Project Coordinator/Provincial Cluster Coordinator /Information Management Support (IMS) Officer/Learning Continuity Campaign (LCC) Coordinator

Vacancy Announcement

(First date of publication: 2079/02/04-18th May 2022) 

Social Awareness Centre (SAC) Nepal is a NGO dedicated to upholding the rights of marginalized and excluded communities through its interventions on Health, Education, Livelihood, Protection and Disaster Management, and Climate Change including Organizational Development. It works with a vision for a capable and prosperous society for the quality of life of women, children, and adolescents.

Project Summary

Due to geographic and other vulnerabilities, each year Nepal faces substantial disturbance and damage in the education sector due to diverse kinds of hazards impacting children’s rights to access to education and continuation of quality learning achievements. Nepal continues to face frequent disasters such as floods, landslides, fires, earthquakes, and disease outbreaks like cholera, dengue, and now, the COVID-19. The education sector is vulnerable to natural disasters, as they can result in damage or destruction of learning facilities and materials, closures and the prolonged disruption of education, increased barriers to education, limited access to schooling, and impact on the quality of education. The COVID-19 pandemic-led school closures have posed challenges in children’s learning continuity. The COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of all about 35,000 schools in Nepal, for 8 months which impacted the learning loss of 8.3 million children in the first wave.                                                    

In aligning with the federal structure, the Constitution of Nepal (2015) has devolved the local government's power and authority related to basic and secondary school education. The overall management of basic and secondary education is with the local governments, including emergency preparedness and response. In this light, European Union and UNICEF have collaborated to support the government for COVID19 education response initiatives, focusing on cluster capacity strengthening to equip education stakeholders responsible for preparedness and response to combat all kinds of emergencies to enhance the resilience of school education.                                                

Implementation of Minimum Package of the Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) is the priority agenda of government and development partners in Nepal. EU and UNICEF have collaborated to support the government for Education cluster strengthening initiatives that also address the education covid responses.  This support will be extended through TA support.  To support these initiatives UNICEF has established partnerships with the Mercy Corps and NSET to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Education and Science (MoEST) and Centre for Education Human Resource Development (CEHRD) at federal, provincial, and local levels. These partnerships envision the capacity to strengthen federal and cluster partners of all seven provinces, update and develop the Cluster corresponding guidance, tools, and training packages and disseminate it to all three tiers of the governments and clusters partners. The developed guidance, tools, and techniques will be initially disseminated to 80 LGs in Madesh, Karnali, and Sudur Pashchim provinces and eventually disseminate to all the local governments. Mercy Corps will be overseeing the development of the guidance, tools and techniques in 30LGs in Karnali and Sudurpaschim province. Strong and robust cluster mechanism aligning with the national disaster laws and guidelines contribute to reducing further learning loss due to any disturbance, natural hazard, and pandemics. 

SAC Nepal is going to implement a potential project "Supporting the response to the COVID-19 crisis in the education sector: Strengthening Education Clusters at Federal, Provincial and Local Governments" in 18 rural/urban municipalities of 6 districts of Karnali Province. The goal of the project is "To reduce disparities in educational outcomes for children in basic and secondary education during the COVID-19 response/ early recovery and school reopening in the Nepal education sector."

Thus, SAC invites applications from qualified, professional interested Nepali candidates for the following full-time positions.

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Position: Project Coordinator (PC)

Required No.: 1 (One) 

Appointment Type: Full Time (Short term with the possibility of extension

Duty Station: Central Office, Birendranagar, Surkhet (With frequently field visits in the project area) 

Preferred Qualifications and Experience: The PC of this project is required to have a master’s degree preferred in management, sociology, education, and any discipline with 3-year work experience or a bachelor’s degree with at least five years of work experience in project management with DRR/education. The project focuses to empower stakeholders in the education sector during crisis management. S/he is required to have sound knowledge and skills in project management, reporting, budget management, team mobilization, coordination and collaboration with the local and provincial government, and monitoring. S/he must have Fluency in Nepali and English both in written and spoken. S/he is expected to maintain effective documentation and reporting both in Nepali and English. S/he has excellent computer skills MS- Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Email Internet, and data analysis. S/he should be able to manage the human resource and have effective coordination skills across the various stakeholders at the local and provincial levels. S/he should be a highly motivated person to field visit. Having two wheeler’s licenses will be given priority. 

