeholders.
• Serve as a key focal point for program-related issues/problems at the province and district level and seek support from the Program Director, Advocacy Manager, District Coordinator, and project team for the other projects as required.

4. Supervisory Responsibility:

Supervise/Assist District Coordinators, Cluster Head, Finance and Admin Coordinator-Province, Program/Project Focal Person, and entire project team members of Madesh Province

5. Reporting and Communication:

• Produce and share monthly/Quarterly/Annual reports to the ED and Save the Children project Manager.
• Ensure financial report is prepared timely & accurately and shared with Save the Children.
• Maintain proper communication within the team for functional communication.

6. Inspection and surrounding bounds of duties:

• Other technical partners of the SIDA-funded program implementer will provide the best means, materials, and pleasant environment to support the accomplishment of your job entity.
• The Line Managers will supervise the attainment achieved by this post.

7. Performance Indicator:

• Timely execution of the activities assigned for the SIDA Program.
• Proper implementation and management of the program with quality results.
• Effective Coordination and collaboration with multi-stakeholders.

8. Proposal Writing and Development:

• Support in developing the RWUA organization Proposal writing prepared Organizational Report in English and Nepali in Preeti fund.
• Engaging team for proposal writing and development.

Minimum required academic qualification and experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology/Education/Social work/Development Studies/Law/Management/Social Science/Public Health/ International Relationship with 3 years of working experience in managing multiple projects with a diverse team, working with Local CBOs (Who Working on Projector Coordinator Post) (or)
• Master’s degree in Sociology/Education/Social work/Development Studies/Law/Management/Social Science/Public Health/International relationships with 2 years of working experience in managing multiple projects with a diverse team. (Who Working on the Projector Coordinator Post)
• Writing and speaking proficiency in English, Local, and Nepali languages.
• Ability to work with MS Office packages (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• Ability & experience to provide training to CSOs on processes & tools of evidence-based advocacy.
• Experience in leading Organization Development (OD) processes, tools, and management skills.
• Capacity to work with children in a child-friendly manner.
• Proven ability to manage risks and promote governance to contribute to strategic outcomes.
• Working Experience with the Province, Local government, and concerned stakeholders.
• Having a valid driving license along with a personal bike/scooter.
• Can adjust in the team and play the role of supportive.
• Ability to work under pressure and within a tight timeframe
• Owner of two-wheelers and Licence this is compulsory for the Application
• If out-of-country education degrees need equivalent from Nepal government-authorized Universities.

Interested candidates aged 25+ and under 55 Years are encouraged to apply with their current CV and application letter to the email address vacancy@rwua.org clearly mentioning the position applying in the subject line addressing to The Human Resource Department, Rural Women Upliftment Association (RWUA), Sarlahi or submit the hard copy to Rural Women Upliftment Association (RWUA), Haripur Municipality-2, Sarlahi within 29 December 2024 by 4:00 PM.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the further selection process. No telephone inquiries will be entertained, and any inappropriate recommendation might automatically disqualify the candidate from further processing. RWUA respects child rights and strictly follows the Zero Tolerance, child safeguarding policy of the organization. RWUA is an equal opportunities employer and strictly follows merit-based selection. Qualified LGBQTI +, Female, Disabled, candidates or those from disadvantaged communities and local people with best-fit qualifications and competencies are strongly encouraged to apply.

RWUA reserves the right to qualify/disqualify applications in any case.