Helen Keller Intl

Helen Keller has worked in Nepal since 1988 and is one of the longest-serving nutrition-focused INGOs in the country. The country office is in Kathmandu, with district and provincial presence tied to programme areas rather than fixed field offices. Nepal programme lines include integrated nutrition and health systems support to the Ministry of Health and Population, homestead food production and nutrition-sensitive agriculture (Nepal is where that model was refined before spreading to other countries), vitamin A and micronutrient programmes, infant and young child feeding, eye health and refractive services, and research and evaluation, with a strong history of operational research published with Nepali academic partners. Delivery runs through government structures and local NGOs, with Helen Keller staff providing technical assistance, monitoring, and evidence generation.

For Nepalese professionals, the Nepal team hires nutrition and public health specialists, programme managers and coordinators, agriculture and food systems officers, eye health and clinical advisers, monitoring, evaluation, and research officers (often with epidemiology or statistics backgrounds), and communications and knowledge management staff. Support roles cover finance, grants and compliance, HR, procurement, admin, and IT. Nearly all positions are national contracts, with a country director and occasional technical adviser at the expatriate level. Pay sits in the mid-to-upper INGO range, comparable to Save the Children and CARE, and contracts follow multi-year donor cycles. Research and evaluation posts are a distinctive feature because of the organisation's evidence orientation, and they open more often than at peer INGOs.