Heifer International is a global development organization on a mission to end hunger and poverty in a sustainable way by supporting and investing alongside local farmers and their communities. For over 75 years, Heifer International has invested in smallholder farmers around the world, supporting them to build businesses that are economically and environmentally sustainable.
Heifer began working in Cambodia in 1999, improving production and increasing incomes of smallholder farmers through backyard chickens and safe vegetables, while exploring opportunities in beef cattle value chains. Smallholder farmers in the country are organized into self-help groups (SHGs) and agricultural cooperatives (ACs), enabling them to access new markets and financing to scale their agribusinesses. SHGs receive various capacity building trainings as a part of Heifer’s Values-Based Holistic Community Development (VBHCD) model which helps them to unleash their potential. Heifer Cambodia’s projects focus on increasing food security, improving sanitation and hygiene, building agricultural skills and investment, and integrating Micro-Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) into inclusive agricultural market systems and value chains, while strengthening sustainable community development networks at the local and provincial level.
Heifer International is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identify, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.
Heifer Cambodia invites interested candidates to apply for the following positions:
- Category:
Exec. / Management, Community Development, Agriculture - Animal Science, Operations Management, Rural development, Advisory
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Type :
Job Opportunity
- Location:
Phnom Penh
- Schedule: Full-time
- Salary:
Negotiable
FUNCTION:
The Director of Programs provides overall leadership and management for all Heifer Cambodia Programs including leading the planning, design, development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the country program and ensuring that the quality of projects, implementation, donor reporting and field level management is of the highest standards. The Director provides line management support to all Program Managers and Program Officers including overall management of their performance and of all the Program staff in Heifer Cambodia.
The Director of Programs supports the translation of Heifer International’s Global Vision and Strategy into project implementation, ensuring that project design and implementation are geared towards achieving scale and impact, attracting funding to diversify funding resources and ensuring that project implementation processes respond to Heifer’s need to strengthen global operating systems. With the support of the Country Director, the Director of Programs leads the process for developing and growing Heifer Cambodia’s program to reflect a fair balance in the project portfolio.
- Program Management and Oversight (25 %)
- Provide strategic program leadership and excellent management of the approved projects, schedules, and budgets.
- Develop/update program manuals, guidelines, procedures as required and ensure its compliance to Heifer, donor and in country statuary requirements
- Support all project teams to develop annual budgets and work plans consistent with project documents and donor contracts
- Maintain excellent oversight of all project components and meet expectations for project successes.
- Provide oversight and ensure all the projects are in line with the signature programs goals
- Ensure all projects are on time and within project budget and scope.
- Review and effectively manage project risks at all phases of project implementation in a timely manner, to ensure fulfillment of project objectives.
- Effectively maintain strong communication with all the relevant stakeholders throughout project implementation
- Coordinate between the project, CP and HQ to ensure effective, efficient flow of information.
- Ensure accountability and compliance with donor requirements.
- Quality Assurance and System Strengthening (25%)
- Provide leadership to strengthen program data management system and ensure comprehensive and quality data is available for project management, donor reporting and new project development.
- Lead Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Systems (MELS) to promote a results-based project management and reporting approach that delivers high-impact, cost efficient programs and projects.
- Ensure that project managers and project coordinators execute approved workplans activities and operations in response to technical direction and recommend adjustments as appropriate, to achieve project objectives.
- Support teams in undertaking the necessary reviews and updating of the work plans and budgets to respond to emerging field implementation challenges and ensure quality output.
- Support Program Managers and the Country Program to plan and undertake corrective management actions arising out of monitoring data/reports.
- Ensure all donor reports and project progress reports are compliant with the highest quality standards, timelines, and formats.
- Ensure timely reporting and evaluation in line with Heifer’s MELS requirements and in country statutory requirements.
- Lead in provision of critical services to the project in the areas of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation and other thematic areas (social capital, women empowerment, climate smart agriculture, market development etc.)
- Business Development (20%)
- Actively engage in Resource Mobilization team to grow and develop partnerships, funding, and collaboration opportunities to achieve RM targets and expand country program portfolio.
- Ensure Heifer Cambodia is positioned and actively represented internally and externally by interfacing, collaborating, and coordinating with other teams, funding entities, alliances, and counterparts
- Explore funding opportunities and contribute to the bid development process.
- Provide oversight to program data management, impact documentation and knowledge material production and dissemination to enhance Heifer’s visibility among donors, partners, and stakeholders.
- Keep abreast of all aspects of the program to serve as a spokesperson both internally and externally among donors and stakeholders.