Key Responsibilities: The position will be responsible for the overall management, planning, budgeting,  implementation, monitoring, and reporting of the project. Responsible for Close coordination with the partner organisation for technical support and project management for effective implementation of the project. Work in close collaboration with Karnali provincial office, respective rural/municipalities and other related stakeholders for the effective and timely implementation of the project. Organize and facilitate meetings, training and orientation. Review the financial report and ensure expenses are booked under the right codes. Prepare annual budget and forecast budget and submit on time. Ensure budget versus expenditure and plan for under achievement. Prepare event, monthly, monitoring, periodic, and donor report in English. Prepare case stories, success stories and documentation of best practices in English. Ensure programs have minimum quality benchmarks/standards in place. Conduct monitoring project sites and ensure the quality of work. Provide the spot coaching and mentoring to staff. Build capacity of staff. Manage donor visits including internal team visits. Coordinate with other subordinate staff under this project as well as the organization and other stakeholders for timely and effective implementation of project intervention. Overall project management; ensure the effective implementation and documentation and reporting and human resources under the project. 

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Position: Provincial Cluster Coordinator (PCC) 

Required No.: 1 (One) 

Appointment Type: Full Time (Short term with possibility to extension)

Duty Station: Province concern Ministry (Karnali Province)   

Preferred Qualifications and Experience: Bachelors' Degree in Humanities/Social Science with Minimum 5-years’ experience in education in emergencies & Disaster preparedness or similar field. Professional working proficiency in both Nepali and English language in speaking, reading, and writing. Familiar with computer software, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Outlook. Excellent communication, coordination, and documentation skills. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Facilitate lead and co-leads to prioritize cluster meetings focusing on emergency preparedness and response. Prepare technical inputs to moderate this discussion in the cluster meeting.
• Develop/revisit cluster strategies, priorities adopting a consultative process.
• Facilitate the consultative process to update the Provincial contingency plan, monsoon response and preparedness plan, winterization plan, and other guidance documents in coordination with leads, co-leads, and cluster and inter-cluster members, considering all hazards and pandemics.
• Ensure that education preparedness and response initiatives are in line with existing policy guidance, technical standards, and relevant Government policies.
• Develop an annual CP revision process clearly outlining roles and responsibilities of lead, co-lead, cluster members, cluster secretariate, and if necessary, an expert. Prepare an inventory of various provincial and sectoral emergency plans with relevant guidance notes on when how they will up updated/reported.
• Provide technical support to co-leads to develop participatory humanitarian emergency preparedness plans in consultation with cluster members.
• Engage with the cluster partners to agree on common and specific actions from the federal cluster to the provincial and local clusters.
• Support TWGs lead and co-leads to prepare their work plan and its implementation.
• Facilitate forming and capacitating the TWG at the provincial levels.
• Facilitate cluster strengthening initiatives supported by the Federal Education Cluster. Liaise with implementing partners and local clusters, taking proactive and coordinated action for timely implementation. 
• Adopt a global education cluster Education in Emergency (EiE) training package to orient provincial lead members on the fundamental humanitarian principles and minimum standards of EIE.
• Provide technical backstopping in capacity-building training for provincial, and local level cluster members. 
• Provide support to leadership in the coordination of Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) Minimum Package implementation.
• Mapping of sector resource mobilization for EiE. 
• Coordinate with the EMIS section to discuss and support the compilation of EiE information and prepare a possible action within the Sector and other information derived from the alternative mechanism.
• Facilitate a strategic discussion between LEDPG and cluster on complement/supplement actions during emergencies.
• Prepare an analytical overview including cluster gaps, overlaps, and coverages of partner's intervention by analysing available data and information and sharing it with cluster members. 
• Facilitate inter-cluster/sector coordination and technical meetings to pre-identified interventions required to support education response with SOPs.
• Contribute to clear, and effective communication between the local, provincial, and federal level Education cluster to strengthen reporting mechanism, need assessment, and data collection.
• Prepare monthly updates on cluster strategic interventions, their challenges, and recommendations with lead, co-leads, and cluster members.
• Contribute to clear and effective communication between the local, provincial, and federal level Education cluster to strengthen reporting mechanism, need assessment, and data collection.
• Perform other duties as assigned

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Position: Information Management Support (IMS) Officer 

Required No.: 1 (One) 

Appointment Type: Full Time (Short term with possibility of extension)

