Job offer: Project Officer (1 Position)

Kroursar Yoeung Association (KrY) is a local non-governmental organization with no religious or political ties and was established in 2002 with the Ministry of Interior to promote health conditions, cognition, and development of children, strengthen childcare and parenting, improve and empower families through different development programs.

In partnership of Kimchan Foundation in Germany, KrY is currently implementing and operating the community/state pre-schools in Siem Reap, Ratanak Kiri, Tbong Khmom and Kratie Province. It will be scaled up to other remote and rural areas across the country in the future. Now we are hiring:

This Project Officer will be responsible for the operation of the project implementation for strengthening the quality of learning and teaching of preschool students, monitoring and supervising preschool activities such as hygiene, school breakfast, administration, and maintenance facilities at Steung Treng and Ratanakiri

Duties

• The project officer is under direct supervision by the project manager 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.
• To ensure the preschools are functioning well with appropriate support.
• Coordinate and administrate in the target preschools and implementation the preschool operations such as planning activities, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating projects.
• Develop a budget plan, and project plan, and review the activities quarterly and annually with project managers.
• Participate in developing project implementation on M&E tools to ensure the operational activities are carried out with proper tracking.
• Update the project progress activities to project managers to seek intervention support if needed.
• Provide daily attendant records to project managers weekly and monthly.
• Monitoring the school breakfast, snack, and fresh milk expenditure and reporting monthly to project managers.
• Produce the regular project activity reports to the project manager monthly, quarterly and annually.
• Monitoring the hygiene activities such as handwashing station, handwashing liquid, teeth brushing, and others.
• Monitoring the infrastructure and other facilities in HCC maintenance standards.
• Strong knowledge of curriculum, pedagogy, and assessments on preschool education.
• Monitoring and supervision of kindergarten teacher’s activities on preschool curriculum, pedagogy, and technical support.
• Provide on-the-job training/coaching to preschool teachers, cooks, school management committee, and relevant stakeholders.
• Supervise and provide coaching support to preschool teachers to make sure are able to implement and operate preschool education to achieve the HCC goal with effectively and efficiently.
• Participate to organize staff performance appraisal and review job description to meet the project expectation
• Work closely with the Finance and Admin Unit to ensure all administrative and logistic work required for the respective projects.
• Provide logistic support for materials distribution and arrangement for donor visits when it is required.
• Work closely collaboration with local authorities and relevant stakeholders to support the project works.
• Facilitate and support external visitor during project site visit
• Participate and report any project administration concerns at respective to local authorities, NGOs partners, and other relevant stakeholders
• Others
• Participate in team meeting, network meeting, local authority and other workshop to build strong relationship with all partners.

Requirements

• At least a bachelor's degree in Education, Management, Administration, and at least two-year experience of working with NGOs, especially in preschool education, social development, and health issues, has staff management and finance experience.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, implement, manage, monitor and evaluate project activities and expenditure.
• Demonstrated ability to liaise and negotiate with government and social partners at local level.
• Ability to supervise preschool teachers and other stakeholders.
• Good willing to travel field and reported writing in English
• It is expected that the person will be creative, initiative, sound judgment, hardworking and enthusiastic, and has good leadership and capacity to work in a team, presents communication and facilitation skills