General Manager
Position Circumstances
- Career Category: Business Administration, Exec. / Management, Agriculture, Banking / Finance, Economics
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: $2500 - $3000
Duty station: Phnom Penh, with frequent travel to all five project provinces
Reports to: CEO/Founder
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Strategic Leadership and governance
- Work with the Founder or Managing Director to define the company’s strategic direction and development priorities.
- Lead the preparation and implementation of business plans, budgets, operational targets and performance indicators.
- Establish an appropriate organisational structure, reporting lines, policies and internal controls in coordination with relevant managers.
- Report company performance, risks, investment needs and expansion recommendations to the Founder or Managing Director.
- Operations, production and commercial management
- Review consolidated production and sales plans for chilli, vegetables and chicken and recommend major resource requirements to the Founder.
- Review consolidated performance reports prepared by the Project Manager, Finance Manager, QC Assistant Manager and technical specialists, and require follow-up actions on significant gaps.
- Resolve escalated operational issues within delegated authority and refer major financial, contractual or reputational risks to the Founder.
- Review major buyer and supplier agreements, pricing, expansion and contract-farming proposals and make recommendations for Founder approval.
- Assess and recommend new production sites, contract-farming arrangements, agricultural-community partnerships and value-added product opportunities.
- Quality, Standards and Compliance
- Hold the QC Manager, Project Manager and technical specialists accountable for implementing approved quality, food-safety, traceability and biosecurity requirements.
- Review consolidated reports on non-conformities, customer complaints, product rejections, audit findings and corrective actions.
- Direct management action on serious quality, food-safety or animal-health risks and escalate significant legal or commercial risks to the Founder.
- Ensure responsible managers maintain compliance with company policies, buyer contracts and applicable Cambodian regulations.
- Financial, resource and risk management
- Review company budgets, cash-flow forecasts and procurement plans prepared by the Finance Manager and relevant department managers.
- Approve expenditure and resource allocation within delegated authority and recommend major financial commitments to the Founder.
- Review financial results, production costs, margins, budget variances, inventory and outstanding receivables and payables.
- Review major financial, operational, market, legal and biosecurity risks and ensure responsible managers implement appropriate mitigation measures.
- Monitoring, evaluation and reporting
- Establish company-level performance indicators and reporting requirements in consultation with the Project Manager, Finance Manager, QC Manager and technical specialists.
- Review consolidated operational, production, quality, financial and commercial reports against approved plans and targets.
- Chair regular management reviews, require corrective actions for significant performance gaps and monitor follow-up through responsible managers.
- Conduct periodic management visits to verify major operational issues and the reliability of reported results.
- Present consolidated performance, risks and recommendations to the Founder or Managing Director.
- Stakeholder and partnership management
- Maintain strategic relationships with government authorities, agricultural communities, buyers, suppliers, financial institutions and business partners.
- Represent KiriTes in major meetings, negotiations and partnership discussions within delegated authority.
- Refer commitments involving major investment, contractual liability or strategic change to the Founder for approval.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary and benefits based on qualifications and experience.
- Mission allowance, transportation, fuel, and accommodation support for approved field assignments.
- Communication and necessary work equipment support according to the responsibilities of each position.
- Opportunities for career development within KiriTes’s expanding multi-province agricultural operations.
Expected Profile of Candidates
Languages:
- Khmer - Good
- English - Good
Qualifications:
- Master's Degree
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Management, Agribusiness, Agriculture, Finance, Economics or a related field.
Work History:
- Relevant experience for 10 years as a minimum
- Senior management or general-management role. for 5 years
Skills & Knowledge:
General & Technical Skills
- Minimum 10 years of relevant experience, including at least 5 years in a senior management or general-management role.
- Proven experience managing multi-site agricultural, food-production, trading or agribusiness operations.
- Strong understanding of crop and livestock production, agricultural supply chains, contract farming and commercial operations.
- Demonstrated competence in business planning, budgeting, financial review, operational oversight and risk management.
- Ability to interpret consolidated production, quality, financial and commercial reports and make appropriate management decisions.
- Practical understanding of food safety, traceability, GAP, IPM and chicken-biosecurity requirements.
