Website Association of Youth Organizations Nepal (AYON)
JOB OPPORTUNITY
Association of Youth Organizations Nepal (AYON), established in 2005, aims to bring youth organizations together to provide a common platform for collaboration, cooperation, joint actions and collective endeavors between youth organizations in Nepal. AYON is a national network of non-government, non-religious, not-for-profit youth organizations in Nepal. It acts as an umbrella organization of youth organizations. It calls for coordination, network, support and cooperation from the government, non-government, business institutions, civil society and young people for collaborative actions for youth programs and policies
USAID Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH) is an adolescent co-led initiative to empower girls and boys, 10-19 years including the most marginalized, to attain their adolescent reproductive health (ARH) rights. The goal of the program is to support adolescents to reach their full potential by; ensuring they receive correct and appropriate reproductive health (RH) information and guidance to decision-making skills, creating an environment conductive in making healthy reproductive health decisions and facilitating translation of these decisions into healthy behaviors.
AYON announces vacancy for the following positions to be a part of USAID Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH):
Position: Youth Mobilization Manager
Vacancy: 1
Project: USAID Adolescent Reproductive Health
Workstation: Central Office Kathmandu with frequent field visits to Lumbini Province, Karnali Province and Madhesh Province.
Principle Evaluator: Executive Director
Duration: up to 5 years depending on performance.
Roles and responsibilities
- Provide technical and strategic support to project team in planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting about the youth engagement program at ARH activities
- Provide technical support relevant government agencies in planning and implementation of youth development activities
- Work with different levels of government and stakeholder and organize youth conferences and policy dialogues for policy changes.
Minimum Academic Qualification
- Masters’ Degree in public health, sociology, development studies, and 5 years of experience community development, youth mobilization and public health
Specific skills
- Excellent knowledge and experience about health system of Nepal
- Knowledge about health governance at local health system
- Prior experiences with youth led organization for youth development activities
- Excellent working knowledge and skills in training curriculum development and facilitation of training
- Experience in providing strategic leadership and guidance to local youth clubs and groups
- Experiences in organizational development
- Strong skills and facilitation skills for organizing conference and policy dialogue at different levels for policy changes
- Strong coordination and collaboration skills at federal and province level
- Experience providing technical guidance to governments and/or private sector on promoting increased private sector engagement for ARH service
- Experience in partnership development
- Experience in knowledge management, including organizing events/webinars, drafting reports and developing knowledge products
- Knowledge of financial and policy compliance; including budget planning and implementation.
- Excellent knowledge and experience on project management and M&E tools.
- Excellent documentation and report writing skills (English and Nepali)
Remarks: Prior experience of working in USAID funded project and experience in respective provinces with familiar with local language will be an advantage.
Position: Admin and Finance Manager
Vacancy: 1
Project: USAID Adolescent Reproductive Health
Workstation: Central Office Kathmandu with periodic field visits to Lumbini Province, Karnali Province and Madhesh Province.
Principle Evaluator: Executive Director
Duration: up to 5 years depending on performance.
Roles and responsibilities
- Managing financial and accounting aspect of project including day to day financial transactions.
- Involved in daily accounting/administrative work; bookkeeping, budget planning, expenditure tracking, procurement, invoice checking, petty cash management, payroll, SSF, VAT Reporting and timely payment of tax.
- Ensure all financial, administrative, HR, procurement and accounting systems are running up to date and as per requirement of donor compliance and organizational policies.
- Setting up proper accounting procedures and systems and internal controls to ensure that proper monitoring mechanisms are in place; identifying weaknesses and addressing them immediately.
- Tracking and overseeing budgets and expenditures, controlling cash and revenue expenses.
- Liquidity planning –review forecast/ prepare program advance request and facilitate the transfer of advance to districts/staffs, supervise the advance payment and ensure timely settlement
- Monthly Bank and cash reconciliation, prepare inventory record, physical verification of assets.
- Prepare periodic high quality financial and VAT report and submit to Donors/Partners.
- Produce statutory (legal) accounts and other legal returns for Nepal.
- Prepare financial plan and implementation planning along with policies & procedures for the Finance Department.
- Responsible of Office set up, administrative and logistics arrangement for the staff, including travel and accommodations, workshops venues etc.
- Overseeing Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Tax, Treasury, Payroll, Financial and Management Accounting functions.
- Prepare annual procurement plan and vendor listing of organization.
- Design Accounting software (FAMAS) according to project activities/budget and entry budget and other data in accounting system.
- Provide capacity building training to project team related to compliances of project and supervise to HR/Admin finance staffs and assist to ED, PM on any financial business of project.
- Conduct project audit and prepare documents for auditing process with management responses in audit observation.
