JOB OPPORTUNITY
Women’s Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC) is a national level NGO working for women’s human rights and to ensure women empowerment through protection and promotion of human rights and social justice, focusing on campaigns against violence against women and women’s economic, social and cultural rights nation-wide. Our working districts with offices are spread over Morang, Sunsari, Udayapur, Siraha, Dhanusha, Dang, Kailali, Mahottari, Sarlahi, Rukum, and the Central Office is located in Lalitpur. WOREC is currently looking for candidates to fulfill the following positions:
Program Officer –Right to Mobility and Safe Labor Migration Program
Reports to: Senior Program Coordinator
Location: Kathmandu
Required No: One (1)
The Program Officer – Right to Mobility and Safe Labor Migration Program
Program Officer works in close coordination with the concerned Manager and Coordinators and WOREC’s networks to achieve the program’s goal and objectives. Program Officer (PO) is mainly responsible for training coordination, workshops, and interaction program planning, implementing, monitoring, reporting, documenting, stakeholder communications, publication, and coordination with central office and communities. PO will bring good knowledge on training coordination, understanding of development sector, rights-based approach, and reflect them in the program.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Responsible for overseeing right to mobility program, including safe migration, decent work, and anti-trafficking programs. Support and supervise the district program officers of safe migration to implement the program.
- Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual program implementation plans related to safe migration, labor rights, and decent work.
- Ensure that all planned activities are being implemented effectively, documented properly, and reported timely by field officers, counselors, and supervisors and that the reports are prepared timely.
- Develop new project concept notes and project proposals under the supervision of ED.
- Lead the team and provide technical inputs for the Safe Migration and Anti Trafficking Program.
- Plan, design, and conduct staff capacity building programs and provide technical support to all community-based organizations, counseling centers, and respective staff when and where they need.
- Organize training, advocacy campaigns, workshop conferences/seminars, and interaction programs in coordination with different national and international partners.
- Coordinate and support central office staff, help to establish organizational monitoring and evaluation system; provide support to develop, orient, and apply different monitoring forms/formats, tools, and use checklist for program/project monitoring.
- Develop and implement the campaign from women’s socioeconomic and cultural rights perspective, develop strategies and activities along with the team members and take the lead to implement, manage and monitor them.
- Review, prepare and submit periodic and final reports ensuring quality timelines and complying with given format and standards partner/donor organizations quarterly, half-yearly, and annually.
- Facilitate and maintain proper documentation of cases, success stories, initiatives/works of the organization, including periodic and annual reports and yearbook; and ensure that all project information is appropriately documented and secured.
- Maintains strong coordination and collaboration with NGOs/ INGO’s and government stakeholders and national, regional, and international networks and intergovernmental organizations working on migration issues.
- Referent organization in local national and international forums related to human rights, Human Trafficking, migrant workers and their Rights, and Women’s Rights.
Qualification and Experience
The candidate should have a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Rural Development, Law, or related discipline with good knowledge on training coordination, network building, understanding of development sector, rights-based approach, and three years working experience in handling projects and programs. The candidate should have knowledge of the local and regional context of human rights, safe labor migration policies, decent work and labor rights, and the ability to write and communicate effectively in both Nepali and English languages.
Applying Procedures
Qualified candidates may send a cover letter detailing their experience and motivation for the current position with an updated CV to vacancy@worecnepal.org by 10th August 2021. The position will be fulfilled on a rolling basis, so candidates are encouraged to apply early.
The application without a cover letter and CV will not be considered for the position.
Only the shortlisted candidates will be called for a written test and interview. No telephone calls will be entertained.
WOREC Nepal encourages women and candidates from Dalit/Janjati and sexual minorities to apply.
