Deputy Director

Hamro Palo invites applications for the following opportunity:

Background

Hamro Palo is a women-led, girls-focused nonprofit organization in Nepal working to advance gender equality, education, safety, and leadership opportunities for adolescent girls. As the organization expands its interventions across districts, it seeks to strengthen its organizational structure, leadership capacity, human resource systems, and staff sustainability. In 2026, Hamro Palo marked ten years as a registered organization, building on program work that began in 2012.

Over the next 12 months, Hamro Palo plans to strengthen its senior management structure, decentralize selected responsibilities, develop a second layer of leadership, prepare potential future leaders, and introduce more systematic approaches to staff performance, professional growth, well-being, and retention. Hamro Palo therefore seeks an experienced individual to join us as a Deputy Director and be part of the managerial leadership.

Position : Deputy Director

Position Information

Position Purpose

The Deputy Director will work closely with the Executive Director and Board to provide leadership across programs, operations, administration, fundraising, partnerships, and organizational development. The position will ensure that Hamro Palo’s strategies and decisions are translated into effective daily management, high-quality programs, accountable systems, and strong external relationships.

This is a senior leadership position intended to contribute to Hamro Palo’s long-term leadership continuity. The Deputy Director will gradually assume increased organizational responsibilities based on performance, readiness, and decisions of the Executive Director and Board.

Key Responsibilities

Organizational Leadership and Daily Management

• Support the Executive Director in translating Hamro Palo’s strategy and annual priorities into operational plans and results.
• Oversee day-to-day organizational operations and ensure effective coordination among program, finance, administration, MEL, communications, and district teams.
• Promote clear responsibilities, timely decision-making, internal accountability, and collaboration across the organization.
• Act on behalf of the Executive Director on agreed matters and during periods of absence.
• Support organizational change, decentralization, risk management, and leadership-continuity processes.

Program Leadership and Quality

• Provide strategic oversight to Hamro Palo’s programs and ensure that implementation remains girl-centered, gender-transformative, safe, and responsive to community realities.
• Guide program planning, implementation, monitoring, review, learning, adaptation, and responsible expansion.
• Support program managers and district teams to address implementation challenges and maintain consistent quality across locations.
• Ensure that safeguarding, inclusion, accountability, and learning are integrated throughout program design and delivery.
• Use evidence, participant feedback, and MEL findings to strengthen programs and inform management decisions.

Fundraising and Donor Engagement

• Work with the Executive Director and team to identify funding opportunities and strengthen resource-mobilization strategies.
• Contribute to concept notes, proposals, budgets, donor reports, presentations, and funding negotiations.
• Build and maintain professional relationships with donors, foundations, networks, and strategic partners.
• Support donor communication, compliance, grant performance, and timely reporting.
• Represent Hamro Palo in meetings and forums related to fundraising and partnerships.

Operations Administration and Financial Oversight

• Oversee the effective functioning of human resource, administration, procurement, logistics, and operational systems.
• Work closely with finance and administration staff to support budgeting, expenditure monitoring, grant compliance, internal controls, and organizational sustainability.
• Ensure that policies and procedures are consistently understood and implemented across central and district offices.
• Monitor operational risks and support timely, practical responses.
• Support staff planning, recruitment, supervision, performance management, professional development, retention, and well-being.

Government Partnerships and External Relations

• Strengthen relationships with federal, provincial, and local government representatives, schools, civil society organizations, networks, communities, and other partners.
• Represent Hamro Palo in external meetings, consultations, conferences, and coordination platforms.
• Communicate Hamro Palo’s mission, approaches, evidence, and priorities clearly and responsibly.
• Identify opportunities for collaboration, policy influence, learning, and responsible program expansion.

Team Leadership and Organizational Culture

• Provide supportive supervision, coaching, and guidance to managers and staff.
• Develop a strong second layer of leadership by delegating responsibilities and creating opportunities for staff growth.
• Promote a culture of trust, care, feminist leadership, accountability, inclusion, learning, and collaboration.
• Address coordination or performance concerns fairly, promptly, and respectfully.
• Model Hamro Palo’s values and comply with its safeguarding requirements and Code of Conduct.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• A master’s degree in management, development studies, social sciences, gender studies, nonprofit leadership, public administration, or a related field.
• At least ten years of relevant professional experience, including a minimum of three years in a senior management or organizational leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience overseeing programs, operations, administration, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong experience in fundraising, proposal development, donor engagement, grant management, and partnership building.
• Experience working with government bodies, civil society organizations, communities, and development partners in Nepal.
• Sound understanding of financial oversight, human resource management, organizational policies, compliance, risk management, and safeguarding.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams, manage competing priorities, solve problems, and make sound decisions.
• Strong written and spoken communication skills in Nepali and English.
• Commitment to gender equality, girls’ rights, feminist leadership, inclusion, and safeguarding.
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly to Hamro Palo’s project districts.

Personal Qualities and Long-Term Commitment

• Integrity, sound judgment, humility, and a collaborative leadership style.
• Ability to build trust and work respectfully with staff, communities, government representatives, donors, and partners.
• Readiness to take increasing responsibility and contribute to Hamro Palo’s long-term leadership continuity.
• A clear intention to remain based in Nepal for at least the next five years and an interest in contributing to Hamro Palo’s long-term leadership.
• Ability to work calmly and responsibly during periods of organizational change, uncertainty, or crisis.

Applicants should address their interest in a long-term leadership role and their anticipated availability in Nepal over the next five years in their cover letter.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit:

• A cover letter explaining their interest in the position and how their experience matches the role.
• An updated curriculum vitae.
• Contact details for two professional references.

Applications should be submitted by email to info@hamropalo.org.np no later 07 October 2026, 5:00 PM, with the subject line: Application for Deputy Director.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Telephone calls, office visits, and enquiries through social media will not be entertained.

Hamro Palo is an equal opportunity organization. We encourage applications from qualified professionals who share our commitment to the safety, dignity, rights and meaningful participation of adolescents.