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ThanksCarbon-Coalition for Partnership in Democratic DevelopmentD&D Progra Director

Apr. 2025 - Dec. 2025Phnom Penh, CambodiaD&D Program Director plays a key role in advancing local governance reforms under the National Program for Sub-National Democratic Development (NP-SNDD). Advocate for the transfer of functions, resources, and responsibilities to provincial, district, and commune levels, strengthen local administrative capacity, and promote citizen participation and accountability. As part of the mandate, the D&D Program Director also helps promote climate-smart and sustainable agricultural practices, such as Alternative Wetting and Drying (AWD) in rice farming. By collaborating with agricultural departments and local authorities, they facilitate the adoption of AWD techniques to enhance water management, mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, and increase farmers’ resilience to climate change. D&D Program Director serves as a crucial facilitator of governance, local development, and innovation, aiming to improve livelihoods and services across Cambodian communities.

SOS Children's Villages InternationalDeputy National Director

Jan. 2025Phnom Penh, CambodiaSopheap Suon is a senior NGO professional in Cambodia with over 20 years of experience in program leadership, governance reform, and social development. He works across child protection, alternative care, education, safeguarding, and community-based approaches, with a strong focus on quality, accountability, and systems strengthening. Sopheap combines strategic leadership with practical field experience and is committed to building inclusive, resilient communities in Cambodia.

Habitat for Humanity InternationalDeputy National Director

Apr. 2024 - Dec. 2025CambodiaLeading the HFH Cambodia in developing a clear vision and ambitious strategy. Leverage a clearly articulated value proposition to drive public and institutional donor engagement, support of housing deficits, and proposed solutions. Develop a resource development and a plan for in-country and regional pre-positioning with FOI (foundations, organizations, institutions) donors to increase and scale funding opportunities. Overall accountable for achieving safeguarding minimum requirements, championing them, and promoting a culture of safeguarding across all levels of the organization

Lutheran World FederationExecutive Director

Nov. 2017 - Apr. 2024Phnom Penh, CambodiaExecutive Director is responsible for managing and leading the executive management team to ensure the successful program development and operation, organisational strategy and development, effective and efficient. •Provides the leadership for the development, management, and implementation of all program activities in line with the overall LWD strategic plan and the country context. •Directs the LWD Management Team (LWD-MT), supervises staff and provides them with all the necessary assistance to ensure that program activities are carried out in accordance with donors’ requirements and in a timely manner with attention to quality •Provides strategic and innovative direction to the organization development including program, human resource, administration and finance •Represents the organization and communicate with relevant stakeholders and public to raise the image of the LWD Organizational Development and Human Resources Management •Supervises and supports management team and the Communication Officer to ensure the strategies and planning of each department is fully fill with the effectiveness and efficiency. Resource Mobilization/Fund Raising •Provides guidance to and supports the proposal development team to seize funding opportunities to secure available funds for the program and organizational needs Relation and Networking •Develops good relationship with government institutions, IOs, UN and NGOs and engage to raise good profile of the organization and secure support for the right cause of LWD •Maintains and strengthens networking with relevant NGOs and IOs for advocacy and experiences sharing purposes Familiarize LWD’s policy compliance and additional obligations •Provides awareness to subordinates and follows up some particular policy’s compliances: Child Protection, Gender Commitment, People with Disability, Codes of Conduct, Conflict of Interest, Information Technology, Asset Management etc.

Terre des Hommes NetherlandsCountry Manager Lao, PDR and Cambodia

Mar. 2014 - Nov. 2017To ensure that partners deliver effective and efficient services to vulnerable children (50%), to realize representation, fundraising and networking results (30%) and to ensure a smooth operation of the country office (20%) in line with Terre des Hommes Netherlands strategy, policies and procedures. • Improved quality of Terre des Hommes Netherlands reports, planning and strategizing • Improved quality of programs consisting of project partner projects and appropriate services to beneficiaries. • Improved cohesion between project implementation and budgets and timely expenditure of the budgets on programs. • Improved quality of projects and assistance to beneficiaries and sufficient quality information to the donors. • Good relationships with all kind of funding related organizations and institutions, good fundraising results and efficient information supply to the MaCo department and to donors. • An effective, efficient and high quality implementation of activities is obtained and continued and the team is led in an inspiring way and in line with the HRM policy. • The finance and administration of the country office is done in line with the finance and administration policies. • Efficient and effective operations of the country office are realized and knowledge is obtained, shared and saved. • Policies, processes and the protocol regarding child safeguarding are followed, in such a way that incidents and violations are prevented and in case of an incident or violation Terre des Hommes can react in a professional problem solving way and risks are minimized. • Advice is given and the programs team works closely together, in order to realize optimal regional organization results.

ChildFund AustraliaProgram Manager with ChildFund Australia

Apr. 2010 - Mar. 2014CambodiaMain Responsibility: • Report directly to the Country Director • Advises and collaborates with other unit managers and support unit facilitators and works closely with all members of the Senior Management Team; ChildFund Australia; ChildFund Vietnam; ChildFund Papua New Guinea; ChildFund Laos; and ChildFund Cambodia partners including communities and various departments within the Royal Government of Cambodia • Supervises senior program officers, volunteer and consultant • Plan the delivery of the overall program and its activities in accordance with standards and policies in line with the mission and goals of ChildFund Australia and associated with timelines using appropriated tools and communication documents • Manage the implementation of ChildFund Australia program initiatives, ensuring activities are carried out within budget, on schedule and according to approved proposals • Collaborate with the Sydney program team and ChildFund Australia senior management to coordinate the design of program initiatives and budgets, ensuring quality and alignment with organizational and country goals and objectives • Collaborate with the Country Director and other program units to develop and implement long-term goals and objectives to achieve the successful outcome of ChildFund Australia • Draft and submit an annual budget plan to support ChildFund Australia's program activities, and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary, according to ChildFund’s timelines and organizational approach • Collaborate with the Monitoring and Evaluation Manager to develop a framework to assess the strengths of the program and identify areas for improvement.

