Job Announcement

Program Advisor

with Damnok Toek (Goutte d’Eau) Cambodia
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BTDC-ID: 37964
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Announcement Description

Damnok Toek (DT) is a Cambodian-based NGO specialising in disability, child protection, education and safe migration. DT works in provincial locations to ensure the most vulnerable children and their families have their basic needs met and can access to their full potential.

Announcement Positions

Program Advisor

Position Circumstances
  • Career Category: Advisor / Individual Consultant, Exec. / Management
  • Schedule:Full-time
  • Salary: Negotiable
Position Summary

Programmatic areas: Safe Migration, Education & Child Protection

Type of Contract: Fixed duration contract

Immediate Superior: Executive Director

Immediate Subordinate: NA

Immediate Collaborators: Branch Directors

Duty Station: Phnom Penh with regular travel to DT project sites in Poipet and Neak Loeung

Purpose of the position

The purpose of this role is to ensure effective management, quality, accountability, and continuous development of Damnok Toek’s programmes in the areas of child protection, education, and safe migration. The position is responsible for maintaining high standards of programme implementation, donor reporting and compliance, strengthening monitoring and evaluation systems, supporting fundraising and donor relations, and building strategic partnerships. Through close collaboration with the Executive Director, Branch Directors, and programme teams, the role contributes to achieving programme results, safeguarding beneficiaries, strengthening staff capacity, and positioning Damnok Toek as a key actor in its sectors of intervention.

This position requires travel regularly to Poipet and Neak Loeung to develop reports for donors and liaising with M&E team and project teams to ensure that all necessary information is obtained in due time.

Damnok Toek is a child-safe organisation with zero tolerance to any form of abuse or exploitation, including sexual exploitation and abuse. The Programme Specialist will fully comply with Damnok Toek’s Safeguarding Policy and Procedures, including the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.

Duties & Responsibilities:
  • Responsible
  • Produce and ensure timely and high-quality reporting and stewardship for donors within the programmes;
  • Identify and monitor trends in contemporary development of programming on DT’s areas of intervention with special focus on child protection, education and safe migration, including research on best practices to inform programming.
  • Review projects and activities to ensure alignment with international standards/best practices as well as programme priorities, strategies and plans;
  • Ensure full compliance with Damnok Toek’s Safeguarding, PSEA and other internal policies.
  • Support
  • Support Branch Director & programe teams in delivering of all expected results, outcomes outputs and activities of the programme;
  • Support Branch Director & programme teams in executing all planned activities on a timely manner within the allocated budget;
  • Support Branch Director & programme team in producing high quality annual workplan, quarterly workplan with budget of the programme based on the proposals and agreements with donors. Support project teams to strengthen the implementation of safeguarding policies and protocols across the programme;
  • Support the development of programme ideas into quality grant proposal through participatory approach with fundraising specialist;
  • Support the Executive Director in developing and managing the relationship with the donors and key stakeholders supporting the child protection, education and safe migration programmes.
  • Work with Branch Directors and Executive Director to explore opportunities for capacity development for project staff on project management, monitoring, data collection, outcome harvesting and reporting
  • In collaboration with ED and other colleagues
  • Work closely with the M&E and programme teams in ensuring that the programme’s activities are properly monitored and all data (qualitative and quantitative) of the beneficiaries is securely managed, accurately updated and maintained in the M&E System,
  • Develop strategies to monitor programme performance and evaluate results and impacts and apply this data to design improvement of programme interventions.
Expected Profile of Candidates
Languages:
  • English
Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in or equivalence in a relevant field of study
Skills & Knowledge:
General & Technical Skills
  • Proven experience in project management; previous experience on child protection, informal education or migration is desirable.
  • Motivation to work for a grassroots organization and work with vulnerable communities
  • Strong sense of initiative and ability to work independently
  • Ability and willingness to travel very often to provinces
  • Experience working in Cambodia and/or Southeast Asia
  • Proficient use of English
Soft Skills
  • Patience, flexibility and a good sense of humor
 

How to Apply

Interested candidate please submit CV & Cover Letter by using the contact detail. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Attachment:
  • Programme Advisor_Final
 

Contact Details

Office Address
  • #102, St192, Phum 9, Sangkat Tuek L'ak Ti Bei, Khan Tuol Kouk, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
 
Contact Name
  • Damnok Toek
 
Email
 
Website