- Good written and spoken Khmer and English, with strong digital and management-reporting skills.
Soft Skills
- Strong leadership, team-management, negotiation, stakeholder-engagement and problem-solving skills.
- High integrity, accountability and ability to manage confidential or high-pressure matters.
- Willingness to travel regularly to farms, agricultural communities and provincial project sites.
Project Manager
Position Circumstances
- Career Category: Exec. / Management, Business Administration, Agriculture, Agriculture - Agronomy
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: $2000 - $2500
Duty station: Phnom Penh, with frequent travel to all five project provinces
Reports to: General Manager
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Project planning and management
- Develop the overall project strategy, annual and seasonal workplans, production targets, budgets and implementation schedules for all five provinces.
- Translate commercial and supply commitments into clear provincial targets for chilli, vegetables and chicken.
- Lead and evaluate the Assistant Project Manager, Provincial Coordinators and relevant technical teams, ensuring clear accountability and timely performance.
- Production and quality management
- Coordinate production cycles covering site preparation, input supply, planting, crop management, chicken placement, harvesting and delivery.
- Monitor cultivated area, crop survival, yield, harvest volume, chicken mortality, feed efficiency, production costs and delivery performance.
- Ensure technical teams implement approved SOPs, GAP, IPM, food-safety, traceability, environmental, animal-health and chicken-biosecurity requirements.
- Coordinate agronomists, veterinarians and livestock specialists to investigate technical problems and implement corrective actions.
- Budget, resources and risk management
- Manage project budgets, procurement plans, allocation of inputs and use of company assets, and monitor costs against approved budgets.
- Identify and manage risks related to weather, pests, diseases, biosecurity, markets, input shortages, finance and implementation delays.
- Develop contingency measures and promptly escalate major financial, technical or contractual risks to senior management.
- Monitoring, evaluation and reporting
- Establish project indicators, reporting requirements and performance targets for each province and commodity.
- Review and verify provincial reports and conduct field monitoring to compare actual progress, production, expenditure and delivery against approved plans.
- Evaluate project performance, identify gaps, direct corrective actions and report consolidated results and recommendations to senior management.
- Stakeholder coordination and reporting
- Coordinate with agricultural communities, authorities, suppliers, buyers and other partners to support production and contractual commitments.
- Conduct regular field visits, validate provincial results and ensure management decisions and corrective actions are implemented.
- Provide senior management with consolidated progress, financial and risk reports, including practical recommendations for improvement.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary and benefits based on qualifications and experience.
- Mission allowance, transportation, fuel, and accommodation support for approved field assignments.
- Communication and necessary work equipment support according to the responsibilities of each position.
- Opportunities for career development within KiriTes’s expanding multi-province agricultural operations.
Expected Profile of Candidates
Languages:
- Khmer - Good
- English - Good
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Management, Business Administration, Agriculture, Agronomy, Agribusiness, or a related field.
- Master's Degree
Work History:
- Relevant experience for 7 years as a minimum
- An agricultural project or operations management role for 4 years as a minimum
Skills & Knowledge:
General & Technical Skills
- Minimum 7 years of relevant experience, including at least 4 years in an agricultural project or operations management role.
- Experienced in commercial farming and poultry.
- Proven experience managing multi-site or multi-province operations, teams, budgets, and production targets.
- Strong knowledge of agricultural planning, GAP, IPM, food safety, traceability, post-harvest management and poultry biosecurity.
- Demonstrated ability in budgeting, procurement, cost control, risk management, performance monitoring and management reporting.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and digital project-management or reporting tools.
- Good written and spoken Khmer and English.
Soft Skills
- Strong leadership, decision-making, negotiation, stakeholder-management and problem-solving skills.
- Willingness to travel frequently and stay at provincial project sites when required; a valid driving licence is preferred.
Finance Manager
Position Circumstances
- Career Category: Banking / Finance, Accounting, Business Administration
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: $1500 - $2000
Duty station: Phnom Penh, with frequent travel to target farms
Reports to: CEO/Founder
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Financial systems and control
- Establish accounting policies, approval procedures, cost centres, and internal controls for head office, farm, and provincial operations.
