With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Here’s where you come in:

World Vision International Nepal is seeking a Chief of Party (CoP) for the anticipated five years Nepal Early Recovery, Risk Reduction, and Resilience (ER4) Activity- BHA MYAPS. The project focuses on building the capacity of Nepal’s most vulnerable and disaster-prone communities to mitigate, withstand, and recover from disasters. The main purpose of the project is to strengthen Community-Level DRR Interventions: Support preparedness, resilience, and capacity building for vulnerable and remote communities; Capacity Building of Government of Nepal: Strengthen the disaster management capabilities of subnational government entities and improve coordination across all tiers.

As the Chief of Party, you will have overall responsibility for the leadership and management of all grant activities and staff. You will be responsible for strategic planning and decision making, technical guidance and overall oversight of the program and will serve as the principal institutional liaison to donor and local government entities.

You will manage the project team, lead the engagement with stakeholders and ensure quality, timeliness, and efficiency of all products and activities generated under the grant. You will also provide strategic leadership and supervision of sub-grantees while ensuring the security, feasibility, and sustainability of the project.

*The position is contingent upon funding and donor approval.

Requirements include:

• A Master’s degree in related field (Development studies, international relations, Disaster Management, Agriculture/Livelihood/Food Security) or equivalent qualifications
• Required minimum of 7 years of progressively increasing management responsibility in international humanitarian and development projects, at least 5 years of which must be field based.
• Previous Chief of Party, Deputy Chief of Party. or senior management experience in Early Recovery, Risk Reduction, and Resilience.
• Proven exceptional leadership in the design, management, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of similar-sized international donor-supported programs, with skills in strategic planning and thinking, management, supervision and budgeting, and experience managing complex activities involving coordination with multiple program partner institutions.
• Prior experience working in South Asia, familiarity with Nepal’s DRR governance, social, political, economic, and cultural landscape, and demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with host governments, donors, other donor-funded projects and stakeholders, local organisations, and partners.
• Ability to travel within and outside the country as required