VVOB is an international NGO with programmes and projects in 8 countries worldwide. Our head office is based in Brussels, Belgium.
When you join VVOB, you become a key player in VVOB’s mission to ensure quality education as a key enabler for achieving the sustainable development goals. We implement our programmes and projects with one shared passion: to ensure the improvement of quality education. Our teams of national and international experts achieve this by providing technical assistance to governmental and other education actors. In doing so, worldwide we ensure capacity building of governmental and other education actors.
Since 2003, VVOB supports the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) to strengthen Teacher Professional Development, including initial teacher training and in-service training for schoolteachers, with a special focus on STEM and math education, classroom management and gender responsive teaching and learning. Currently, VVOB runs a 5-year programme called Strengthening early grade Maths through Inclusive, Level-appropriate Education (SMILE), supporting MoEYS to improve early grade math teaching and learning in three provinces – Kampot, Kep and Kampong Thom. We also work with MoEYS in different initiatives to support quality education in Cambodia.
Do you share our ambition to ensure that learners around the world can enjoy their fundamental human right to quality education, without exception? Are you convinced that quality education guarantees equal opportunities for everyone and is the key to a better world?
We are looking for an Education Advisor who will based in our VVOB Cambodia Country Office. Do you want to take on this challenge? Then continue reading!
Education Advisor
Purpose of the function
The ambition of VVOB is to ensure learners around the world enjoy their fundamental human right to quality education, without exception. In striving for that ambition, we place our values ‘commitment’, ‘integrity’, ‘respect’, ‘quality’ and ‘innovation’ central. As Education Advisor you contribute to this ambition and these values by providing advice to and capacity development of our education partners
Position in the organisation
As an Education Advisor you report to the Country Programmes Manager and are part of and work closely with your direct colleagues of the Programme team. Furthermore, you work closely together with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport to strengthen their capacities to develop and implement programmes and initiatives on quality education.
Your responsibilities as Education Advisor:
- You offer technical advice, guidance and support to VVOB colleagues to achieve project results and to government partners in order to realize educational change processes supported by the project.
- You contribute to the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the project in order to realize educational change processes supported by the project.
- You take up a variety of roles in the capacity development process of the partners according to the needs of the partner and particular situations and phases of the programme;
- You keep abreast with policy trends, new developments and latest research and thinking in education and international development by external and internal networking and share new insights with partners and VVOB colleagues.
Your expertise and experience
- Master’s degree in education, human sciences, or other relevant field or equivalent experience
- Professional background in early grade learning (Mathematics), foundational learning and mentoring; background in any of the following areas are an advantage: technical and vocational education and training, gender and inclusion, climate change education
- Knowledge of and experience with programme management and working with partners (MoEYS, UNESCO, UNICEF, other international and local NGOs)
- Experience with capacity development processes in the context of educational institutions, especially mentoring, coaching and communities of practice
- An in-depth understanding of the Cambodian education system and the latest developments in the global education space.
- Fluent in English and Khmer (verbal and written)
Join us: September 2025
What’s next?
Send your motivation letter and a detailed CV by e-mail, no later than 08 August 2025 to hrcambodia@vvob.org.
Shortlisted candidates will take a written test and go through an interview process before a final offer.
VVOB firmly believes that quality education can only be achieved if equity is ensured. Qualities of people prevail, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or disability.
Moreinfo: https://cambodia.vvob.org/en/vacancies
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