- Review the general ledger, bank accounts, payroll, inventory, fixed assets, and month-end reconciliations prepared by the finance team.
- Investigate financial irregularities, control weaknesses, shortages or suspected misuse of company funds.
- Budgeting, cash flow and cost management
- Lead annual and seasonal budgeting and cash-flow forecasting based on approved operational and production plans.
- Monitor expenditure against budgets by farm, province, project and commodity.
- Analyse production costs and margins for chilli, vegetables and chicken and recommend corrective financial measures.
- Financial reporting and compliance
- Prepare accurate monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements and management reports.
- Report significant budget variances, cash flow concerns, outstanding balances and financial risks.
- Coordinate tax compliance, statutory reporting, banking requirements and external audits.
- Transaction oversight
- Review payment packages and authorise or submit them for approval according to delegated authority.
- Verify budget availability and financial compliance for procurement packages prepared by the Administration and Procurement Officer.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary and benefits based on qualifications and experience.
- Mission allowance, transportation, fuel, and accommodation support for approved field assignments.
- Communication and necessary work equipment support according to the responsibilities of each position.
- Opportunities for career development within KiriTes’s expanding multi-province agricultural operations.
Expected Profile of Candidates
Languages:
- Khmer - Good
- English - Good
Qualifications:
- Master's Degree
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Banking&Finance, Business Administration or related field.
Work History:
- Relevant finance or accounting experience for 7 years as a minimum
- A supervisory or management role for 3 years as a minimum
Skills & Knowledge:
General & Technical Skills
- Professional accounting qualification such as ACCA or CPA is preferred.
- Minimum 7 years of relevant finance or accounting experience, including at least 3 years in a supervisory or management role.
- Strong knowledge of accounting, budgeting, cash-flow management, internal controls, financial reporting and audit preparation.
- Practical knowledge of Cambodian taxation, statutory compliance and payroll requirements.
- Experience with multi-site operations, inventory accounting, fixed assets and agricultural or production costing is strongly preferred.
- Ability to analyse budgets, production costs, profit margins, variances and financial risks.
- Proficiency in accounting software, QuickBooks, Microsoft Excel and digital financial-reporting systems.
- Good written and spoken Khmer and English.
Soft Skills
- Strong leadership, accuracy, confidentiality, integrity and problem-solving skills.
- Willingness to travel when financial verification or operational support is required.
Senior Civil Engineer
Position Circumstances
- Career Category: Engineer - Civil
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: $1500 - $2000
Duty station: Phnom Penh, with frequent travel to target farms
Reports to: General Manager
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Engineering Design & Technical Planning
- Conduct and review site surveys, topographic data, land levels, soil conditions, drainage, and construction requirements.
- Prepare and review engineering designs, drawings, specifications, BOQs, and cost estimates for net houses, greenhouses/glasshouses, farm buildings, roads, drainage systems, water-storage facilities, and related infrastructure.
- Review structural foundations, earthworks, concrete works, steel structures, drainage, and associated plumbing/irrigation infrastructure to ensure suitability for site conditions and operations.
- Provide technical recommendations on design alternatives, construction methods, materials, and cost-effective engineering solutions.
- Construction & Installation Supervision
- Supervise construction and installation works to ensure compliance with approved drawings, specifications, quality standards, schedules, and safety requirements.
- Monitor net-house and greenhouse construction, including foundations, structural frames, drainage, plumbing/irrigation connections, and associated civil works.
- Coordinate with contractors, suppliers, technicians, and project teams to resolve technical and site-related issues.
- Identify construction defects, technical deviations, or unsafe conditions and ensure appropriate corrective actions are completed.
- Land, Water & Farm Infrastructure
- Plan and review land grading, earthworks, drainage canals, water-control structures, ponds/reservoirs, culverts, embankments, and farm roads.
- Verify levels, slopes, excavation and filling quantities, drainage capacity, and erosion-control requirements.
- Ensure infrastructure designs effectively support agricultural production, water management, accessibility, and long-term site operation.
- Quality, Cost & Project Documentation
- Inspect construction materials, dimensions, workmanship, levels, and test results against approved technical requirements.
