Care Nepal

NGO / INGO / Development Projects

Program Development Specialist

Views: 4764|Published on: Nov 25, 2020

NGO / INGO / Social work

Mid Level

Full Time

Vacancy: 1

Kathmandu|

Experience: Not Required|

Not Disclosed

Job Description

Roles and responsibilities of this job

Program Development Specialist is responsible to support in overall areas of program development and designing. The incumbent is primarily responsible to support in donor coordination and cultivation, donor intelligence gathering, proposal development, fundraising and strengthening organizational profile. S/he will support in developing high quality funding applications in timely manner ensuring donor compliance and contractual requirement. S/he will support in development, update and implementation of CARE’s resource mobilization strategy to secure fund from existing and potential donors. S/he will maintain relationship with multiple government line ministries and CARE International (CI) members to understand government plans and provisions and CI interest areas and expertise.

This position requires working closely with thematic coordinators, technical specialists and budgeting experts during design process and critical stages of the project cycle. This position is also responsible to coordinate with finance and human resource team to ensure appropriate costing and resourcing for new proposals, as well as with project and cluster teams to draft concept notes incorporating gaps identified or issues generated during project implementation. The incumbent is expected to ensure mainstreaming of gender and social inclusion considerations into all designs, documents and also ensure that new program development is aligned to the CARE Nepal Business Strategy and CARE International Vision 2030 priorities.

Required qualification and experience:

Qualifications:

Master's degree in Social Sciences / Economics / Development Management or other related fields

Experience:

Minimum 3 years’ experience in the development sector in project/program design and development. Familiar with current development practices, policies and organizations in Nepal

Skills and Knowledge:

Strong knowledge and experience in project/program design and development
Proven analytical skills and the ability to think strategically in relation to business development
Experience of interpreting donor policies and guidelines and producing and/or making recommendations for producing high quality proposals
Numerate with some understanding of budgets
Demonstrable experience of researching, developing and nurturing relationships with various sector donor/clients
Understanding of project design tools and frameworks such as problem tree analysis, logical framework, theory of change and other
Experience in dealing with diverse donor(s)/client and representing organization at various platforms
Ability to prioritize task and meet multiple deadlines
Experience working with multi-disciplinary team and ability to work with virtual cross-functional teams
Excellent interpersonal verbal and written communication skills
Fluency in English language (written and oral communication)
Strong presentation and reporting skills
Familiar about international development goals and country strategies
Excellent writing, documentation and dissemination skills
In-depth knowledge on gender equity and diversity, and rights based programming
Ability to use computer applications

Job Specification

Required qualifications for this job

Required Education Level:Graduate (Masters)

Required Experience:Not Required

Skills Required

Required skills for this job

Communication

Presentation

Analytical

Reporting

Interpersonal Skills

Salary

Offered financial and non-financial compensation for this job

Offered Salary:Not Disclosed

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Apply Before: Dec 08, 2020

About the organization

Care Nepal

NGO / INGO / Development Projects

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. CARE has been operational in Nepal since 1978 and works in partnerships with government and non-government stakeholders across the spectrum of humanitarian action and long-term development programs.

USAID Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH) project is an adolescent co-led initiative to empower girls and boys, 10-19 years including the most marginalized, to attain their adolescent reproductive health (ARH) rights. The goal of the program is to support adolescents to reach their full potential by; ensuring they receive correct and appropriate reproductive health (RH) information and guidance to decision-making skills, creating an environment conductive in making healthy reproductive health decisions and facilitating translation of these decisions into healthy behaviors.

CARE Nepal hereby invites applications, for the below mentioned positions, from interested Nepalese candidates for USAID Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH) program (Click on the links below for the more Job details):