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1. Leadership and Coordination

• Ensure the effective integration of agricultural initiatives with CAPRED’s overall objectives and cross-cutting priorities.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to Investment Managers and Officers to strengthen analytical, strategic, and operational capabilities.
• Contribute to work planning, budgeting, and reporting, ensuring quality, coherence, and alignment with CAPRED’s performance framework.
• Represent CAPRED in meetings, workshops, and forums with government, private sector, and development partners when delegated.
• Model ethical behaviour and uphold Australia’s and CAPRED’s reputation in line with DFAT’s Code of Conduct.

2. Technical and Analytical Responsibilities

• Lead sector and market analyses to identify trends, challenges, and opportunities for innovation and investment.
• Provide technical quality assurance across concept notes, intervention designs, partnership proposals, and intervention guides.
• Design, test, and refine market-driven interventions that improve productivity, enhance competitiveness, inclusivity and promote climate resilience.
• Identify systemic constraints and facilitate public–private collaboration to address bottlenecks and create inclusive market growth.
• Support the design of output-based and milestone-based contracts, ensuring technical soundness and value for money.
• Work closely with the Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) team to develop indicators, assess impact, and scale successful interventions.
• Contribute technical insights to communications products, learning briefs, and stakeholder updates.

3. Compliance and Integration

• Ensure all agricultural interventions comply with Australian and Cambodian laws, as well as CAPRED, Cowater, and DFAT standards on governance, child protection, anti-fraud, and inclusion.
• Embed GEDSI, climate resilience, and environmental sustainability into all technical and operational activities.
• Coordinate with cross-cutting teams to ensure consistent and integrated approaches across domains.
• Work in a way that promotes social inclusion and gender equality, is sensitive to cultural and gender issues in Cambodia, and is disability inclusive.
• Commitment to championing gender, equality, disability and social inclusion across the Facility

4. Stakeholder Engagement

• Build and maintain strong relationships with government counterparts, private sector partners, development agencies, and research institutions.
• Facilitate partnerships that foster innovation, investment, and inclusive growth in Cambodia’s agricultural sector.
• Represent CAPRED in relevant working groups, technical committees, and public forums to share evidence and lessons learned.

• Master’s degree or equivalent in economics, agribusiness, development studies, or a related field.
• Excellent command of English (oral and written), with strong analytical and communication skills.
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in agricultural development, private sector engagement, or market systems development.
• Proven experience in project design, implementation, and quality assurance within complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Demonstrated skills in research, analysis, and problem-solving with the ability to translate findings into actionable solutions.
• Strong interpersonal and mentoring abilities, with a collaborative and learning-oriented mindset.
• Experience building relationships with private sector actors, government, and development partners.
• Commitment to CAPRED’s values of inclusion, integrity, and innovation.