Pool Manager
- Career Category: Admin / Supervisory, Business Administration, Operations Management, HR, Exec. / Management
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: Negotiable
The position is for national experience in charge of administrative and strategic management of Short-Term Expert pools
Project Status: Tender
Project Title: Technical Assistance for Improved Subnational Service Delivery and Decentralization Reform (on behalf of GIZ – ISD II, Cambodia)
Project Period: November 2026 – November 2029
Duration of Assignment: 36 months (660 expert days)
Job Description:
The Key Expert 1 expert plays a key role in the mobilization of demand-driven technical assistance for improved subnational service delivery and decentralization reform via flexible Pools of Short-term Expert. She/he leads the administrative and managerial aspects related to the implementation of the assignments of international and national short-term experts. She/he reports to the GIZ Head of Project. She/he closely collaborates in steering and implementation with Key Expert 2 in Siem Reap (who takes over the technical advisory leadership) and is supported by backstopping personnel at GFA Headquarters.
- Khmer - Fluent
- English - Fluent
- Master's Degree in Public Administration, Political Science, Development Studies, Economics, Social Sciences, Human Resources/ Management, or another sector-relevant discipline
- Project management in the field of local governance/local development/public administration and/or service delivery for 10 years
- Projects/organizations with disciplinary responsibility for 5 people or more and an annual budget responsibility for EUR 250,000 or more for 3 years
- Cambodia (South-Eastern Asia), including demonstrated network with relevant national stakeholders in the field of decentralisation reform (e.g. government, CSOs, training providers, consultants) for 7 years
- Knowledge of English, C1-level and Knowledge of Khmer, C2-level in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
- 5 years of experience in expert mobilisation / roster (pool) management, acquired within the last 10 years
- 5 years of experience in development cooperation projects/programmes (e.g. GIZ, UN, IFIs, bilateral agencies, INGOs), acquired within the last 10 years.
- Others: Demonstrated experience in results-based reporting and basic financial/contract management
