Entrepreneurship
Program Support
We’re looking for someone who lights up when an entrepreneur, a cooperative leader, or a village group says “this actually helped.” Someone who can run a workshop in Khmer in the morning, sit with a founder over their numbers in the afternoon, and write a clear report for a partner in English that evening.
This role sits at the heart of Impact Hub Phnom Penh’s Entrepreneurship Department. You’ll design and deliver multi-year programs that support forest-friendly enterprises, agribusinesses, agricultural cooperatives & unions, climate-vulnerable rural communities across Cambodia, eco-based tourism and other sustainability models and you’ll jump into new programs as they emerge.
You’re the person who keeps a program moving, builds trust with the people in it, and makes sure our support turns into real change in their businesses and communities.
Summary
Application Deadline: Rolling until filled. Priority review for applications received by 14 November 2026.
Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible (early December 2026)
Working Hours: Flexible working hours, typically 9am – 6pm or 11am – 8pm (with a lunch break).
Location: Impact Hub Phnom Penh Office, with flexible remote working when necessary.
Contract Type: 1 year, fixed-duration contract*
Travel: Occasional field travel (around 20–30% of your time).
Supervisor: Denise DALUSONG, Director of Entrepreneurship Programs
Team: You’ll join the Entrepreneurship Department, working closely with colleagues in market access, community programs, M&E, and communications, plus external mentors, experts, and partner organizations.
*Note: This is a one-year contract with the potential for renewal.
About Impact Hub Phnom Penh:
Over the past 10 years, Impact Hub Phnom Penh has supported more than 900 ventures across Cambodia. Our programs now reach well beyond startups in Phnom Penh: forest-friendly product businesses, agricultural cooperatives and unions, agri-input providers, and rural communities designing their own climate adaptation solutions.
These programs run over several years and ask a lot of the people delivering them. They need someone who can hold the logistics, the relationships, and the content together, in Khmer and in English, in Phnom Penh and in the provinces. That’s why we’re growing the team. We are open to hiring at the Officer, Coordinator, or Manager level.
What You'll Do:
Regardless of level, the core work is the same. You will:
- Run programs that run well. Turn designs into workplans and handle the logistics, procurement, budgets, and admin that make bootcamps and field visits feel effortless. You genuinely enjoy this side of the work.
- Walk alongside participants. Mentor entrepreneurs, cooperatives, and communities one-on-one, and be their go-to person for solving problems as they arise, including in the provinces.
- Facilitate in the room and in the field. Lead or co-facilitate workshops, field visits, and participatory community sessions, often in Khmer, in spaces where people feel comfortable speaking up.
- Connect the right people. Bring in mentors, experts, buyers, financiers, local authorities, and NGO partners, so support is tailored, not generic.
- Track, report, and tell the story. Collect, or support the collection of data and feedback, with our M&E team, write clear reports in English, and capture stories from the field with Communications.
- Jump in where you’re needed. Work closely with colleagues across the department and get tapped in as new programs emerge.
The Programs You’ll Support
Our programs are multi-year. You’ll support programs such as:
- Climate Ready Village (ICCAP): a community-led action lab in Battambang where rural communities co-design and test climate adaptation solutions with businesses, financiers and local authorities.
- Forest Ecopreneurs: an accelerator helping forest-friendly MSMEs grow, reach markets and finance, and source from Community Forests.
- Climate-resilient agriculture programs: support for agribusinesses and cooperatives that serve smallholder farmers.
We’re Hiring at Three Levels
We hire at the level that matches your experience and the independence you bring. Each level builds on the one before it, so you’ll take on everything at the levels below yours plus what’s new at your own. A university degree is welcome but not required; relevant work experience is accepted in its place.
Here’s what each level looks like:
Officer
You’re right for this level if you’re early in your career, hungry to learn, and already have some hands-on experience organizing activities or working with communities or small businesses.
What this looks like day-to-day:
You will handle the logistics of running programs (venues, travel, registrations, attendance, and records) and be participants’ friendly first point of contact. You’ll take notes and translate during sessions, enter data, and capture photos and stories from the field. You’ll work under close guidance from your Coordinator or Manager colleagues and grow into facilitation and mentoring over time.
