New Business Development Coordinator
Role Purpose
The New Business Development (NBD) Coordinator will lead Save the Children Cambodia’s efforts to secure diversified, sustainable funding aligned with the Country Strategic Plan, Programme Quality Framework, and Common Approaches. The role combines strategic fundraising planning, donor engagement, and proposal development, with a strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration across Technical Experts (TEs), REALM, Awards, Finance, Partnerships, and Member offices.
This position will also spearhead the development of ready-to-pitch concept notes, capacity statements, and donor products, lead local-led resource mobilization efforts, and coordinate proposal development across all thematic areas. It includes a critical responsibility to build funding relationships, engage in consortium formation, and actively manage donor cultivation, capture planning, and pre-positioning for new opportunities. In addition to donor engagement, the role supports pipeline tracking as part of the Strategic Portfolio Planning process.
In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.
Contract length: Unspecified Duration Contract (UDC).
- Qualifications and experience
- Master’s degree in international development, communications, business, public policy, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- Essential:
- Minimum 5 years of experience in resource mobilization, fundraising, or donor engagement within an INGO or multilateral setting.
- Proven success in developing and writing winning proposals and concept notes for institutional donors (e.g., USAID, EC, SIDA, UN agencies).
- Experience in donor engagement, consortia formation, and prepositioning strategies.
- Ability to translate complex programme priorities into compelling fundraising materials.
- Strong facilitation, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills.
- Exceptional English writing, communication, and editing skills; Khmer language is a plus
- Desirable:
- Experience of Save the Children priority sectors: education; child protection; child rights governance; child poverty; humanitarian response
- Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles
- Ability to work within a multicultural setting.
Advocacy Advisor
Role Purpose
Save the Children is committed to achieving breakthroughs for the most deprived and marginalized children. The Advocacy Advisor will lead strategic technical support for Save the Children Cambodia’s advocacy, partnership, and Civil Society Organization (CSO) strengthening work with national and sub-national civil society. This unique position combines responsibilities as a technical expert (TE) in advocacy and civic engagement, advisor for strengthening CSO partnerships and local leadership, and facilitator of high-quality, rights-based programme delivery in both humanitarian and development contexts.
The post-holder will provide high-level technical leadership to integrate evidence-based advocacy across programmes, build national staff and partner capacity in policy influence, campaign planning, governance accountability and civil society strengthening. They will also support direct project delivery in line with the localisation agenda, and represent SCI in strategic networks, coalitions, and government engagements.
In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.
Contract length: Fixed Duration Contract (FDC).
- Qualifications and experience
- Master’s degree in Political Science, Economic Development, International Relations, Development, Human Rights or related field
- Essential:
- At least 7 years of relevant experience in advocacy, governance, civil society strengthening or campaigns
- Experience working with or within civil society organisations in Southeast Asia, preferably Cambodia
- Experience of context, capacity and policy analysis, and influencing and advocacy at regional/national/subnational level in order to hold duty bearers to account to realise children’s rights
- Proven ability to develop and deliver advocacy strategies, policy-influencing plans and public campaigns
- Demonstrated experience in engaging with government, donors, media and coalitions at national and/or regional level
- Strong skills in capacity strengthening, partnership brokering, and participatory facilitation
- Knowledge of children’s rights key international agreements and conventions
- Knowledge of public finance for children, budget monitoring, and fiscal transparency tools is a strong advantage
- Fluency in English and strong writing, communication and interpersonal skills
- Desirable:
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing and negotiation
- Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
- Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mindsets
- Ability to present complex information in a succinct and compelling manner
- Strong research and policy development skills
- Experience of partnerships including building networks, resulting in securing significant new opportunities for the organisation
- Track record of engaging civil society networks, NGOs and government agencies in Cambodia
- Familiar with partnership principles, participatory approaches, organizational capacity development methodologies and the localization agenda.
