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 - Fundación Suiza para la Cooperación Técnica

Swisscontact es una organización de desarrollo independiente y sin fines de lucro, establecida en 1959 por representantes del sector privado suizo y la sociedad civil.

Nuestro trabajo de cooperación al desarrollo se centra en liberar el potencial de la iniciativa privada en las economías en desarrollo y en las emergentes. Promovemos el desarrollo económico sostenible y generalizado con el objetivo de crear empleos, mejorar las condiciones de vida de todas las personas y elevar el nivel de bienestar general.

Nuestro compromiso está basado en tres pilares: fortalecemos las competencias de las personas para que mejoren sus oportunidades de empleo y sus fuentes de ingresos, mejoramos la competitividad de las empresas para que puedan crecer y fortalecer su resiliencia y promovemos sistemas socioeconómicos que propicien el desarrollo integral por una prosperidad sostenible y generalizada. 

La organización actualmente cuenta con más de 130 proyectos en 41 países y unos 1400 empleados. Tiene su sede en Zúrich, Suiza.