DRR & CCA Program Coordinator, and Senior Meal Officer

with Church World Service-Cambodia
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Job Announcement

BTDC-ID: 20262
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Announcement Positions

DRR & CCA Program CoordinatorSenior Meal Officer

Announcement Description

Church World Service (CWS) was founded in 1946 in the US and has been operating in Cambodia since 1979. CWS formally registered with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation as an international non-governmental and not—for-profit organization; working in partnership helping rural communities to transform through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement, and disaster. We work in three provinces: Battambang Kampong Thom and Preah Vihear. CWS is seeking for a qualified candidate for the position below:

Announcement Positions

DRR & CCA Program Coordinator Apply Now

  • Category: Social Work, Community Development, Rural development
  • Type : Job Opportunity
  • Location: Phnom Penh
  • Schedule: Full-time
  • Salary: Negotiable

Location: Based in Phnom Penh with regular travel to project location

JOB PURPOSE:

The Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation Program Coordinator (DRR/CCA Coordinator) will work closely with the Program Manager to properly plan, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of all DRR/CCA activities across CWS program area. S/he will provide capacity building on DRR/CCA to project partner staff, disaster management committees and relevant stakeholders. S/he will also support relevant program team and partners staff to develop work plan, implementation, organize meeting & training workshops, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting according to CWS and donors’ template and procedure. S/he will also be responsible to provide technical support to CWS and partners staff through field visit, meeting, coaching, and mentoring. S/he will as well assist Country Representative in maintaining good relationship, effective coordination and build networking with relevant key stakeholders including national and sub-national authorities.

Duties
  • Lead and implement DRR/CCA and Emergency Response in CWS Program and ensure that all donors’ requirements are maintained,
  • Provide regular project orientation and systematic guidance to Partners by conducting field/monitoring visits, mentoring, and coaching in the areas of DRR/CCA to ensure effective program implementations,
  • Coordinates the project implementation including activity delivery and financial management,
  • Supports CWS Program and Partners staff to strengthening the relevant stakeholder (Producer Group and local disaster management committee) on DRR/CCA and resilience technique,
  • Lead capacity assessment, prepares capacity development plans, provide capacity building support, coaching and monitoring on DRR/CCA for staff, partners and relevant stakeholders,
  • Delivers and facilitates trainings, workshops, and seminars on DRR/CCA and right based approaches,
  • Prepare field/monitoring visit, training course and workshop report,
  • Provide regular and sufficient update of the Project progress; produce quarterly, semi-annual and annual program reports including writing case studies, success stories, Most Significant Change and feature stories submitted to the Country Representative as per schedule,
  • Raising awareness and visibility of the projects and funding partners among and in-country network and peers,
  • Builds good relationship with relevant donors and partners to mobilize resources or fundraising for the project implementation,
  • Liaises and collaborates with UN agencies and other NGOs, Government ministries and other networks to tape resources and technical skills to ensure the effective implementation and services for the communities,
  • Represent CWS-Cambodia to government official, UN agencies and other NGOs on the area of emergency response and disaster preparedness or Disaster Risk Reduction,
  • Ensure that inclusive Projects/program implementation with equality, equity and takes gender issues and child protection fully into account.
Requirements
  • Education
  • University Degree in Development, Social Science, Disaster Management and or relevant fields from an accredited academic institution with at least three years of relevant experience.
  • Experience and Core competencies
  • Knowledge and skills on project design including project planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
  • Experience in design and delivery of training programs.
  • Experience in grant proposal development.
  • Excellent computer skills - MS Word, MS Excel, SPSS, MS PowerPoint, Internet, and Email.
  • Experience in performing monitoring, evaluation, and research.
  • Good understanding of process-oriented approach and current development concept.
  • Ability to plan workload and demonstrate accountability for outputs with minimal direct supervision.
  • Organizational skills, very good time management and ability to prioritize work under pressure and commitment to meet deadlines.
  • Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Flexible, proactive, and creative.
  • Open minded, willing to learn and adapt with changes.
  • Excellent interpersonal, communications and presentation skills, good writing both English and Khmer, communication, and negotiation skills.
  • Good team player, develop and promote effective collaboration and ability to work in a cross-cultural team.
  • Willingness to travel and stay overnight in target locations.
 

