Field Coordinator (1 Position)
Position Circumstances
- Career Category: Agriculture, Rural development, Community Development
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: Negotiable
The Field Coordinator is under supervision of the provincial manager to manage project planning, expenditures and to support implementing activities.
Duty Station: Battambang Province with travel to other provinces if required.
Report to: Provincial Manager
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Support the Provincial Manager to coordinate and monitor annual, quarterly, and monthly work plans and budget.
- Prepare project works plans and implement and regularly follow up on the work plans in team meetings.
- Monitor project activities through regular field visits, ensuring quality control and compliance with procedure.
- Provide support and facilitate capacity building of local community institutions and local government.
- Take lead to development and implementation of assigned innovative interventions or concepts.
- Work with the project team to initiate innovation ideas and implement innovation.
- Develop planning and implementation of routine project activities according to the process of Human Centre Design (HCD) and market system development approach.
- Coordinate with relevant partners and stakeholders (service providers, private companies, business association, local government at all level and NGOs… etc.) for the implementation of the specific innovative intervention(s)
- Follow-up and monitor project intervention model within the intervention areas with communities and relevant stakeholders (public, private sector) based on the agreed M&E plan and activity plan or as required.
- In collaboration with Monitoring and Result Measurement (MRM) team, to fill the MRM requirements including MRM capacity building, target groups profiling, field data collection, markets data collection and reporting…etc.
- Provide high quality feedback and recommendations to the provincial manager.
- Coordinate within the team to share experiences and lessons learnt internally and externally.
- Provide (technical) guidance, coaching, training, to communities and project partners (including community, public and private sector)
- Assist the Provincial Manager in planning, monitoring, evaluation and data/information, baseline, case studies or related tasks to M&E.
- Organize workshops, training, and other events related to the project.
- Perform other tasks assigned by Provincial Manager.
- Key Requirements
- At least a bachelor’s degree in agriculture, rural community development, social economic development, or agricultural/irrigation engineering.
- Minimum 3-year experience in one or preferably several of the following fields: food security, irrigation, agriculture, community development, and/ or agri-business
- Minimum 3-year experience in project cycle management, including assessment, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, as well as writing a case study/story of changes and reports.
- Experience in facilitation, coordination, and guidance of local partner organizations and other stakeholders i.e., market actors, farmer groups, Agriculture Cooperatives (ACs), Farmer Water Users Committees (FWUCs), or other local institutions on village, communal and district levels.
- Ability to work in complex environments and to ensure that deadlines are met by internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment to meet project outcomes.
- Understanding, writing, reading, and speaking English at a good level.
- Experience in training/coaching and overseeing the work of others.
- Willingness to travel to and work with remote communities.
- Experience working with sub-national administration, especially local development planning processes and investment program.
- Experience in organizing meetings, workshops, and other forums/events.
- Experience in capacity development approaches, capacity building and training design
- Ability and experience in applying participatory tools, methodologies, and data collection methods.
- Good Computer Skills (MS Office)
- Minimum Skills and Capabilities
- Strong communication, and ability to facilitate, coordinate and guidance.
- Ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders and build professional networks.
- Design thinking/innovation approach
- Strong critical and analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Strong research and analysis skills
- Personal attitudes and behaviors
- Integrity, honesty, transparency, and trustworthiness.
- Open-minded, flexible, and creative
- A commitment to working with the poor and vulnerable community
- High motivation in working with different contexts of community.
- Self-motivated, with high initiative and able to work with minimal supervision.