Facilitation:
You lead energizers and small-group activities, prepare session slides and materials, and start co-facilitating short sessions alongside colleagues
Experience:
- 1-2 years in program support, community development, events, or a related field
- Strong organization and follow-through
- Comfort working with farmers, community members, and entrepreneurs
Coordinator
You’re right for this level if you’ve already coordinated programs or projects end-to-end and can keep many moving parts on track with light supervision.
What this looks like day-to-day:
You will own the day-to-day coordination of key program deliverables such as, but not limited to, bootcamps, workshops, field trips, and community sessions. You’ll also mentor early-stage entrepreneurs one-on-one, track activity budgets, work with Finance and Communications, and write activity reports.
Facilitation:
You’re not afraid to learn a topic you didn’t know before, build the slides, and deliver a teach-out to participants. You co-facilitate bootcamps and workshops with subject-matter experts and keep the room’s energy up.
Experience:
- 2–4 years in program coordination, entrepreneurship support, community development, or agriculture/livelihoods projects
- Experience facilitating or co-facilitating group sessions
- Experience coordinating with partners, vendors, and local stakeholders
Manager
You’re right for this level if you’ve owned the delivery of a program and its partner relationships, and you can design activities, not just run them.
What this looks like day-to-day:
You will own workplans, program budgets, quality and deliverables, and be the day-to-day contact for partners and funders. You’ll recruit and manage mentors and consultants, monitor grantees’ budgets and progress, and lead narrative reporting. You’ll also coach junior colleagues and contribute to proposals and new program design.
Facilitation:
You design and lead full sessions and multi-day bootcamps, and you know what to look for when hiring trainers and consultants: scoping the terms of reference, assessing fit, and briefing and quality-checking their delivery.
Experience:
- 5 years in program management, incubation/acceleration, agribusiness, or community-based development
- Track record of managing a program budget and reporting to donors or partners
- Experience designing curricula, workshops, or participatory processes
- Experience supporting or managing junior team members
- Familiarity with research methods and the ability to support research teams with data collection, stakeholder engagement, and other research activities is an advantage.
Requirements
Must-Have
- Khmer fluency and growing English. You speak and write Khmer fluently (native or near-native), since you’ll facilitate and mentor mainly in Khmer. You can communicate in English, written and spoken, and you’re committed to building toward fluency, since you’ll increasingly work with partners and reports in English. At the Officer levels, we’ll support you to build skills and confidence; at the Coordinator and Manager levels, we expect professional working fluency.
- You care about the people we work with. Entrepreneurs, cooperative members, and community members are partners, not beneficiaries to be counted. You treat their time, stories, and trust seriously.
- You’re organized, and you follow through. You keep track of details, deadlines, and budgets, and people can rely on you to do what you said you would.
- You’re comfortable in a room. You can hold a group’s attention, listen well, and make quieter voices feel heard.
- You’re hands-on and resourceful. You move from plan to action without needing a perfect process, and you figure things out when the plan changes.
- You believe value should reach communities. You care that smallholder farmers, forest communities, and rightsholder groups benefit, not just the businesses at the top of the chain.
- You give honest, grounded feedback. As IHPP’s eyes and ears on the ground, you look realistically at whether our programs are making an impact and meeting real needs, and you share that candidly with the team. It’s how we improve, make our case to funders, and find new ideas.
Nice-to-haves
You don’t need all of these, but they’ll make you stand out:
- Incubation or ESO experience: you’ve delivered incubator, accelerator, or other entrepreneur support programs.
- Agribusiness background: you understand agricultural value chains, cooperatives, agri-inputs, or food products.
- Forest-friendly or NTFP experience: you’ve worked with forest-friendly enterprises, with non-timber forest products (NTFPs) such as honey, resin, bamboo, rattan and wild foods, or with the Community Forests and producer groups that harvest them.
- Community-based work: you’ve run participatory processes with rural communities, or provided hands-on, embedded support where you accompany a small group of enterprises or communities closely over time.
What Will Excite You
- You love seeing a cooperative leader or founder grow in confidence because of support you gave.
- You enjoy both the planning and the people: a tidy workplan and a lively workshop.
- You’re curious about how forests, farms, markets, and finance connect in rural Cambodia.
- You want to grow your program management, facilitation, mentoring, and program design skills.
- You thrive in environments where no two days are the same, and you’re excited to jump into new programs as they emerge.
