Primary purpose of the position:

The purpose of this position is to support local government in the Karnali Province and its Local Education Units (LEU), in building their capacities in planning and budgeting educational services, with the aim that the Local Education Units could better respond to the needs in their municipalities. The positions are based in the Karnali province. 

The Local Coordinator reports to CTA via the Provincial Coordinator

Areas of responsibility

Responsibilities 

• Prepare an analysis of capacity need and a work plan based on the major needs identified.
• Contribute into project annual detail planning process
•  Carryout agreed activities identified in annual plan.
• Provide on-the-job capacity building and support to local units. 
• Engage in local education plan and school improvement plan development and implmentation
• Organize practical-oriented teacher training, workshops and in-house seminars as per requests from LEUs. 
• Prepare training materials relevant to education services. 
• Conduct programmatic activities within approved programmatic budget and ensure activities and budgets are carried out as planned
• Identify variances between actual and budgeted financial results during each reporting period. 
• Ensure program activities and budget for the project are in compliance with legal regulations. 
• Support to enhance capacity of participating local government and schools in inclusive education planning and budgeting 
• Participate in provincial level university during teacher education curriculum and course designing process.
• Update and document provincial level ongoing activities
• Coordinate and facilitate municipal level and school level joint monitoring support visit.
• Facilitate and support to form/reform of teacher roster trainers at Karnali provincial HRDC teacher education training unit and LEUs.
• Participate and regular follow up of ongoing teacher training organized by PETC and LEUs.
• Represent municipal and school level meetings.
• Support the PSU in Kathmandu to conduct due diligence of the local partners if any.
• Collect programmatic data, compile and analyze as required. Prepare programmatic report and submit to Project lead as per need. 

Other duties as considered necessary by the Line Manager

Qualifications 

• Minimum Bachelor´s level in economics, planning, or similar; Master’s degree is an asset. 
• At least five years of similar work experience in a relevant sector 
• Good knowledge of public policies; 
• Excellent numeracy skills with an attention to detail; 
• Good knowledge of labor and procurement laws; 
• Knowledge of accounting best practices and regulations; 
• Experience in capacity building; 
• Fluent in Nepali and English.

Skills 

• Good organization and planning skills 
• Experience in working cross-cultural contexts 
• Sensitivity towards gender, sexual, ethnic/race, cultural identities • Self-motivated person able to work with little supervision 
• Demonstrate commitment to teamwork with a high degree of integrity and confidentiality 
• Good computer skills: Excel, Power Point, Word, digital meeting platforms.