Job Summary:

The Project Manager – Maternal and Child Health (MCH) provides overall leadership, coordination, and management of EpiC’s maternal and child health activities in Cambodia. The position is responsible for planning, implementing, and monitoring a comprehensive MCH work plan aligned with national priorities and donor requirements. The Project Manager works closely with the Ministry of Health (MOH), National Maternal and Child Health Center (NMCHC), national and sub-national programs, the U.S. Department of State, and other implementing partners to ensure EpiC’s contributions effectively address priority gaps in maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health.

The position provides strategic, technical, and operational oversight of MCH interventions; ensures high-quality implementation and reporting; manages MCH-related budgets and subcontracts; and serves as a key liaison among government, donors, and local and international partners.

Accountabilities:

Project Management:

• Lead day-to-day planning and implementation of EpiC’s MCH work plan, ensuring activities are delivered on time, within scope, and within approved budgets.
• Translate strategic objectives into detailed implementation plans, timelines, and deliverables, adjusting activities based on emerging needs and program learning.
• Ensure all MCH activities align with national policies, strategies, and guidelines of the Royal Government of Cambodia and relevant donor priorities.
• Develop and deliver comprehensive project management plans, documentation, training, presentations, and budget proposals.
• Define project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals and strategic vision.
• Monitor project progress regularly, identify and resolve issues, and implement improvement plans to keep projects on schedule and within budget.
• Oversee multiple projects, focusing on minimizing risk and ensuring successful execution of deliverables.
• Provide guidance and monitoring to project staff, ensuring clarity on priorities and fostering effective teamwork.
• Manage development of project teams to ensure compliance with policies and procedures and implement process improvement plans.
• Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.
• Build, develop, and nurture partnerships are essential to project success.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for MCH-related coordination with the National Maternal and Child Health Center (NMCHC), provincial and operational district health authorities, and other government counterparts.
• Coordinate closely with the U.S. Department of State, and other implementing partners to ensure complementarity, synergy, and non-duplication of efforts.
• Represent EpiC in national and subnational technical working groups, coordination meetings, and partner forums related to maternal and child health.
• Identify opportunities and information to present to management to help achieve strategic goals.
• Stay abreast of the latest strategies, tools, and terminologies in project management to enhance productivity.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

  Project Administration:

  • Establish a communication schedule to update stakeholders, including relevant staff within the organization, on the project’s progress.
  • Determine the resources (time, money, equipment, etc.) required to complete the project.
  • Develop a schedule for project completion that effectively allocates the resources to the activities.
  • Builds and implements or socializes the best practices for performing all tasks.
  • Review the project schedule with senior management and all other staff that will be affected by the project activities; revise the schedule as required.
  • Determine the objectives and measures upon which the project will be evaluated at its completion.
  • Execute the project according to the project plan.
  • Author reports on the project for management and for funders.
  • Communicate with funders as outlined in funding agreements.
  • Develops best practices and tools for project execution and management.

    Technical Oversight

    • Provide technical oversight to ensure MCH interventions are evidence-based, gender-responsive, and appropriate to the Cambodian context.
    • Support integration of MCH activities with related program areas, including HIV, nutrition, and health systems strengthening, as applicable.
    • Oversee development, adaptation, and implementation of technical tools, standard operating procedures (SOPs), training curricula, and guidelines in line with national standards.

      Financial Management:

      • Monitor and approve all budgeted project expenditures.
      • Monitor cash flow projections and report actual cash flow and variance to senior management regularly (monthly/bimonthly)
      • Manage all project funds in accordance with established accounting policies and procedures.
      • Ensure that all project financial records are up to date.
      • Prepare financial reports and support documentation for funders as outlined in the funding agreement.

        Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL)

        • Oversee routine monitoring of MCH activities, ensuring accurate and timely collection, analysis, and use of program data.
        • Work closely with MEL staff to track progress against indicators, identify implementation challenges, and support adaptive management.
        • Contribute to documentation of lessons learned, best practices, and success stories for internal learning and external dissemination.

          Financial and Subcontract Management

          • Manage MCH-related budgets and track expenditures to ensure cost-effective use of resources and compliance with donor and FHI 360 requirements.
          • Oversee MCH-related subcontracts/subagreement and consultant agreements, including work planning, performance monitoring, deliverable review, and compliance.
          • Coordinate with finance, grants, and operations teams to ensure adherence to procurement, financial management, and reporting procedures.

