Campaign Administrator

Campaign Administrator

50% Girls Out Loud
40% Campaign
10% Communication

Functional Area: Influencing, Campaign and Communication
Reports to: Campaign Specialist
Location: Kathmandu

Travel required: Plan International Nepal working districts
Grade: B
Type: Fixed-Term until July 2024 based in County Office (Open to all applicants)

ABOUT PLAN INTERNATIONAL

Plan International is a development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We strive for a just world, working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners in over 75 countries. Our programs are underpinned by a core of defined values, including transparency and accountability, team collaboration, inclusion and integration, as well as the overall ambition to empower girls and young women as legacy.

Plan International has been working in Nepal since 1978 and developed a strong reputation as a respected development and humanitarian actor helping marginalised children, their families and communities to access their rights to health, education, economic security and protection. Through the support of local partners, Plan International works in 24 districts in Nepal.

Plan International Nepal has a vision for 2030 as “an inclusive, just and safe society where all girls and young women enjoy their rights and live in freedom”. This is coupled with the ambition of taking action so that 100 million girls learn, lead, decide and thrive as “Girls and young women in all of their diversity reach their full potential as equal and active citizens” by 2023. The country strategy is put into action through the implementation of three interrelated program areas defined as follows:

LEARN: the “Education and Skills and Opportunities for Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship (SOYEE)” program aims to assist vulnerable and excluded girls and young women in adapting and thriving in a changing climate;

LEAD AND DECIDE: the “Youth as Active Drivers of Change and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR)” program aims to empower girls and young women in leading change, having control over their bodies and making informed decisions; and

THRIVE: the “Early Childhood Development (ECD), Child Protection and Child Poverty” program enhances vulnerable and excluded children, especially girls, to be valued and cared for without discrimination, fear and any forms of violence.

Plan international Nepal seeks candidates who practice feminist leadership, promote diversity, actively seek innovative solutions for problems, courageously and respectfully share their opinions and ideas, break down barriers and engender cross-department collaboration, practice active listening, maintain confidentiality, build trust and are passionate about children’s rights and equality for girls.

ROLE PURPOSE

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The position will be responsible for the moderation of a safe space created in Facebook under Girls Out Loud project, also implementation, coordination and reporting of the of the Girls Out Loud Project ensuring the quality and timely delivery of the project activities maintaining highest technical quality. She will moderate the private Facebook group (opened only for 13-24 years girls), and administrative support for the project through Plan Country office in coordination with Lead Moderator. She will keep a tab on the group activity and is responsible for the efficient functioning of the Facebook group, just like FB admins. She will support Lead Moderator to develop case studies and document best practices of the project. And also, will be responsible to align the project activities with Plan International Nepal’s various campaign activities. She will be responsible to support youth related programs/initiatives either it would global/regional or national. She will be accountable for the quality implementation of the above in alignment with Plan International’s global strategies/standards and Country Strategy.

Description

DIMENSIONS OF THE ROLE

Under the direct authority of the Campaign Specialist and the considered guidance and support of the Influencing Campaign and Communications Director, the position will be responsible to moderate and manage Girls Out Loud for the period of a year in Nepal. The position will manage the logistics and administrative tasks under campaign activities. The position will be based Country Office with frequent travel to project districts as required.

Best fit: the ideal candidate should have a social, communication or psychology professional profile, previous experience working directly with teenagers and young women. She is familiar with Facebook and has great digital skills.
Implementing locations: Sunsari, Makawanpur, Sindhuli, Bardiya, Kalikot, Jumla, Dolpa, Dhanusa, Pokhara however the nature of project demands the primary work through Country office and it is based on managing social media and administrative work.

Area of responsibility: Planning, implementation, coordination, reporting, monitoring and quality assurance of the project.
Reports: Prepare periodic and final report of the project based on project requirement/project agreement.

Committee: N/A

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Result Area 1: Coordination and Project management

• Prepare detailed monthly content/topics for moderation plan in coordination with Lead Moderator align with project log frame as well as the indicators set up by MERL.
• Manage the Private Facebook Group by rigorously screening the member requests, curate content, encourage and moderate the discussion, interact in the posts shared by GOL members and provide evidence-based information, facts, and tackle any mis/disinformation.
• Provide information and orientation on online safety and security to all the members of Girls Out Loud. Offer support and care by answering private questions and concerns shared by GOL members sent via Messenger.
• Identify child protections issues or other sensitive situations when support is needed, then cooperate with technical advisors (Child Protection advisor, Gender advisor and others) to resolve the situation.
•  Support planning and facilitation of in-person outreach activities (girls meetups) with the girls in the group. Also, arrange regular meeting with girls (check-in) virtually using Zoom platforms.
• Document internal and external communication piece including learnings- Case studies, best practices, one-pager, blogs for website
• Cooperate and share knowledge with the Girls Out Loud National and Global Team. Work with the Lead Moderator to set up data extraction and localisation of the dashboard.
• Ensure that the local Girls Out Loud initiative and its activities complies with Plan International’s policies and child safeguarding standards
• Develop a realistic, prioritized, result-based work plan & budget forecast.
•  Ensure gender equality and social inclusion perspective in the content planning and execution.
• Periodically review the monthly/annual/quarterly project plans and budgets and purpose for revision as and when required for effective project implementation.
• Coordinate with Technical advisors, team members to timely execute approved project activities meeting budget spending.

