Operation Advisor
                        I obtained a bachelor’s degree of Education from The Graduate Theological Foundation, Indiana (USA) in 2004. After receiving the degree, I attended the master’s programs at
the University of Management and Economics (UME) majoring in Management. In 2007, I received my master’s degree. In addition, I hold the certificates of being a qualified school counsellor and master trainer after having taken the courses in career guidance and counselling (CGC) offered in 2015 by more than ten experts from Finland.
I have had more than ten-year experience in working as an instructor of English: From 1997 to 2008, I worked at the COERR Center teaching adults.
Further, I worked as a part-time freelance lecturer at several universities in Battambang Province from November 2004 to December 2016. My main tasks include preparing course outline/course syllabus, recording teaching activities in the book provided by the university, developing lesson plans, correcting all relevant assignments and exam papers and monitoring students taking the exams as requested by University Deans.
I am also asked to participate in marketing activities, meeting with parents to discuss students’ academic performances as well as their concerns using counselling skills.
From July 2015 to December 13, 2016 I worked as Consultant to FCA. I also worked as the staff representative responsible for encouraging positive dialogues between staff and management and discussing HR policies at meetings from July 2019 to May 2022. During my term as the Interim Education Program Manager from August to December 2022, I led and managed the education team by supporting them in their duties in accordance with the strategic work plan to achieve the set goals.
As an Education Specialist from April 2021 to December 2023, I worked directly with the Cambodian
Government counterpart—the Vocational Orientation Department (VOD) under MoEYs to conduct academic meetings with relevant staff, technical working group members and teachers.
With more than eight-year professional experience in education projects especially CGC in the international organization Finn Church Aid (FCA), I carried out school counselling program for fifty target schools in Cambodia by working directly with the education advisor and Teacher Without Border (TWB) volunteers to provide capacity building, coaching and mentoring sessions to master trainers, school counsellors and stakeholders.