Rehabilitation Project Officer
Position Summary Expectations - Duties, Responsibilities
Location: Phnom Penh (with regular travel to the provinces)
Contract Type: Unspecified Duration Contract (UDC)
Working Schedule: Full time (40 hours per week)
Expected starting date: As soon as possible
Salary and Benefit Package: Salary rank starting from USD 839 (based on the experience) and other benefits are in accordance with HI Cambodia remuneration policy.
General mission
Under the responsibility of the Rehabilitation Project Manager (Rehab PM), the Rehabilitation Project Officer (Rehab PO) contributes to the implementation of HI Mandate and Strategy (expressed in StratOp) in the country where s/he is based. He/she contributes to the implementation of projects by providing technical expertise and by ensuring that the quality and impact of the project(s) concerned are optimized. The Project Officer works in close collaboration with the program's technical team.
Line Manager: Rehabilitation Project Manager (Rehab PM)
Duty Station: Phnom Penh, with travel to HI areas of intervention.
- Mission 1: Operational implementation
- Responsibility 1: Contribute to project planning and implementation in line with the existing frameworks
- Contribute to planning and preparing activities, tools and the associated resources, and implement the action plan in conjunction with the support services and the technical unit.
- Ensure that activities are implemented and that resources are correctly allocated as authorized by the line/project manager.
- Ensure regular reporting of activities, and contribute to the internal and external reporting as requested by the line/project manager.
- Contribute to identifying areas of the project in which adjustments are required and put forward adaptations to the line/project manager.
- Contribute to the drafting of amendment requests when asked by the line/project manager.
- Contribute to coordination with the local stakeholders and to monitoring the partnership relationship with the project partners.
- Ensure that project documents and information are properly archived.
- Responsibility 2: Contribute to project monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning
- Contribute to project monitoring, specifically activity progress indicators and the expected outcomes.
- Contribute to project evaluations at the request of the line/project manager, and ensure that project evaluation recommendations are followed.
- Contribute to the setup and smooth running of accountability mechanisms.
- Contribute to project learning.
- Responsibility 3: Ensure project data management
- Ensure that the appropriate data collection and management tools are in place and are used correctly on the project, in line with global standards.
- Collect and compile project-related data in the relevant database.
- Responsibility 4: Contribute to the coordination of project teams
- As authorized by the line/project manager, facilitate coordination meetings between the project teams and the support services located in the area when necessary.
- Ensure that the project teams and the support teams (shared and technical services, in particular) work well together in order to facilitate the implementation of the project in the country.
- Under the guidance of Line/project manager, ensure coordination with all partners involved in the project / consortium members, and ensure effective communication mechanisms.
- Responsibility 5: Contribute to external project communication
- Contribute to HI’s external influence by taking part in networks, when required.
- Communicate about the project to partners, authorities and stakeholders when relevant.
- Mission 2: Emergency Preparedness and Response
- Contributes to the SEA region and Cambodia’s emergency preparedness actions and, in an emergency, adapts working methods to contribute to an effective humanitarian response from HI.
- Specific mission: In addition, the Rehabilitation Technical Officer (Rehab TO) may undertake any other duty requested by his/her line manager that may be required for the service.
- Bachelor’s degree with technical background in Physical Rehabilitation (physiotherapy or prosthetics and orthotics or assistive technology or occupational therapy or relevant health field).
- At least 01 years of proven professional experience in project management and implementation of projects with partners & government stakeholders, preferably in physical rehabilitation, assistive technology, disabilities and health projects.
- Demonstrated technical capacity & experience in establishing and maintaining systems for supporting project operations, and ability to maintain working relationships with all project stakeholders.
- Experience in working with MoH & MoSVY, local authorities, OPD’s, CSO’s will be considered as a key asset.
- Experience in working with vulnerable groups and people with disabilities is required.
- Strong technical, negotiation and communication skills are required, especially in collaborative settings with multi-disciplinary teams and colleagues.
- Adaptive to evolving contexts and intercultural environments.
- Proficient in English & Khmer with excellent reading, writing, listening & speaking capacity.
- Capable of producing clear, concise and responsible communication suited to the interlocutor.
