Senior Policy Advisor

Governance Facility
Location: Kathmandu with frequent visits to the field
Salary: Negotiable
Posted Date: 2017-03-15 Deadline: 2017-03-31
Job Description

Required Experience and Competencies

  • Minimum 15 years of relevant experience, of which at least seven performing functions as a policy advisor to Senior Management.
  • Significant experience in governance policy areas related to accountable, responsive, and inclusive governance.
  • Experience with regard to state restructuring, decentralization, and constitutional reform will be a distinct advantage.
  • Proven capacity to influence policy development processes and decisionmaking.
  • Thorough understanding of Nepali national and sub-national political dynamics and history.
  • Proven access to a wide network of relevant actors, including policy-makers and stakeholders involved in diverse reform processes.
  • Fluent in written and spoken Nepali and English. Knowledge of any other major national language will be considered a distinct advantage.
  • Demonstrated capacity to carry out high level policy analysis and writing.
  • Demonstrated capacity to interact constructively and sensitively with actors at all levels and segments of society. 
  • Experience with stakeholder mapping, preparing policy briefs and trend analysis.
  • Demonstrated capacity to work dynamically as a team player and leader with an interest in working in a matrix management system.
  • Willingness to provide technical support to GF team members and partners

TOR Sr. policy advisor Final-2017

APPLICATION FORM-Sr. Policy Advisor

Apply Instructions

You are requested to submit a) a completed form b) your application letter and c) an updated CV latest by 5 p.m., 31 March 2017, via email to job@gfnepal.org with the applied "position" as the subject line. Only shortlisted applicants will be notified of their status.

Undue influence at any stage of the processes will lead to automatic disqualification.

GF welcomes and encourages applications from women and traditionally marginalised group.

Governance Facility Nepal

Baluwatar

PO BOX: 21800 Kathmandu

Tel: +977-1-4432131/4432348

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Organization Summary

he Governance Facility (GF) is a new initiative of the Embassies of Denmark and Switzerland, and the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) in agreement with the Government of Nepal. This arrangement is embedded in a bilateral agreement signed in December 2013 between the Government of Nepal and the Embassy of Denmark, which foresees the development of a joint donor facility to manage coherent, harmonized and coordinated funding support in line with the Aid Effectiveness Agenda (Paris Declaration, Accra Agenda for Action and Busan Partnership). 

Industry Type NGO / INGO / Social Work
Location Panipokhari, Lazimpat, Kathmandu
Organization Size 1-10
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