WHR founder Lily Thapa officially sworn in as the member of NHRC

Lily Thapa, Founder of Women for Human Rights, single women group (WHR) and President of Sankalpa has been elected as a Member of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). She was administered the oath of office and secrecy at a swearing-in ceremony among other newly-appointed office bearers of constitutional bodies at Sheetal Niwas, the President’s Office, on Wednesday (3 February 2021).

This adds to the list of a series of awards and recognitions Thapa has received at both national and international levels for her commitment towards safeguarding the rights of single women (especially widows) in the country and empowering them for dignified life via different means of socioeconomic support.

Women’s rights are the fundamental human rights, which are also officially recognized and endorsed by the United Nations and the international community. WHR, under Thapa’s leadership, has been persistently advocating and working to secure the fundamental rights of single women like the right to live free from violence, slavery, and discrimination; right to have proper education; right to own property; right to vote; and right to earn a fair and equal wage along with taking initiatives to guarantee their other civil and political rights. Thapa and her team at WHR have come a long way achieving a notable success in this regard through persistent collaboration with different governmental and non-governmental stakeholders, thus making the entire team deserve national and international felicitations.

Vacancy Announcement

In this context, WHR is seeking for a full time Strategic Officer in order to register the new federation, develop a strategic plan with policy and guidelines, and strengthen a provincial network in all the seven provinces of Nepal with its main office in Kathmandu.

Objective, Assignments and Deliverables:

The Strategic Officer for this task should be dedicated and directed towards development and establishment of the Women's NGO Federation, strategic support towards the Sankalpa which is Secretariat of the Women NGO Federation.

Objective/s:

Facilitate to establish Woman NGO Federation and organize a strategy process with full coordination at Sankalpa the secretariat of the federation.

Key activities under the assignment:

The Strategic Officer will, conduct the following tasks in close coordination with the executives of federation and secretariat.

Consultation and the inputs required in the registration process
Facilitate the tasks as a top level management providing proper guidance at the secretariat and represent secretariat also in different networks and the meetings
Create a liaison between the Secretariat and the Executive committee of the federation for the proper flow of information and intervention
Proper knowhow of the plans to strengthen the provincial as well as district level networks of the federation
Envision a five year plan by reviewing, analyzing, strength, and strategic opportunities with members of the federation and priorities the strategic direction of the federation
Maintain a proper communication channel and communication with the executive committee to develop and update of policies, laws, and plans related to Gender issues.

Deliverables:

The Strategic Officer is expected to deliver following deliverables to the federation

Proper documentation of the completed registration of the federation and the strategic documents for the policies, plan and complete guidelines.
The strategic document with the proper SWOC analysis and the different plan of actions for next few years in coordination and communication with the executive committee.
The resources and the technical support towards the network ahead is mapped out and well coordinated.
The organizational members are well informed and capacitated with network functioning modality to pursue the core values of federation at all level
The action plan vs. progress details are prepared quarterly for the sharing and the feedback.

Selection criteria:

Knowledge:

Masters in Social Science or relevant field
Minimum 5 years of experience on strategy development, on the women movement of Nepal

Skills:

Good interpersonal communications skills
Ability to work as a team player
Self- management skills and strong interpersonal skills
Proficiency in written and spoken English language.
Proficiency in computer skills for the tasks assigned.
Willingness to travel in the different places of country.

Attitudes:

High level of integrity
Ability to perform unsupervised
Organized and systematic approach to work

Timeline:

The Strategic Officer will be hired for a time period of one year with the possibility of extension.

Point of Contact:

The organizational email info@sankalpa.org.np/ mail@whr.org.np will be the point of contact for this Strategic Officer’s service.

Place of Assignment:

Services will be delivered at the office of Sankalpa the secretariat of the Women NGO Federation.

Applying Procedure:

Please send a motivation letter (not more than 1 page) and a recent CV including examples of previous work in related area/s with at least two references to hr_mail@whr.org.np before 1st July.