Location: Phnom Penh
Report to: Senior Advocacy Advisor
Key Relationship: CWA Executive Director / designated focal point, with technical coordination from CAPRED Contract Duration: The contract is up to 30 June 2027. Possible for extension upon contract extension from CAPRED.
Funded by: Australia through the Cambodia Australia Partnership for Resilient Economic Development (CAPRED)
Cambodia's clean water supply sector has expanded significantly over the past decade, largely driven by private investment. Private Water Operators (PWOs) now play a critical role in extending piped water services, particularly in rural and peri-urban areas
Roles and Responsibilities:
Evidence Generation and Policy Analysis
- Design and implement survey, diagnostics, and other evidence-generation activities.
- Conduct sector analysis to identify challenges and opportunities affecting private investment in clean water supply.
- Produce evidence packages to support provincial dialogues, national engagement, and advocacy initiatives.
- Conduct stakeholder mapping, political economy analysis, and policy research
Advocacy Strategy Development
- Assess current advocacy by identifying challenges and opportunities to enhance result-based advocacy for the sector.
- Develop the innovative and result-based advocacy strategy for the sector
- Develop implementation pathways and supporting tools for advocacy activities
- Maintain advocacy databases and progress tracking systems.
Strategic Engagement with G-PSF and other Platforms
- Actively engage with national and sub-national advocacy forums to inform result-based advocacy for clean water supply and recommend the adaptation of G-PSF’s advocacy tools/approaches into the intervention.
- Identify opportunities and pathway to raise the challenges of clean water supply in G-PSF to enhance accountability for clean water supply.
- Advocate clean water supply as the prioritized infrastructure for economic growth in G-PSF and other platforms.
Innovation and Communications
- Identify innovative approaches and modern tools for stakeholders’ engagement and policy influence.
- Lead the preparation, visualization and digital communication of evidence and advocacy products.
- Contribute ideas for strengthening CWA's visibility and sector leadership.
GEDSI and Climate Integration
- Mainstream gender, disability, social inclusion, and climate resilience considerations across intervention activities.
- Analyse gender-disaggregated data.
- Identify priority reforms for GEDSI and climate resilience enhancement.
Key Requirements (skills, knowledge experience & qualification):
- At least bachelor’s degree in Public Policy, Governance, Development Studies, Economics, Political Science, or related fields.
- Strong analytical, research, and writing skills.
- Critical thinking and problem solving.
- Ability to work independently and proactively.
- Understanding of stakeholder mapping and evidence-based advocacy.
- Excellent English writing and communication skills.
Please send CV and cover letter to
Email: info@cwa.org.kh , bonech.sim@cwa.org.kh
Phone: 017799337 , 092234244
Website: http://cwa.org.kh
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