Community Engagement Facilitator - Cambodia

Long-term contract
Localisation Cambodia
No remote
From 1 to 3 yrs of exp.
Posted on 04-11-2025

Wildlife Conservation Society

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a global US-based non-profit organization with almost 130 years of experience in conserving wildlife, landscapes, and natural resources.

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Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Assist target communities to manage the cash for community effectively and efficiency, ensuring transparency with common consent by members/indigenous communities.
  • Coordinate among the community engagement teams to strengthen the governance and leadership capacity of the community committee in managing their land and natural resources.
  • Assist community committees to develop and implement monthly, and annual community operational plans for community REDD+ benefit sharing fund and ensure gender equality through Community REDD+ Benefit Sharing fund throughout the process.
  • Provide technical support, facilitation, follow-up, and monitor community management committees and members on field activities.
  • Support community outreach work to promote the understanding of local communities and the next generation on relevant natural resources management, significance of biodiversity conservation, sustainable natural resource management and community development, improving their positive behaviors and building trust with the communities.
  • Assist community committees to implement alternative livelihoods and community development projects, which contribute to reducing deforestation and forest degradation.
  • Facilitate participatory discussions and data collection and filing of all activities conducted, and ensure that the quality of reporting is reliable.
  • Maintain good cooperation with local authorities, commune councils, technical departments and relevant units of KSWS.
  • Assist indigenous communities to monitor land use and illegal land grabbing.
  • Assist the management committees to organize and keep relevant documents.
  • Organize and scan all relevant agreements, bylaws, meeting minutes and share all relevant photos of field activities to upload into KSWS database.
  • As well any and all other work assignments, duties, and/or functions as WCS or its management may designate or instruct in the course of its operation, which may include assignments, duties, and/or functions that vary from the above.
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Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in rural development, agriculture, environmental science, natural resource management or related field.
  • At least two years’ experience in community development and natural resource management with a non-profit organization.
  • Strong facilitation, presentation, coordination skills, a good understanding of resource management in the rural context.
  • Excellent interpersonal communication skills, ability to work independently as part a team.
  • Good speaking, reading, and writing skills in English.
  • Bunong language is a plus.
  • Good analytical/problem solving critical thinking skills.
  • Good Computer (MS Words, Excel and PowerPoint).

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