SayPro Information Management Support (IMS) Consulting Service

Vacancy Announcement

(First date of publication: 2079/02/04-18th May 2022)

(Second date of publication: 2079/02/13-27th May 2022)

Social Awareness Centre (SAC) Nepal is a NGO dedicated to upholding the rights of marginalized and excluded communities through its interventions on Health, Education, Livelihood, Protection and Disaster Management, and Climate Change including Organizational Development. It works with a vision for a capable and prosperous society for the quality of life of women, children, and adolescents. 

Project Summary

Due to geographic and other vulnerabilities, each year Nepal faces substantial disturbance and damage in the education sector due to diverse kinds of hazards impacting children’s rights to access to education and continuation of quality learning achievements. Nepal continues to face frequent disasters such as floods, landslides, fires, earthquakes, and disease outbreaks like cholera, dengue, and now, the COVID-19. The education sector is vulnerable to natural disasters, as they can result in damage or destruction of learning facilities and materials, closures and the prolonged disruption of education, increased barriers to education, limited access to schooling, and impact on the quality of education. The COVID-19 pandemic-led school closures have posed challenges in children’s learning continuity. The COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of all about 35,000 schools in Nepal, for 8 months which impacted the learning loss of 8.3 million children in the first wave.                                                    

In aligning with the federal structure, the Constitution of Nepal (2015) has devolved the local government’s power and authority related to basic and secondary school education. The overall management of basic and secondary education is with the local governments, including emergency preparedness and response. In this light, European Union and UNICEF have collaborated to support the government for COVID19 education response initiatives, focusing on cluster capacity strengthening to equip education stakeholders responsible for preparedness and response to combat all kinds of emergencies to enhance the resilience of school education.

Implementation of Minimum Package of the Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) is the priority agenda of government and development partners in Nepal. EU and UNICEF have collaborated to support the government for Education cluster strengthening initiatives that also address the education covid responses.  This support will be extended through TA support.  To support these initiatives UNICEF has established partnerships with the Mercy Corps and NSET to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Education and Science (MoEST) and Centre for Education Human Resource Development (CEHRD) at federal, provincial, and local levels. These partnerships envision the capacity to strengthen federal and cluster partners of all seven provinces, update and develop the Cluster corresponding guidance, tools, and training packages and disseminate it to all three tiers of the governments and clusters partners. The developed guidance, tools, and techniques will be initially disseminated to 80 LGs in Madesh, Karnali, and Sudur Pashchim provinces and eventually disseminate to all the local governments. Mercy Corps will be overseeing the development of the guidance, tools and techniques in 30LGs in Karnali and Sudurpaschim province. Strong and robust cluster mechanism aligning with the national disaster laws and guidelines contribute to reducing further learning loss due to any disturbance, natural hazard, and pandemics. 

SAC Nepal is going to implement a potential project “Supporting the response to the COVID-19 crisis in the education sector: Strengthening Education Clusters at Federal, Provincial and Local Governments” in 18 rural/urban municipalities of 6 districts of Karnali Province. The goal of the project is “To reduce disparities in educational outcomes for children in basic and secondary education during the COVID-19 response/ early recovery and school reopening in the Nepal education sector.”

Thus, SAC invites applications from qualified, professional interested Nepali candidates for the following full-time positions.

Advertisement No.: 14/2078/079

Position: Information Management Support (IMS) Officer 

Required No.: 1 (One) 

Appointment Type: Full Time (Short term with possibility of extension)

Duty Station: Province concern Ministry (Karnali Province)   

Preferred Qualifications and Experience: Bachelor’s degree in information technology/Computer Science/Social Science with 

minimum 3 -years’ in data management or similar field. Nepali and English language in speaking, reading, writing and typing are required. Familiar with computer software: Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook. Data storage and handling of program data in Excel, SPSS is desirable as well as documentation and information management skills.

Key SayPro: 

• Work closely with provincial cluster coordinator and support to develop monitoring tools for provincial and local level coordination and maintain training database of the province and local educational clusters.
• Develop tools/templates and maintain a disaggregated database of attendance of coordination meetings/workshops, meeting minutes and establish a system of reporting in cluster structure. 
• Take the lead to establish provincial educational portal in coordination with federal educational cluster.
• Support expertise to analyse provincial and local level data (learning loss) to support ERO and CEHRD for comprehensive assessment of learning loss. 
• Maintain database of activities such as psychosocial support, children received telephone-based support, parenting education and stock piling of self-learning materials of provinces disaggregated by gender, sex and vulnerability wherever applicable.
• Analyse EMIS and contingency plan data to identify children at risk and support LGs to include such children in the Welcome to school campaign and maintain capacity development database at provincial level on such targeted interventions. 
• Strengthen data and information management (IM) within the provincial education cluster at all levels. This involves collecting data during an emergency (as per need), regular monitoring of school status within the province, maintenance of the established system for tracking data on district and local level clusters
• Work closely with DRR Section Information management officer and UNCT Cluster Information Management officer and other relevant cluster IMOs (especially WASH, Protection) to maintain, update and verify data and information in the 4 W (Who, What, Where, for Whom) and producing regular 3W analysis products (including maps).
• Training partners and government officials on Information Management tools and processe.
• Work with the provincial and local education departments and sections to support and strengthen the EMIS system about emergency preparedness and response. 
• Contribute on information management on COVID 19 related preparedness and response actions. 
• Provide technical support to the Local level education cluster on strengthen data and information management (IM). 
• Perform other duties as assigned

Interested candidates are encouraged to apply with their current CV with at least 2 reference and application letter with other related documents (Citizenship, educational related documents, related documents and other) to the email address sacnepalskt@gmail.com addressing to SAC Nepal or submit the hard copy to SAC Nepal Head Office Birendranagar, Surkhet within 2079/02/17 (31th May 2022) office hour. Contact: +977-083 521282 

Please indicate the position title while applying for on the subject of your application. Preference will be given to the local candidates. Candidate from dis group and women are encouraged to apply.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. All rights reserved with organization for this employee recruitment. 

Contact Details

Social Awareness Center (SAC) Nepal

Birendranagar-12, Surkhet

Phone: 083 521282 

Email: sacnepalskt@gmail.com