CREASION has been around since 2005. We started small, we got loud, and over the last two decades we have grown into one of Nepal's most committed organizations working on circular economy, plastic waste, climate action, and youth empowerment.
Today, we collect roughly 500 tonnes of plastic every month. We work shoulder to shoulder with more than 4,500 informal waste workers. We run Nepal's largest private PET recycling enterprise. We sit at policy tables with concerned government line ministries, and we partner with various bilateral and multilateral donors, international foundations, and academic institutions working on plastic, climate, and circular economy.
Our projects run across several provinces, involve complex partnerships, and are scrutinized by serious funders. We need someone who can hold all of it together without letting the quality drop or the team burn out.
That is who we are hiring
Job Title: Program Manager
Reports to: President / Executive Leadership
Supervises: Program Officers, Training and Capacity Development Officer, Field Coordinators, project associates, and fellows within the portfolio
Work Station: Kathmandu, with regular field travel to project sites across Bagmati, Madhesh, Lumbini, and other provinces
Duration: Two years, renewable based on performance and project continuity
What will you actually do:
This is a senior role. You will carry weight. Here is the honest version of what that looks like.
- Own the full delivery of assigned projects. Budgets, workplans, timelines, deliverables, reporting, and compliance sit with you. If something slips, we look to you first.
- Build and supervise a multidisciplinary team. You will manage Program Officers, the Training and Capacity Development Officer, field coordinators, and fellows. You will coach them, push them, defend them, and hold them accountable.
- Be the primary interface with donors. Draft narrative and financial reports, host donor missions, negotiate no cost extensions, respond to audits, and keep relationships warm between funding cycles.
- Write winning proposals. You will lead or co lead proposal development, build logframes and theories of change that actually hold up, and coordinate with finance on realistic budgets.
- Coordinate with concerned government line ministries, municipal governments, ward offices, consortium partners, and private sector counterparts. You will be in meetings where decisions get made, and you will represent Creasion professionally.
- Ensure every project integrates gender equality and social inclusion, safeguarding, and environmental standards. Not as a tick box at the end, but baked in from design.
- Drive the monitoring, evaluation, and learning agenda. Review indicators monthly, flag underperformance early, and insist on data that is honest rather than flattering.
- Protect the team from chaos. Donors change timelines, governments shift priorities, field realities collapse assumptions. Your job is to absorb the noise and give your team clear direction.
- Contribute to organizational strategy. Bring ideas to the leadership table, flag emerging opportunities in EPR, circular economy, and climate finance, and help shape where Creasion goes next.
Who are we looking for?
You will fit here if:
- You have a Master's degree in Environmental Science, Development Studies, Public Policy, Social Sciences, Management, or a related field. A strong Bachelor's with exceptional experience will also be considered.
- You have at least 7 years of progressive experience in the development sector, with a minimum of 3 years in a management or team leadership role.
- You have managed multi year, multi stakeholder projects funded by bilateral or multilateral donors, international foundations, or similar. You know what a compliant report looks like and you have written many.
- You understand the substance of our work. Plastic waste value chains, circular economy principles, EPR policy in Nepal, climate action, and youth engagement are not new vocabulary to you.
- You can read a budget, spot a variance, and have an adult conversation with finance and procurement.
- You do not outsource compliance to someone else.
- You write clearly in English and Nepali. You can move between a donor report, a ministry briefing note, and a team WhatsApp message without losing the point.
- You have real field credibility. You have sat in scrap yards, ward offices, and community halls, not just boardrooms.
- You can hold competing priorities without losing composure. You have integrity under pressure, and you know the difference between being firm and being difficult.
- You lead by lifting others up. You do not take credit for your team's work, and you do not shift blame when things go wrong.
You will not fit here if:
- You see management as sitting in Kathmandu sending emails to the field team.
- You are uncomfortable with ambiguity and need everything to be scripted before you act.
- You struggle to give hard feedback, or you give it badly.
- You are chasing a title rather than the work.
- You cannot hold yourself to the same standards you set for your team.
What we offer:
- A competitive salary package benchmarked to senior NGO roles in Nepal, negotiable based on your experience.
- A leadership seat at one of Nepal's most ambitious circular economy organizations.
- Exposure to national policy processes, international donor partnerships, and the private recycling sector through Creasion Ventures.
- A team that argues hard, laughs harder, and actually likes coming to work.
- The chance to shape Creasion's next chapter, not just run someone else's project.
