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CURRICULUM VITAE
NHEK Sarin
C O T A C T S
#19M, Street 2/133K1, Sangkat Chaom Choa, Khan Por Sen Chey, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Tel: (855)12 800 561
E-mail: nheksarin29@gmail.com
P E R S O N A L D A T A
Nationality: Cambodian
Date of Birth: October 9, 1958
H I G H L I G H T S
I have 19 years of experience in managing and coordinating between 9 and 25 national and international staff. I worked 2 years with the National Assembly as Office Head of the Information and Library, 11 years with STAR Kampuchea as Executive Director, and 5 years with Forum Syd as Program Manager and Program Coordinator, and recently as Country Director of Cord Cambodia. My strengths and experiences are in the following fields:
S T R A T E G I C O V E R S I G H T A N D O R G A N I Z A T I O N A L M A N A G E M E N T
Organizational management and leadership, strategic and critical thinking, analytic skills, strategic planning;
Organizational development, Results Based Management (RBM), and Rights Based Approach (RBA);
Fundraising, and report consolidation and editing; and
Building and maintaining relationship with government agencies, donor community, local and international NGOs, multilateral and bilateral agencies, as well as media.
P R O J E C T M A N A G E M E N T S K I L L S
Project Monitoring and Evaluation (PME), Project Cycle Management (PCM), project proposal development, report writing in the fields of human rights, democracy, natural
resource management (land, fishery and forestry), climate change, labor rights, advocacy, good governance, and social enterprises;
Grant making and capacity development for civil society sector (NGOs, labor unions, union federations, and Community-Based Organizations -CBOs);
Peace building; conflict resolution, non-violence communication, conflict sensitive programming, Do- No-Harm, negotiation, facilitation, networking; and
Organizing and facilitating events such as training, workshops, seminars, conferences, study-tours in both Khmer and English.
G R A N T , A D M I N A N D F I N A N C I A L M A N A G E M E N T
Monitoring and analyzing expenditures against grant commitment and compliance, involvement in policy development and revision; assurance of compliance with agreement and requirements of the donors; assurance of appropriate financial controls, accurate accounting and timely financial
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reporting; and
Recruitment and capacity development; staffing, staff motivation, staff management.
B U S I N E S S D E V E L O P M E N T
Ability to secure resources (financial, in-kind, human) to meet the existing and growing needs of the Organization;
Ability to develop a diversified and sustainable funding strategy for the organization and oversee effective implementation of same
Ability to ensuring that fundraising and proposal development processes are consistent, effective, and designed to meet current targets
Skills in developing and maintaining excellent working relationships with key donors
Also, I have general knowledge on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), children rights, related laws (Land Law, Fishery Law, Forestry Law, Constitution, Criminal Law, Penal Code, Decentralization Law, and Labor Law, Public and Private Law, Business Law), women rights, CEDAW, integrated community development, livelihoods, gender based-violence, micro-finance, credit services and business planning. I am also able and willing to undertake extensive field visits. In addition to my flexibility, initiative, commitment, and maturity, I have high ability to work both independently and in a team and I am able to coordinate and manage both, small and bigger teams.
E D U C A T I O N
Sep. 05-Nov. 06 Master Degree in Public Administration (MPA), Century University, a distance learning school, based in New Mexico, USA.
Jul. 02- Aug. 05 Bachelor Degree in Public Administration (BPA), Century University (Distance learning university), based in New Mexico, USA.
Feb. 01- Dec. 02 Successful completion of the first year of the 2-year fast-track program of Bachelor Degree in Business Administration (BBA), conducted by the University Abdul Razak based in Malaysia through Regent College in Phnom Penh.
W O R K E X P E R I E N C E S Jun. 12, 14 – Present
Country Director (CD), Cord Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Duties: Business and strategic development; strategic oversight; financial and grant management; human resource management; organizational development; and organizational representation.
Mar. 18, 13 – Jun.11, 14 Fundraising and Organizational Development
(FODA), STAR Kampuchea (SK) Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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Duties: Fundraising and proposal development; liaison with donors; and capacity building on organizational development and Resulted Based Management (RBM).
Feb. 16, 10 – Mar 18, 13 Program Manager (PM), Forum Syd, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Duties: Project and grant management on human rights, democracy, gender, natural resources, and climate change; coaching and mentoring on RBM, project planning, monitoring and evaluation (PME); RBM-reporting; as well as networking and liaisons with international NGOs, donors and other relevant stakeholders.
Feb 29, 09 - Feb. 16, 10 Program Coordinator (PC), Forum Syd, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Duties: Project coordination on human rights and democracy; grant management; coaching and mentoring on Project Cycle Management; Networking and liaison with international NGOs, donors and other relevant stakeholders.
Sep. 07, 08- Feb. 29, 09 Organizational Development Advisor (ODA), Forum Syd and Diakonia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Duties: Capacity development to partner organizations through advising, coaching, mentoring, training and reflecting workshop on organizational development, best practices of management, internal policies, functional boards, and effective networking.
Aug. 01, 97- Sept. 07, 08 Executive Director, STAR Kampuchea, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Duties: Day to day management; human, financial resource and grant management; resources’ mobilization; PME; organizational development and quality assurance; liaison and networking with donors and national and international organizations.
