Child Rights Governance Project Officer
- Career Category: Social Work, Law, Child Protection
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: Negotiable
Role Purpose
Save the Children Cambodia has received funding from SIDA CSO Programme through Save the Children Sweden for a period of three years and three months, from October 2025 to December 2028. The project aims to ensure that all children’s rights are fully realized and respected, enabling every child to survive, learn, and be protected. This will be achieved by empowering civil society actors, including children, to claim civic space and strengthen their capacity to hold duty-bearers accountable for the equitable fulfillment of children’s rights. The project also provides funding to CSO partners to deliver results in monitoring and influencing child rights in Cambodia.
The Child Rights Governance (CRG) Project Officer is responsible for coordinating and providing technical support to Civil Society Organization (CSO) partners for a specific project on CSO Strengthening. His/her role is to support partners and implement their collective and respective interventions in promoting and monitoring child rights as well as influencing duty bearers to fulfil their duties towards the UNCRC. The post holder will work closely with the partners in planning, budgeting, implementing, monitoring, reporting of high-quality delivery of the project outputs, outcomes and impact for child rights in compliance with Save the Children’s policies and donors’ requirements.
The CRG project Officer works with CRG Project Manager, CRG and Child Protection advisor, Advocacy Advisor, MEAL team and other CRG officers for strengthening programme quality perspectives and institutional capacity of the CSO partners with gradually a shifting power to enhance leadership of the partners to become change makers in monitoring and influencing decisions for child rights.
The CRG project Officer is responsible for mainstreaming and implementing crosscutting themes, including gender and disability inclusion, climate resilience and child safeguarding throughout the project cycle.
Contract length: Unspecified Duration Contract (UDC).
- International mentoring and professional development to support your growth and career aspirations
- Group personal accident insurance for staff member and in-patient health insurance for staff member and their dependents
- Provident fund (10%), seniority indemnity payment, 13th month salary, medical allowance, and phone card allowance
- 26 weeks full pay of maternity leave and 2 weeks full day of paternity leave
- Full Government public holidays and 18 days annual leave
- Working hour is 37.50 per week from Monday to Friday
- Flexible working hours
- English - Fluent
- Bachelor's Degree in Social Sciences, Law, Development Studies, Human Rights, Legal Studies, or another relevant field is required. Extensive and substantive practical experience may be considered in lieu of a formal degree.
- Relevant work experience in child right governance, child protection, preferably in the advocacy of children’s rights for 3 to 5 years
- Strong understanding of UNCRC, UPR, decentralization and de-concentration guidelines, child rights reporting, good governance, social accountability, and related policies.
- Proven experience strengthening the capacity of CSO partners, gradually a shifting power, and coordinating CSOs and duty bearers at both national and sub-national levels.
- Good understanding of child rights and child participation concepts and approaches.
- Exceptional facilitation and presentation skills (considered a strong advantage).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Excellent conceptualization and critical thinking skills.
- Strong abilities in teamwork, coordination, networking, and advocacy.
- Ability and willingness to travel throughout the country.
- Commitment to abide by Save the Children International’s Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct.
