No. of vacancies: 01

Duty Station: Bardibas Mahottari (80%)

Working Area: Bara, Sarlahi, and Mahottari district.

Required Qualification: His/her academic qualification must be at least Bachelor’s Degree from a recognized university or preferably in Rural     Development, Economics, Sociology or a related field, plus five (5) years of relevant experience with at least three (3) years in a supervisory capacity.

Job Overview: 

Project Coordinator is responsible for effective and efficient program implementation, monitoring and supervision of field level activities. Candidate should ensure program quality, and should build strong coordination with local stakeholders and enhance downward accountability of the project. Candidate will closely work under the supervision of Program Officer-Strengthening Smallholder Farmers Organization Program Officer (SSFO) of Heifer Project International Nepal (HPIN).

Roles and responsibilities include: 

• Prepare Detail Implementation Plan (DIP), cash flow and quarterly and monthly work plan
• Prepare periodic and specific progress reports in recommended format and submit to HPIN in consultation with concerned program/project officer
• Coordinate for benchmarking project targets and review the project result annually
• Organize monthly staff meeting to review the progress, prepare monthly action plan and assist to manage issues arising during the project implementation phase
• Form Project Monitoring and Coordination Committee (PMCC) in each working area of the project at local government level for effective and efficient implementation of the project activities and to seek local resource leverage
• Regularly organize various level interaction workshops, seminars, trainings and meetings with different local government bodies and project stakeholders (PMCCs, cooperatives, Value Chain (VC) actors, Insurance Companies, Bank and Micro Finance Institutions (B/MFIs), Market, etc)
• Explore VC Actors and facilitate business to business (B2B) meeting among cooperatives and B/MFIs for establishment of effective business development services through cooperative (inputs, animal insurance, access to finance, market, etc.)
• Facilitate various cooperative level capacity building trainings such as Cornerstones, cooperative financial management, Cooperative Management, Cooperative Capacity Assessment (Co-CAT), Business Plan Development
• Support to project staff to form Group Leader Network Committee (GLNC) in each project areas to establish strong coordination mechanism between cooperative and it share members
• Coordinate and facilitate different project related meetings (PMCCs, Project stakeholders, cooperatives, household level enterprises, and Meat/Milk entrepreneurs
• Organize regular meeting and exposure visit to PMCCs and VC actors to understand Heifer working approach, and modality
• Provide technical support, coaching and guidance to the project staffs (Cooperative Capacity Building Facilitators) for efficient, consistent and effective implementation of project activities
• Establish good coordination, network and linkage with local government bodies and project stakeholders for effective implementation of project
• Coordinate local government and other authorities for Local Resources Leverage as targeted in the project document
• Support to Project Staffs and Cooperative Board members to channelize CAVE, Technicians and Private Veterinarians through Cooperative for effective technical services to its members
• Supervise, monitor and evaluate of the project activities performed by staffs, CAVEs and GLNCs
• Support and facilitate to prepare and review  relevant policies, progress reports to Cooperative Board Members
• Document project highlights, best practices, case studies, story and lessons learned during the implementation of project
• Carry out any other jobs and responsibilities as assigned by Heifer's Program Officer and Program Mana