Program Officer- PME is responsible for project sub-award planning, monitoring, reporting, documentation, capacity building of field staff and ensure project requirements. S/he will be expected to ensure project compliance, strengthen monitoring and evaluation system, prepare and communicate periodic progress reports to field team, donors and external stakeholders. This position requires more than 50% field works for ensuring quality of reported data/figures and process monitoring.

• Bachelor’s degree in  Development Studies, Business Administration, Economics or any other social science related field is required plus minimum 3 years’ of relevant experience . Master’s degree preferred.
• Other job-related education and/or experience may be substituted for all or part of these basic requirements
• Knowledge and understanding of project monitoring and evaluation
• Understanding of the current M&E trends and especially M&E systems in development organisations

Monitoring, Reporting and Documentation (50%) 

• Work with partners for preparation of Detail Implementation Plan
• Periodically track progress against DIP
• Coordinate annual outcome monitoring study.
• Responsible for all required reports: periodic reports, compliance reports and reports required by management
•  Manage, analyse and store data regularly
• Maintain proper filing of digital and paper  documents.
• Conduct periodic field verification
• Responsible for process monitoring and recoment corrective measures.

Sub Award Design and Management (25%) 

• Collaborate with project stakeholders, Heifer teams in project design and budgeting.
• Coordinate for preparation of Letters Of Agreements, MOUs and contracts
• Responsible for executing project revision and reforecasting

Capacity Building of Partners(25%) 

• Build the capacity of project partners for operationaliztion of Project M&E system. 
• Ensure all Heifer processes, Govt compliance are met on time 
• Ensure accuracy, timeliness and quality of all data, reports 
• Facilitate workshop and training

Perform other job-related duties as requested.

The Project Officer - Animal Well-Being will be responsible for an effective delivery of animal health and production technologies, knowledge and skills to Heifer team, project partners, cooperatives, and beneficiaries. S/he will ensure that farmers understand and adopt improved technologies to maximize farm animal productivity for consistence and supply of quality animals. S/he will work in close collaboration and coordination with the Heifer Nepal Program team, local government, project partners, cooperatives, and Community Agro-Vet Entrepreneurs (CAVE).

• A Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Veterinary Science plus at least three (3) years of job-related experience is required.
• Other job-related education and/or experience may be substituted for all or part of these basic requirements.

Strengthen Animal Health and Production System and ensure adoption (50 %) 

• Adopt appropriate strategies and plan at palika level for improving animal health, production, productivity, and marketing.
• Prepare required guidelines for effective implementation.
• Prepare Detail Implementation Plan (DIP), facilitate implementation and track progress regularly.
• Ensure targets for production volume, quality, and consistency at palika level is met.
• Support project staffs in forage fodder nursery establishment and plantation ensuring year-round availability of nutritious grasses.
• Ensure animal sheds, with all technical specifications, are constructed with in a set timeline.
• Support in animal selection, procurement, and placement based on technical specifications mentioned in the guideline.
• Make sure deworming and vaccinations are carried out at right time and stage meeting quality standards. 
• Support Technical Coordinators in effective mobilization of CAVEs for ensuring accessibility and availability of treatment services at household level. 
• Provide support in increasing farm profitability through adoption of improved technologies at farmers’ level. 
• Understand market demand and adjust production plan accordingly.

Capacity Building of Project Staff and Local Resource Person (25%)    

• Provide technical orientation to project staffs to build basic and common understanding on AWB components.
• Build capacity of Technical Coordinators for effective mobilization of CAVEs.
• Ensure CAVEs are adequately capacitated through regular follow up, backstopping and guidance.
• Train Local Resource Persons (Carpenters, Lead Farmers, project technical team etc.) to effectively conduct all planned activities.
• Support cooperatives for effective provisioning  of BDS (Business Development Services) to its member farmers.
• Conduct discussion meetings, workshops, trainings, Animal Health Camps etc. as and when required.
• Support lead farmers, entrepreneurs, and cooperatives to leverage resources from local government, provincial government, and other opportunities.  
• Document and disseminate best practices and promote cross learnings among Palikas.