- Represent Heifer with various agencies and government by organizing and attending national or international meetings and workshops.
- Ensure that resource mobilization plans are developed to achieve the objectives of the Country Program Framework.
- Ensure that at least 50% Leveraged Resources (LR) are mobilized among assisted project groups.
- Project Partner and Cooperative Management (20%):
- Conduct regular monitoring and periodic evaluation of project holders’ performance including budgeting, spending and variance analysis.
- Ensure timely reporting from the partner level.
- Review project compliance and finalize regular quarterly, semi-annual and annual programmatic and financial reports for transparency and efficiency.
- Integrate HQ requirements (reporting, financial, operational etc.) into partners’ management and implementation systems.
- Facilitate various evaluations and surveys with support from the MELS team.
- People Management (10%)
- Provide program leadership (monitor, coach and mentor) to all Programs team members to ensure that they are trained well and have enough resources, knowledge, and skill to perform their job effectively.
- Continue to build the capacity of Heifer Cambodia program staff based on the organizational need through various trainings and other learning platforms including learning on job.
Requirements
- QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in project planning and management, community development, sociology, Agriculture, Animal Science or a related field is required, plus 10 years of relevant experience including five (5) years in a senior management position in international organization, OR
- Master’s Degree, plus eight (8) years of relevant experience, including five (5) years in a senior management position in an international organization.
- Thorough understanding of programming processes, systems and principles, and the ability to provide
- Strong resource mobilization skills and ability to develop sustainable relationships with local governments and international donors.
- Solid skill, knowledge and foundation in proposal development and of the project management cycle.
- Sound understanding of value chain development on various agricultural commodities and the livestock sector.
- Sound understanding of integrated development issues and critical analysis of the root causes of poverty in Cambodia.
- Knowledge of development issues, trends, challenges and opportunities and implications to community development.
- Knowledge of strategic planning, program and project development and implementation processes (including planning, monitoring and evaluation).
- Demonstrated creativity, ability to think systematically, willingness and ability to incorporate innovative solutions.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work cooperatively, tactfully and diplomatically with culturally diverse groups of people.
- Knowledge of grant acquisition and management.
- Basic knowledge of finance controls and systems.
- Proficiency in basic statistics sufficient to analyze data.
- Proficient knowledge of word processing, spreadsheets, presentation tools, electronic mail (Microsoft Office preferred) and Internet.
- Demonstrated proficiency in English and Khmer, both oral and written.
- ESSENTIAL COMPETENCIES:
- Demonstrate a high degree of honesty and integrity.
- Willingness to work flexibly outside normal working hours.
- Ability to foster and maintain a spirit of unity, teamwork and cooperation.
- Constant face-to-face, telephone and electronic communication with colleagues, potential donors, and the public.
- Constant sitting, standing and walking, with occasional bending and lifting; may work at a computer for extended periods of time.
- Motivated to work responsibly with little supervision.
- Ability to meet and deal with others in a courteous and tactful manner.
- Ability to work with sensitive information and maintain confidentiality.
- Sensitivity in working with multiple cultures and beliefs, and to gender equity.
- Category:
Monitoring & Evaluation, Analyst / Assessment, Research / Development, Rural development
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Type :
Job Opportunity
- Location:
Phnom Penh
- Schedule: Full-time
- Salary:
Negotiable
FUNCTION:
The Program Officer-MELS will be responsible for supporting and managing monitoring, evaluation, learning and systems (MELS) and ensuring quality data for the country program and projects, to identify innovative ways to measure project impact. S/he will be expected to build the capacity of program staff, and cooperative members to ensure that performance indicators and output, outcome and impact data are prepared and collected properly in targeted geographic and thematic areas as stated in the MELS guidelines.
- Support MELS and Program in scaling up program impact (30%)
- Support and coordinate project baseline and regular monitoring to track project progress and evaluations as per the MELS plan, and to ensure field activities follow Heifer’s MELS guidelines.
- Work with implementing partners for preparation of a Project Implementation Plan (PIP).
- Support and coordinate Heifer wide research for learning when needed.
- Provide technical guidance and support in the implementation of the overall monitoring, learning, and evaluation framework in line with signature programs and ensure that key outcomes are achieved.
- Provide training on data collection and input, information systems and standards to colleagues and project staff at all levels, both in person and online.
- Actively participate and provide input into the program/project planning process and budgeting for the effectiveness of program/project quality.
- Contribute to program effectiveness: design monitoring, evaluation, learning and systems for country specific projects (20%)
- Determine the primary data and information elements that are required internally and externally to support the project.
