Team Leader SDP Cambodia

Tasks

• Project Management & Strategic Leadership: Provide strategic direction to ensure the achievement of targets and objectives outlined in the project logframe.
• Planning & Implementation: Develop and execute annual project plans in accordance with established guidelines and budgets.
• Monitoring & Evaluation: Oversee collaborative project monitoring with staff and partner organisations. Support mid-term reviews and final evaluation.
• Compliance & Reporting: Ensure adherence to guidelines from Swisscontact, the government, and donors, incl. preparing technical/financial reports and supervising the overall project fund management.
• Team & Partner Management: Lead the recruitment, capacity building, and management of project staff, consultants, and implementation partners.
• Representation & Stakeholder Engagement: Lead the external engagements, maintaining effective relationships with donors and stakeholders at national and international levels.

Requirements​​​​​​​

• Master’s degree in Vocational Education and Training (VET), Management, Economics, Business Administration, Social Sciences, or related fields.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in a similar role.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to independently manage a team of local experts.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with a people-centred approach, including team building, negotiation, and conflict resolution abilities.
• Proven ability to build and manage collaborative, trust-based relationships with government counterparts and public and private sector partners.
• Demonstrated capacity to establish, execute, monitor project plans, evaluate results, and distil lessons learned with various project partners.
• Proficient budgeting, accounting, and reporting skills to ensure smooth financial and administrative project operations.
• Strong communication skills in English
• Willingness to travel occasionally to project sites.

Swisscontact offers attractive working conditions in an international and multicultural context. We see our work as a joint effort in an agile organizational culture: mutual respect, trust and teamwork.

We look forward to receiving your online application with the following documents: letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, diplomas and references. Please apply exclusively via Jobportal. Application deadline: 8 December 2024.

Swisscontact - Swiss Foundation for Technical Cooperation

We are a leading partner organisation for the implementation of international development projects. Founded in 1959 and registered under Swiss law, we are an independent non-profit organisation. We are politically and denominationally neutral.

Swisscontact offers attractive working conditions in an international and multicultural context. We see our work as ajoint effort in an agile organizational culture: mutual respect, trust and teamwork.

Swiscontact is a leading partner organisation for the implementation of international development projects. We are represented in 38 countries with over 1 200 employees. The foundation is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Swiscontact promotes inclusive economic, social and ecological development to make an effective contribution towards sustainable and widespread prosperity in developing and emerging economies.

• We strengthen the competencies of people, improving their employability
• We increase the competitiveness of enterprises, growing their business
• We foster social and economic systems, promoting inclusive development

We believe that people, even in dire conditions have the ability and will to act and liberate themselves from the shackles of poverty. However, this is only possible in an enabling environment and level playing field.

Swisscontact stands for professional quality and high ethical standards in its activities.