National Democratic Institute (NDI)
NGO / INGO / Development Projects

Founded in 1983, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to strengthen and expand democracy worldwide. NDI works with democrats and democratic institutions in every region of the world to build political and civic organizations safeguard elections and promote citizen participation, openness and accountability in government. Headquartered in Washington, DC, NDI maintains offices in over 55 countries on five continents. Its diverse workforce of employees from 55 countries is united in the belief that democracies promote economic growth and development more consistently and equitably than non-democratic political systems. NDI’s office in Nepal has been operational since 1997 and has since collaborated with the Parliament, political parties, government agencies, and civil society.

Program Officer: Political Party Program

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Basic Job Information

Job Category	:	NGO / INGO / Social work
Job Level	:	Mid Level
No. of Vacancy/s	:	[ 1 ]
Employment Type	:	Full Time
Job Location	:	Kathmandu
Offered Salary	:	Negotiable
Apply Before(Deadline)	:	Sep. 30, 2018 23:55 (6 years, 7 months ago)

Job Specification

Education Level	:	Graduate (Masters)
Experience Required	:	More than or equal to 4 years

Other Specification

Academic Qualifications and Experience:

A minimum of a Master’s/graduate or Bachelor’s degree in International Relations, Political Science, International Development or a related field;
At least four (4) years of relevant experience working with political stakeholders or international organizations or working on democracy building, elections, political activism and/or community organizing
Experience in program design and how to strategize is desired

Required Skills and Abilities:

High level of interpersonal skills and cultural sensitivity to effectively interact with all levels of staff, foreign personnel, members of donor organizations and political party representatives; and to actively maintain and build the constructive professional relationship with a broad range of (senior) political representatives and NDI’s partners
Excellent oral communications skills to engage partners, effectively present information and respond to questions; Exceptional writing skills to effectively create clear and concise proposals and reports
Basic managerial skills; ability to take initiative, inspire and motivate staff;
Capacity to work both independently and as a member of a team;
Working knowledge of PC-based word processing and spreadsheet applications and experience with
Google Apps (Gmail, Calendar, Google Drive, G+, etc.);
Ability and willingness to travel to remote and difficult to reach locations;
Ability to quickly gather, understand, analyze and contextualize relevant political developments in
Nepal’s political environment and report on those to superiors;
Identify areas for programmatic intervention and develop proposals on the basis of a political analysis; able to introduce new concepts convincingly
Good English and Nepali speaking, writing and translation skills are required
Familiarity with presenting ideas and expressing yourself effectively in front of groups is desired;
Experience with organizing (large) events; able to quickly tackle logistic and administrative challenges necessary to organize events; working in a structured and organized manner
Have access to a network amongst political stakeholder (without being politically affiliated to any of them), women’s organizations, media and/or civil society organizations
Possess basic public speaking skills or have experience with conducting trainings and/or presentations
Have strong critical thinking and strategic planning skills; able to actively conceptualize, interpret, apply, analyze and evaluate information to reach conclusions or form informed opinions
Take a pro-active role in the identification of programmatic opportunities and drafting of program proposals
A strong team-player, working closely with the Senior Program Manager to supervise, develop and mentor other staff in the political party program; be able to take the lead in managing, assigning and delegating responsibilities
Be familiar with using basic qualitative and quantitative research methods, understand how to translate the use of that information to parties and political stakeholders

Job Description

Contributes to the design, oversight and implementation of the political party program; managing day-to-day operations under the supervision of and in and coordination with Sr. Program Manager;
Assists in designing and organizing training and activities; when necessary conduct sessions for political parties and other partners;
Collaborates with political party team and managers in drafting briefing memos, reports, work plans and concept notes with some editing; drafts portions of quarterly reports and the work plans; edits work of Program Assistant; review and edit reports submitted by partner organizations;
Serves as point of contact and primary liaison for NDI’s political parties and other stakeholders; build and maintain collaborative and strong working relationships with key partners/focal persons; maintain frequent contact with these partners and briefs them about NDI activities; represents NDI at appropriate events;
Maintaining a collaborative working relationship and team atmosphere within the political party team as well as with the rest of NDI’s team in Kathmandu;
Assists and coordinates with Administrative/Finance team in monitoring budgets and expenditures and review reconciliations;
Prepares a draft weekly report for NDI DC, including political and programmatic updates in the country;
Travels as necessary around the program targeted districts to supervise and monitor the implementation of program activities.
Assists and coordinates with M&E Manager to provide lists and data regularly, measure impact of programs;
Participates in and contributes to regular meeting with program partners and activities to gather input for program needs;
Willingness to work longer hour if program required;
Closely follows and analyze political developments in Nepal; develops draft program concepts for proposals based on those developments in collaboration with the Senior Program Manager;
Ensure that the Institute's partners are non-partisan and ensure that the international staff has all necessary information and background on political affiliations of partners;
Maintain strict neutrality in dealings with the Institute's program related activities;
Set up high level meetings with senior political party leaders for the Country Director and Senior Program Manager;
Willingness to work across NDI's team and programs when required; and
Performs other assignments as and when necessary assigned by Sr. Program Manager and/or Country Director.