- Coordinate the preparation of Letters of Agreements, MOUs and contracts.
- Support in executing project revisions and reforecasting.
- Support the development of project results frameworks and logical frameworks for all new projects.
- Review and adjust MELS plans and targets, tools and processes as needed.
- Revise and develop data collection tools and plans, and support the evaluation and analysis of dataset processes for all required information, ensuring high quality data.
- Ensure the operationalization of a detailed PIP at the sub-award level.
- Conduct periodic field verification.
- Data management, analysis, and utilization for learning (20%)
- Understand, document, and ensure the quality of high-value data for accuracy, consistency and comparability.
- Consolidate operational information on a regular schedule to support analysis and design and implement sustainable information management and dissemination systems for data collection.
- Assist to manage all data properly, present in a clean form, analyze to use for project management, learning, and to meet reporting needs.
- Implement proper backup, restoration, data validation, and security procedures to ensure data integrity and availability.
- Propose and implement upgrades to the database webpage, data entry and data storing systems.
- Provide maintenance and end user technical support in issues relating to database use and administration, including troubleshooting for data entry and access to the existing database.
- Revise the guidelines for use of the database.
- Develop ways of communicating messages and issues and transforming them into online or web-based products.
- Participate in the development, implementation and management of new indicators.
- Serve as data liaison, sending and receiving data between various database platforms (Outcome Tracker, etc.).
- Learning, sharing, and contribution to the effectives of the program (15%)
- Produce and update information products such as maps, charts and infographics by turning data into graphical products to convey messages and a storyline as well as support strategic and operational decision-making.
- Support in the development of reporting templates and procedures as well as reports, such as situation reports and briefing papers for government, donors, partners and other stakeholders.
- Revise the method of correspondence and communication between data management staff and external stakeholders.
- Build the capacity of project partners for operationalization of the Project M&E system.
- Support research and evaluation initiatives in the country.
- Assist in networking with other development organizations, governments, and other line agencies in promoting Heifer’s development model/initiatives, and potential collaborations.
- Support partners in improving learning and sharing mechanisms in the projects.
- Work collaboratively with different programs for strengthening integration and cross-learning in programs.
- Reporting and documentation (15%)
- Coordinate with field staff for the periodic update of data into the database management system (DMS) and carry out field verification and validation of data.
- Periodically track progress against PIP.
- Coordinate the annual outcome monitoring study.
- Compile and review all required periodic reports, including monthly data, for donors and other stakeholders, and management.
- Collect and prepare periodic case stories of project beneficiaries.
- Assist to prepare project outputs and financial expenditure reports and communicate with field staff on project specific reports.
- Ensure that the stewardship report is prepared and communicated to concerned staff and stakeholders.
- Closely track and maintain proper filing of digital and paper documents in the Program and DMS software (including software at sub-award and AC levels). Build/implement and/or update a digital or web-based application for the project.
- May perform other job-related duties as assigned
Requirements
- QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:
- Bachelor’s degree in Development Studies, Business Administration, Computer Science, Economics and any other social science related field is required.
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation and or database development and management, with at least 2 years in an international organization is an asset
- 1 to 3 years’ experiences designing, developing, and managing databases.
- Understanding of the current MELS trends and especially MELS systems in development organizations.
- Strong experience in project log-frame development.
- Good analytical and research skills and ability to verify information.
- Good command over report writing in English.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Time management and ability to prioritize multiple tasks.
- Skills with Microsoft Office package, internet browser, and other appropriate technology.
- ESSENTIAL COMPETENCIES:
- Ability to meet and deal with others in a courteous and tactful manner.
- Ability to prepare and present documents in a well-designed and attractive format with superior attention to detail.
- Proven team and customer care skills with the ability to train and work cooperatively with a diverse staff, including field staff in several locations.
- Constant face-to-face, telephone and electronic communication with colleagues both within and outside the country.
- May require constant sitting and moving, working at a computer for extended periods.
- Ability to work with sensitive information and maintain confidentiality.
- Ability to perform multiple tasks with minimal supervision.
- Willingness to work with a flexible schedule.
- Willingness to travel both locally and internationally.
- Able to effectively promote Heifer’s mission values, and objectives.
Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply through our recruitment system via the below links:
- Director of Programs
- Program Officer-MELS
Candidates are recommended to apply for the job as soon as possible, and all candidates will be taken into screening and reviewing process upon the received on the closing date . If a suitable candidate is identified before the deadline, we may conduct interviews and close the recruitment process earlier. First come, first served.
Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
For any enquiries, please contact us by email or call to contact number.
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