Nepali National Consultant - Programme Officer

IFRC BRC opened a position of Nepali National Consultant for Programme to support in designing and implementing programmatic tools, PMER tools, and systems, and supporting capacity building of the staff on the program delivery.  

Interested candidates should submit their application material (as mentioned in ToR) by Monday, 19 May 2025, to the following e-mail: aliza.baidya@ifrc.org

Job Description

Background

Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS) came into begin in 1963. It was recognized by the ICRC in 1964 and affiliated to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in the same year. NRCS has, over the years, grown to be the largest humanitarian organization in Nepal, with its network of District Chapters (DCs) extended in each of the 77 districts and 7 provinces of the country. District Chapters receive organizational support from more than 1400 Sub-Chapters and Co-operation Committees under them. A significant portion of its activities are also borne by students and youth volunteers of Nepal Junior and Youth Red Cross Circles organized at schools, campuses and communities.

The Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS), in collaboration with the British Red Cross Society and Jersey Overseas Aid (JoA), has been implementing multiple resilience-focused initiatives since 2024. These include the Empowering Communities for Livelihoods, and Biodiversity (ECOLAB) project, Climate Nature-based Solutions (NbS) with Resilient Livelihoods in Nepal, and the Heat Action Programme in five municipalities of Kailali (Dhangadi Sub Metro, Churay Rural Municipality, Godawari Municipality, Bhajani Municipality and Tikapur Municipality). These programs are designed to strengthen community resilience, promote sustainable livelihoods, and enhance climate adaptation efforts in Nepal.

Building upon the achievements of the five-year Strengthening Urban Resilience and Engagement (SURE) programme previously implemented in Kailali, these initiatives aim to further integrate climate adaptation strategies, disaster risk reduction, and sustainable livelihood approaches to ensure long-term community resilience and well-being.

Job Purpose 

This role will act as the ECOLAB, Climate NbS with Resilient Livelihood in Nepal and Heat Action  program leading, carrying out all the initiatives for planning, monitoring, evaluation, reporting and learning along with providing technical support in DRR initiatives, climate change and adaptation activities of the program in coordination with the ward focal points, programme officers, and district programme coordinator.

This will include designing and implementing programmatic tools, PMER tools and systems and supporting on capacity building of the staff on the importance of program delivery of this through periodic field visits to the programme areas. This role will lead in embedding DRR, CCA and PMER activities within the program, scheduled partners reports as well as NRCS internal reports/updates like committee's reports, DM annual reports and NRCS annual reports etc. of the program. This person will work closely with BRC PMER team to ensure that donor requirements are met in terms of PMER. In addition, key to this role will be information management within the program along with working with internal and external learning partners to ensure on-going learning efforts.

Job Duties and Responsibilities 

Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting (70%)

• Develop and Update PMER Framework and plan as per the program.
• Establish and adapt PMER systems and tools for use at HQ and district level.
• Provide support to the programme team in the development of weekly/monthly/quarterly plans of action and prepare consolidated plans for HQ and manage updates.
• Develop planning and monitoring checklist and questionnaires.
• Prepare progress reports of the programmes against the schedule and as per the program agreement
• Establish documentation system to ensure documents are well managed and are easily available and accessible.
• Develop PMER templates and ensure teams are trained in the use of these tools.
• Engage in quarterly monitoring visits in the program implementing areas and update the issue tracker. 
• Prepare reports for each of the monitoring and evaluation visits of the program, reflecting the achievements of the program activities, challenges faced and gaps in implementation in the reports.  
• Coordinate quarterly and annual review and planning meetings.
• Supervise and guide district level program team members in the areas of planning, monitoring, evaluation and Reporting.
• Work closely with the DPC and technical coordinator at headquarter and district level for gathering and collecting learning from the different programme level and properly documenting them.
• Contribute on developing and implementing the tools to capture the learning and support the learning partner on documenting the learning.
• In close consultation with Program Manager coordinate monitoring, evaluation and reporting issues of the programme and DM Department (in case of need). 
• Provide timely feedback/suggestions to programme staff and communities during monitoring visits.
• Be actively engaged with social mobilisers and stakeholders of the programmes and work as focal person for the purpose like documentation of case studies, documentation of success/ failure cases, collection of learnings, photography and videography. 
• Support any external research and evaluation team that are involved in program.
• Manage all activities related with planning, monitoring, and evaluation and reporting as per prevailing NRCS rules and regulations. 

Program Support (30%)

• Provide technical guidance to the field staff in implementing DRR/M and Climate Change initiatives in field. 
• Ensure the effective and timely implementation of planned activities at the district program level. 
• Identify gaps in capacity of programme staff and explore opportunities to build the capacity of staff including facilitation of regular training sessions and mentoring of district level staff.
• Conduct risk analysis of the activities to be performed in the field.
• Regularly update and share information to program staff. 
• Coordinate and organise any visits from PSC, senior management, partners or donors.
• Coordinate linkages within internal and external stakeholders to strengthen program deliverables.

Duties Applicable to all Staff

• Undertake other official tasks as assigned by the Programme Manager.
• Identify capacity gaps in teams and explore the possibilities to meet those gaps in coordination with Program manager.
• Identify the key factors impacting on program delivery, such as, operational, systems, human resources or external environment etc. prioritise them and inform the program management team.

Position Requirements

Application procedures

The interested individual consultant should submit their expression of interest to the following email: aliza.baidya@ifrc.org, by 19 May 2025.

Applicant must submit the following documents:

1. Curriculum Vitae (CV), including at least three referees’ details

2. Cover letter summarizing your experience as mentioned above. 

3. Cost for a per-month assignment and a total 6-month assignment (the cost proposal should include all applicable taxes)

*Female, any form of PWDs and Minorities are encourages to apply