Senior Specialists - Child Protection & Family Strengthening, and Human Resources Assistant

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Phnom Penh

Job Type

FULLTIME

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On-site

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English, Khmer

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BTDC-ID: 41453 CLOSING DATE: 18-Sep-2026 Announcement Positions Senior Specialist for Child Protection and Care System Strengthening Senior Specialist for Family Strengthening and Family-based Alternative Care Human Resources Assistant Contact Details OFFICE ADDRESS #64, Emerald Building, 1st Floor, Preah Norodom Blvd, Corner Street 178, Sangkat Chey Chomneas, Khan Doun Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia CONTACT NAME Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Cambodia Program EMAIL TO: [email protected] Announcement Description Catholic Relief Services (CRS) was founded in 1943 by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to assist the poor and disadvantaged.
CRS returned to Cambodia in 1991 and currently works in the sectors of Health and Climate Change Adaptation, with government and civil society partners.
CRS head office is located in Phnom Penh.
By applying to this job, you as the applicant understands and acknowledges that CRS requires its staff to treat all people with dignity and respect and to actively prevent harassment, abuse, exploitation, and human trafficking.
Further, the applicant understands that if s/he is a successful candidate, s/he will be subject to a comprehensive background check, and their personal/professional references will be asked to evaluate their behaviors related to the above safeguarding-related topics.
Announcement Positions Senior Specialist for Child Protection and Care System Strengthening Apply Now WORKPLACE CIRCUMSTANCES ENVIRONMENT: Office LANGUAGES: English, Khmer LOCATION: Phnom Penh POSITION CIRCUMSTANCES CAREER CATEGORY: Social Work, Educate/Train/Teaching, Health/Medical SCHEDULE: Full-time SALARY: Negotiable POSITION SUMMARY The Senior Specialist acts as the subject matter expert providing technical advice, guidance, and support to strengthen child protection, care, and development systems in Cambodia Country Program.
Through application of specialized technical expertise, the Senior Specialist will support project implementation, systems strengthening, capacity development, and learning efforts to improve outcomes for vulnerable children and families.
The Senior Specialist contributes to improving policies, practices, service quality, and sustainable system change through collaboration with government, civil society, faith-based, and community stakeholders.
CRS is recruiting in anticipation of an award – recruitment for all candidates is contingent upon successful award of the project.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: Serve as the project’s subject matter expert for Child Protection and Care System Strengthening within Cambodia Country Program.
Provide technical advice, guidance and leadership within the area of specialization in Cambodia, in coordination and collaboration with the global technical counterpart and drawing on senior consultants and resource partners with specialized expertise, to ensure project strategies, tools, training content, implementation approaches, and partner support reflect current evidence, technical standards for program quality, and country context.
Provide technical assistance to strengthen systems serving children and families in Cambodia.
Support government, civil society, faith-based, and community actors to develop, adapt, and implement relevant policies, regulations, standards, standard operating procedures, tools, and guidance at national and targeted subnational levels.
Strengthen capacity and implementation quality within Cambodia.
Provide coaching, training, supportive supervision, and technical troubleshooting to project teams, partners, and relevant system actors to improve practice and program results, support adherence to standards, and effectively and efficiently address performance gaps.
Support integrated project delivery across technical areas within the project.
Work closely with the project team, global technical counterpart, resource partners, other subject matter experts, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL), and implementation teams to support coordinated, mutually reinforcing technical approaches within a cohesive project strategy.
Support MEAL, evidence use, and adaptive learning in Cambodia.
Work with the MEAL team to ensure technically relevant data are captured, interpreted, and used to inform programming, strengthen practice and accountability, document learning, and support continuous improvement.
Monitor technical quality and support risk mitigation within the area of specialization in Cambodia.
Track safeguarding concerns, contextual risks, and implementation challenges related to Child Protection and Care System Strengthening and recommend or support corrective action as needed.
Contribute to reporting, documentation, technical knowledge sharing, and relevant networks.
Provide technically sound inputs for milestone reports, partner government and donor updates, learning products, briefs, and other internal and external communications; participate actively in relevant in-countr.

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Catholic Relief Services (CRS) was founded in 1943 by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to assist the poor and disadvantaged. CRS returned to Cambodia in 1991 and currently works in the sectors of Health and Climate Change Adaptation, with government and civil society partners. CRS head office is located in Phnom Penh.

Senior Specialists - Child Protection & Family Strengthening, and Human Resources Assistant

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