In this paper, we investigate the application of the Homotopy Pertur-bation Method (HPM) for solving a one-dimensional nonlinear inverse heatconduction problem. In this problem the thermal conductivity term is a lin-ear function with respect to unknown heat temperature in bounded interval. Furthermore, the temperature histories are unknown at the end point of theinterval. This problem is ill-posed. So, using the nite di erence scheme anddiscretizing the time interval, the partial di erential equation is reduced intoa System of Nonlinear Ordinary Di erential Equations (SNODE's). Then, using HPM, the approximated solution of the obtained Ordinary Di eren-tial Equation (ODE) system is determined. In the sequel, the stability andconvergence conditions of the proposed method are investigated. Finally, anupper bound of the error is provided.