Vicheka Phorn

Experience

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  Save the Children Cambodia

  Sept 2021 - Feb 2022

  Children Advisory Group Coordinator

  Technical Support and Capacity Building: - Provide coordination to the Children Advisory Group to co-design and implement the annual work plan 2021-2022. - Organize and provide capacity building to the Children Advisory Group on Child’s Rights, gender streamlining, child protection, and Save the Children programming. - Organize the kickoff meeting (online meeting) to orientate and affirm the advisory role, structure, and how to work with the Save the Children team will occur - Provide coordination to Children Advisory Group to co-design and implement the annual work plan 2021- 2022 with technical support from CP & CRG Specialist - Organize and provide capacity-building strengthening to Children Advisory Group members on child rights, and awareness and learning about SCI’s programming Coordination and Advocacy: - Facilitate the Children Advisory Group to provide feedback on finalizing Country Strategy Plan (CSP) 2022- 2024 - Facilitate dialogue between the CAG and SCI’s SMT and ESMTs, as well as the CAG’s participation in the CSP millstone review process - Organize the field visit/trip to bring CAG to observe and learn SCI’s targeted project or SCI’s partners - Coordinate with the CAG to engage in project design consultation, child-led campaign/ initiative, and promote child participation in the programming implementation of SCI Show less

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  Angkor Social Innovation Park

  May 2022 - Oct 2022

  Project Lead

  Project Management and Coordination: - Initiate social incubation projects that aim to promote SMEs and Start-Ups, - Provide support in partnership and communication with private sectors, organizations, and development partners, - Led organized and coordinated dialogue program with Cambodia’s SMEs on Business Innovation,- Coordinate with ASIP projects on planning, accessing, and implementation, - Coordinate and Co-lead with the research team to access business work and produce evidence-based research papers related to SMEs and Social Innovation, Partnership and Liaison: - Liaison with key partners, including SMEs, Government Officials and NGO sector, - Planning and identifying key partnerships available for collaboration. Show less

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  United Nations Human Rights

  Sept 2022 - Feb 2023

  Research Assistant

  Research and Analysis:-Assist the Economic Consultant on research, data collection and data analysis to produce a paper on Cambodia’s macroeconomics policies.

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  Finn Church Aid

  Oct 2022 - Mar 2023

  Project Assistant

  Technical Supports: - Provide support in the implementation of youth for future project under the Youth and Peace theme, in promoting youth social engagement (formerly known as Changemakers), - Carried out day-to-day project coordination, advocacy and liaison with stakeholders, and administrative support, Administrative and Logistic Supports: - Support project staff to implement project activities including organizing meetings, training courses/workshops, forums, etc, - Support project staff in logistic arrangement and project-related administrative works, - Produce meeting minutes/notes and activity reports of the project activities, Monitoring and Evaluation Supports: - Support the project staff in data entry, data collection, and cleaning in baseline, mid-term, evaluation, and research activities, - Support project staff to collect relevant data and information for developing case studies and join the field monitoring visit with the program team. Show less

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  Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Cambodia

  Mar 2023 - Aug 2023

  KAS-CICP Horizon Fellow

  Horizon Fellowship is a Young IR Scholars program co-organized by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Cambodia andCambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace. - The program aims to equip young IRs students and young professionals in IR fields with the necessary hard and soft skills to prepare themselves for future careers, especiallyforeign services. - The objective is also to build a platform connecting experts of IR and young people,gaining a deeper understanding of the IR world and professional knowledge. - The program achieves these goals through holistic promotion. In addition to the development of professional competencies, the focus is also on the targeted training of soft skills. - Various training formats are used, which enable young IR students to write papers, give publicspeeches and exchange ideas with national and international experts at a sophisticated level. Show less

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  Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

  Jun 2023 - Nov 2023

  National Intern for Regional Economic Integration Project

  Technical Supports and Coordination: - Coordinate project work plan and carried out day-to-day project implementation on supporting regional economic integration through promoting small and medium enterprises, - Liaison with the Private Sector, Government Partners, and Development Partners,- Provide technical support in communication, and stakeholder management to the Department of SME at the Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology, and Innovation, - Work closely to support the strengthening regional structure for SME promotion project with the SME Department of the Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation (MISTI) on collecting and research documents and information for uploading into the KhmerSME website, Administrative and Logistic Supports: - Support the Team Leader of ASEAN Regional Economic Integration (REI) in project management Participating in the training, and workshop and supporting the team with logistic arrangements. Show less

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  ទីស្តីការគណៈរដ្ឋមន្ត្រី​ / Office of the Council of Ministers (OCM), Cambodia

  Mar 2024 - now

  Secretariat Member of the Trade Policy Advisory Board

  As of April 1st 2024, I was officially appointed by the Prime Minister’s Sub Degree as the Member of the Secretariat of the Trade Policy Advisory Board under the Trade Policy Advisory Board (TPAB) chaired by H.E. Dr. SOK Siphana, Senior Minister in charge of Special Missions (Multilateral Trades and Economic Affairs) based at the Office of the Council of Ministers.

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  Asian Vision Institute

  Jun 2024 - now

  Research Associate | Center for Advanced Research and Legal Studies (CARLS)

  Research and Analytics: - Performing research in the field of International Relations, Cambodia’s Foreign Policy, Economic Diplomacy and Geopolitics.- Provide assistant to on-going delivery of research projects.