Project Coordinator, Admin and Finance Officer

Job Description

Preservation of Environment and Social Welfare of Nepal (PESWAN) is implementing Resilience Future: Ending Child Marriage in Nepal Project for approximately 1 years in Bheemdatta Municipality and Dodhara Chadani Municipality of Kanchanpur districts with Partnership of Plan International Nepal. Resilience Future: Ending Child Marriage Project focuses -children, adolescents and youth, especially girls and those from marginalized groups understand the nexus between climate change and harmful practices such as child, early, and forced marriage (CEFM), gender inequality and gender-based vulnerabilities. Likewise, recognize co-relation with CEFM, climate change impact on environment, livelihood climate-resilient and adaptive economic activities for young women and vulnerable families such as regenerative agriculture and gender-responsive financial services.

Position: Project Coordinator

Required– 1 (One)

Type: Full-time

Duty Station: PESWAN head office, Mahendranagar, Bhimdatt 18 Kanchanpur with frequent field visit to project site.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure implementation of Resilient Future-Ending Child Marriage project activities at district and field level, lead implementation adhering to project standards according to Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP) and Milestone in close coordination with Executive Director.

• Provide necessary support to staff members for maintaining good coordination and cooperation with district level agencies and seek required support from government and other stakeholders at district and field level.

• Work closely with Administration, Finance, and MERL Officer for proper documentation of financial requirements, budgeting and financial reporting, data collection, analysis and storage.

• Ensure project activities are on time, target and budget and periodic recommendations from technical team and Plan International staff are implemented adhering standards.

• Provide support to project staff to enhance their knowledge, capacity and awareness of prevent child, early and force marriage, mainstreaming in local planning process.

• Support Project Officers, Social Mobilizers to organize events/workshops/trainings at district, municipality and community level.

• Capacity building of supervisee staff’s on GESI, safeguarding, budget planning, monitoring and quality assurance of implemented activities.

• Trained community and religious leaders, government officials to prevent child, early and force marriage.

• Prepare work plans (Monthly, Quarterly & Annual) with budget projection of the project and submit to Plan International

• Prepare and submit (Quarterly/Annual Progress Report) as per agreed time to Plan International.

• Support staff on preparation of case studies/success stories writing, reports and documents to capture project learning’s and good practices.

• Coordinate closely with Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning officer to generate and collect required information and data in the process of measuring results of project.

• Supervise financial reporting and assure Monthly Financial Report and other documents related to finance and compliance are prepared and submitted to Finance Department/ Plan International.

• Closely follow-up and ensure all information, documentation and reporting requirements are met and submitted to Plan International through appropriate means as and when required.

• As required by the project, liaise with and represent the program’s components to local government officials, civil society/community leaders and other key stakeholders in the district and municipality.

• Establish good coordination & collaboration with government and non-government stakeholders to optimize project support and energy.

• Plan and lead to organize regular learning sharing meetings and monitoring visits to program areas, share program progress, receive feedback from concerned agencies, and implement them.

• Coordinate and collaborate with other projects in the district, likeminded organization, District Coordination Committee (DCC), municipalities, government’s sectoral unit and department and ministries, communities and project participants to achieve the overall goal of community resilience through coordinated planning and allocation of resources.

Required experience and qualifications:

• At least Bachelor’s degree with 5 year experience or Master’s degree with 2 year experience in Development Studies, Public Admsinistration, Rural Development, Social Science/ Public health or related field.

• Minimum 5 years of experience in project management preferably in Protection (child marriage related campaigns), Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and Climate Change (CC), Regenerative Agricultural Practices and Entrepreneurs for Master’s degree.

• Familiar with government policies and priorities in Protection, Agriculture, DRM and CC.

• Excellent facilitation skill of orientation, training and workshop.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to liaise with government officials and relevant stakeholders.

• Proficient in written and spoken English and Nepali language.

• Basic computer skills (MS package, email, outlook).

Posiiton: Admin and Finance Officer

Required: 1 (One)

Type: Full-time

Duty Station: PESWAN head office, Mahendranagar Kanchanpur with frequent field visit to project site.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare vouchers; ensure proper budget coding, cheque preparation and submission for approval to concerned authorities.

• Timely payments of vendor’s bills and settlement of advance, liabilities and receivables etc. and reconcile periodically.

• Responsible for annual remuneration tax assessment, monthly pay roll, retirement fund and TDS management in close coordination with Project Coordinator and PESWAN authority.

• Ensure the financial management system is in accordance with Donor, Plan International & Organizational compliance, guidelines and International & National Accounting Standards.

• Keep books of account up to date with proper filling system.

• Maintaining log-sheet of motorbike and other inventories of Resilient Future-Ending child marriage and organization.

• Data entry into the accounting system and generate reports as and when required.

• Take lead, prepare Monthly Financial Report, and submit it to PLAN INTERNATIONAL as per agreed timeframe.

• Manage all bank transactions, petty cash funds for small transactions

• Preparation for internal, external and project audit and support during the audits.

• Day to day administration support to the project team especially on financial management and logistical requirements.

Required experience and qualifications:

• At least Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting or related field.

• Minimum 3 years of experience in financial management, accounting software, and bookkeeping.

• Familiarity with accounting software (FAMAS or Truebook) will be value added.

• Excellent report writing, communication, and presentation skills in English and local language.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to liaise with government officials and stakeholders.

Required documents:

• Recent CV with 2 references

• Cover letter (maximum 1 page)

• Academic transcripts/certificate for most recent qualification

Application: Interested candidates should submit all documents outlined above to email [email protected] or hard copy to PESWAN head office, Bheem Datta Municipality 18 Katan by 3 July 2026. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified for the further process.

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