Capacity Development Advisor
Position Circumstances
- Career Category: Capacity development, Educate/Train/Teaching, Advisor / Individual Consultant
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: Negotiable
Duties & Responsibilities:
- The main duties of the position include:.
- Lead the design, implementation, and monitoring of capacity-building initiatives aimed at strengthening service provision systems, with a focus on inclusivity, climate sensitivity, and digitalization.
- Contribute directly to improving practitioner competencies
- Foster peer learning ecosystems to enhance Development Management (DM) service delivery.
- The Capacity Development Advisor performs the following tasks in the area of:
- Capacity Development Strategy & Implementation.
- Lead the design and operationalization of a comprehensive capacity development strategy that aligns with overall programme objectives and supports improved DM service provision.
- Develop, adapt, and institutionalize training modules across relevant sectors, ensuring they are practical and directly support District and Municipal practitioners in delivering services that are inclusive, climate-sensitive, Digitally enabled
- Ensure all training content is context-specific, demand-driven, and tailored to the needs of practitioners, enhancing usability and application in day-to-day service delivery.
- Development of Training Modules
- Lead and collaborate with technical experts for the creation, adaptation, and rollout of standardized training curricula and materials.
- Collaborate with technical experts to integrate best practices and innovations.
- Facilitate Training of Trainers (ToT) to support institutionalization and scalability.
- Ensure training modules are effectively integrated and embedded within partner institutions to promote long-term sustainability and adoption.
- Collect and analyze feedback from training participants to assess usefulness and effectiveness and continuously improve learning approaches and materials.
- Strengthening Peer Learning Networks
- Support the establishment and operationalizing peer learning networks focused on key aspects of DM service provision, enabling knowledge exchange and continuous professional development among practitioners.
- Support to facilitate regular knowledge exchange sessions (workshops, webinars, communities of practice).
- Promote cross-learning, documentation of best practices, and knowledge sharing among practitioners.
- Support network governance, coordination, and sustainability mechanisms.
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL)
- Develop tools to assess effectiveness and usability of training modules.
- Track and report on:
- Number of operational peer learning networks
- Number of practitioners who find training modules useful for their work
- Conduct feedback surveys, learning assessments, and impact evaluations.
- Use data to continuously improve training approaches and learning platforms.
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Serve as the designated focal point for partner ministries and relevant institutions, ensuring effective coordination, communication, and timely implementation of programme activities
- Engage with government agencies, training institutions, and implementing partners to promote adoption of training modules.
- Build partnerships to strengthen institutional capacity development systems.
- Represent the program in technical working groups and relevant forums.
Expected Profile of Candidates
Languages:
- Khmer - Fluent
- English - Fluent
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Development Studies, Education, Public Administration, or related field.
Work History:
- Experience in capacity development, training design, or organizational development for 5 years as a minimum
Skills & Knowledge:
General & Technical Skills
- Proven experience in developing and institutionalizing training programs.
- Experience facilitating peer learning, communities of practice, or knowledge networks.
- Familiarity with inclusive development, climate change, and digital transformation is highly desirable.
- Monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) skills
- Experience of working with Government Agencies, International Organisations, Consultancies, Bi-lateral Agencies or NGOs active in the field of Governance, Good Governance
- Ability to work individually and as a team;
- Excellent spoken and written Khmer and English;
- Strong computer skills including good command of IT tools (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, MSTeam, Loop…. etc.)
- Good knowledge of government’s working procedures;
- Willingness to regularly travel within Cambodia;
Policy Advisors (3 Positions)
Position Circumstances
- Career Category: Advisor / Individual Consultant, Educate/Train/Teaching, Business Administration
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: Negotiable
Two (02) advisors with strong background and experience in decentralization reform, including SNA Administrative Structure, Organizational Development, Function Transfer).
One (01) advisor with strong background and experience in SNA Planning and Fiscal Decentralization.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- The main duties of the position include:
- Planning the programme’s activities;
- Communicating and coordinating with the partner institution (NCDDS), as well as relevant ministries and institutions, to ensure effective programme implementation;
- Technical and process advise to the partner institutions in conducting studies and developing policies;
- Technical and process advise to the partner institution in implementing approved policies and studies;
- Coordinating and facilitating capacity development interventions with the partner institution.
- The Policy Advisor performs the following tasks in the area of:
- Technical and Process Advise to Partner ministrites/Institutions
- Act as a designated focal person for the partner ministries/institutions, ensuring effective coordination of the Programme activity implementation;
- Provide technical and process advisory support on policy formulation, including reviewing and drafting policy documents, and facilitating technical discussions, stakeholder consultations, and validation workshops, within the framework of Sub-National Democratic Development (SNDD) Reform,
- Provide technical and process advisory support for reform - related studies and policy research initiatives;
- Provide technical support for the implementation of approved policies, including preparing dissemination activities, providing training and coaching to District and Municipality Advisors (DMAs) and/or Districts and Municipaly administrations as needed;
- Coordinate capacity development initiatives for partner ministires/institutions, including trainings, learning exchanges and study visits, ensuring that these interventions are tailored to their specific needs and effectively support reform implementation;
- Coordinate and facilitate policy dialogue processes, based on proposals submitted or proposed by sub-national administrations, insights gained from peer-learnings and the national forum;
- maintains regular communication with the Team Leader Fiscals, the Policy Advisors, DMAs and liaises with ISD staff to ensure vertical communication and coordination;
- Support the Programme in Activities Implementation
- Assist the programme in planning activities, including facilitating joint planning process with partner institutions, and updating the Programme’s Annual Operational Plan;
- Assist the programme in collecting data on the achievements and challenges of the Programme’s activities implementation for monitoring and evaluation purposes.
- Coordinate with administrative related staff and relevant units to process procurements (of goods, services and consultancies) in support of the programme’s activity implementation;
- Other Duties
- Assist the team leader and management team in coordinating administrative tasks with partner ministries/institutions, including scheduling meetings, drafting and sending correspondence, and managing other related activities;
- Assist the management team in preparing, coordinating and documenting the meetings of Programme Steering Committee (PSC), Technical Working Group (SNDD/TWG) and related meetings and workshops;
- Support the management team in updating and summarizing reform achievements and challenges, upon request from relevant development partners;
- Regularly communicate with the provincial team (esp. DMAs), ensuring effective implementation of approved policies and studies;
- Moderate and facilitate team meetings;
- Facilitates learning sessions, reflection meetings, and after-action reviews;
- Performs other duties and tasks at the request of management.
Expected Profile of Candidates
Languages:
- Khmer - Fluent
- English - Fluent
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Public Administration, Public Policy, Public Management, Education, Business Administration, and other related fields; (equivalent to BA or MBA)
Work History:
- At least of experience working in a similar position with a proven track record in the field of policy research and development for 5 years
Skills & Knowledge:
General & Technical Skills
- Experience with tasks related to advisory role
- Experience of working in the Decentralisation and Deconcentration Reform in Cambodia
- Experience of working with Government Agencies, International Organisations, Consultancies, Bi-lateral Agencies or NGOs active in the field of Governance, Good Governance
- Ideally experiences with coaching and mentoring skills.
- Ability to work individually and as a team;
- Excellent spoken and written Khmer and English;
- Strong computer skills including good command of IT tools (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, MSTeam, Loop…. etc.)
- Good knowledge of government’s working procedures;
- Willingness to travel in Cambodia, to daily work and if required stay overnight in partner districts of Battambang, Siem Reap and Banteay Meanchey Province.
