VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Organization: Raleigh International Nepal

Raleigh International Nepal (RIN) is a youth-led sustainable development charity. We focus on working for and with young people to inspire and make positive change in four areas: promoting youth in civil society, providing access to safe water and sanitation, protecting vulnerable environments and building livelihoods and enterprises.

Our way of working to achieve impact is by engaging young volunteers through delivery programmes: Raleigh Expedition, International Citizen Service (ICS), a UK government funded development programme, and national youth programmes where we work solely with local youth volunteers’ in-country. By working through youth, we develop young leaders and ensure young people are connected, valued partners in development.

RIN Livelihoods and Entrepreneurship Development (LED) Project: The main objective of this project is to enhance the business skills of 40 young women and men from rural communities of Gorkha and Makawanpur districts, who will be the key clients of this project and has already received training through previous Raleigh’s Entrepreneurship programme. This project facilitates the targeted youths/clients to increase their income and develop micro enterprising skills through entrepreneurship development training to create viable employability options / opportunities for small businesses in their communities.

The delivery of entrepreneurial training will be facilitated by RIN staff and trained volunteers, who have their expertise in the business field and are capable to demonstrate it in many areas of business-like marketing analysis, developing business plans and financial management.

LED project is supported by Enterprise Development Experts from respective districts in local level facilitation and delivering practical training to entrepreneurs in the local context.

Position: Project Officer-Entrepreneurship Development Project

Division/ Department: Programme Unit

Working Stations: Gorkha and Makwanpur

Duration: July- September 2019 (3 months)

Reporting Line: Livelihood Coordinator

Key Contacts: Enterprise Development Officer, Youth Development Officer and Operation Officer

Required No: 4

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Implementation of Policies, Guidelines and Manuals:
• Adhere to the Raleigh International Nepal strategies, policies, regulations and guidelines
• Adhere to the Raleigh International Code of Conduct and Safeguarding Policy

2. Management & Coordination

• Organizing, arranging and coordinating internal resources with the project team
• Adequately share project mandate to local stakeholders and communities
• Logistic management at local level and ensure safety and security to team members
• Manage the correspondence and communication between relevant stakeholders and staff members
• Defining daily program management through program cycle and program governance
• Arranging meetings with the project team, stakeholders and clarifying the issues with possible measures to be taken in each tasks of the project

3. Monitoring

• Defining daily project plan in coordination with Raleigh and partner staff for implementation of the activities and to keep a track of progress
• Measuring project performance of team members using appropriate verification tools and techniques
• Provide regular inputs to Raleigh and partner staff during project implementation
• Collect information, data, case studies and report to project team
4. Finance & Finance Management
• Managing the overall project budget and tracking it daily activities and expenditures
• Prepare trip and events reports of each activity, as per standard practice of RIN

5. Communication

• Helping the team members understand the scope of the project to achieve the desired objectives by involving relevant stakeholders and clients
• Coordinate with local stakeholders (i.e. cooperatives, traders, agrovets etc.) and entrepreneurs for their inputs / services in the enterprise development process
• Aligning with the project’s outputs as per project plan ensuring there is a logical flow of project activities and information among the team members

6. Documentation and Reporting

• Managing and reviewing project documents
• Keeping confidential data organized and secure
• Compiling all the documents and report writing according to the requirement and tasks performed during the project
Required Education, Experience and Competencies:
• At least bachelor’s degree in any discipline preferably in management with 1-2 years of experience in microenterprise development project or Agro-based enterprise programmes or individual with previous experience as a Team Leader in Raleigh Nepal Livelihood Programme
• Good in communication both English and Nepali language and possessing analytical skills
• Willingness and enthusiastic to work with marginal communities living in remote areas of Gorkha and Makawanpur district of Nepal
• Individual having cross- cultural work experience will be an advantage

Last date to apply: 29th May 2019.

HOW TO APPLY

Interested Applicants can send their updated CV and Cover Letter with subject as “Application for the position of Project Officer” to [email protected] by 29th May 2019.

Note: Trying to influence the recruitment process at any stage of the process shall lead to automatic disqualification and telephonic enquiries will not be entertained.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

We welcome applications from a diverse range of people and actively encourage women and those from a minority to apply.
RIN reserves all rights to qualify/disqualify applications in any case, all applications will be treated with highest confidentiality.