Position: Senior Social Mobilizer (Cooperative) (Recent Job)

Job Description

SAHAMATI is a National level NGO established in 2001 by a group of development experts.  We wok in economic & livelihoods, governance & advocacy, environment & disaster risk reduction and learning & innovation sectors as major thematic areas. 

In partnership with Lutheran World Relief (LWR), SAHAMATI has been implementing Congregational Trans-boundary Flood resilience Project (a three year Project starting from 1 January 2019) in Narayani/Gandak River Basin for flood-affected households of trans-boundary communities in Nepal and India to have increased their resilience and therefore be less vulnerable to monsoonal flooding.  Among others, communities have improved economic capitals through climate-smart and a flood-resilient livelihood is one of the major outcomes of the said project. To achieve this outcome, cooperatives are playing vital roles and acting as a local catalyst for disaster management. Project aims to deliver technical services to different cooperatives through diverse capacity strengthen schemes. To support this, we invite applications from qualified and experienced candidates for the following position.

Job Specification

• At least two year experience in social mobilization, preferably working in flood affected community. 
• Knowledge of cooperative policy issues that the country has embarked. 
• Knowledge in community, networking, coordination and advocacy. 
• Skills to organize meeting and orientation with local user groups, CBOs and local community people.
• Having working knowledge in economic promotion of the vulnerable while strengthening capacity of cooperatives.