Oct. 95- Aug. 10, 97 Translator, Training and Support Centre
(TSC) , Federation of Ponleu Khmer, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Duties: Translation from Khmer to English and vice versa; database entry on training and financial opportunities; Assistance and co-facilitation on training courses.
Jun. 94- Mar. 95 Part-time Reporter, for the Nation Group, Krungthep Turakij, Bangkok, Thailand
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Duties: Reporting on Cambodian political situation to the main office in Bangkok.
Mar. 94- Oct. 95 Office Head, Information and Library, Secretariat General of the National Assembly, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Duties: Managing the office and mobilization of resources to support the office.
Jan. 93-Mar. 94 Secretary, Committee on Human Rights and Complaints at the National Assembly, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Duties: Screening and categorizing complaints lodged by citizens, according to legal procedures, then submitting to the HR Committee for her decision.
Oct.-Jan. 93 Secretary, the Constitution Draft Committee of the Constituent Assembly, Phnom Penh,
Cambodia
Duties: Taking minutes of the meetings of the Constitution-Draft Committee of the Constituent Assembly.
Sept. 92-Sept.93 Voter Registrar/Assistant Presiding Officer, United Nations Transition Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Sep. 92 -Sept. 93 Duties: Supervising and coordinating the team to assist the voters whose names were lost, to enable the disabled and illiterate voters so they can vote, and to solve the complaints lodged by political parties.
Jun. 86-Jun. 89 Reporter, Magazine and Bulletin Department of the News Agency “SPK” (currently the Ministry of Information), Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Duties: Interviewing, photographing, writing articles for SPK’ s bulletins and calendars
T R A I N I N G C O U R S E S
Please find the enclosed list of the Training Courses and Workshops. P U B L I C A T I O N S
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2. Thesis: Local NGO Fundraising Issue: An analysis on B&D’s Fundraising Strategy 3. TAF Proposal: Citizen’s Engagement for Local Good Governance
4. Proposal: Partnership for WOSO’s Enhancement
5. Internal Evaluation on FS Capacity Development to Partner Organizations 6. Baseline survey: One Window Service Office (OWSO)
7. Proposal: Civic Engagement for Natural Resource Sustainable and Climate Change (CEMENT) 8. SK Baseline Survey Concept Note and Report for STAR Kampuchea
9. Land Grab Study: ELCs affected on villagers in Botum Sakor and Kiri Sakor, Koh Kong Province 10. Proposal: National Engagement Strategy for Cambodia (NES-Cambodia)
11. Concept note and proposal “Enhancing the Ability of the Poor and Landless through Organic Agricultural Production (EAPLOAP)”
12. Proposal: “Engagement for Fishery and Forestry Resources’ Transparency (EFFORT)” 13. Proposal “Engagement for Forestry Resources’ Transparency (EFORT)”
14. Concept Note: Partnership for Effective Dispute Resolution in Natural Resources Management (PEDIR-NRM)
In teams
1. Case Study: Advocacy Policies Contributing to Poverty Reduction in Ratanakiri 2. External Evaluation: DPA (Development and Partnership Action) projects 3. Case Study: Fishy Business in Kampong Cham Province
4. Country Paper: Land Partnership Study
5. External Evaluation: Partnership for OWSO’s Enhancement V O L U N T E E R I N G A C T I V I T I E S
2008- 2010 Advisor for Democracy and Development Center (DND) 2008-2009 Country Coordinator of ASPBEA, based in India
2007- 2008 Board Member of the ANGOC, based in the Philippines 2004- 2008 Member of the International Land Coalition (ILC)
2004 – 2008 Cambodian NGO Representative of World Association for NGOs (WANGO)
2004- 2006 Advisory Board Member of the Integrated Support to Small and Medium Enterprise in Mekong Delta Countries (ILO ISED)
2000- 2009 Member of the South East Asia Committee for Advocacy (SEACA) 2003 – 2006 Member of Advocacy Advisory Committee (AAC) of Pact – Cambodia 2000 – 2007 Advisory Board Member of DanChurchAid (DCA)
1999 -2000 Coordinator of Capacity Building for Cambodian NGOs (CBC) 1998-2000 Members of Cambodian Network Support NGOs (CNSN) L A N G U A G E S K I L L S
Khmer Native
English Excellent
French and Thai
C O M P U T E R S K I L L S
Basic
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft, Outlook, Express Exchange, Word, Database (Commence), E-mails and Internet,
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PowerPoint, Quicken, and Quickbooks.
O T H E R S K I L L S Photo graphing, video shooting, photo printing, and driving.
H O B B I E S Exercising, reading books and newspapers, watching TV
and listening to radio programs.
R E F E R E N C E S 1. Johan Rahm Former Advisor of SK PH: +46 763 52 93 23; +46 8 744 0502 E-mail: rahm.karljohan@gmail.com 4. Jan Erik Wänn
Former Regional Director, FS HP: +46703081866
E- mail: janerikwann@gmail.com 2. Maria Monahow, Former Programme
Coordinator, Forum Syd HP: +46 (0)70-1752345
E- mail: maria.monahov@gmail.com
5. Pok Nanda
Former Chairwoman of SK BoD HP: +855 12 420 093
E-mail: poknanda@yahoo.com 3. Christine Frank
Program Manager Cambodia
Tel: (855) 92 884 2255
E-mail: tina.kandiye@googlemail.com franke@forumZFD.de
6. Bin Socheat
Freelance Trainer & Consultant Phnom Penh, Cambodia
