Vacancy For-Senior Participatory Action Researcher & Documentation Officer

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Voice of Children:

Voice of Children (VOC) is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation established in November 2000, working with street children and deprived families in urban and poor rural areas; with a mission to improve the living condition of the Street Children and their families in Nepal. Organisation focuses to work along with street children, who are suffered from various kinds of problems/harms such as; sexual abuse, harassment, different forms of violence and exploitation in the street. Thus VOC facilitate to re-establish them in the society by addressing their needs, rights and explore possible options though different programmes especially focusing on improvement of the physical, mental, social and financial aspects of the needy street children and their families in order to reintegrate into normal social life. For more information please browse into www.voiceofchildren.org.np

CLARISSA Project Brief Information: 

VOC is implementing UK AID funded CLARISSA project to generate a strong evidence base and innovative solutions to address the worst forms of child labour (WFCL) in Nepal. It is neither a typical research programme, nor a typical NGO implementation programme – but is designed to build on the strengths and evidences in order to decrease the number of children in the WFCLs including Adult Entertainment Sector (AES) in Nepal. Its focus is on surfacing key drivers of the worst forms of child labour and developing interventions to counteract them (preventing push factors at community, family and individual level and pull factors from unethical business).

The primary beneficiaries of the project are the children in the worst forms of child labour and those who are vulnerable to being drawn into it. As result of the programme, the families of these children will benefit from greater resilience to shocks, better options for their children’s safe and healthy future and less intra-family stress and conflict. Businesses will benefit from practical solutions to child-labour free supply chains. Policy makers, NGOs, and researchers will benefit from knowledge of what works.   

The programme is designed around four major themes or ‘workstreams’ - Social Protection, Positive family dynamics and social norms, Reducing harm in supply chains and Building children’s agency and child-led coalitions

The consortium funded by UK Aid led by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and other consortium partners are (in alphabetical order):

• Child Hope UK
• Consortium for Street Children 
• Ethical Trading Initiative
• Terre des homes

By taking a participatory, adaptive and child-centred approach to evidence and innovation generation, and using intentional scaling strategies, in each country activities will generate evidence of the drivers of and effective innovative interventions to reduce WFCL.

We are hiring two positions for CLARISSA Project - Child Labour Action Learning Innovation in Nepal

• Position: Documentation Officer–will start job from April 2020 
  • Salary: As per organisation policy 
  • Post Type: Full Time 
  • Contract Type: 3 months probationary period
• Position: Senior Participatory Action Researcher – will start job from April 2020
  • Salary: As per organisation policy 
  • Post Type: Full Time 
  • Contract Type: 3 months probationary period

Application Procedure:

Qualified and interested candidates having knowledge and experience working in AES sector are requested to send their latest CV, cover letter (why you are suitable for this post) including a passport size color photograph to the GPO Box 8975, EPC 1936, Kathmandu or email at vacancyepc1936@gmail.com. Potential applicants for the post of Documentation Officer (Only Male) and Senior Participatory Action Researcher (Only Female) are encouraged to send or submit by 7th February 2020.

Please click here to see and download TOR of Documentation officer and Senior Participatory Action Researcher or by following the link below;

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LX9n3SouuwCSx6oOxxLJUwalsE2Erb5t

Those applicants who are short-listed will be contacted for a further procedure. 

Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.  We welcome applications from a diverse range of people and actively encourage women and those from ethnic minorities or disadvantaged groups to apply. 

VoC reserves all rights to qualify/disqualify applications in any case; all applications will be treated with the highest confidentiality. Trying to influence the recruitment process at any stage of the process shall lead to automatic disqualification.

Note: VoC is committed to the safeguarding and protection of children in our work; we will provide employment offer based on satisfactory reference check.