Social Mobiliser (Only Female Candidates)

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Unification Nepal Gorkha (UN-Nepal), registered in the District Administration Office (DAO) Gorkha and Social Welfare Council (SWC) in the year 2009, is a non-profit making child-focused organization formed by a team of youth NGO professionals for sustainable development across the country.

UN-Nepal has been implementing Room to Read funded Literacy Program and Girls Education Program in selected Schools of Gorkha district, Nepal. The primary goal of the project is to make an independent reader and ensure their SEE level education so that they can make their life long decision in their life. For this UN Nepal will closely working with teachers, SMC, PTA and local government along other stakeholders. Now, UN Nepal is seeking qualified and dynamic time staff for the following positions.

Position: Social Mobiliser (Only Female Candidates)

Required No: 5

Job Description:

Program Management, Implementation, Training, and Coordination:

• Conducts LS/ group mentoring sessions with quality and ensures that the GEPP are well equipped with the knowledge as per the LS and mentoring curriculum.
• Updates oneself through regular manual reading, doing research, and reading other resources on the topics of gender equality, adolescent development, life skills, and others.
• Implements program activities related to school management, parents, ward offices, community leaders, and other stakeholders.
• Keeps updated information and documentation of GEPP including maintaining the database, regular attendance, activity participation record, home visit records and individual mentoring files. 
• Guides GEPP to improve their academic performance by identifying GEPP in need of exam preparation support and plans for the same.
• Supports schools to form/reform Child Clubs and engages them in life skills club activities.
• Engages families, schools, and the community through parent workshops, parent meetings, home visits, community programs, and other activities as needed to create a gender-friendly study environment for GEPP.
• Organizes community and school level awareness-raising activities on early marriage, abuse prevention, the importance of girls' education, gender equality in education in the community through day celebrations and project work by GEPP.
• Provides individual mentoring to identified GEPP who are at risk and does referrals for more critical cases to other service providers by mapping different services and maintaining a directory. 
• Actively participates in conducting material support surveys to identify needy GEPP for ranking them and providing them with material/academic support.
• Supports Officer to conduct joint monitoring visits and conducts/attends meetings with local Government as needed.  
• Carries out activities mentioned in the annual work plan and implementation calendar.
• Conducts other tasks as assigned by the supervisor and as per the needs of the organization. 

Planning, Reporting and Documentation:

• Works together with Officer to prepare a month wise school-specific plan following the annual plan and implementation calendar.
• Monitors and keeps records of GEPP’ school attendance and academic performances.
• Keeps GEP registers updated with accurate and timely data entries.
• Tracks GEPP risks under the risk parameter and SM's observation to be able to conduct timely responses and support to retain GEPP at school and guides GEPP to solve their problems.
• Keeps a record and manages appropriate distribution, storage, and proper use of any supplies provided to schools/GEPP.
• Reports to Officer as needed to prepare reports, plans, or any other documentation on both technical and operational aspects.
• Keeps appropriate and accurate records of home visits, individual mentoring, and any other activities. 
• Supports Officer to develop case/success stories and documents best practices and challenges.

External Coordination and Networking:

• Establishes and manages proper relationships with schools, focal point teachers, parents, ward-level local government, communities, and any other relevant local stakeholders.
• Conducts/attends regular meetings with the School Management Committee, Parents Teachers Association, school staff, focal point teachers, child club, and subject teachers to build up trust with the school and its members.
• Collaborates and coordinates with the other local development partners for a joint program.
• Supports Officer to conduct program orientation and discussion for possible partnership with local government and other stakeholders.'

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Application Procedures:

Interested and qualified candidates shall send cover letter detailing their experience and motivation for the current position with an updated CV to hr.unnepalgorkha@gmail.com on 13 August 2024. Please mention the position you are applying in the subject line. Please mention your expected salary in your application letter.

Only those shortlisted candidates who meet the criteria will be invited to a written test, interview and group discussion. No telephone calls will be entertained. UN Nepal encourages Women, Dalits, Marginalized Groups, People with Disability, sexual minority are highly encouraged to apply.

UN Nepal is Child Rights organizations, so we need to keep children safe. Our selection process reflects our commitment to the safeguarding and protection of children in all our programs. Therefore, the selected candidates will be subjected to background check.