Project Officer for RRV

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Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Position: Project Officer for RRV

Location: Preah Vihear province

Contact: 01 Year

Salary: Negotiable

Closing Date: 03 November 2026

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION

This position is mainly to coordinate Re-build Regreening Villages (RRV) Phase-II project implementation and require strong relationship and coordination skills. In line with WVI’s core values and mission, the successful candidate will coordinate and represent the project and WVI both internally within the Cambodia office. In addition, this position will coordinate and monitor project implementation to ensure smooth facilitation of household biodigester system installation as it means in line with “Improve climate change resilience for local communities through enhancing accessibility to renewable energy from household biodigesters and strengthening economic capacity.”

To facilitate project and coordinate with AP teams, Community Development Facilitators, Finance Assistant, Procurement Unit, and key implementing partners from different experiences and locations to ensure the successfully implemented activities in target provinces, toward goal.

To facilitate and with partners and conduct community awareness, capacity building, and reflection and monitoring progress to ensure project implementation is fully support to the project goal and compliance with donor requirements.

To establish and maintain good relationships with different local authorities, community partners, and development agencies for seeking collaborations and technical assistances.

To coordinate closely with internal and external partners, including sector-related government officials for successfully project implementation.

To ensure the project monitoring and reporting, quarterly/semi/annually, is delivered with high quality and agreed timeframe.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

I. Project Implementation Delivery:

The Project Coordinator will utilize household biodigesters to support the direct beneficiaries through community mobilization and partnership with relevant technical expertise, including but not limited to district office agriculture, local community authorities, and private sectors. Therefore, the proposed project will adopt household biodigester units.

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Needs assessment and market/business feasibility assessment: Qualitative data collection with community representatives, commune chief, provincial/district officials, private enterprises/suppliers, and agricultural cooperatives (ACs). This will also assess the current household energy source, expenses made for household energy consumption, agriculture/farming natural fertilizer inputs, and time spent for cooking and household practices.

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Capacity building for Biodigester Management Committees (BMC) and target household members: Provide a series of training program, including biodigester management & operations, sustainable waste management, and climate-smart agriculture techniques (e.g., organic fertilizer and compost). Moreover, visits for regular coaching and mentoring are required to build MBCs’ capacity. Developing the roles and responsibilities of the members and orientation to the members.

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Capacity building to the individual households: Delivery key trainings comprise of 1) Introduction and perception of livestock waste management in the family, 2) climate-smart agriculture, 3) biodigester system management & operations, and 4) climate change awareness. There will be 6 separate training sessions conducted for 200 participants in total (around 30 participants for each session) from households receiving biogas support from the project.

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Training and mentoring at household for biodigester slurry and/or sustainable waste management as for improving agriculture inputs: The households will be encouraged to separate the waste for appropriate disposal and recyclable purposes (particularly feedstocks that can use in the biodigesters). Moreover, the bio-slurry generated by the household biodigesters will be stored properly for natural/bio-fertilizers. To use this properly, the project will include sustainable waste (livestock) management and climate-smart agriculture training in the capacity building process

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II.Stakeholder Engagement:

Be responsible for getting support/involve from various stakeholders to work together for effectiveness of project implementation coordination

Meet with Biogas Service Provider/Sellers, i.e., ATEC Biogas Provider team, regularly to review progress and challenges, especially to ensure any adjustment needed in terms of time frame, budget or scoping are made

Ensure working relation with the ACs, BCs, and project partners at the community level. For instance, AC leaders who plays important role as leadership and technical focal point and providing loan, or subsidy for household to acquisition of the biodigester system.

Maintain strong working relationships with internal and external implementing partners who provide direct support in Re-building Regreening Villages (RRV) project.

Coordinate and collaborate with local authorities and Provincial Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (PDAFF), Provincial Department of Environment (POE), and other NGOs and technical resource agencies to ensure sharing of information and technical resources for synergizing biodigesters programme at its scale.

III. Work Plan and Project Management:

Ensure field project facilitation is executed in line with the agreed/approved budget.

Coordinate with AP teams to conduct household journal recording to track and monitor project expenses to ensure it is in line with plan, especially expenses less than 10% of over/under spending.

Support to prepare the transaction of project expenses and suggest adjusting if needed.

Being fully aware of financial requirements in terms of cost principles and will ensure compliance with relevant procedure.

IV. Learning, Reflection, and Monitoring:

Monitoring: For the preparation stage, the Project Coordinator shall be responsible for identifying the M&E indicators for monitoring the project progress, challenges, lessons learned of the project, noticeably form Phase I) over the course of implementation. S/he shall undertake technical monitoring to assess the strategy to establish as whether the project is achieving its proposed results. This should result in improved accountability in achieving the technical requirements of the agreed project, specifically interventions related to the socio-economic well-being of the beneficiaries. In addition to this, WVI-Cambodia APs will keep on-going monitoring support this project by integrating into the AP plans.

Evaluation: The project has identified several indicators to assess outcome level to evaluate the impacts of the project through household following-up, focused group discussion, and field observation/verification with community project partners and stakeholders. Moreover, the impact indicators of this project will be integrated with AP programme evaluation for future work.

Reporting: Support line manager to complete all donor reporting to a high quality, including semi- and annual report and completion report.

REQUIREMENTS

Bachelor's degree in agronomy, rural development, environmental, biological environment, or any in relevant fields.

At least 3 years experiences in any relevant roles in renewal renewable energy (household biodigesters), agriculture, rural development, community engagement, and gre