Overview
Responsible and accountable for providing technical inputs, management, coordination, and oversight of IOM’s livelihood activities in Cambodia. The role involves leading programme planning, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and stakeholder engagement of project livelihood components.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the strategic planning of livelihoods approaches.
- Plan livelihoods programmes, including community-based infrastructure and livelihoods interventions.
- Assess market opportunities, community needs, and vulnerabilities.
- Facilitate community-based engagement.
- Coordinate with relevant programme units for integrated approaches.
- Lead the rollout of programme activities, ensuring effective implementation.
- Monitor programme implementation, track outputs, outcomes, and community feedback.
- Provide mentorship and capacity building to national staff and partners.
- Develop and set up mechanisms for accountability to affected populations.
- Identify and mitigate operational, security, and reputational risks.
- Represent IOM in relevant coordination forums, meetings, and stakeholder consultations.
- Prepare and consolidate start-up progress updates and activity reports.
Required Experience
- At least five years of relevant professional experience in livelihoods, economic recovery, transition and recovery, or community stabilization programmes, preferably in displacement-affected or post-crisis settings.
- Experience in designing and implementing livelihood interventions, including cash-for-work, labor-intensive activities, small business support, vocational skills, or community resilience initiatives.
- Experience in coordinating with government counterparts, communities, and partners, as well as conducting livelihoods or market assessments, monitoring programme activities, and supporting field-level recovery operations.
- Experience in programme management, community engagement, and field-based assessments, including coordination with government authorities, CBOs, and implementing partners in return and IDP contexts.
- Experience working in South and/or Southeast Asia preferred.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Development Studies, Economics, Social Sciences, or a related field from an accredited academic institution with two years of professional experience; or,
- University degree in the above fields with four years of relevant professional experience.