What This Role Asks of You
This role is split between the office and the field. We want to be upfront about what that means:
- You’ll travel regularly to provinces where our participants are based, such as Battambang and Mondulkiri, sometimes for several days
- You’ll work directly with farmers, community members, and local authorities, often in rural settings
- You’ll juggle several programs, partners, and deadlines at once
- You’ll navigate ambiguity and shifting priorities with energy
- Occasionally, you’ll work outside normal hours for field trips, events, or bootcamps
Why should you work for Impact Hub Phnom Penh?
Our mission and vision
We believe that by building resilient, collaborative, and socially conscious enterprises over the next 5-10 years, we can create a more sustainable, just, and innovative Cambodia by 2030.
At Impact Hub Phnom Penh, we introduce ourselves as a community that nurtures impact makers and strengthens the ecosystem with the vision to see a more sustainable, just, and innovative Cambodia. We inspire, connect, and enable a generation of collaborative impact makers, including youths, entrepreneurs, and innovators, through our program, consultancy, community building, and online learning to support them in making a positive social and environmental impact. We want to build a thriving ecosystem of impact-driven businesses and young leaders across Cambodia.
What it’s like to work with us
We are a team of 25 people based in Phnom Penh. We’re a dynamic, diverse, and energized team. We have a beautiful, creative office in Tuol Tom Poung.
Impact Hub Phnom Penh has 8 big departments: finance, entrepreneurship, ecosystem strengthening, innovation and education, media4impact, communications, and space. Generally speaking, we believe in ‘self-organizing teams’ and giving trust, creative responsibility, and autonomy to our team, which creates the leaders we need to grow fast and build a happy workplace. As a result, we are highly flexible and accommodating and nurture a culture of listening to others and discussing solutions to problems we see together. Some words that might describe our internal culture would be “passionate,” “fun,” “quality-focus,” “collaborative,” “eager,” “caring,” and “supportive.”
Each year, we hold a big annual retreat where we can check in on department strategy, wellbeing, finances, and impact to ensure we’re on track. Each department also holds a mid-year retreat.
In short...
Flexible working hours – you can either work in the early morning (9 am to 6 pm) or start a bit later from 11 am to 8 pm. We acknowledge that different people have different productive times.
Young, energized team – we are not traditional and will never be! Most of us are under 30 years old, and we work like a startup.
Join and participate in Impact Hub’s award-winning entrepreneurship programs and build personal relationships with our inspiring entrepreneurs.
Become part of a global network of changemakers, entrepreneurs, and makers worldwide as part of the Impact Hub network: expand your network and feel part of something big!
Be part of a team that promotes and values inclusiveness, respect, and kindness between the team members.
Be part of a team that cares for the planet by promoting plastic-free events, programs, and offices.
That's awesome! What else?
- Competitive salary
- Room for growth in the organization and a flexible role that can adapt to your strengths and interests.
- Private health insurance and NSSF benefits
- Annual professional development budget
- Annual well-being and care budget
- 1 extra day off per month on the 1st day of painful periods for people who menstruate.
- Possibility to become a trainer or mentor for our entrepreneurs and youth community.
- Access to a global reservoir of knowledge in the Impact Hub Network.
- Possibility to “be adopted” by our alumni entrepreneurs to work for them for 3 days and use your skills to help them.
- Diverse opportunities to travel locally and internationally to represent IHPP in our network, as part of our programs, and to learn from others in the Region.
What are you waiting for? Apply now!
Click the button below to access the application form. In the application form, you will be asked a series of questions and will be asked to send your CV.
Rolling until filled. Priority review for applications received by 14 November 2026.
RECRUITMENT PROCESS:
1st step: Submit the application form
2nd step: Virtual interview for shortlisted candidates
3rd step: At-home skills assessment
4th step: In-Person (if local) Assessment debrief + Panel interview
Result Announcement
You can expect to hear from us within two to three weeks after the interview. (In case there is a change in the timeline above, we will inform you via email.
Small tip: try not to lean on AI to write your application. We want to feel your real excitement about the role and hear specific examples from your background that connect to this work.
We welcome people from all backgrounds, and ethnicities, and cultures, and experiences. Impact Hub is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression. Research has shown that some applicants from more marginalized or vulnerable groups do not apply if they do not meet 100% of the criteria, while those from better-off, educated backgrounds apply even if they only meet 60% of the criteria.
If you are in doubt but feel this job fits you and aligns with your learning goals, please apply! All applications will be treated with the strictest confidentiality.
