VSO is the world’s leading international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty. Working in 24 countries around the world, our unique role in international development is to place committed volunteers with carefully selected organisations where their skills can have the greatest impact. Our extraordinary volunteers live and work in some of the world’s poorest communities. Sharing their unique skills and experience to generate new ideas and new ways of doing things, helping the communities they work in lift themselves out of poverty. We’re not about delivering quick fixes, but instead we focus on long-lasting, sustainable change, that will impact generations to come. Join us and help us work towards our vision of a world without poverty.

The Project Manager will manage overall implementation of SFS Project in partnership with Implementing partners. Providing visionary strategic leadership, expertise, and high quality competencies to assure desired project goals, outputs, and outcome in closed coordination with the partners, government agencies, and developing networking with concerned stakeholders at different levels.

Essential:
Qualification: Master's degree in Education

Project Management: At least 5 years’ Experience of planning and managing education projects, inclusive education, along with gender, adolescent sex and reproductive health education with multiple stakeholders, delivering expected

benefits in challenging contexts.

Communication - Excellent oral and written communication skills in internal and international community with ability to vary communication content and style to suit audiences to inform, motivate and inspire.

Relationship Building - Ability to build effective working relationships within project teams, implementing partners, inspiring confidence and credibility.

Ability to work effectively across the local government, as per new federal context Capable to strengthen relationship with local government, educational organizations and other civil society organizations for the effective implementation of project.

People Management - Experience of line management of project team members
Organization and planning - Excellent coordination and planning skills with
experience of working under pressure.
Time management skills: prioritization skills, decision making skills, focus of the program, coping skills etc.

Financial - Experience of successfully monitoring and managing budgets.
Analysis and creative problem-solving - Ability to analyses and quickly grasp the fundamentals of a need or issue. Able to find innovative ways of solving cross cutting problems.

Flexibility - Ability to manage a project in a changing context, recognizing and being open to ambiguity, uncertainty and opportunities.

Information Technology - Good level of computer skills (Windows, Excel, Power Point, Word, Outlook, and Internet).

Travel requirement: Able to travel in project areas in country and internationally occasionally and spend time away from work- base location and home.

Commitment: Commitment to VSO’s mission, values, People First principles and core approaches (Social Inclusion and Gender, Social Accountability, and Resilience).

VSO has zero tolerance of abuse and exploitation of vulnerable people: We expect all our employees/volunteers to ensure us protecting children, young people and vulnerable adults from harm and abide by our safeguarding policy.

Desirable:
Previous working experience as project manager in education project
Experience of managing change difficult circumstances
Practical experience within a volunteering/Non-Government Organization context


Equal Opportunities

VSO promotes equal opportunities and values a diverse workforce.

Eligibility: Nepalese
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VSO reserves the right to close this job early if we receive a sufficient number of applications.