Senior Meal Officer Apply Now

  • Category: Monitoring & Evaluation, Social Work
  • Type : Job Opportunity
  • Location: Phnom Penh
  • Schedule: Full-time
  • Salary: Negotiable

Location: Based in Phnom Penh with regular travel to project location

JOB PURPOSE:

The MEAL Officer is responsible for designing, maintain and manage the implementation of MEAL activities of the Project; assisting the Country Representative in preparing/consolidating quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports on project progress and monitor the project activities on a regular basis; and provide effective administration and communication, coordination among CWS team and project partners. S/he will be responsible for the regular outcome harvesting process from partners, collection & analysis of different data in relation to the project activities. The MEAL Officer works in close collaboration with program team and partner organizations.

Duties
  • Support the country program team in planning process and development of Monitoring, evaluation and learning activities,
  • Define specific processes, methodologies and tools for MEAL and reporting in line with CWS principles,
  • Oversee and quality assurance of all CWS project/program data collection exercises, data management, and analysis, and regularly summarize for the Country Representative; contribute to timely and quality internal and external reporting on CWS projects,
  • Ensure high quality of project/program reports are produced and submitted to donors and governments as per requirements,
  • Support the team and partners in extracting lessons learnt and good practices, and documenting case studies which demonstrate qualitative and quantitative changes submitted to the Country Representative as per schedule,
  • Provide training/coaching, for CWS staff and/or project partners on the use of output forms and data collection,
  • In consultation with Country Representative lead six monthly outcome monitoring/harvesting of projects as per schedule; and disseminate results within CWS and partners in a timely manner,
  • Coordinate, in consultation with Country Representative, with external Consultant for end or mid-term program Evaluation,
  • Share accountability findings with program teams and senior management; provide suggestion for the Projects implementation with equality, equity and takes gender issues and child protection fully into account,
  • Facilitate capacity building process of CWS and partners staff on knowledge, skills and competencies necessary for effective MEAL through training and coaching,
  • Act as focal point for CWS program, accountability and learning system for managing information and programs,
  • Represent CWS on external working groups when relevant and ensure CWS has appropriate visibility.
Requirements
  • Education
  • University Degree in Development, Social Science, Statistics, Data Management and or relevant fields from an accredited academic institution with at least three years of relevant experience.
  • Experience and Core competencies
  • Knowledge and skills on project design including project planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
  • Experience with statistical packages (e.g. SPSS) and familiarity with IT applications to support MEAL and information management an added advantage.
  • Excellent computer skills, including office application, database development & management is an asset.
  • Experience in performing monitoring, evaluation, and research.
  • Good understanding of process-oriented approach and current development concept.
  • Ability to plan workload and demonstrate accountability for outputs with minimal direct supervision.
  • Organizational skills, very good time management and ability to prioritize work under pressure and commitment to meet deadlines.
  • Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Flexible, proactive, and creative.
  • Open minded, willing to learn and adapt with changes.
  • Excellent interpersonal, communications and presentation skills, good writing both English and Khmer, communication, and negotiation skills.
  • Good team player, develop and promote effective collaboration and ability to work in a cross-cultural team.
  • Willingness to travel and stay overnight in target locations.
 

How to Apply

Interested candidates are requested to submit the completed application form, CV and Cover Letter via e-mail or CWS Office provided in the contact details no later than the closing date. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. All applications are treated with strict confidentiality, all submitted documents are not returned.

CWS is an equal employer committed a diverse teamwork. Qualified women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

CWS is an organization that strictly abides by its Child Protection Policy. We do not employ staff whose background not aligned with our child protection practices. For this reason and as part of the CWS mandate requirements, successful candidates are required to provide Local Police Clearance / Criminal Record Certificate prior joining the organization.

 

Contact Details

Office Address
  •  Head Office - #70 St. 01 (Borey Piphub Thmey) Street Mong Rithy (1928), Sangkat Phnom Penh Thmei, Khan Sen Sok, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
 
Contact Name
  •  CWS
 
Email