            Reporting and Donor Compliance

            • Lead or contribute to high-quality technical and financial reports, including quarterly, annual, and ad hoc donor reporting.
            • Ensure reports clearly document achievements, challenges, adaptations, and alignment with donor priorities and national strategies.
            • Support donor site visits, audits, and reviews related to MCH activities.

              Risk Management and Safeguarding

              • Identify programmatic, operational, and financial risks related to MCH activities and propose mitigation strategies.
              • Ensure safeguarding, ethical standards, and accountability to beneficiaries are integrated into all MCH programming.
              • Respond proactively to changes in policy, funding, or epidemiologic landscape affecting maternal and child health.

                Personnel Management

                • Coaches, mentors, and manages project team to ensure quality, efficiency, and compliance with project and company standards/policies.
                • Provide guidance and monitoring to project staff, ensuring clarity on project plans and priorities, and fostering effective teamwork.
                • Manages the development of project teams to ensure compliance with policies and procedures and develops and implements process improvement plans.
                • Develop tools and techniques for delegating tasks according to the skills and evaluate the performance of all team members.
                • Ensure that all project personnel receive an appropriate orientation to the organization and the project.

                  Applied Knowledge & Skills:

                  • Works independently and with other agencies to build local community acceptance.
                  • Comprehensive knowledge of concepts, practices, and procedures with project management, process development and execution.
                  • Strong knowledge of project management software and other technologies.
                  • Strong negotiator and problem solver.
                  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.
                  • Demonstrated project and personnel management skills.
                  • Ability to influence, motivate, and collaborate with others.
                  • Ability to adapt and resolve problems/issues to bring project to completion.
                  • Creating and Managing Systems and Processes.
                  • Recognizes the need for standardization and balances client and organization needs in systems design.
                  • Anticipates the effects of process change on people while optimizing task efficiency and simplicity.

                    Problem Solving & Impact:

                    • Decisions and actions have serious implications with delays in project schedules and operations and may affect overall business activities.
                    • Problems are complex and require analysis of situations and data with evaluation of a range of factors.
                    • Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies to select methods and techniques to obtain results.

                      Supervision Given/Received:

                      • Manages staff and external project members to achieve goals and vision of project from initiation to completion.
                      • Coordinates project plans, budgets, training, and resources with management to achieve strategic goals.
                      • Reports to Project Director, EpiC.

                        Qualification & Experience: **

                        • Master’s degree in public health, maternal and child health, medicine, nursing, or a related field required.
                        • Minimum of 7–10 years of progressively responsible experience in maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health programming in low- and middle-income countries.
                        • Demonstrated experience managing donor-funded projects, preferably under U.S. Government funding mechanisms.
                        • Strong understanding of Cambodia’s health system and national MCH policies and programs preferred.
                        • Experience managing budgets, subcontracts, and multi-partner initiatives.
                        • Proven ability to work effectively with government counterparts, donors, and local and international partners.

                          Core Competencies

                          • Strong project management and organizational skills, with attention to detail and deadlines.
                          • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; proficiency in Khmer is an asset.
                          • Ability to analyze and use program data for decision-making and adaptive management.
                          • Demonstrated leadership, diplomacy, and relationship-management skills.
                          • Commitment to equity, gender, safeguarding, and respectful partnership

                            Typical Physical Demands:

                            • Typical office environment.
                            • Ability to spend long hours looking at a computer screen and doing repetitive work on a keyboard.
                            • Ability to sit and stand for extended periods.
                            • Ability to lift/move up to 5 lbs.

                              Technology to be Used:

                              • Personal Computer/Laptop, Microsoft applications (i.e., Office 365, SharePoint, Skype/Zoom/Teams), cell phone/mobile technology, and standard office equipment.

                                Travel Requirements:

                                • 10% - 25%

                                  **Or an equivalent combination of relevant education and/or experience sufficient to successfully perform the key responsibilities of the job. This job description summarizes the main duties of the job. It neither prescribes nor restricts the exact tasks that may be assigned to carry out these duties. This document should not be construed in any way to represent a contract of employment. Management reserves the right to review and revise this document at any time.

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