Program Coordinator | RDC | ngo jobs 2023

Program Coordinator | RDC | ngo jobs 2023: Rural Development Centre (RDC) Nepal is a non-political and non-profitable organization established in June 2002 with its head office in Rautahat District of Nepal. Since then, RDC is heavily engaged in humanitarian assistance, community development, conservation of natural resources, and environmental protection mainly in the Terai region of Nepal through the dozens of humanitarian and long-term development projects reaching out to the children, adolescent, youth, women, landless, urban poor, and people living with disabilities, HIV & AIDS, conflict and disaster survivors from the poor families of historically marginalized Dalits, Muslims, Madheshi and Indigenous communities and other underprivileged groups.

The proposed project is planned to implement at Chandrapur municipality of Rautahat district by RDC Nepal with an objective to enhance the resilience capacities of communities who are dependent on agriculture and forestry under the changing climate condition through climate advocacy and actions.

The project has envisioned to improve the awareness of local communities on climate change so as to assist them to take appropriate decisions with respect to their life, livelihoods and society, improve knowledge and access of communities to adopt climate smart agriculture technologies and nature-based solutions for diversifying livelihoods and improving incomes, to advocate and influence the local governments to have a legal instrument and fund to address local issues on climate change adaptation and disaster management.

1. Job Title: Project Coordinator

Number of Position: 1
Position Status: Full-time Staff
Duty Station: Rautahat district (Project area of Chandrapur Municipality)
Report to: Executive Director
General Position Summary

The Project Coordinator (Agriculture academic background) will be working as a full-time employee representing RDC Nepal, who will be stationed at Chandrapur office, Rautahatwith frequent travel to working communities. S/he will be overall responsible for the project activities planning, implementation along with technical inputs as necessity at field level. S/he will also be also responsible for project progress tracking, monitoring, reporting and quality assurance of the project deliverables. S/he is responsible for capacity building,and provide technical backstopping to project staffs, coordinate and strengthen relationship with wider project stakeholders including CSOs, local government and funding agency.

Major Roles and responsibilities for Program Coordinator | RDC | ngo jobs 2023

Planning and Coordination

Represent the organization and take lead role for the projectfor effective planning, implementation and monitoring the qualityof project activities at field level.
Prepare Detail Implementation Plan (DIP) and Detail Implementation Guidelines (DIG) of the project activities in consultation withTechnical Coordinator and Executive Director.
Develop annual procurement plans, standard operating procedures, and checklists as relevant.
Prepare periodic/quarterly plan in consultation with projectteam and facilitate its timely and effective implementation in compliance with planning and expected result.
Ensure accurate fund allocation and utilization on monthly basis and take corrective measures by revisiting plans and communicating timely with senior management team.
Review the project’s budget verses achievements and adopt corrective measures to ensure the deliverables in line with budget utilization and target achievement.
Coordinate, collaborate and strengthen relationship with project relevant stakeholders including government office and their representatives, like minded organizations and CSOs.

Programme Quality

Supervise and provide guidance to field level staffs in the planning, implementation, and monitoring of project activities and project plan as per the given guidelines and planning.
Ensure that the projects have minimum quality standards in place and the cross-cutting themes of GESI, Governance, safeguarding are exclusively followed at all levels.
Ensure and oversee the implementation of project’s accountability and feedback mechanism at community level.
Ensure that all action plans developed after project reviews, monitoring visits, evaluations and assessments are followed up and completed on time.
Identify strengths and improvement areas of staff members for quality delivery of the projects and comes up with plans to improve such gaps via coaching, mentoring, on the spot technical support etc.
Ensure proper monitoring and evaluation systems are in place, demonstrate project impact and to ensure that programmatic lessons are used to generate a knowledge base for improved project practice and learning.

Programme Operations & Management

Ensure project adherence to RDC Nepal and donor compliance requirements related with project operation,finance, and other support functions (e.g., procurement, transport, inventory etc.).
Ensure and closely monitor the project’s financial position and ensure the best use of available resources. This includes overseeing the development and review of the project annual budget, review of financial transactions and reports, and review and follow-up on internal and external audit findings/recommendations.
Ensure project operations are conducted in accordance with all statutory requirements.
Ensure timely project execution, monitor progress, analyse the expenses in relation with activity delivery and submit on monthly and quarterly basis.

