Experienced Community Media and Nonprofit Strategic Tech Maven for Cambodia Project

[John Zoltner]

And while I'm posting on the CTCNet list, I'm wondering if anyone has names to suggest for a great opportunity in Cambodia that would start in late 2012 if funded. Please share this description with people you know who may be interested or who may have contacts who could fit the bill. Also, could someone please post this to ACM and AFCN and cc me? -- I don't think I'm on those lists anymore.

I'm helping to search for someone who can be written into a proposal to lead a USAID-funded Social Innovation Lab-Kampuchea (SILK) program in Cambodia that will support the strategic use of technology for nonprofit organizations (similar to NPower) and a mix of community media and social media for advocacy and development. The SILK program will formalize a technology/social innovation lab and build on local efforts by technology-oriented organizations to develop and deploy new media technologies in partnership with the private sector and civil society organizations. 

 

It will be a great job -- I would love to apply if I were free to go to Cambodia (Ah, that elusive freedom...) The "Chief of Party" position oversee all aspects of the Program, including assuming overall responsibility for implementing the program strategy. S/he will be the principal liaison with USAID, the US Embassy, and other US government officials; with relevant representatives of the Royal Government of Cambodia; and with international and Cambodian private sector and civil society partners and stakeholders. This will be a long-term position based in the Foundation’s permanent Cambodia country office in Phnom Penh. 

 

Qualifications and Experience:

 

• At least 12 years of international experience working in the area of technology and media in developing countries, with demonstrable expertise in social media and/or technology;
  
  
• Significant managerial and technical work experience with technology for development programs in developing countries, with media, technologists, and civil society;
  
  
• Outstanding representational and communication skills, with strong ability to translate complex principles of media technology into simple terms;
  
  
• Demonstrated leadership skills, and excellent manager and effective oral and written communicator;
  
  
• Proven ability to manage programs with complex partnership structures (including preferably for USAID programs) and to maintain effective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders; and
  
  
• Prior experience in Cambodia or South East Asia preferred.