Qualifications and Skills 

• Be resident in the main city of the political divisions of the country
  
• Possess an adequate diploma or relevant work experience
  
• Excellent knowledge of English and the regional languages
  
• Excellent knowledge of the base city and region of deployment to ensure prompt movements and appointments
  
• Locally recruited
  
• Daily travels. Must be available from early morning to late night during the polling day

General Function 

Under the authority of the observer team deployed in that region, the assistant/guides:

• Assist the observer teams in planning their daily movements and meetings in the region;
  
• Travel with the observers.
  
• Assists linguistically with local organisations, authorities. 
  
• Translate documents from English to the country languages and from the country languages to English.
  
• Interpret all conversations or presentations from English to the country languages or from the country languages to English.
  
• Support the observers in their daily activities.
  
• Any other tasks that may be required
  

NOTE:

• All positions are open to men and women with no discrimination
  
• For all positions, a good linguistic competence (spoken and written) in both English and Nepali is mandatory
  
• All candidates must have sufficient computer skills to operate with electronic mail, word processing, public presentation and spreadsheet software
  
• Flexibility required. Work is expected on occasions both in the evenings and weekends or even public holidays
  
• Place of work is Kathmandu