Project Coordinator (1 Position)
Position Summary Expectations - Duties, Responsibilities
Employment start: July 2025
- Task 1: Lead Entrepreneur Investment Support (EIS) within Intervention Area 3
- Take a lead on the intervention strategies to develop, execute, refine, and retest business strategies for Entrepreneur Investment Support (EIS);
- Work and communicate with key partners to understand the needs, challenges, and foster solutions for each activity to be accomplished fruitfully; and
- Provide support in developing strategy documents, partnership documents and other guidance documents especially related to TA efforts.
- Task 2: Technical assistance (TA) provision
- Conduct TA diagnostic for SMEs/startups to select the type and level of TA required
- Manage and monitor services delivery to ensure TA is used and delivered as envisaged, and that the quality of service is high;
- Contribute to the development of a pool of TA providers to provide general and specialist TA to SMEs;
- Generate TA delivery report and track KPIs of TA recipients; and
- Mange financial leadership and coordination, including management and collection of repayable grants to ensure the fiscal sustainability of TA facility platform and reporting and administrative progress of activity implement.
- Task 3: Partnership management and building
- Build and manage partnerships with relevant stakeholders such as incubators and accelerators, banks, investors, advisory firms, strategic partners, and other entrepreneurial ecosystem related NGOs in the Cambodia;
- Build relationship with the boarder ecosystem of impact funds, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)/Startups, other ecosystem players, TA providers, and strategic partners;
- Build and maintain an effective team that can deliver expected results; and
- Build and maintain excellent relations with donors (KOICA, SDC, Khmer Enterprise) and other potential donors.
- Task 4: Report, Content production and Communication
- Provide overall management support for daily project operation related to contract administration and finance, project management and MEL systems, and internal and external communications
- Actively contribute to building brand and reputation of Swisscontact in Cambodia and beyond
- Support Deputy Team Leader with project management responsibilities such as team meetings, strategy, planning, review, and progress reporting;
- Minimum bachelor’s degree in business administration or entrepreneurship or another relevant subject.
- Have knowledge and experiences in entrepreneurship, start-up, business development and innovation,
- entrepreneurial ecosystem, business development, investment, and impact investment.
- At least 3 years of experiences working in SMEs development, business management, TA provision, etc.
- Have experience coordinating and engaging multiple stakeholders across both the public and private sectors
- Ability to work independently, with high motivation, responsibility, and professionalism to deliver work activities to a good standard
- Ability to adapt to different working styles of different stakeholders
- Fluent in Khmer and with advanced English
- Computer literacy including internet/e-mail, office application (words, excels, PowerPoint etc). A tech savvy personality is desired
- Willingness to learn and improve oneself on different topics and dimensions