Duty Station: Province concern Ministry (Karnali Province) 

Preferred Qualifications and Experience: Bachelor's degree in information technology/Computer Science/Social Science with minimum 3 -years' experience in data management or similar field. Nepali and English language in speaking, reading, writing and typing are required. Familiar with computer software: Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook. Data storage and handling of program data in Excel, SPSS is desirable as well as excellent documentation and information management skills.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Work closely with provincial cluster coordinator and support to develop monitoring tools for provincial and local level coordination and maintain training database of the province and local educational clusters.
• Develop tools/templates and maintain a disaggregated database of attendance of coordination meetings/workshops, meeting minutes and establish a system of reporting in cluster structure. 
• Take the lead to establish provincial educational portal in coordination with federal educational cluster.
• Support expertise to analyse provincial and local level data (learning loss) to support ERO and CEHRD for comprehensive assessment of learning loss. 
• Maintain database of activities such as psychosocial support, children received telephone-based support, parenting education and stock piling of self-learning materials of provinces disaggregated by gender, sex and vulnerability wherever applicable.
• Analyse EMIS and contingency plan data to identify children at risk and support LGs to include such children in the Welcome to school campaign and maintain capacity development database at provincial level on such targeted interventions. 
• Strengthen data and information management (IM) within the provincial education cluster at all levels. This involves collecting data during an emergency (as per need), regular monitoring of school status within the province, maintenance of the established system for tracking data on district and local level clusters
• Work closely with DRR Section Information management officer and UNCT Cluster Information Management officer and other relevant cluster IMOs (especially WASH, Protection) to maintain, update and verify data and information in the 4 W (Who, What, Where, for Whom) and producing regular 3W analysis products (including maps).
• Training partners and government officials on Information Management tools and processe.
• Work with the provincial and local education departments and sections to support and strengthen the EMIS system about emergency preparedness and response. 
• Contribute on information management on COVID 19 related preparedness and response actions. 
• Provide technical support to the Local level education cluster on strengthen data and information management (IM). 
• Perform other duties as assigned

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Position: Learning Continuity Campaign (LCC) Coordinator

Required No.: 1 (One) 

Appointment Type: Full Time (Short term with possibility to extension)

Duty Station: Central office, Birendranagar, Surkht    

Preferred Qualifications and Experience: Bachelors' Degree in Humanities/Social Science or in similar field with minimum 5-years' experience in education in emergencies & Disaster preparedness or similar field. Nepali and English language in speaking, reading, writing and typing are required. Familiar with computer software: Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook. Excellent communication, coordination, and documentation skill

key Responsibilities: 

• Support on developing an implementation plan for the reading campaign agreed on activities.
• Work closely with the field office team to collate information about target schools where the campaign will be implemented.
• Support the project team in selecting suitable materials for the campaign. 
• Support the education team in the procurement of reading resources. 
• Ensure the implement the planned activities in close coordination with project staffs. 
• Monitor activities as part of the campaign and document evidence at regular intervals. 
• Maintain an efficient and time-bound database of information and provide required data analysis against set targets. 
• Prepare progress updates from the project staff, review and share to the reporting channel. 
• Coordinate with government authorities at provincial and local levels for effective implementation of selected activities under the learning continuity campaign.
• Liaises with government partner and stakeholders to implement activities related to the reading campaign. 
• Coordinate with other institutions and stakeholders working for the reading campaign. 
• Work closely with teachers and headteachers from selected schools to implement activities as part of the campaign, including the effective distribution of the reading materials. 
• Coordinate and cooperate with different level government authority and development agencies to wider of learning continuity campaign.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Interested candidates are encouraged to apply with their current CV with at least 2 reference and application letter with other related documents (Citizenship, educational related documents, experience related documents and other) to the email address sacnepalskt@gmail.com addressing to SAC Nepal or submit the hard copy to SAC Nepal Head Office Birendranagar, Surkhet within 2079/02/10 (24th May 2022) office hour. Contact: +977-083 521282 

Please indicate the position title while applying for on the subject of your application. Preference will be given to the local candidates. Candidate from disadvantage group and women are encouraged to apply.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. All rights reserved with organization for this employee recruitment. 

Contact Details

Social Awareness Center (SAC) Nepal

Birendranagar-12, Surkhet

Phone: 083 521282 

Email: sacnepalskt@gmail.com