Job Description
Banyan Global is recruiting a Chief of Party (COP) to lead the up-coming USAID/Employ project focused on Cambodia’s workforce sector. The COP will be based in Phnom Penh and be responsible for the project’s strategic direction, technical leadership, and managerial oversight.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the key liaison to USAID for all project activities, including overseeing all staff, partners, and consultants.
- Provide strategic guidance to all project activities related to partnership building, curriculum development, and private sector engagement.
- Oversee all project activity implementation and supervise key technical and finance/operations team members.
- Responsible for contractual compliance of all project activities.
- Serve as key liaison with all partners (government, businesses, civil society, academia).
- Collaborate with Banyan Global headquarters team on contract compliance, reporting, and human resource issues.
- Oversee quality control for all project deliverables, including all reporting to USAID.
Qualifications
- Extensive knowledge of issues related to Cambodia’s workforce development and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) sectors, including curriculum development, business partnerships, internship/apprenticeships, career development, and job placement efforts undertaken by the public and private sectors.
- Extensive expertise in technical training program development, with an emphasis on areas such as green technologies, renewal energy, STEM, and climate smart agriculture.
- Ability and experience developing education/training-focused public-private partnerships.
- Ability and experience to develop on-the-job training (upskilling) programs on various topics.
- Understanding of Government policies related to Cambodia’s training and education sector and the development of competency standards.
- Ten years of progressively responsible experience on projects related to workforce development and management on USAID projects.
- Minimum 5 years of experience working on donor funded programs, preferably as a Deputy Chief of Party or COP.
- Experience designing and implementing programming that supports workforce development in Southeast Asia.
- Proven experience in stakeholder engagement and working with the Government of Cambodia.
- Experience working in the areas of science, technology, and innovation, including the green economy, STEM-related fields, digital technology, ICT, and innovative manufacturing.
- Proven experience working and collaborating with Cambodia’s private sector, business associations, and the business community.
- Superior interpersonal and diplomatic skills, with ability to effectively work with a variety of counterparts.
- Excellent oral and written communications skills, including professional fluency in written and spoken English.
- High degree of responsibility, organization, and punctuality.
- Proven track record of leadership, including success in hiring, leading, and motivating highly-effective teams.
- Master’s degree in business administration, law, economics, finance, policy or related field.
Banyan Global is an equal opportunity employer. Please apply to the position through our website.
About the Organization
Banyan Global is an international development consulting firm committed to improving livelihoods through market approaches for a broad and lasting impact. The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC, with staff working in a number of developing countries. Banyan Global operates seamlessly across five practice areas: economic growth, health, gender, youth, and monitoring, evaluation and learning.