Coordination / Collaboration with Local Government and other Stakeholders (25%) 

• Build strong collaboration with local government to create enabling environment for planning and execution of planned activities.
• Coordinate with provincial government as well as veterinary hospital and expert centers to leverage technical support and services in the project.
• Establish functional relationship with private sectors in production inputs/services (animal feed, vaccines, vet medicines, livestock insurance etc.), market actors/market centers and connect them with farmers and cooperatives.

Perform other job-related duties as requested.

The Project Officer will serve in accordance with HPN vision, mission, goal, objectives, policies, and procedures. S/he will Coordinate with thematic lead to provide oversight in social capital, supply chain, market system development and cooperative development aspects of the project and provide strategic guidance and support to Project Partners, SHGs, Cooperatives, and Local Governments for effective implementation of the Project. The Project Officer will collaborate with local government in project design, implementation, monitoring and provide support for the effective implementation. S/he will build the capacity of local partner and provide continuous backstopping for optimum project result.

• A Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent from a recognized university in Business Administration, Rural Development Studies, Business Studies, Agriculture, Veterinary science, or related field plus minimum three (3) years’ experience in a similar context is required.
• Other job-related education and/or experience may be substituted for all or part of these basic requirements

Ensure professional standards of work are implement, maintained, and completed on time (50%)

• Adopt appropriate strategies and plan at palika level to meet the goal and targets of the subawards
• Prepare required guidelines for effective implementation.
•  Prepare Detail Implementation Plan (DIP), facilitate implementation and track progress regularly.
• Support NGOs to start up and implementation of the projects with good and adequate understanding of Project agreement.
• Ensure transparent process in project staff hiring to recruit competent human resource.
• Provide backstopping to NGO partners, Cooperative, on program management 
• Collaborate with thematic leads and ensure quality in project service delivery 
• Ensure effective mobilization of project staff    
• Maintain transparency and meet donor compliance during project implementation

Coordination, monitoring, and Reporting (30%) 

• Visit the project sites, collaborate with farmers, SHGs, SHG networks, cooperatives with the purpose of understanding the context, monitor progress, and a follow up on recommendations.
• Reporting of the progress and discuss next steps as appropriate.
• Collaborate and develop good working relationship with local government for smooth project implementation.
• Coordinate with related private sector (market actors, BFIs, insurance companies etc) and ensure required services are delivered
• Ensure the project milestones, objectives and requirements are fulfilled

Networking and Technical support and Backstopping (20%)

• Develop and maintain a sound network of government, other stakeholder, NGO partners and counterparts
• Develop and maintain links with relevant professional bodies
• Ensure the capacity building of project partners, including training and backstopping. 
• Create enabling environment to tap and disburse resources.
• Cooperative formation and capacity building
• Linkage stablishes between Value chain actors/Buyers.
• Support lead farmers, entrepreneurs, and cooperatives to leverage resources from local government, provincial government, and other opportunities.

May perform other duties as assigned.

To assist with financial and accounting aspects of the country program office and maintain accountability of Heifer Nepal’s project partners in accordance with HPI objectives, polices and procedures.

•  A Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent from a recognized university in Business Administration, Business Studies, or related field plus a minimum of three (3) years of experience in a similar context is required.
• Other job-related education and/or experience may be substituted for all or part of these basic requirements.

Project Partner/stakeholder financial management and reporting.  (50%)

• Responsible for building capacity of project holders in terms of financial management and providing support through trainings and field monitorin

Accounting, Vouching and filing of financial transactions (30%)

• Responsible for ensuring that all transactions are timely recorded with adequate supporting documents and compliance to in-country/HQ policies.

