Work station: Kathmandu district with frequent travel to projects districts
Duration: 2.5 years 

Job Summary : 

The overall responsibility of the GBV Manager will be to spearhead the strategic leadership and provide technical guidance from the gender and social inclusion perspectives in and across the program components activities ensuring that gender and social inclusion is mainstreamed into programs and policies. S/he will develop, adapt and apply strategies, guidelines and tools to ensure that gender equity and diversity issues are appropriately analyzed, identified and addressed in program and policies, providing strategic support to program team in building and strengthening their capacity. The GBV Manager will closely work with program component coordinators and M&E specialist for the development of gender and social inclusion responsive monitoring systems and mechanisms. S/he will also coordinate and collaborate with NDWA’s Gender focal person(s) to maintain synergy in approaches and policy discourse at different levels in regard to gender and social Inclusion from the perspectives of women and girls with disabilities.    

Major Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Provide strategic leadership to ensure strong coordination with consortium partners for smooth planning and implementation of project activities
• Mainstreaming gender and social inclusion into program and organization ensuring social equity and diversity including development/adaptation/application of tools for mainstreaming gender and social inclusion 
• Work closely with NDWA board, its network and team members
• Communicate and coordinate with all stakeholders for delivery of project outcomes, outputs and activities ensuring project management standards
• Prepare annual workplan, budget, presentations and coordinate with admin/finance and logistic teams for smooth running of program
• To ensure all funding criteria are met, and that programme and legal reports, audits and registrations are submitted in a professional and timely manner
• Strategic support to program team and other stakeholders in gender and social inclusion mainstreaming initiatives 
• Lead in capacity building of program team, beneficiaries and partners in gender and social inclusion  
• Visit to project districts for monitoring, evaluation and reporting
• Consistency of GESI engagement across the components

Working conditions:

The position requires spending 40% of her/his time in the field for program implementation and monitoring.  

Job Competencies:

Required qualifications:

• Masters degree in social science, women studies, Gender Studies or other relevant subject with significant working experiences of more than 7 years in applying gender analysis and in-depth knowledge of gender and social inclusion issues from disability perspectives

Required Skills:

• Gender sensitive, responsive and experience in gender and inclusion mainstreaming from the perspective of women/girls with disabilities
• Proven ability to think analytically and critically and able to translate ideas into action
• Experience in conducting in-depth gender-based research and analysis, including community led-participatory assessment/analysis
• Strong documentation and reporting skills
• Strong leadership and ability to facilitate change in the organisation
• Demonstrated ability to work with government institutions to design and implement gender and social inclusion strategies and action plans
• Excellent skills in capacity strengthening of organization and individual in GBV issues
• Good experience in facilitating training for diverse target groups
• Excellent interpersonal skills, facilitation, communication, negotiation and networking
• Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment
• Ability to work in time pressure
• Excellent communication and writing skills in English and Nepali languages
• Excellent computer skills (MS Word, WordPerfect, Excel, PowerPoint)  

Note: 

• Priority will give to those with prior experience on disability issues with special focused on Women & Women with Disability (in case of disability, candidate must submit disability identity card)
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
• Short listed candidates will be contacted for an assessment process
• No Telephone calls or personal inquiries will be entertained

Applying Procedure : 

Interested candidates are requested to submit their application along with a covering letter, recent bio-data, a passport size photo and a copy citizenship by 29th November, 2019 to the following address.

Contact details:
Nepal Disabled Women Association (NDWA)
e-mail: [email protected]
Kalopulmarg, Kalopul, Kathmandu

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