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CEAPRED announces vacancy for Project Coordinator
Project Name: TA to Climate Change Model Village Program
Base station: CEAPRED Office in Kathmandu with 50% time in the field
Background:
Established in April 1991, the Center for Environmental and Agricultural Policy Research, Extension, and Development (CEAPRED) is a national non-governmental organization (NGO) in Nepal. it is one of the first NGOs in the country to work in the agricultural sector focusing on food and nutrition security, environment management and socioeconomic empowerment of women and deprived communities. Since inception, its programmatic focus has been on sustainable poverty reduction, livelihoods enhancement, improvements in food and nutrition security, climate resilience building, and empowerment of women and poor.
In the past three decades of operations, CEAPRED has worked in 66 districts of Nepal, and served over 600,000 farm families, which include 70% women, 31% ethnic minorities and 19% Dalits. It has completed implementation of 105 projects funded by different donors and development partners. These projects were implemented either independently by CEAPRED or in partnership with different national and international development agencies. A large number of our projects were devoted to income generation activities through commercial high-value agriculture and agro-enterprise promotion and creation and expansion of new market infrastructures and channels to strengthen community value chains. In this process, a large number of social, physical and economic infrastructures have been developed. The cumulative benefits of all this have been translated into visibly improved livelihoods and well-being of the poor, marginalized communities and women.
Objective of the Position:
CEAPRED in partnership with ICIMOD has aimed to provide Technical Assistance to Climate Change Management Division of Ministry of Forest and Environment to implement Climate Change Adaptation Model Village Program in the Six selected Palikas of Five districts (Kavre, Ramechhap, Sarlahi, Lamjung and Gulmi). As the TA for field implementation of the pilot in the above districts will be managed by CEAPRED, the project coordinator will be responsible for overall management of operations in the field. Under the overall guidance and supervision of the Program Manager/Director of CEAPRED, the project coordinator will play the lead role in providing TA in the field as per the Climate Change Model Village
Program implementation guidelines of CCMD.
Specific Roles and Responsibilities:
The specific responsibilities include, but not limited to, the following activities:
Qualification and experience:
To apply for this job please visit www.ceapred.org.np.