Budgeting and audits (15%)

• Accountable for assisting in annual budgeting cycle and reforecasts and coordinating the process of internal audit, partner  audits and statutory audits

Perform other job-related duties as assigned (5%)

The Intern shall work under supervision of Program Manager and in close coordination with Program Officer for PME department.

• Bachelor’s degree in Development Studies, Business Administration, Agriculture, Economics and any other social science.
• Preferred Experience of field data collection

• Provide technical assistance to field team to upload DIP, event reports, group/family details and private sectors in PME reporting portal.
• Assist to prepare semi-annual reports to PME team.
• Carry out field visit and rectify figures reported by PHs.
• Prepare case study reports of project beneficiaries.
• Store, handle and update project data sheets, and periodic progress reports.  
• Compile, synthesize and maintain the database management at sub-project level and prepare field reports, project specific and monitoring reports.
• Perform other job-related duties as requested.

Program Officer- PME is responsible for project planning, budgeting, reporting, documentation, monitoring and evaluation processes and practices for different projects trying to identify innovative ways to measure project impact. S/he will be expected to ensure project compliance, operationalization of digital reporting portal, prepare and communicate periodic progress reports to field team. Her/his engagement mainly related with document progress, synthesize report, and maintain project database. This position requires more than 70% field works mainly routine data quality assessment, enhance capacity of field staff and field verification of data/figures.

This position for a period of 5 months.

Educational Qualifications and Experience: - 

• A Bachelor’s degree in Development Studies, Business Administration, Economics and any other social science or a related field plus three (3) years of related experience is required.

Preferred Requirements: -

• Experience working in socio-economic, agricultural or development related research.
• Experience in monitoring and evaluating in local economic development related projects 
• Experience of field data collection with data management using ODK. 
• Other job-related education and experience may be substituted for all or part of these basic requirements.

To assist Heifer Nepal M&E system for the scaling up program impacts (50%)

• Participate actively in programme/ project planning process and budgeting for effectiveness of programme/projects quality
• To coordinate regular data collection through implementing partners and ensure quality of the data by random verifications and validations
• To record, manage and preserve monitoring and evaluation data in a safe and accessible way
• To analyse and discuss findings based on regular monitoring data
•  Provide technical support on M&E and evidence-based recommendations to the relevant Project Officer/Manager and Partners.
• Ensure that implementation of field activities adheres to Heifer’s monitoring and evaluation system
• Support for preparing periodic reports and share with concerned department and field teams
• To build capacity of Heifer’s field staff, project partners for  progress tracking, reporting, documentation and field monitoring
• Support other departments in dealing with any other tasks as may be required

Reporting and Documentation (20%)

•  Assist in developing periodic reports
• Prepare and share field visit reports with relevant staff
• Coordinate field staff and implementing partners for periodic update of data/figures entered into PME database management system and carry out field verification and validation of data
• Collect and prepare case stories of project benenficiaries.
• Assist to prepare project outputs and financial expenditure report and communicate with field staff

Project Planning (10%)

•  Assist to prepare project budget of sub-awards, letter of agreement, project proposal, revisions and communicate to field staffs regarding the sub-award planning related works
• Assit to implementing partners to prepare Project Implementation Plan  at sub-project level.
• Provide technical inputs and assist to develop RBM framework at program/project level.

Learning and Sharing (10%)

• Share learning from M&E process with the wider team
• Support partners in improving learning and sharing mechanisms in their projects
• Promote culture of two way learning in the organisation

Contribution to Effectiveness of the Programme (10%)

• Work collaboratively with different programmes for strengthening integration and cross-learning in programmes
• Proactively volunteer for various team activities
• Show an eagerness to take on any other tasks assigned by the line manager

The Program Officer – Prototype Support position will manage the prototype 

component of the project Strengthening Smallholder 

Enterprises of Livestock Value Chain for Poverty

 Reduction and Economic Growth in Nepal (SLVCII).