- Verify construction progress and completed quantities and review contractor payment claims, variations, and additional works before providing technical recommendations.
- Maintain and review site inspection records, progress reports, test results, as-built drawings, defect lists, and handover documentation.
- Provide regular technical and construction progress reports to the Project Manager/management.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary and benefits based on qualifications and experience.
- Mission allowance, transportation, fuel, and accommodation support for approved field assignments.
- Communication and necessary work equipment support according to the responsibilities of each position.
- Opportunities for career development within KiriTes’s expanding multi-province agricultural operations.
Expected Profile of Candidates
Languages:
- Khmer - Good
- English - Good
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering or a closely related engineering field
Work History:
- Civil engineering, construction, infrastructure, or related projects for 5 years as a minimum
Skills & Knowledge:
General & Technical Skills
- Practical experience in building/structural works, steel structures, foundations, earthworks, drainage, water infrastructure, roads, or agricultural construction.
- Experience with greenhouse, net-house, agricultural facility, irrigation/plumbing infrastructure, or similar construction projects is highly preferred.
- Strong ability to prepare and review engineering drawings, technical specifications, BOQs, quantity take-offs, and cost estimates.
- Good knowledge of concrete works, steel structures, soil compaction, drainage, construction materials, quality control, and site safety.
- Ability to interpret topographic surveys, site levels, structural/civil drawings, and construction details.
- Experience supervising contractors, inspecting construction quality, verifying completed quantities, and reviewing payment and variation documents.
- Proficiency in AutoCAD and Microsoft Excel; knowledge of Civil 3D, structural/design software, or surveying equipment is an advantage.
- Good communication skills in Khmer, with working proficiency in English.
- Willingness to travel regularly and work at construction, farm, or project sites as required.
Soft Skills
- Strong technical judgement, site coordination, leadership, problem-solving, and reporting skills.
Assistant Project Manager
Position Circumstances
- Career Category: Assistant, Business Administration, Agriculture, Rural development, Exec. / Management
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: $1200 - $1500
Duty station: Phnom Penh, with frequent travel to all five project provinces
Reports to: Project Manager
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Project Planning and Project Manager Support
- Assist the Project Manager in preparing project plans, budgets, production targets, schedules and documents for management approval.
- Translate the Project Manager’s decisions into assigned actions and follow up with responsible teams until completion.
- Prepare progress summaries, analysis and recommendations to support the Project Manager’s decisions.
- Implementation Coordination
- Coordinate daily implementation with Provincial Coordinators, technical teams, finance, procurement and logistics personnel.
- Ensure provincial activities remain aligned with the overall project plan, production schedules and contractual commitments.
- Support the resolution of routine operational issues and promptly escalate major or unresolved matters to the Project Manager.
- Monitoring, reporting and compliance
- Consolidate and verify provincial data on crop production, chicken performance, input use, expenditure and product delivery.
- Compare actual progress with approved targets and budgets and maintain project dashboards, risk records and corrective-action trackers.
- Prepare consolidated progress reports, presentations and supporting documents for the Project Manager’s review.
- Follow up on compliance with SOPs, GAP, IPM, food safety, traceability and chicken-biosecurity requirements.
- Budget, logistics and stakeholder support
- Track provincial budgets, procurement requests, input distribution, logistics and delivery schedules and report delays or variances.
- Organise project meetings, field missions and technical visits and follow up on agreed actions.
- Support communication with agricultural communities, authorities, suppliers, buyers and other partners.
- Represent the Project Manager and carry out specific management duties only when formally assigned and within approved authority.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary and benefits based on qualifications and experience.
- Mission allowance, transportation, fuel, and accommodation support for approved field assignments.
- Communication and necessary work equipment support according to the responsibilities of each position.
- Opportunities for career development within KiriTes’s expanding multi-province agricultural operations.
Expected Profile of Candidates
Languages:
- Khmer - Good
- English - Good
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in management, Business Administration, Agriculture, Agribusiness, Rural Development or a related field.
