Training and Capacity Development Officer

CREASION has been around since 2005. We started small, we got loud, and over the last two decades, we have grown into one of Nepal’s most committed organizations working on circular economy, plastic waste, climate action, and youth empowerment.

Today, we collect roughly 500 tonnes of plastic every month. We work shoulder to shoulder with more than 4,500 informal waste workers. We run Nepal’s largest private PET recycling enterprise. We sit at policy tables with concerned government line ministries, and we partner with various bilateral and multilateral donors, international foundations, and academic institutions working on plastic, climate, and circular economy.

But none of that matters if the people we work with, including children in schools, youth in municipalities, waste workers in scrap yards, women in informal markets, and ward officials in local government, do not have the knowledge, the skills, and the confidence to carry the work forward when we are not in the room.

That is the gap we are hiring you to fill.

Job Title: Training and Capacity Development Officer
Reports to: Program Manager
Work Station: Kathmandu, with frequent field travel to project sites across Bagmati, Madhesh, Lumbini, and other provinces
Duration: One year, renewable based on performance and project continuity

What you will actually do:

Forget the vague job description language. Here is the honest version.

• Design and deliver training programs for very different audiences in very different settings. A classroom of grade 7 students one week, a group of waste workers in a sorting facility the next, ward level government officials after that, and a cohort of fellowship participants the week after.
• Build curriculum that does not put people to sleep. Translate concepts like “extended producer responsibility,” “value chain,” and “circular economy” into language a 12 year old understands and a municipal officer takes seriously.
• Spend real time in the field. Not Zoom calls. Not workshop hotels. You will be in schools in Chitwan, scrap yards in Birgunj, ward offices in Lumbini, and community halls wherever our projects need you.
• Train children and youth on plastic pollution, waste segregation, climate change, and circular economy, and make them want to come back the next day.
• Work with informal waste workers on occupational safety, fair pricing, formalization, and dignity at work. Sit with them, eat with them, and listen before you teach.
• Build the capacity of local government officials, school teachers, women’s groups, and SMEs on waste management systems, EPR compliance, and behaviour change.
• Document everything. Pre and post training assessments, attendance, photos, learning outcomes, what worked, what flopped, and what to fix next time.
• Mentor our two new fellowship cohorts, the Climate Smart Fellowship and the Waste Smart Fellowship, and help shape young people who will, hopefully, take our jobs one day.
• Write training reports that funders actually read, not ones that get filed and forgotten.

Who are we looking for?

You will fit here if:

• You care about the environment in a way that goes beyond Instagram captions. You can name the rivers in Nepal that are choking on plastic. You know which municipalities are doing waste management well and which are not.
• You have a Bachelor’s degree (Master’s preferred) in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Development Studies, Education, Social Work, or a related field.
• You have at least 3 years of hands on experience designing and delivering trainings, ideally with a mix of audiences (children, youth, community groups, government, private sector).
• You can write a curriculum from scratch and you can also adapt one on the spot when the projector dies and half the participants did not eat lunch.
• You speak Nepali fluently and write in both Nepali and English. Knowledge of regional languages (Maithili, Bhojpuri, Awadhi, Tharu) is a serious advantage.
• You are comfortable on a bus, on a bike, on the back of a tractor, in a scrap yard, in a school assembly, and in front of a Joint Secretary. Same person. Same week.
• You understand that capacity building is not a one day workshop with a banner and a tea break. It is slow, repetitive, and only measured years later.
• You have integrity. You do not pad attendance sheets. You do not recycle the same training deck for five different audiences and call it done.

You will not fit here if:

• You think field work means visiting a project site once a quarter for photographs.
• You need everything to be polished, comfortable, and on schedule.
• You believe waste workers, Majhi communities, Musahar communities, and others on the margins are subjects of your project rather than partners in it.
• You are looking for a stepping stone to your next job and have already mentally checked out.

What we offer:

• A salary that is competitive within Nepal’s NGO sector and negotiable based on your experience.
• A team that argues hard, laughs harder, and actually likes coming to work.
• Travel across Nepal to places you will not see as a tourist.
• Real exposure to national policy spaces, international donor partnerships, and the private recycling sector through Creasion Ventures.
• The chance to build something that outlasts you.

Interested candidates are requested to submit their CV and cover letter to jobs@creasion.org by May 10, 2026. For more details, visit www.creasion.org .

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