 S/He will collaborate with thematic leads to prioritize

 prototypes and facilitate prototype design, approval,

 execution, reporting and recommendation for scaling up. 

S/He will be responsible to develop a system to track

 milestones at all stages of prototype design and execution 

and implement it. 

A Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture Science, Agribusiness, 

Agricultural Economics, Business Management, Community

 Development, Sociology or a related field plus three 

(3) years of experience is required.  

Experience working in socio-economic, agricultural or development related research

A.Support Prototype Development and 

Management (25%)  

 Support the Project Management and Support 

Lead to develop a prototype development and 

management guideline. 

B.Support Prototype Design and Approval 

(20%) 

 Support Prototype Investigators (technical 

subject matter experts) to create detailed 

prototype designs including budget and 

milestones. 

 Ensure the rigor of process/data and costs are 

at an optimum balance.   

 Carry out desk reviews, research and 

consultation with experts and stakeholders to 

develop business case.  

 Analyze the budget, Return on Investment 

(ROI) and document justification for funding. 

 Explore internal/external funding sources. 

 Work with Project Management and Support 

Lead and Country Office Program (COP) in 

securing prototype approval.

C.Prototype Implementation, Monitoring and 

Reporting (20%) 

 Support the Prototype Investigators in 

preparing prototype implementation plans 

 Regularly check on the implementation of the 

prototype and guide appropriately  

 Support in data compilation, analysis and 

reporting 

D.Drawing Lessons Learned, Documentation, 

Sharing Lessons Learned and 

Recommendation for Scaling Up (20%) 

 Support in interpretation of results/outcomes 

and drawing lessons learned 

 Ensure proper documentation – process as 

well as outcomes, prepare periodic reports 

and update the leadership team.  

 Facilitate the process of preparing scaling up 

proposals 

 Support Prototype Investigators in preparing 

technical briefs, case studies, or scientific 

papers and share them in the appropriate 

forums 

E.Prototype Relationship Management (10%) 

 Support in relationship management of related 

stakeholders inside and outside of the 

organization (such as academic/research 

institutions, related subject matter experts, 

etc.). for proper design and smooth execution 

of the prototypes. 

F.May perform other duties as assigned (5%)

Intern is required to assist in transactional work in the Finance Department.

The Intern shall work in close coordination with the Associate Finance Officer and perform the following tasks

• Completion of Higher Secondary Level education is required. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education is preferrable.
• Basic computer skills such as MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint are required.
• Detail oriented

• Assist in vouching of accounting transactions
• Assist in securing missing supporting documents and signatures
• Assist in filing
• Assist in scanning and document upload
• Assist in banking transactions and tax related works
• Assist in vendor file maintenance
• Assist in inventory, asset and procurement documentation
• Assist in Finance store document management
• Assist in other Finance and Admin tasks, as instructed.

The Procurement Officer will work with the country program team to judiciously and efficiently implement the operational plans and targets related to procurement in accordance with Heifer Project International (HPI) policies/procedures and donor requirements.

• A Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent from a recognized university in Business Administration or Business Studies with minimum three (3) years of experience in a similar context is required.  Experience in working with an international organization is preferred.
• Other job-related education and experience may be substituted for all or part of these basic requirements

The Procurement Officer will efficiently implement the operational plans and targets related to procurement. He/she shall work in close liaison with stakeholders (like SWC), maintain legal documents of the organization and assist in compliance matters.

To serve as the Associate Administrative Officer of the API Nepal Program in accordance with Heifer Project International (HPI) objectives, policies and procedures.

Educational Qualifications and Experience:

• A Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent from a recognized university in Business Administration or Business Studies and Minimum two (2) years of experience with an international organization in a similar context is required. Other job-related education and experience may be substituted for all or part of these basic requirements

To provide administrative and logistical assistance, ensuring daily operations are carried out professionally, efficiently, and effectively. Handle day-to-day logistic function and handle front desk.