Vacancy Announcement For District Coordinator

 Fightback provides safety training to women and girls at scale to reduce the risk of violence and harassment. Fightback trains women and girls to assert themselves using their full vocal strength, body language, mental attitude and physical power. It also engages men, boys, parents and teachers to create a safer society. It has trained 30,000+ women and girls and 20,000+ stakeholders since 2013 across 30+ districts in Nepal. 

Fightback has begun to successfully deliver its service through an online mode in response to the COVID pandemic. Fightback’s e-learning platform recently won the United Nation’s STI Forum Call for Innovations Catalysed by COVID-19 for SDG Impact (2021). 

Fightback has envision’s to undertake project “HAVEN’’(Harassment And Violence Elimination Network). Project Haven which will first entail providing refresher training to previous schools in 3 districts Kathmandu, Jhapa and Morang and a few schools in another district in Pokhara. In addition to this, women from refugee communities and individual with disabilities will be provided training. After the training, girls, boys, teachers and women from refugee communities will be selected and provided Fightback Training of Trainer (TOT) training. After which they will be able to reach wider audience of their communities. This will enable the community to be more safer.

The propagation of knowledge and skills will be as follows: 

• Girls will teach girls
• Boys will teach boys 
• Teachers will teach parents 
• Women will teach women

View Less

District Coordinator

Apply Before: 2 weeks, 6 days from now

Basic Job Information

Job Category	:	NGO / INGO / Social work
Job Level	:	Mid Level
No. of Vacancy/s	:	[ 5 ]
Employment Type	:	Full Time
Job Location	:	Baghdole, Lalitpur
Offered Salary	:	Negotiable Apply Before(Deadline) : Feb. 19, 2023 23:55 (2 weeks, 6 days from now) Job Specification Education Level : Bachelor Experience Required : More than or equals to 1 year Professional Skill Required : Communication Teamwork Problem Solving Decision Making Microsoft Office Suite Other Specification The district coordinator will be required to have; Good communication skills Ability to listen Ability to work in a team Decision making Problem solving Report Writing Management Good written and spoken Nepali with working practice of Nepali typing  MS word, PowerPoint and Excel intermediate level proficiency. A Bachelor’s or Masters in Bachelor’s of Arts or Management is desirable.  Minimum 1 year work experience in an NGO or INGO or training related project Job Description Purpose and Rationale  The purpose of the project is to create girls, boys, women and teacher trainers who will be able to provide 90 percent training on violence and harassment concepts and activity based learning and around 10 percent of physical skills which includes how to defend. The various groups will undergo TOT training for a month then they will be selected and licensed to provide training. Per girl and boy trainer will conduct a session with at least 25 participants and the target per trainer is to conduct 10 sessions and reach 250 participants. The target per women and teachers is to conduct a session with at least 10 participants and the target per trainer is to conduct 10 sessions and reach 100 participants. The total outreach of participants trained by trainers is 58000 for all the groups. Objective The main objective of the program is to build a harassment and violence elimination network in the targeted districts to deal with violence and harassment. The specific objectives include:  Provide 2 days refresher trainings to girls, 2 days refresher training to boys and 1 day refresher training to teachers per school in the 6 schools in 3 districts, Morang, Jhapa and Kathmandu Provide 2 days training to girls, 2 day training to boys 1 day training to teachers in 2 new estimated schools of Pokhara district Provide 2 days training to women from refugee communities and 5 days training to individual with disabilities in each of the four districts  Test the girls, boys, women and teachers on the soft skill and hard skill for TOT (training of trainer)  Select and provide TOT (training of trainer) to 35 girls, 35 boys, 15 teachers and 15 women from each district Provide training license to 25 girls, 25 boys, 10 teachers and 10 women from each district The groups who have undertaken the TOT training girls, boys, teachers and women will in turn train an estimated 58000 beneficiaries (girl, boys, women and parents) in the targeted districts..   Scope of work and deliverables: This position will liaison between the schools, women from refugee community, parents and the trainers which includes girls, boys, women and teachers in the targeted district. He/She will ensure that the target and objectives of the project of are met in terms of training estimated 58,000 beneficiaries. Key deliverables The District Coordinator will have the following duties and responsibilities: Co-ordinate and liaise with the Figthback’s head office to conduct the TOT program  Conduct a background check of the selected TOT candidates from girls, boy, teachers and women group. Collect information about the processes and services provided by organizations such as OCMC and other relevant organizations in the district. Liaise with OCMC focal person and person from other relevant organizations to participate and provide information to the trainees in the TOT program. Select schools for the master trainers (graduates the TOT program) and build a pipeline of training events.  Coordinate with schools, women from refugee community and parents for the training which are the destinations of the training.  Make a list of training for the master trainers from the girls, boys, women from refugee community and teachers Assign the number of trainees to the master trainers Fix the date of training with schools, women from refugee communities and parents Communicate with the girls, boys, women and teacher master trainers about the specifics of the events.  Supervise the training conducted by master trainer from the following group. girls, boys, women and teachers Track the performance of the master trainers Make a report of the training event. Co-ordinate and liaise with the Figthback’s head office on the events Support the Fightback visiting team for training and supervision activities.  Duration of Assignment The period of employment will be for a period of 8 months effective from contract signing date.  Payment Procedures and Method The payment will be based on the budget for this project and as per contract. Payment will be made per month Intellectual Property  The employee will be work for hire. Therefore, all planning and work products and all final outputs of this project will be the property of Fightback. Except for purposes of this assignment, no information about the project may be disclosed or used by the consultant without the written permission of the Fightback. Logistics and Quality Assurance Procedures The district coordinator is required to set out their approach to ensuring complete compliance with international good practice about ethics and protocols particularly about safeguarding children, vulnerable groups and those in fragile and conflict-affected states.  Consideration should be given to: Administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect the confidentiality of those participating in the News and Article related issues; DO NO HARM to any lingual, sex, culture and sovereignty with the content; Data protection and secure maintenance procedures for personal information; Age-appropriate assent processes based on reasonable assumptions about comprehension for the ages of children they intend to involve in the documentary.