Project Coordinator

Shanti Jana Adarsha Sewa Kendra (SJASK)

Dhulikhel, Kavrepalanchok, Bagmati Province, Nepal

Background

Shanti Jana Adarsha Sewa Kendra (SJASK), established in 1992 AD, is a not-for-profit making development NGO of Kavrepalanchok district. Since its inception, it has been working in diverse development fields like drinking water & sanitation, forestry and environment, livelihood, education, community infrastructure, agriculture, disaster risk reduction, management and response, humanitarian support, child rights and labour rights, etc. SJASK has implemented dozens of development projects and schemes in partnership with government and semi-governmental agencies, GoN's programs, UN agencies, and other I/NGOs. It has been worked almost all over the district through the different projects and different times, and also worked in other districts- Ramechhap, Sindhuli, and Baitadi. It has successfully completed reconstruction and livelihood recovery projects in Kavre particularly earthquake resilient permanent housings and community infrastructure, WASH, and livelihood supports. Currently, SJASK is also implementing COVID-19 response projects and community health projects in Kavre.

With aiming of no-left behind in housing-reconstruction and community resilience of the most vulnerable households, an upcoming project namely "Kavre Reconstruction and Resilience Project -KRRP" in the partnership of CRS Nepal will be implemented in 3 palikas - Panauti, Roshi and Temal of Kavre district. This project mainly focuses on providing support to complete permanent housing re/construction for the most needy vulnerable households and re/construction of drinking water supply schemes. For this upcoming project, SJASK announces the following vacancies. Qualified, experienced, competent and energetic interested Nepalese citizens can apply for these positions:

Project Coordinator

Basic Job Information:

Job Specification:

Other Specification:

• Master's degree in Development, project management, social sciences or other subjects related to the project management
• Minimum 3 years’ experience as a project coordinator in post-earthquake reconstruction projects particularly private housing construction and community infrastructure are/construction  projects

Professional skills required:

• Coordination, Communication, and networking
• Leadership and team-building and mobilization
• Reconstruction project management
• Project Management
• Planning, monitoring and donor reporting
• GESI and conflict sensitive and responsive

Other Specializations:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office package and other computer skills
• Excellent inter-personal, networking, communication, and leadership skills
• Ability to motivate people, convince stakeholders and effective managerial skills

Job Description

Overall Responsibilities:

• Overall management and effective implementation of the project
• Coordination within the project team, organization and with representatives of the partner organization and different level's stakeholders
• Supervise, support, mentor and mobilize project team
• Ensure project results – target timely and with quality
• Ensure quality, results and financial and operations related compliance and proper utilization of budget, reporting to the organization and CRS Nepal.

Major Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead overall planning of the project for whole period, quarterly and monthly, and based on that staffs' monthly individual planning that should also be inter-related and complementary to each other.
• Lead monthly planning and review meeting, and collecting project's progress and staffs' individual progress and time-sheet (plan vs progress).
• Lead, ensure and track the target vs achievement/progress monthly, quarterly and staffs' individual level.
• Provide guidance and support to the technical staffs for selection of impactful WASH schemes for the most needy communities.
• Ensure budget allocation from each user's committee for training/orientation on post-construction maintenance/ repairing of the schemes for respective users' groups.
• Ensure effective involvement and supports of Senior Engineer (Technical Lead), Civil Engineers, Sub-Engineers and Social Mobilizers in the entire planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting field level activities.
• Ensure individual project team's monthly and quarterly planning with targets and regular follow up and support to meet the targets.
• Oversee the financial management and effective and efficient utilization of the budget and resources
• Match the monthly program target and budget plan.
• Ensure effective implementation of the project activities
• Identify and collect relevant issues and take initiatives for timely address and response.
• Frequent field visit and ensure presence of field staffs in the assigned field - on-duty  and result-oriented performance
• Frequent monitoring, quality assurance, and progress reporting
• Prepare inception report, monthly report, mid-term (quarterly) and final report in the given format/standards and requirements of CRS Nepal.
• Mentor, supervise and support the project team members and track their progress of targets and performance.
• Coordination within team, inter-projects coordination, coordination with different level's stakeholders and elected representatives of the respective palikas.
• Represent SJASK and project team in coordination meetings and programs of like-minded organizations, relevant line agencies, and stakeholders.
• Represent or coordinate in the district or other level if needed. 

Applying Procedure

Apply latest by 20th August 2020 (before 17:00, local time) with your detailed updated CV, copies of citizenship, academic, experience and relevant training certificates and PP size photo via e-mail to krrp.kavre@gmail.com or hard copy in the SJASK's Office (Admin Section), located at Dhulikhel-6, Dhulikhel, Mukti-Marga, Kavre.

Note: Phone calls are not entertained except location information. Only experienced candidates can apply for the position. Any kind of influence is unaccepted and that leads to disqualify the candidacy in any step of the recruitment process.