- Overseeing Human Resource unit to ensure that personal file, Staff TOR, leave record, time sheet, appointment, periodic staff review is timely conducted and up to date.
- Ensure all legal documents are up to date timely; like insurance, vehicle renewal, project approval
- Closely plan, monitor, support in burn rate of project and support to meet burn rate coordinating with project team and management.
- Other secondary responsibilities as per requirement of project/donor/organization.
Minimum Academic Qualification
- Master’s degree in relevant area with at least 5 years of working experience in USAID funded project along with superb financial, administrative, procurement, logistic and project management.
- Experience working as senior position in nonprofit making organization in Budget preparation/revision experience including budget implementation, auditing, VAT reporting, understanding donor rules and regulations, internal control system.
- Experience of computer based accounting system specially in FAMAS and Tally software.
Specific skills
- Sound knowledge in financial planning, budget forecasting. implementation and analysis.
- Knowledge about taxation, VAT reporting, online E-TDS, Auditing process, government policies and laws.
- Excellent knowledge of budgeting principles (especially on contract management) and clear understanding of donor’s financial policies, guidelines, rules, regulations, and reporting requirement
- Required knowledge on USAID audit requirement and compliance along with statutory auditing and management response.
- Financial reporting knowledge with excellent excel, formula and formatting skills.
- Communication skills including strong verbal and written language skills in both English and Nepali.
- Interpersonal and facilitation skills including working in a team and strong coordination, supervision skills.
- Computer skills, including knowledge of relevant software e.g. Microsoft office, FAMAS/Tally and other.
Remarks: Prior experience of working in senior position in USAID funded project and experience in respective provinces with familiar with local language will be an advantage.
Position: Youth Mobilization Specialist
Vacancy: 2
Project: USAID Adolescent Reproductive Health
Workstation:
1) One Personal: Provincial Consortium Office, Surkhet (Frequent field visits to target municipalities in Karnali Province
2) One Personal: Provincial Consortium Office, Dhanusha (Frequent field visits to target municipalities in Madhesh Province)
Principle Evaluator: Youth Mobilization Manager
Duration: up to 5 years depending on performance.
Roles and responsibilities
- Support provincial project team in planning, implementation and monitoring of the ARH project activities
- Support local implementing partner for formation new adolescent groups/ alliance and register at local government.
Minimum Academic Qualification:
- Master’s degree in public health / sociology/ women studies with three years of experiences in public health, community mobilization or youth development activities
Specific skills
- Strong knowledge and experience about health system of Nepal including health governance
- Prior experiences with youth led organization for youth development activities
- Strong facilitation skills for training, meeting and trainings
- Experience in providing guidance to local youth clubs and groups at local level
- Experiences in organizational development /business development
- Experiences in organizing conference and policy dialogue at different levels for policy changes.
- Experience in coordinating multiple interventions and locations.
- Competent in reporting and documentation.
Remarks: Prior experience of working in respective provinces with familiar with local language will be an advantage.
Position: Youth Mobilization and Social Norms Officer
Vacancy: 7
Project: USAID Adolescent Reproductive Health
Workstation: Provincial Offices in Surkhet and Dhanusha
Principle Evaluator: Youth Mobilization Manager, Youth Mobilization Specialist
Duration: up to 5 years depending on performance.
Roles and responsibilities
- Works closely with local implementing partners and municipalities to coordinate for the youth engagement activities for ARH at districts and municipalities.
- Responsible to provide technical oversight to Resource Persons for Adolescent Engagement based in the community.
- Ensure youth engagement in any of the forums and align them with social behavior change (SBC)
Minimum Academic Qualification:
- Bachelor degree in public health / sociology/ women studies with three years of experiences in public health, community mobilization or youth development activities
Specific skills
- Strong knowledge and experience about health system of Nepal including health governance
- Prior experiences with youth led organization for youth development activities
- Strong facilitation skills for training, meeting and trainings
- Experience in providing guidance to local youth clubs and groups at local level
- Experiences in organizational development /business development
- Experiences in organizing conference and policy dialogue at different levels for policy changes
- Strong knowledge about existing social norms around adolescent reproductive health and experiences in behavior change activities.
- Experience in field level implementation.
Remarks: Prior experience of working in respective provinces with familiar with local language will be an advantage.
Interested candidate meeting the above mentioned requirements are requested to apply by sending their updated CV and cover letter to vacancy@ayon.org with the subject “Application for the position “Applying Position” or a physical documents at AYON operation office New Baneshwor, Kathmandu, Nepal before September 2 , 2022.
*AYON strives for inclusion and diversity in all of our programs and internal human resources. People with Disability, women, LGBTI+, ethnic groups and minorities are specially encouraged to apply.