Deputy Agriculture Lead
Position Circumstances
- Career Category: Exec. / Management, Economics, Business Administration
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: Negotiable
Reports to: Agriculture Lead
Location: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Duration: One year, with the possibility of extension
Employment Type: Full-time employment
Eligibility: Cambodian citizens or residents only
Position Summary
The Deputy Agriculture Lead reports to the Agriculture Team Lead. The Deputy supports the management of CAPRED’s Agriculture Domain, with a strong focus on technical quality, analytical rigour, and the development of innovative, market-driven solutions.
The Deputy provides technical oversight of interventions, ensuring that CAPRED’s agriculture portfolio delivers evidence-based, inclusive, and climate-resilient outcomes. The role includes supporting the team on the technical aspects of intervention design, implementation, and monitoring.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Leadership and Coordination
- Ensure the effective integration of agricultural initiatives with CAPRED’s overall objectives and cross-cutting priorities.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to Investment Managers and Officers to strengthen analytical, strategic, and operational capabilities.
- Contribute to work planning, budgeting, and reporting, ensuring quality, coherence, and alignment with CAPRED’s performance framework.
- Represent CAPRED in meetings, workshops, and forums with government, private sector, and development partners when delegated.
- Model ethical behaviour and uphold Australia’s and CAPRED’s reputation in line with DFAT’s Code of Conduct.
- Technical and Analytical Responsibilities
- Lead sector and market analyses to identify trends, challenges, and opportunities for innovation and investment.
- Provide technical quality assurance across concept notes, intervention designs, partnership proposals, and intervention guides.
- Design, test, and refine market-driven interventions that improve productivity, enhance competitiveness, inclusivity and promote climate resilience.
- Identify systemic constraints and facilitate public–private collaboration to address bottlenecks and create inclusive market growth.
- Support the design of output-based and milestone-based contracts, ensuring technical soundness and value for money.
- Work closely with the Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) team to develop indicators, assess impact, and scale successful interventions.
- Contribute technical insights to communications products, learning briefs, and stakeholder updates.
- Compliance and Integration
- Ensure all agricultural interventions comply with Australian and Cambodian laws, as well as CAPRED, Cowater, and DFAT standards on governance, child protection, anti-fraud, and inclusion.
- Embed GEDSI, climate resilience, and environmental sustainability into all technical and operational activities.
- Coordinate with cross-cutting teams to ensure consistent and integrated approaches across domains.
- Work in a way that promotes social inclusion and gender equality, is sensitive to cultural and gender issues in Cambodia, and is disability inclusive.
- Commitment to championing gender, equality, disability and social inclusion across the Facility
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Build and maintain strong relationships with government counterparts, private sector partners, development agencies, and research institutions.
- Facilitate partnerships that foster innovation, investment, and inclusive growth in Cambodia’s agricultural sector.
- Represent CAPRED in relevant working groups, technical committees, and public forums to share evidence and lessons learned.
Expected Profile of Candidates
Languages:
- English - Fluent
Qualifications:
- Master's Degree in economics, agribusiness, development studies, or a related field, or equivalent.
Work History:
- Experience in agricultural development, private sector engagement, or market systems development for 5 years as a minimum
Skills & Knowledge:
General & Technical Skills
- Excellent command of English (oral and written), with strong analytical and communication skills.
- Proven experience in project design, implementation, and quality assurance within complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Demonstrated skills in research, analysis, and problem-solving with the ability to translate findings into actionable solutions.
- Strong interpersonal and mentoring abilities, with a collaborative and learning-oriented mindset.
- Experience building relationships with private sector actors, government, and development partners.
- Commitment to CAPRED’s values of inclusion, integrity, and innovation.
