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Association of Community Radio Broadcasters’ (ACORAB), Nepal

Vacancy Announcement

Association of Community Radio Broadcasters’ (ACORAB) Nepal is an umbrella organization of 325 community radios spread across 77 districts of Nepal. ACORAB Nepal is non-profit and non-partisan legal entity which values pluralistic and inclusive democracy, human rights including right to information and institutional secularity based on rule of law. ACORAB has been playing a vital role for community empowerment, information dissemination and awareness raising in different social issues.

ACORAB-Nepal is looking to recruit competent, energetic, committed and self-motivated candidate for Program Manager.

Position:Program Manager

Duty Station:Kathmandu with frequent field visits in the districts

Purpose:The main purpose of this position is to support Executive Director on project management, proposal writing, reporting, capacity development and fund raising.

Qualification:Masters’  degree in Social Sciences, Development Studies, Mass Communication and Journalism or other relevant discipline from a recognized institution

Experience:Minimum of 3 years of work experience (after completion of study ), preferably in a national or international development organization, media organization in a program operation  with sound technical and leadership skills.

Desired Skills and Knowledge: The candidate should have sound oral and written knowledge in English and Nepali language. S/He should have knowledge on community media and community radio with capacity building experiences of grass root level community media. S/he should possess pragmatic skill in communications, proposal writing, project management and reporting skill, research, budget holding, negotiations with stakeholders, campaigning and fund raising skill.

Responsibilities

• Develop program proposals for promotion of community radio and community radio movement and capacity development of community radios.
• Prepare program/project status reports required for management, board, donors, budget review, program analysis, etc.
• Prepare different manual and procedural guidelines on project management and capacity development of the member radio stations.
• Coordination and rapport building with key stakeholders, government bodies and member radio stations.
• Coordinate and communicate with other development and social justice networks, with key decision makers, and liaison with national level forum.
• Provide supervision, training, capacity building support and guidance to the member radio stations.
• Coordination preparation of detailed implementation plan – Prepare quarter, biannual and annual progress report of ACORAB.
• Prepare the guideline and essential document for partnership with different organizations,
• Take a special role for effectiveness of ACORAB activities and campaigns against different malpractices and harmful traditional practices.

Perks and Remunerations:As per the HR Policy of ACORAB

Instruction for ApplicationInterested candidate who meet the above mentioned criteria, shall submit the application along with  updated CV in ACORAB’s email: [email protected]/[email protected] by 5 PM of 26 December 2018. Please visit our website or send request through email for detail Job Description (JD)

Special Instruction ACORAB is an equal opportunity provider; we encourage applying by Women, Madeshi, Muslim, Janajati, Dalit and the candidate from remote areas. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for the further process. Telephone enquiry will be strongly discouraged.