Cooperation Committee for CambodiaOperations Manager

Jun. 2006 - Apr. 2010Phnom Penh, CambodiaMajor Responsibilities: Membership Support Services: • Recruit and process of new CCC membership applications including providing information, facilitating process through observe status to full membership. • Oversee renewal of annual CCC membership, including contact with key CCC Members staff, through email, meetings and correspondence. • Organize CCC Monthly meetings, including identifying program, topics for special presentations and logistics. • Plan and organize special member meetings as required on specific topics of interest, (i.e. Human Resource Forum, etc.) • Assist with Organizing CCC Annual General Meeting, including logistics, documents and program. • Respond to individual CCC member queries, advice and referrals in accordance with CCC strategies and objectives. • Conduct periodic surveys with CCC members/NGOs to improve member support and information services. Organizational Development and Planning • Develop and implement action plans based on CCC Strategic Plan and Mid-term reviews report. • Develop, implement and monitor quarterly and annual operating plans for office staff, including holding regular meetings. • Assist Executive Director and Executive Committee with revision of Charter and by Laws in support of CCC Objectives. • Assist with the development of project/funding proposal for CCC activities. Administration and Human Resource Management: • Manage Human Resource Systems, ensuring Personnel Policy and Procedures are regularly reviewed and followed. • Oversee Administrative Systems, including logistics, transportation and vehicles. • Supervise Administrative Assistant, Assistant/Driver, and Office Cleaners for smooth office management and services. • Develop, implement and monitor quarterly and annual operating plans for office staff, including holding regular meetings. • Oversee maintenance of CCC Office Building and Grounds • Translate/organize translation for meetings and documents (written) as necessary.

World VisionProgramme Manager

Sep. 2003 - May. 2006Phnom Penh, Cambodia•Project Design/ Re-design: Complete (and revise when necessary) the five years project design, including community need assessments, project design, planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation and reporting. •Planning: Draft the project annual plan of action and annual budget. Revise the project’s annual plan of action and budget at the mid-year budget review •Monitoring (Operations): Continuously monitor the implementation of the project to ensure that the project system and staff are working to achieve the project goal and objective and that the project is maintaining WVC and donor accountability standards. Ensure all grant requirement are adhered to •Monitoring: Approve project expenditure and contract up to 1000 $, monitor and evaluate budgeted and actual expenditure with finance officer and Operations manager on a monthly basis. •Evaluation: Assist in implantation of the project evaluation and audit •Government Relation: Develop and maintain good relationship with provincial district commune officials, village leaders, and village development committee leaders in the project target areas. •Partner Agency and NGO Relations: Maintain good relationship with other International and Local NGOs working in the target areas • Donor Relation: Compile professional and high quality management report for a major donor in timely manner, meeting donors’ requirements. Ensure all reports are highly accurate, comprehensive, well documented, and will ensure the credibility of the projects. •Reporting: Prepare quarterly report, annual, and end of project reports as required by World Vision, government donors, and others interested bodies. Prepared project information and article as require •Funding: Assist in preparation of grant proposal to major donors, when necessary •Integration Program: Provide adequate support and supervision to the integration program such health component, Vision Fund Cambodia, Mine, Fisheries, with other special program into the ADP.

World VisionChild in Programme Coordinator

Jul. 1999 - Aug. 2003Phnom Penh, Cambodia•Deliver all mails from sponsors and/or support offices to children in a timely and efficient manner. •Monitor, file and send the IL (and family photo) to the sponsor properly as requested by the support office for replacements. •Coordinate the process of Gift Notification (GN) with involvement of other ADP staff as per the partnership sponsorship standard and the local sponsorship guideline of World Vision Cambodia. •Monitor and submit updated ILs and family photos as requested by the support office for replacements, or at the time of CH preparation for new registered children. •Review data on Child Regular Visit forms to ensure that information collected is accurate. •Build Capacity of Sponsorship Facilitators (SFs) and the Sponsorship Facilitation Team Leaders (SFTLs) in processing sponsorship task and child protection policy. •Monitor new selection package of RCs are good quality in compliance with the support office requirements, partnership sponsorship standard and local RC selection criteria of World Vision Cambodia. •Monitor and reflect on the Sponsorship Management Project implementation to achieve output. •Ensure each child folder contains related documents to certify the identity of child. •Coordinate and respond to sponsors/SOs inquiries or special requests based on the Customer Relations Service Handbook standards, policies and guidelines of WV ministry. •Coordinate and process the 2 special mailings (Annual Progress Report [APR] and Water Festival Card [WFC]) to meet the partnership standards. •Coordinate, host and manage Sponsor visit’s arrangement between Support Office and ADP. •Liaise with Children in Especially Difficult Circumstances (CEDC) Program personnel for support and advice. •Coordinate with ADP Team to process Biannual Child Count based on CRS Standard and guideline.