Location: Pailin, Cambodia
Job ID: 16642
Date Posted: Oct 10, 2025
Job Description
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We are hiring a WASH Sector Manager in Cambodia. The WASH Sector Manager supervises the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) efforts across a range of both dedicated WASH projects and other projects with WASH components. Focuses on developing new initiatives, providing technical support across all projects, improving curriculum, troubleshooting, training, and capacity building of field staff. Is responsible for staying up to date on government WASH strategic plans and those of other stakeholders affecting Samaritans Purse projects. The overall goal is the advancement of WASH programming within the larger WASH context in Cambodia.
A day in the life of a WASH Sector Manager:
At Samaritans Purse, the Gospel really is the center of all we do! We start each day with a time of devotions and spend time praying for each other, our staff, and volunteers who serve around the globe.
In the role of WASH Sector Manager, you will have the opportunity to:
- Maintain your personal relationship with Jesus Christ and be an effective witness for Him.
- Advise and guide the technical design, implementation, and evaluation of WASH projects, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, donor standards, and community needs.
- Conduct technical assessments and performance reviews of ongoing WASH initiatives, promoting consistency and quality across all interventions.
- Adapt existing WASH infrastructure designs to suit local contexts and continuously improve them based on field experience, user feedback, and emerging best practices.
- Lead WASH-specific training and capacity-building for program staff, strengthening their technical and operational expertise.
- Develop and promote both traditional and virtual platforms to share best practices, learning resources, and innovative tools that enhance staff performance.
- Foster a culture of continuous learning and mentorship among WASH teams to encourage innovation and collaboration.
- Collaborate regularly with Program Managers and field teams to exchange information, coordinate activities, and ensure WASH components are effectively integrated within broader programs.
- Work with Program Managers to ensure that WASH activities stay within approved work plans, budgets, and quality standards, while proactively managing scope, timelines, and risks.
- Coordinate with field staff to identify and address technical challenges, monitor progress through surveys and assessments, and provide technical backstopping when required.
- Research, test, and promote appropriate and sustainable WASH technologies for field implementation.
- Coordinate and promote events such as Global Handwashing Day, World Water Week, and other hygiene promotion campaigns.
- Represent Samaritans Purse Cambodia at WASH working groups, technical clusters, and donor coordination meetings. Actively pursue relevant grant and funding opportunities to strengthen WASH programming.
- Produce and review technical documentation, including grant proposals, reports, case studies, and other knowledge products related to WASH.
- Support the recruitment, orientation, and mentoring of WASH staff to ensure high professional and ethical standards.
- Directly supervise one (1) supervisory employee. Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with Samaritans Purse policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
Learn more about serving with Samaritans Purse.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelors degree in water supply and sanitation engineering, hydraulic engineering, civil engineering, or related field and three (3) or more years of experience in similar WASH role; or equivalent combination of experience and education. Experience implementing a program in accordance with Samaritans Purse Project Management policies and procedures is preferred. Experience working in Southeast Asia is preferred. Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and financial management experience is preferred. Proven international management and leadership experience is required. Twelve credit hours of college-level Biblical studies strongly preferred. Strong relational skills and financial management experience.
- Thorough knowledge WASH needs and appropriate interventions including water treatment and distribution systems, biosand filtration and construction, well drilling, sanitation marketing, hygiene education, and menstrual hygiene management
- Proficient in Auto CAD, EPANET 2, Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook
- Ability to coach and mentor others
Job Location: Kamrieng, Cambodia
Type: Full-Time
Language Requirement: Fluency in English (required)
Travel Expectations: Frequent day travel to project sites required. This position requires overnight domestic travel of approximately 50 days/year.
Benefits:
- International medical, prescription, dental & vision insurance
- Paid Family Medical Leave
- Retirement savings plan
- Paid holidays
- 12 vacation/personal days
- 10 sick days
- When at IHQ, on-site Medical Clinic (staff and dependents)
Samaritan’s Purse Mission Statement:
Samaritan’s Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, Samaritan’s Purse has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine with the purpose of sharing God’s love through His Son, Jesus Christ. The organization serves the Church worldwide to promote the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Samaritan’s Purse Statement of Faith:
- We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God. 1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Timothy 3:15-17.
- We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Matthew 28:19; John 10:30; Ephesians 4:4-6.
- We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood on the cross, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory. Matthew 1:23; John 1:1-4 and 1:29; Acts 1:11 and 2:22-24; Romans 8:34; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Philippians 2:5-11; Hebrews 1:1-4 and 4:15.
- We believe that all men everywhere are lost and face the judgment of God, that Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation, and that for the salvation of lost and sinful man, repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ results in regeneration by the Holy Spirit. Luke 24:46-47; John 14:6; Acts 4:12; Romans 3:23; 2 Corinthians 5:10-11; Ephesians 1:7 and 2:89; Titus 3:4-7.
- We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, whose indwelling enables the Christian to live a godly life. John 3:5-8; Acts 1:8 and 4:31; Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 2:14; Galatians 5:16, 17, 18; Ephesians 6:12; Colossians 2:6-10.
- We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; the saved unto the resurrection of eternal life and the lost unto the resurrection of damnation and eternal punishment. 1 Corinthians 15:51-57; Revelation 20:11-15.
- We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ and that all true believers are members of His body, the church. 1 Corinthians 12:12, 27; Ephesians 1:22-23.
- We believe that the ministry of evangelism and discipleship a responsibility of all followers of Jesus Christ. Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Romans 10:9-15; 1 Peter 3:15.
- We believe Gods plan for human sexuality is to be expressed only within the context of marriage, that God created man and woman as unique biological persons made to complete each other. God instituted monogamous marriage between male and female as the foundation of the family and the basic structure of human society. For this reason, we believe that marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female. Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:5-6; Mark 10:6-9; Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9.
- We believe that we must dedicate ourselves to prayer, to the service of our Lord, to His authority over our lives, and to the ministry of evangelism. Matthew 9:35-38; 22:37-39, 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Romans 10:9-15 and 12:20-21; Galatians 6:10; Colossians 2:6-10; 1 Peter 3:15.
- We believe that human life is sacred from conception to its natural end; and that we must have concern for the physical and spiritual needs of our fellowmen. Psalm 139:13; Isaiah 49:1; Jeremiah 1:5; Matthew 22:37-39; Romans 12:20-21; Galatians 6:10.
- We believe that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person biological male or female. These two distinct but complementary sexes together reflect the image and likeness of God. Rejection of ones biological sex is a rejection of Gods merciful design and creative order. Genesis 1:26-27;1 Corinthians 6:9; Deuteronomy 22:5
