Project Officer (2 Positions)
- Career Category: Educate/Train/Teaching, Social Work, Rural development
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: N/A
The Project Officer’s main responsibility to ensure that the HCC’s kindergarten sustainable goal is achieved in accordance with HCC Road Map.
The position will handle for all related administration and logistic support, maintaining physical facilities, level of good hygiene, and good school management through mobilizing the community for co-funding of school breakfast, co-financing of building infrastructure of school management, cook, and commune councils, monitoring of school attendance, breakfast and milk management of HCC’s kindergarten.
The position will be based at any of zone’s office and it is required to travel frequently to the target kindergartens to ensure that all related supportive school operation is functioned and responsive.
The project officer is under direct supervision by the Co-funding Coordinator of the Happy Cambodian Children (HCC) project. The project officers will work closely with the project manager, M&E coordinator, technical coordinators, admin and finance officer, and other project staff to support the project implementation to reach the HCC goal.
- Physical facility development and maintenance
- Work with school management to ensure the kindergarten landscape and playground are developed in the child-friendly environment and well-maintained.
- Assist the school management and teachers to initiate the kindergarten development plan to integrate into the school development plan
- Support and train the school management, teachers, and care- taker to manage and maintain facilities and materials in a proper way.
- Good Hygiene
- Monitor the practices of hygienic activities (hand-washing and toothbrushing)
- Ensure adequate supplies such as hand-washing liquid, toothbrushes and toothpastes, and other cleaning materials
- Ensure access of safe and clean drinking water plus water for other consumption
- Train school management and teachers related to good hygiene
- School Attendance management
- Monitor school attendance with kindergarten teacher.
- Collect long absent kids from coach, solving the issued and report to co-funding coordinator.
- Works with co-funding coordinator to coordinate the problem-solving to improve attendance issue.
- Breakfast/Snack Management
- Monitor the management of breakfast and milk.
- Works with Co-funding coordinator, School director, Kindergarten teachers, SMC, Parent/guardian for collect co-funding for school breakfast and milk.
- Collect school breakfast expense report for the co-funding coordinator/PM.
- Community
- Detect irregularity, malpractice, and corruption related to breakfast expenses in accordance with operational guideline.
- Train cooks on breakfast preparation and management
- Mobilization
- Participate in commune investment planning (CIP) to ensure that the respective communes allocate the budget to support the cook’s renumeration.
- Assist the school to mobilize the resources to co-finance with HCC’s program according to the road map.
- Administration, Logistic, and Networking
- Provide liaison or coordination support when there is a school visit
- Collect relevant information of schools, communities, target groups, and key stakeholders for the co-funding coordinator and project manager.
- Manage to send-off, drop, and collect and circulate all administrative letters and documents to the concerned governments and within KrY.
- Ensure all provided materials are delivered to the kindergartens in timely, well-managed and maintained.
- Assist the co-funding coordinator/project manager to propose the budget, procure, and settle the expenses for related administrative, office and other operational expenses.
- Participate in bi-weekly meetings with co-funding coordinator /project manager and other project officers
- Assist the co-funding coordinator to participate in network meetings with key stakeholders when assigned or nominated.
- Other tasks may be asked to perform additionally when needed.
- At least a bachelor degree or equivalence preferably in the field of
- Education, Rural Development, Social Work, Project Management, and/ Administration…etc.
- With three-year working experience with NGOs or governments in social development, child protection, education and related health or nutrition issues…etc.
- Demonstrated ability to plan, implement, monitor, and report of the activities
- Be interested in working and traveling in the rural communities
- Demonstrated ability to liaise and negotiate with government and social partners at local level.
- Sound of ability in using the MS Offices (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Sound of ability in using internet, e-mail, and other social media outline.
- Sound of ability in English communication in both writing and speak and able to use the internet and email and other social media
