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WWF Nepal

Project Assistant

WWF Nepal
Location: Parsa
Salary: Negotiable
Posted Date: 2026-02-23 Deadline: 2026-03-05
  • Nos. of Opening : Few
  • Location : Parsa
  • Experience : 1 year +
  • Qualification Degree : A Bachelor’s degree in Forestry or any related field.
  • Salary : Negotiable
  • Category : Project
  • Nature : Full Time
Job Description

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

Technical backstopping

  • Provide technical guidance and expertise for effective communities and stakeholders’ engagement in the project area.
  • Directly responsible for the roll-out of social behavior change (SBC) measures for HTC-affected communities to reduce exposure to HTC risks and increase empathy for wildlife conservation.

Capacity Building

  • Support in training local communities/farmers/user group members in the management of the forest of the buffer zone.
  • Support in strengthening the local communities/farmers/user group members' capacity in livelihood activities.

Planning

  • Support the planning process by bringing the voices of the vulnerable community and their adaptation needs during annual workplan finalization.
  • Engage in local communities, government, and stakeholders' planning process to integrate habitat management, livelihood, and minimize pressure in PAs and human wildlife mitigation actions, and share project best practices and learning.
  • Support local municipalities in integrating human-wildlife mitigation activities in their annual plans.

Project Implementation

  • Facilitate local communities and other key stakeholders from buffer zone areas to ensure that activities are planned and executed in line with the project’s established processes and guidelines.
  • Support in the overall implementation of project activities across all components.          
  • Support in organizing workshops, training, and periodic planning meetings/sessions.
  • Support for preparing grants and contracts.

Coordination

  • Coordinate and communicate with local stakeholders and project partners.
  • Support in logistic arrangements and coordination for PCC meetings and PSC meetings.
  • Coordinate with contractors/consultants for the timely completion of activities and submission of reports.

Reporting and Documentation

  • Support the Project Officer in the preparation of semi-annual and annual project progress reports (PPR), mainly in data collection and learnings from field activity implementation.
  • Support Gender Equality & Social Inclusion (GESI) and Safeguards staff to ensure documentation of all safeguards-related activities, including Grievance Redress Mechanisms (GRM).
  • Support the Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning (MEL) and Communications Officer to ensure that communication and learning materials are developed, and success stories are documented and published.

Inclusive Conservation

  • Support in identifying and integrating GESI and environmental and social safeguards provisions and activities in finalizing the annual work plan.
  • Support in identifying and integrating the voice, knowledge, skills, and values of indigenous peoples and local communities, and ensuring they benefit from project efforts and activities.

Other Duties

This job description outlines the main tasks and conveys the spirit of anticipated tasks. Other tasks may be assigned as necessary according to the project's needs.

Supervisory Responsibility: None

Job Specification

Qualifications

Knowledge: A Bachelor’s degree in Forestry or any related field. 

Experience: At least 1 year of experience in project implementation and local stakeholders’ engagement is required. Demonstrated expertise in local community engagement and stakeholder mobilization. Knowledge of integrated HWC interventions, including prevention, mitigation, response, and community engagement approaches is highly desirable. Knowledge of WWF Projects and GEF projects is preferred. Experience of working in national GEF projects will be an added advantage.

Skills and Abilities:

  • Strong coordination and facilitation skill.
  • Ability to work with diverse local communities.  
  • Attention to details and problem-solving skills.
  • Time management and adaptability.
  • Good skills in Microsoft office programs.
  • Strong communication skill with ability to prepare letters and documents in Nepali.
  • Ability to prioritize and work under time constraints.  

Additional Information

Interested applicants are requested to apply for the position by 17:00 hours on March 5, 2026.  Only shortlisted candidates will be informed. 

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Organization Summary

WWF is the world’s leading independent conservation organization originated from Switzerland in 1961 and currently running in more than 100 countries across 6 continents. The program started from conservation of wildlife to broader concept of building future where humans can live in harmony with nature. WWF has created 1,480 ecoregions that categorize the world into its natural ecosystems. Nepal with Bhutan, northeast India, southeast Tibet and northern Myanmar, falls under the Eastern Himalaya region housing the threatened species Snow Leopards, Bengal Tigers and One-horned Rhinos.

It was in 1967, WWF initiated WWF Nepal with a rhino conservation program in Chitwan. To keep up with the evolving face of conservation and environmental movement, WWF Nepal’s focus progressed from its localized efforts in conservation of single species in 1960s, integrated conservation and development approach in 1990s, to a new horizon of landscape level conservation encompassing national, regional and global scales of complexity in early 2000s.

Industry Type NGO / INGO / Social Work
Location Nepal Programme PO Box 7660 Baluwatar, Kathmandu, Nepal
Organization Size 50-100
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