Community Development Facilitator (2 positions, based in Phnom Penh & Banteay Mean Chey) -- Good Neighbors International

Job Announcement

Good Neighbors International (GNI) is an international humanitarian and development NGO. GNI has made great strides in its mission by providing people around the world with a better quality of life. Good Neighbors Cambodia (GNC) is the field country project that has been implementing its projects in Cambodia since 2002. GNC is seeking qualified candidates for the following positions:

Community Development Facilitator  (2 positions, based in Phnom Penh & Banteay Mean Chey)

Job description:
Relationship building

• Build good relationships and communicate GNC’s identity to all appropriate stakeholders to know GNC clearly.
• Build close relationships and learn actively within communities partners through home visits, attending community social events to make the community trust.
• Network actively with other stakeholders/partners and facilitate the communities to strengthen community relationship.

Community Formation and Capacity building

• Facilitate formation of Community Development Committee (CDC), Agriculture Cooperative (AC) and others small groups and ongoing capacity building of new and existing groups/cooperatives for holistic sustainable development.
• Train community key partners on appropriate skills and methods to improve their capacity and they can manage the resource by themselves.
• Participate actively as a key member in OD workshop, CDC action learning network and other learning events for reflection and learning to improve the quality of work.
• Raise awareness and facilitate critical analysis of community issues and opportunities to transform their mind set to find what improving.

Planning, Implementation and Community Mobilization

• Facilitate community visioning and planning processes with CDC, AC, and other key sustainability partners to strengthen their group to be sustainable.
• Collaborate with team (CDFs, Education Facilitator, SSF and other staffs) in planning and implementation processes that mainstream transformational development and child protection within assigned communities.
• Develop Detail Implementation Plan (DIP) to implement activities in effective and timely manner.
• Mobilize local resources, participation and ownership for development initiatives.

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Facilitate community people and key partners to reflect, learn, share best practices about community empowerment and development.
• Facilitate the key sustainability partners to implement monitoring process and indicators to evaluate the quality of work.
• Facilitate community partners to use Case Study/Most Significant Change (MSC) and other evidence-based monitoring process to see the progress.
•  Submit reports and monitoring system (e.g. IG management system) in quality and timely manner.
• To participate in monitoring and evaluation team to collect information to see CDP’s impacts.
• Other tasks assigned by the line manager.

Requirement

• Associated or bachelor degree in community and rural development or relevant field.
• Minimum 1 year of appropriate professional experience in community development.
• Good development facilitation including empowerment, community mobilization and transformational development.
• Good interpersonal, communication and networking skills.
• Honest and trustworthy, hardworking and willing to learn
• Willing to work with the vulnerable and children.
• Competent in written English communication, computer literate (Ms. word, excel, PPT)
• Willing travel overnight stay in the community.

Application information
All interested candidates are required to submit their Cover Letter and CV including at least three references to Mr. Tong Dara, Administration Department Manager, via email (gnc.adm.pp@gmail.com). Do not attach certificates. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview and the interview will be conducted in English.

The deadline for application is 30 January 2015. 

Please click here to download the Application Form.

GNC Head Office:
#72, Street 317, Sangkat Boeung Kak II, Khan Toul Kork, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Tel: (855) 23 880 557 / E-mail: gnc.adm.pp@gmail.com
Website: www.gncambodia.org

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