Sport for Development Training Specialist
- Career Category: Educate/Train/Teaching, Sports & Fitness
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: $1000 - $2000 Based on Experience
Type: Independent Contractor, 1 Year, Starts at Part Time with the potential to move to Full Time
Start Date: Sept 1, 2026 or earlier
Kids Play International is seeking an experienced Field-Based Sport for Development Training Specialist for our program site in Cambodia. This role supports the development, training, and evaluation of coaches, staff, and programs.
The ideal candidate has strong and prior train-the-trainer (not just coaching) experience in Sport for Development, can quickly learn our curriculum, and effectively build staff capacity and understand how to evaluate if learning objectives are being met. They should understand how sport drives personal development and how to measure program impact. The candidate needs to be fluent in English, have excellent English writing skills and verbal communication.
- Program Training for all Programs (Let’s Play Fair, Play Fair Community Day, Play Fair Expansion and All Girls United)
- Lead, deliver, oversee, and evaluate weekly coach training and training of trainers of our program coordinator for all our around year-round programs.
- Use our already established and existing intervention and curriculum framework, intervention, and proven model to develop stronger coaches.
- Deliver ongoing curriculum training to KPI’s coaches and staff.
- Identify and develop other coaches to become trainers
- Assess and deliver training sessions to improve program delivery and evaluation performance
- Assist coaching staff in carrying out all program sessions.
- Program Monitoring & Evaluation
- Attend weekly programs and oversee Captain Coach and Coaches to complete observation forms and weekly reports
- Oversee and assist in collecting and organizing program attendance,
- Train all team members on how to properly conduct surveys, observations and focus group discussions as they pertain to monitoring and evaluation of activities outlined in grants.
- Write weekly/quarterly reports and assist with external grant reports pertaining to the specific grant deliverables outlined for the LPF program
- Help conduct and evaluate activities as outlined in grants KPI has received.
- Liaise with partner school leadership to ensure strong alignment in programming, scheduling, etc
- Communicate scheduling updates/changes to coaching team
- Oversee, train and evaluate Play Fair Expansion partners deliver of program.
- Dependent on experience. Approximate range $1000-$2000/month (depending on experience)
- KPI related expenses; internet, phone, transportation
- Visa, if applicable.
- Khmer - Good is preferred
- English - Fluent
- Bachelor's Degree
- Trainer in the sport for development sector for 4 years as a minimum
- Proven experience in empowering and training staff to deliver high quality programs.
- Experience in the areas of sport for development
- Ability to empower, mentor and train local staff
- Fluency in written and spoken English (Khmer is a plus)
- High degree of computer literacy to train others (excel, word, PPT, G-Suite)
- Strong analytical and reporting skills
- Candidates must have intercultural experience, and demonstrate strong organizational, communication, and facilitation skills.
- Strong leadership and organizational skills
- Cultural sensitivity, including ability to adapt well to local cultures
- Proven ability to function well in a lower-resourced environment
- Strong liaison and communication skills
- Innovative and creative thinking
