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Position title
Senior Specialist for Family Strengthening and Family-based Alternative Care - CRS
Description
CRS is seeking Senior Specialist for Family Strengthening and Family-based Alternative Care candidates for an anticipated multi-county child development, care, and protection project. The overall objective of the project is to strengthen national systems that protect vulnerable children, support families, and improve early childhood development through locally led and sustainable approaches. The project will improve outcomes for vulnerable children by strengthening child protection systems, supporting families and caregivers, advancing integrated early childhood health and development, and reducing reliance on residential care.
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.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the project’s subject matter expert for Family Strengthening and Family-based Alternative Care 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 Family Strengthening and Family-based Alternative Care, 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-country and global working groups and networks; and help translate project learning into improved practice.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field required.
- Minimum of eight years of work experience required in departmental-specific area of specialization.
- Previous experience managing multiple projects in a single department
- Previous experience in managing departmental projects.
- Experience working with government, civil society, faith-based, or community actors.
- Experience applying technical knowledge in the relevant area of specialization including via standards, evidence, and guidance to program implementation.
- Experience with facilitation, coaching, training, and capacity strengthening skills.
- Experience collaborating across technical areas and contribute to integrated project implementation.
- Experience using program data and learning to identify gaps, manage risks, improve quality, and inform adaptation.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or master’s Degree in social work, education, health or a related field.
- Previous experience in multi-country development programs
- Experience working in complex, multi-partner or multi-country development programs working with national and sub-national government, multiple technical partners, civil society, and other program stakeholders.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Advanced ability for independent action, decision making, and initiative with strong and consistent attention to detail.
- Strong time management skills, ability to multitask.
- Experience with budget planning and reporting systems.
- Computer proficiency with the ability to utilize MS Word, Excel, Power Point
- Proficiency in variety of computer software applications
Contacts
Interest candidate should submit their CV and covering letter by September 18, 2026 to CRS recruitment email: kh.recruitment@crs.org, or send to CRS Cambodia Office: Emerald Building #64, Preah Norodom Blvd, Corner Street 178, Sangkat Cheychumneas, Khan Daun Penh,Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Hiring organization
Employment Type
Full-time
Job Location
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Date posted
September 8, 2026
Valid through
September 18, 2026