Innovation and scaleup.

Identify best practices, problems and issues around program implementation and work toward finding solutions for improvements, documentation, and dissemination in consultation with relevant departments.
Coordinate with local government, agriculture cooperatives and market holders to promote agriculture value chain products of the marginalised beneficiaries.
Engage with line agencies for influencing future scale up, including advocacy for climate smart agriculture, income generation, food security and resiliency related policy and procedures at local level/provincial level.
Contribute towards developing and implementation of new ideas/innovations and its documentation of processes and its results, based on learning.
Ensure effective monitoring and evaluations are carried out for deriving lessons learned, best practices and that monitoring is effective in terms of deriving quick analysis of progresses for immediate corrective actions and measurement of results.

Capacity Building

Support for the capacity building of project staffs and relevant stakeholders on need base and under the scope of project
Support for the capacity building oflocal farmer groups on climate smart agriculture technology adoption, innovative agriculture technology demonstration and other interventions in relation with climate change adaptation.

Documentation & Reporting

Ensure timely preparation of comprehensive and analytical reports preparation and submission to organization and funding agency in line with agreed reporting compliance.
Coordinate with field level staffs to ensure effective monitoring, evaluation and documentation of program activities and best practices.
Develop a sharing and learning culture within organization for promoting best practices from related programs to each other programs communities of district project areas.
Ensure project documentation including but not limited to best practices, case studies and/or success stories, quality photographs, beneficiaries database maintenance etc.

Occasional Significant Duties

Work as a member of Humanitarian Response Team in case if require for Emergency preparedness and response.
Comply with RDC Nepal policies and practice with respect to code of conduct and other relevant policies and procedures.
Any other tasks assigned by the organization and immediate supervisor.

Academic qualification and experience

Bachelor’s in agriculture with 3 years of field experience in planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting of agriculture related livelihood project or Master’s degree on Agriculture with project relevant experience is preferred.

Required skills and competencies:

Experience on managerial role including strategic work planning processes, team building, and financial management.
Familiarity with Project Cycle Management, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
Knowledge on climate smart agriculture technology, high value and nutritious crops production, seed bank, innovative and low-cost agriculture technologies etc.
Experience on value chain development, small agro-enterprise, and market system/ mechanism development
Understanding and experience in renewable energy technologies (agro-based) is desirable (will add value)
Experience in working with entrepreneurs, farmers group, cooperatives, and CBOs.
Strong analytic and experience in writing high quality reports.
Team player with strong interpersonal, communication, negotiation, facilitation, and representation skills
Fluency in both (written and oral) Nepali and English language and specific local language would be added value
Candidates with a valid motorbike/scooter driving license are preferred.

Desirables:

Organized and able to manage own time guidance and direction from immediate supervisor.
Commitment to overall organization’s aims and beliefs, including strong commitment to gender, elderly, disables diversity issues, equal opportunities, and capacity building.
Strong interpersonal and self-awareness skills
Strong proficiency in Local and Nepali language
Understanding of database management skills

Remuneration and Benefit Package Program Coordinator | RDC | ngo jobs 2023

As per the organization norms commensurate with the project agreement

RDC Office Chandrapur-4, Rautahat (with a frequent field visit to project Municipal/working site)

Interested candidates who meet these criteria should apply to [email protected] and submit their (1) Motivation Letter, (2) Updated CV including at least recent two references and (3) a scanned copy of Nepali Citizenship before 2nd February 2023 (05:00 PM).

Note: Women, Marginalized and people with Disability are highly encouraged to apply for the position. Only the short-listed candidates will be called for written test and an interview.

No telephone calls will be entertained. RDC Nepal reserves the right to reject any or all applications without assigning any reasons.All of the above positions are contingent on the signing with the donor.

Program Coordinator | RDC | ngo jobs 2023

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