Work History:
- Experience in agricultural project coordination, farm operations, agribusiness or a related area for 4 years as a minimum
Skills & Knowledge:
General & Technical Skills
- Experience coordinating activities across multiple farms, provinces or field teams is strongly preferred.
- Practical understanding of crop or poultry production, agricultural standards and farm-record systems.
- Ability to prepare workplans, activity trackers, budgets, procurement follow-ups and project reports.
- Strong ability to consolidate, verify and analyse production, financial and operational data.
- Strong proficiency in Excel, Word and PowerPoint; experience with digital reporting tools is an advantage.
- Good written and spoken Khmer, with working proficiency in English.
Soft Skills
- Excellent organisation, communication, follow-up, deadline-management and problem-solving skills.
- Willingness to travel regularly to project farms and provincial locations.
QC Assistant Manager
Position Circumstances
- Career Category: Assistant, Quality Control, Food Science, Agriculture, Agriculture - Animal Science
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: $1200 - $1500
Duty station: Phnom Penh, with regular visits to farms, collection points, warehouses and handling facilities
Reports to: QC Manager
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Quality Systems and Standards
- Assist the QC Manager in developing and updating quality procedures, product specifications, inspection checklists and record templates.
- Implement approved quality-control plans for chilli, vegetables and chicken across farms, collection points, warehouses and handling facilities.
- Verify compliance with SOPs, GAP, IPM, food safety, traceability, hygiene, animal health, and chicken biosecurity requirements.
- Coordinate daily QC activities and supervise QC Officers or Inspectors when assigned.
- Inspection and Production Control
- Conduct or coordinate inspections and sampling of agricultural inputs, farm production, harvested products, chicken operations, storage and deliveries.
- Verify product grading, packaging, labelling, storage conditions and supporting traceability records against approved specifications.
- Recommend the acceptance, holding or rejection of products according to approved procedures and delegated authority.
- Coordinate laboratory testing or additional technical verification when product safety or quality is uncertain.
- Immediately report serious food-safety, animal-health, biosecurity or product-quality risks to the QC Manager.
- Non-conformity and corrective action
- Record non-conformities and issue corrective action requests to the responsible operational or technical teams.
- Coordinate root-cause investigations for product defects, customer complaints, rejections and repeated quality failures.
- Monitor corrective-action implementation and verify its completion and effectiveness.
- Records, reporting and capacity building
- Maintain accurate inspection, sampling, non-conformity, complaint, rejection and traceability records.
- Consolidate quality data and prepare regular reports on compliance, defects, losses, risks and outstanding corrective actions for the QC Manager.
- Train farm, warehouse, collection and handling teams on approved quality, hygiene, traceability and recordkeeping procedures.
- Support internal reviews, buyer inspections, external audits and quality-improvement activities.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary and benefits based on qualifications and experience.
- Mission allowance, transportation, fuel, and accommodation support for approved field assignments.
- Communication and necessary work equipment support according to the responsibilities of each position.
- Opportunities for career development within KiriTes’s expanding multi-province agricultural operations.
Expected Profile of Candidates
Languages:
- Khmer - Good
- English - Good
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Food Science, Agriculture, Animal Science, Veterinary Science, Agro-Industry, Agronomy, Bioengineering or a related field.
Work History:
- Relevant QA/QC experience for 5 years as a minimum
Skills & Knowledge:
General & Technical Skills
- Practical experience in fresh produce, dried product, poultry, food processing or agricultural supply chains
- Strong knowledge of GAP, GMP, HACCP principles, food safety, traceability, hygiene and chicken biosecurity.
- Understanding of pesticide safety, pre-harvest intervals, veterinary-medicine withdrawal periods and product-handling requirements.
- Ability to conduct inspections, sampling, product verification and interpretation of laboratory or quality-control results.
- Experience managing non-conformities, root-cause investigations, corrective actions, customer complaints and product recalls.
- Good Microsoft Office, digital record-management, Khmer and working English skills.
Soft Skills
- Ability to supervise QC personnel, train operational teams and coordinate with technical and production departments.
- Strong attention to detail, independence, integrity and ability to report serious quality risks promptly.
- Willingness to travel regularly to farms, suppliers, warehouses and project sites.
