Meal Officer for SOS Children's Villages of Cambodia
| For : | Cambodian Only |
| Categories : | Child Protection, Community Development, Monitoring & Evaluation, Social Work |
| Schedule : | Full time job |
| Sex : | Male, Female |
| Language : | Khmer, English |
| Location : | Phnom Penh |
| Hiring : | 1 Position |
| Closing Date : | 07th November 2026 |
| Salary : |
Negotiable
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| Experience : | Minimum 3 years |
| Degree : | Bachelor |
SOS Children’s Villages Cambodia is a Member Association (MA) of the SOS Children’s Villages International federation, which is one of the largest non-for-profit organization in the world dedicated to improving the lives of children and young people without parental care or at risk of losing it. We are committed to safeguarding and protecting children in our programs by having zero tolerance policy in this regard. We are further committed to provide a safe environment for staff and children, young people and adults with whom we work, where human rights are respected and upheld, and healthy relations fostered by building organisational systems, capacity, and awareness on PSHEA (prevention and protection against sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse) guidelines. All our co-workers are obliged to follow SOS regulation on Child and Youth Safeguarding, PSHEA and Code of Conduct. We are an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. SOS Children’s Villages Cambodia has been active in the country for more than 20 years. Through its program interventions in 7 provinces SOS Children’s Villages Cambodia provides long term family-based care, protection, education, health care and community-based programs to thousands of children and youth. To support us with this important responsibility we are now looking for a committed:
We are currently seeking the qualified and competitive dynamic candidates to fill the following position(s) as
- MEAL framework and inception
- Develop/finalize the project MEAL plan, indicator matrix, data collection schedule, roles and responsibilities, data flow, and reporting calendar.
- Work with MoSVY and project teams to finalize a joint monitoring framework during the inception phase.
- Define clear indicator reference sheets, disaggregation requirements, data sources, calculation methods and quality standards.
- Support baseline design, pre-training needs assessment and establishment of appropriate baseline values and targets.
- Ensure monitoring arrangements cover outputs, outcomes and system-level learning.
- Routine monitoring and data management
- Develop practical monitoring tools for training, coaching, youth participation, care-leaver networks, reintegration, transition/aftercare and referral support.
- Coordinate quarterly data collection across Battambang, Ratanakiri, Kampot and Prey Veng.
- Maintain secure project databases and ensure appropriate access controls, consent and confidentiality.
- Track project indicators including workforce competency, documented transition/reintegration plans, placement stability, youth participation and influence, network functionality and access to support services.
- Conduct routine data cleaning, validation, disaggregation and analysis.
- Training and competency measurement
- Design and manage pre/post assessments for ToT and cascade training participants.
- Support measurement of competency gains and subsequent application of skills in practice.
- Work with the Project Officer to link training data with supportive supervision and practice-observation findings.
- Analyze trends and identify gaps requiring additional coaching or technical support.
- Accountability and meaningful youth feedback
- Establish accessible, safe, and age-appropriate feedback and complaints mechanisms for project participants.
- Support structured youth feedback on services, participation quality, and whether young people feel heard and influential.
- Ensure feedback data is reviewed regularly, and management responses are documented.
- Work with safeguarding colleagues to ensure sensitive disclosures are handled through appropriate referral and incident-management pathways.
- Learning, review and evaluation
- Organize regular learning/reflection sessions with project staff, practitioners, government partners and care-experienced young people.
- Prepare dashboards, analysis briefs and evidence summaries for quarterly and bi-annual reviews.
- Coordinate data and documentation for annual joint review with MoSVY.
- Support design, procurement/coordination and quality assurance of the mid-term review and final evaluation.
- Synthesize comparative learning across the four provinces and identify implications for adaptation and scale-up.
- Data quality, ethics and safeguarding
- Conduct routine data quality assessments and provide coaching to staff and focal points on data collection and documentation.
- Ensure data collection with children, young people and care leavers follows informed consent, confidentiality, data minimization and do-no-harm principles.
- Maintain secure handling of sensitive case, youth and safeguarding information and avoid collection of unnecessary personal data.
- Immediately escalate safeguarding concerns identified through monitoring or feedback channels.
- Reporting and knowledge products
- Provide verified data and analysis for donor, management and government reports.
- Support development of case studies, learning briefs, presentations, policy inputs and dissemination materials.
- Maintain an organized evidence repository including tools, datasets, consent records, learning products and evaluation documentation.
- Document methodological limitations and avoid overstating results or attributing change beyond available evidence.
- Key Working Relationships
- Internal
- Project Manager.
- Program Quality Manager/MEAL Coordinator.
- Project Officer and Youth Participation & Care Leaver Networks Officer.
- Project Managers/provincial focal points and frontline staff.
- Child Safeguarding Coordinator, Finance and Communications teams.
- External
- MoSVY and Provincial Departments of Social Affairs.
- Government and NGO practitioners participating in training and monitoring.
- Care-experienced young people and care-leaver networks.
- IES/SOS International technical colleagues.
- External evaluators, consultants and funding partners as required.
- Khmer - Fluent
- English - Fluent
- Bachelor's Degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Development Studies, Statistics, Social Sciences, Economics, Public Health, Social Work, or a related field
- MEAL/M&E for development, social welfare, child protection, or youth programs for 3 years as a minimum
- Additional training in RBM, data analysis, research methods, evaluation, or data protection is an advantage.
- Experience developing logframes, indicators, monitoring plans, data collection tools and databases.
- Experience conducting or supporting baseline studies, assessments, learning reviews or evaluations.
- Experience with quantitative and qualitative analysis and presentation of findings for management and donor reporting.
- Experience working with sensitive data and vulnerable populations is preferred.
- Strong Excel and data-management skills; experience with Kobo/ODK/SPSS/Power BI or similar tools is an advantage.
- Strong written Khmer and working English.
- Ability to travel to provincial and remote project sites.
- Results-Based Management and outcome-focused monitoring.
- Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis.
- High attention to data quality, verification and documentation.
- Ability to communicate evidence clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Learning-oriented mindset and ability to facilitate reflection.
- Strong ethics, confidentiality, data protection and safeguarding awareness.
- Ability to work independently while coordinating across multiple provinces and functions.
Note: This position involves working with a not-for-profit organisation committed to children and adult safeguarding and is subject to strict safer recruitment checks. The successful candidate will be required to go through background verification checks to verify their suitability to work for SOS Children’s Villages Cambodia
Application Information
As this position is need to fill up urgently, so the interview will be conducted on a rolling basis until the position is filled up. Interested Candidates are requested to apply early Interested candidates please submit CV and Cover Letter (in one file) and complete our application form as attach, incomplete our application form should not be considered. Salary expected and mention the position which you are interested to apply to address or email provided in the contact details.
Thanks, From Khmer Online Jobs Team
| Organization : | SOS Children's Villages of Cambodia |
| Email : | sos.recruitment@soscvcambodia.org |
| Address : | # 44Bis, Street 334, Sangkat Boeng Keng Kang Ti Muoy, Khan Boeng Keng Kang, Phnom Penh, Cambodia |
| Website : |
http://www.sos-childrensvillages.org |
