Women’s Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC) Vacancy for Psychosocial Counselor and Resilience Centre Coordinator

Duty Station : Feminist Resource Centre (FRC), Udayapur District, Nepal

Employment Type: Full-time

Reports To : Chairperson / Designated Supervisor

Background

The Feminist Resource Centre (FRC) is a women-led feminist initiative (non-governmental organization) established to strengthen the resilience, well-being, safety, and collective care of Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs), including feminist activists from cisgender, transgender, and non-binary community. The Centre serves as a safe, inclusive, healing, and recreational feminist space where women can connect, reflect, learn, recover from stress and burnout, and strengthen their individual and collective resilience. The FRC operates a Resilience Centre designed to promote psychosocial well-being, feminist healing practices, collective care, leadership development, and solidarity among the feminist activists from cisgender, transgender, and non-binary community. The Centre also serves as a platform for advocacy, networking, documentation, learning, and movement-building.

To ensure effective management and quality psychosocial support services, FRC seeks a qualified and committed Psychosocial Counselor and Resilience Centre Coordinator.

Position Summary

The Psychosocial Counselor and Resilience Centre Coordinator will lead the overall operation and management of the Resilience Centre. The position is responsible for providing psychosocial counseling services, promoting collective care and healing practices, coordinating programs and partnerships, documenting and reporting activities, mobilizing resources, and strengthening the sustainability of the Centre. The position requires a feminist professional with strong counseling skills, management experience, commitment to human rights, and a deep understanding of feminist values, intersectionality, trauma-informed care, and collective well-being.

Key Responsibilities

1. Psychosocial Counseling and Mental Health Support

• Provide individual psychosocial counseling services to Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs), including cisgender, transgender, and non-binary women activists, accessing the Centre.
• Conduct psychosocial assessments and identify support needs of individuals and groups.
• Develop individualized support and referral plans when required.
• Facilitate group counseling sessions, healing circles, peer-support sessions, and well-being workshops.
• Apply trauma-informed, survivor-centered, and feminist approaches in counseling services.
• Maintain confidentiality, ethical standards, and professional counseling practices.
• Establish and maintain referral pathways with mental health professionals, health institutions, legal aid providers, and support services.
• Document counseling sessions and maintain secure records in accordance with organizational policies.

2. Management and Coordination of the Resilience Centre

• Lead the overall planning, coordination, and management of the Resilience Centre.
• Ensure the Centre remains a safe, welcoming, and accessible feminist space for learning, healing, recreation, and collective care.
• Develop annual and periodic operational plans for Centre activities.
• Coordinate workshops, retreats, learning exchanges, wellness activities, and other resilience-building initiatives.
• Maintain operational systems, schedules, records, and administrative processes of the Centre.
• Ensure effective utilization and maintenance of Centre resources and facilities.
• Coordinate logistical arrangements for visitors, participants, and program activities.

3. Strengthening Collective Care and Feminist Healing Practices

• Design and implement collective care strategies for WHRDs and feminist activists.
• Promote feminist well-being, self-care, collective care, resilience, and burnout prevention approaches.
• Facilitate safe spaces for dialogue, reflection, solidarity, and mutual support.
• Develop innovative approaches and resources related to feminist healing and psychosocial well-being.
• Support the integration of care and well-being principles across organizational programs and activities.

4. Stakeholder Coordination and Networking

• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with government agencies, local governments, civil society organizations, women’s rights networks, human rights organizations, mental health service providers, and development partners.
• Represent FRC in meetings, forums, consultations, and relevant coordination mechanisms.
• Strengthen partnerships that contribute to the sustainability and impact of the organization.
• Coordinate visits, learning exchanges, and networking opportunities with relevant stakeholders.

5. Documentation, Monitoring, and Reporting

• Maintain accurate records of counseling services, activities, outcomes, and achievements.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, annual, and donor reports.
• Document lessons learned, case studies, good practices, and success stories.
• Support monitoring, evaluation, and learning processes related to Centre interventions.
• Contribute to organizational knowledge management and evidence generation on feminist care and resilience.

6. Resource Mobilization and Fundraising

• Identify funding opportunities relevant to psychosocial support, feminist movements, women human rights defenders, and resilience initiatives.
• Contribute to resource mobilization efforts through donor mapping and networking.
• Lead and support proposal development and concept note writing.
• Coordinate with existing and potential funding partners.
• Contribute to developing sustainability strategies for the Centre.

7. Organizational Responsibilities

• Uphold feminist values, principles, and organizational policies.
• Ensure safeguarding, confidentiality, and ethical standards in all interventions.
• Participate in organizational planning, learning, and review processes.
• Perform other relevant duties assigned by the organization.

Required Qualifications

Education

• Master’s Degree in Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychosocial Counseling, or a related field from a recognized university.

Experience

• Minimum of three (3) years of professional experience in psychosocial counseling, mental health support, or related fields.
• Demonstrated experience in office management, program coordination, or management of community-based initiatives.
• Experience facilitating group processes, trainings, workshops, or healing sessions.
• Experience working with women, survivors of violence, human rights defenders, marginalized communities, or feminist organizations is highly preferred.
• Experience in proposal writing, donor engagement, and resource mobilization will be considered an asset.

Personal and Professional Competencies

• Strong commitment to feminist values, gender justice, and human rights.
• Belief in and support for feminist activism and movement building.
• High level of empathy, integrity, and emotional intelligence.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and ethical standards.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Flexibility and willingness to travel when required.
• Ability to work with people from diverse social, cultural, and political backgrounds.

Languages

• Excellent communication skills in Nepali.
• Good written and spoken English.

Remuneration

• Salary and benefits will be provided according to organizational policies and experience of the selected candidate.

Equal Opportunity

Women of diversity, particularly WHRD, feminist activists, women from marginalized communities, and other excluded groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

Send us your cv and application at info@feministresource.org.np within 15 June 2026.

The organization is committed to feminist principles, diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity in employment.

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