Kroursar Yoeung Association (KrY) is a local non-governmental organization with no religious or political ties and was established in 2002 with the Ministry of Interior to promote health conditions, cognition, and development of children, strengthen childcare and parenting, improve and empower families through different development programs.
In partnership of Kimchan Foundation in Germany, KrY is currently implementing and operating the community/state pre-schools in Siem Reap, Ratanak Kiri, Tbong Khmom and Kratie Province. It will be scaled up to other remote and rural areas across the country in the future. Now we are hiring:
Senior Coach for Zone-1 which will be based at Siem Reap Office. This position will be responsible for supervising four coaches in Banteay Meanchey, Siem Reap, Steung Treng and Ratanakiri.
Senior Coach’s main responsibility is to ensure the achievement of technical upgraded objectives which is targeted as 80% of the five-year-old class graduates can recognize 80% of Khmer’s consonants (27 characters) and 70% of Khmer’s vowels (16 characters). Senior Coach position is supervised by the Project Manager and it will be responsible for the technical program by ensuring that the coaches are capable to provide quality coaching services to the teachers of HCC’s kindergartens. The position will be based at any of Zone’s offices locates in the provinces and it is required to travel to the schools monitoring and providing support to the coaches.
Duties
Major Responsibilities
Conduct weekly meetings with coaches under her/his supervision.
Plan with coaches to organize technical meetings, class demonstrations, and instructional materials development with teachers.
Plan HCC’s literacy test administration.
Manage the expense of field travels and food for coaches
Participate in relevant capacity-building activities such as meetings, training, workshops, and study visits…etc provided by KrY, government, and/or other stakeholders.
Participate in monthly coaching forum with other senior coaches, and coaches PM, ECE, and M&E coordinator.
Participate in bi-weekly meetings with project managers and other senior coaches.
Participate in monthly project management meetings with other senior staff and managers (Project Manager, senior coaches, ECE and M&E Coordinator, Finance and Admin staff, ED).
Engage in providing inputs on technical assessment tools and guidelines development or review with technical coordinator and project managers.
Check and approve monthly and weekly workplans of coaches.
Ensure that coaches strictly implement the coaching guideline.
Conduct random classroom observation (Learning and teaching plus class administration).
Observe the coaching activity which are carried out by coaches.
Monitor HCC’s literacy test which is administrated by coaches.
Build capacity of coaches under his/her supervision to ensure they have sufficient capacity to support the teachers.
Provide feedback and recommendation to individual coaches and follow up on the improvement plan.
Provide training and material support to help coaches achieve their improvement according to the feedback/recommendations.
Engage in appraising the performance of coaches and teachers.
Prepare classroom and coach’s observation reports and submit to the project manager on monthly basis.
Consolidate teachers’ coaching reports by coaches and submit to the project manager on monthly basis.
Consolidate HCC’s literacy reports for the project manager on regular basis.
Produce regular technical program reports for the project manager.
Others
Engage in and keep good linkage to relevant technical networks at submit national levels.
Other tasks may be requested to perform by project manager when needed.
Requirements
A bachelor's degree in early childhood education or a related field specialize in coaching or teacher training
Experience working in the field of early childhood education, preferably in a leadership or coaching role.
Have knowledge in coaching techniques and methodologies, such as instructional coaching, peer coaching, or reflective coaching.
Strong leadership skills to direct and guide teachers, implement curriculum, and provide support to staff members.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with teachers, parents, and other stakeholders, as well as the ability to provide constructive feedback and support.
In-depth knowledge of child development principles, early learning strategies, and curriculum development for young children.
Ability to manage multiple responsibilities, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines.
Ability to work collaboratively with other project manager and stakeholders to achieve literacy target .
Category:
Educate/Train/Teaching, Monitoring & Evaluation, Social Work
Type : Job Opportunity
Location:
Ratanak Kiri Province
Schedule: Full-time
Salary:
$400 - $500
This Project Officer will be responsible for the operation of the project implementation for strengthening the quality of learning and teaching of preschool students, monitoring and supervising preschool activities such as hygiene, school breakfast, administration, and maintenance facilities at Steung Treng and Ratanakiri
Duties
The project officer is under direct supervision by the project manager of the Happy Cambodian Children (HCC) project. The project officers will work closely with the project manager, M&E coordinator, technical coordinators, admin and finance officer, and other project staff to support the project implementation to reach the HCC goal.
To ensure the preschools are functioning well with appropriate support.
Coordinate and administrate in the target preschools and implementation the preschool operations such as planning activities, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating projects.
Develop a budget plan, and project plan, and review the activities quarterly and annually with project managers.
Participate in developing project implementation on M&E tools to ensure the operational activities are carried out with proper tracking.
Update the project progress activities to project managers to seek intervention support if needed.
Provide daily attendant records to project managers weekly and monthly.
Monitoring the school breakfast, snack, and fresh milk expenditure and reporting monthly to project managers.
Produce the regular project activity reports to the project manager monthly, quarterly and annually.
Monitoring the hygiene activities such as handwashing station, handwashing liquid, teeth brushing, and others.
Monitoring the infrastructure and other facilities in HCC maintenance standards.
Strong knowledge of curriculum, pedagogy, and assessments on preschool education.
Monitoring and supervision of kindergarten teacher’s activities on preschool curriculum, pedagogy, and technical support.
Provide on-the-job training/coaching to preschool teachers, cooks, school management committee, and relevant stakeholders.
Supervise and provide coaching support to preschool teachers to make sure are able to implement and operate preschool education to achieve the HCC goal with effectively and efficiently.
Participate to organize staff performance appraisal and review job description to meet the project expectation
Work closely with the Finance and Admin Unit to ensure all administrative and logistic work required for the respective projects.
Provide logistic support for materials distribution and arrangement for donor visits when it is required.
Work closely collaboration with local authorities and relevant stakeholders to support the project works.
Facilitate and support external visitor during project site visit
Participate and report any project administration concerns at respective to local authorities, NGOs partners, and other relevant stakeholders
Others
Participate in team meeting, network meeting, local authority and other workshop to build strong relationship with all partners.
Requirements
At least a bachelor's degree in Education, Management, Administration, and at least two-year experience of working with NGOs, especially in preschool education, social development, and health issues, has staff management and finance experience.
Demonstrated ability to plan, implement, manage, monitor and evaluate project activities and expenditure.
Demonstrated ability to liaise and negotiate with government and social partners at local level.
Ability to supervise preschool teachers and other stakeholders.
Good willing to travel field and reported writing in English
It is expected that the person will be creative, initiative, sound judgment, hardworking and enthusiastic, and has good leadership and capacity to work in a team, presents communication and facilitation skills
How to Apply
he individual who is interested in the position above shall submit a CV with a cover letter via electronic mail to the email address provided in the contact details.
Applications must be in MS Word format or PDF.
Do not attach any certificates or recommendation letters unless they are requested.
Applications and CVs will not be returned.
Applicant who had applied from last announcement please don’t re-apply again.
Women and disabled people are strongly encouraged to apply. Only short-listed candidates will be notified.