Result Area 2: Ensure support required to achieve the project outcome

• Compile and draft qualitative quarterly report as per the guidelines and Global Hub requirements.
• Be responsible for coordinating to finalize topics for the months, create polls and discussions accordingly and translate the comments and posts in Nepal to English for reporting purpose.
• Promote and maintain an effective and smooth communication among the GOL Members, the project team, and other departments as required.
• Coordinate with other team to ensure that the content/topics developed are gender transformative.
• Coordinate meeting with project team, Technical team from Global hub and other departments as required.
• Ensure effective real time project monitoring and ensure qualitative, efficient and timely implementation of project in line with approved detail implementation plan.
•  Contribute towards capitalization of good practices and learning in close coordination with Lead Moderator and ICC team.

Result Area 3: Ensure effective communication and support administrative tasks

• Support campaign team for effect and meaningful engagement of Girls Out Loud members in Campaign activities.
• Stay in communication with nominated youths (sponsored children) for their engagement in campaign activities.
• Arrange logistics and travel arrangements of youths for various events like International Day of Girl Child, Girls in ICT day, MHM day, etc as needed.
• Support campaign team for preparing safeguarding risk assessment and mitigation plan for each physical or virtual event.
• Coordinate with regional offices and partner organizations for organize events and workshops.
• Support campaign team to draft program/event reports.
• Coordination with YouthHub for effective implementation of their workplan.

Result Area 4: Support youth related programs/initiatives: Youth Project 2023

• Engaging youth activists from Plan International Nepal’s working district and ensure they are supported to stay engaged throughout the length of the project/campaign.
• Participate in up to six online workshops alongside young people from Indonesia and Australia .
• Complete work outside of online workshops, including research design, data collection and analysis, report writing and campaign planning and execution.
•  Communicating key dates, tasks and timelines to youth activists, making sure they are supported to meet agreed deadlines.
•  Admin tasks, such as contracting consultants or paying youth activists data allowances, engaging translation for report and other key documents, engaging an interpreter for the workshops, collecting and storing consent forms, inputting into risk assessments etc.
• Organising and facilitating meetings outside the joint online workshops with youth activists, to support youth activists complete key tasks, such as data collection, data analysis, report writing, campaign planning, and campaign execution.
• Oversee and support youth activists to undertake data collection and analysis to inform the final report.
• Oversee and support youth activists to write sections of the report.
• Oversee and support youth activists to design and implement a campaign, alongside young people from Indonesia and Australia.

Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Child Protection (CPP) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

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TECHNICAL EXPERTISE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree with 2-3 years of experience in use of social media for awareness, communication, learning and wider dissemination.
• Demonstrated experience in Project Management in development sector- Gender equality and SRHR preferable.
• Experience of working with girls and young women and communicating information using online platforms
• Work with UN/I/NGO in similar capacity is preferred
• Proven experience in program development, management, including scheduling, budget development and budget management
•  Proven experience of similar project using social and digital media approaches. Skills
• Project Management: planning, monitoring, reporting and evaluation
• Critical thinking, analysis & reasoning
•  Influencing people and pitching innovating ideas
• Communicating both one to one and in groups in writing, verbally, presentations and reports, in English, Nepali and relevant local languages
• Effective communication and coordination
• Demonstrated flexibility and creativity in planning and problem solving.

Behaviours

•  Demonstrate high degree of professionalism and integrity.
•  Gender, child and disability sensitive.
• Respect for diversity and multicultural environment.
• Teamwork and collaboration.
• Leadership with values and principles.

PLAN INTERNATIONAL’S VALUES IN PRACTICE

We are open and accountable

•  Promotes a culture of openness and transparency, including with sponsors and donors.
• Holds self and others accountable to achieve the highest standards of integrity.
•  Consistent and fair in the treatment of people.
• Open about mistakes and keen to learn from them.
• Accountable for ensuring we are a safe organisation for all children, girls & young people.

We strive for lasting impact

• Articulates a clear purpose for staff and sets high expectations.
•  Creates a climate of continuous improvement, open to challenge and new ideas.
• Focuses resources to drive change and maximise long-term impact, responsive to changed priorities or crises.
• Evidence-based and evaluates effectiveness.

We work well together

• Seeks constructive outcomes, listens to others, willing to compromise when appropriate.
• Builds constructive relationships across Plan International to support our shared goals.
• Develops trusting and ‘win-win’ relationships with funders, partners and communities.
• Engages and works well with others outside the organization to build a better world for girls and all children.

We are inclusive and empowering

• We empower our staff to give their best and develop their potential.
• We respect all people, appreciate differences and challenge equality in our programs and our workplace.
• We support children, girls and young people to increase their confidence and to change their own lives.

PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT

• This position is based in Country Office with frequent travel to project sites (as required).

LEVEL OF CONTACT WITH CHILDREN

• High level: Frequent interaction with girls and young women.

“Say Yes ! To Keeping Children and Young people safe and Protected”

Application Deadline: Friday, 16th June 2023

Source: Kantipur Dainik, 3 June, 2023

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