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Position title: Operations Manager, Living Well Cambodia
Employment Status: Permanent
Attendance Basis: Flexible - Part-time (preferably 2-3 days per week)
Location: Sen Sok, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Commencement Date: January 2026
About Living Well
Living Well is a Christian organisation that provides professional and accessible clinical counselling and wellbeing services to people from all backgrounds, enabling them to thrive personally and relationally.
Living Well's vision is to be a place of hope, healing, refreshment and restoration, empowering people to live and serve well.
About the position
As the Operations Manager of Living Well, you will work closely with and provide critical support to the Living Well Director in providing strong operational leadership to our service as a unique and trusted provider of quality clinical counselling and well-being services.
Your primary responsibilities will focus on ensuring effective business operations, supervising our finance and administrative staff, strengthening our systems and resolving operational challenges.
You will draw on your background and strengths in finance, administration, and management to create and monitor budgets and oversee organisational finances, implement business plans, support HR, communications and marketing functions and manage risk. In doing so, you will help ensure that we remain faithful to our core vision while proactively managing growth.
Your role will be both advisory and hands-on as you draw from your knowledge and experience in management to strengthen our current operations and ensure our responsiveness to ongoing change. You will be approachable, flexible and enthusiastic about supporting a cross cultural team.
Duties and responsibilities
1: Operational management
Support the Living Well Director in implementing strategic and operational plans for Living Well that will deepen our impact, address current challenges and grow our clinical counselling services in an effective yet sustainable way.
Model servant leadership and nurture an organizational culture of respectful communication and collective ownership of the vision of Living Well.
2: Communications, Marketing and Social Media
Lead the revision, improvement and implementation of Living Well’s marketing plan.
With the support of the Admin Officer, actively promote Living Well within Cambodia and the wider region through a range of social media, publications, networks and communications to increase exposure.
Ensure internal processes facilitate communication and accountability within the team.
3: Financial, Administration and Business Management
In conjunction with the Director, strengthen foundational systems for a sustainable business model and implement the agreed business strategy and development.
Ensure finances are effectively managed with utmost transparency and comply with organizational policies, procedures, and government financial requirements.
Develop, monitor and report annual budget plan, ensuring costs (staff, operations, and activities) are adequately budgeted.
Support the Director in providing regular written updates/summaries to the Living Well Governing Board regarding finances and activity and compile relevant financial reports.
Ensure internal Living Well policies and procedures are in compliance with the Cambodian business and taxation laws and maintain data activity and financial records to assist decision making.
Alert the Living Well Director and/or Board to any urgent governance or grievance issues, or areas of concern which may affect the operations of Living Well and respond in a timely and wise manner.
4: People Management & Team Care
Directly manage, support and mentor the Finance Officer and Administrative Assistant positions (both are part-time)
Support the Director in maintaining strong HR processes including position descriptions, employment contracts, transparent staff benefit packages, onboarding procedure and appraisal system.
Support the Director in the recruitment of suitable clinical counsellors in order to meet the needs of Living Well’s clients.
7: Safety, Security and Risk Management
Oversee the safety and security plans for Living Well, and ensure that staff comply with policies, procedures and local laws and regulations.
Analyse risks and ensure the optimum safety of Living Well staff, consultants, volunteers and clients.
Are you the right person for the job?
To be successful in this position you will be able to demonstrate the following:
Strong commitment to the vision of Living Well
Demonstrated experience in a leadership/management role including financial oversight, budgets, government reporting, communications and managing teams.
Excellent relational and communication skills
Integrity and honesty
Qualifications and Desired experience
You will hold or be working towards:
a Bachelor degree (or higher) in a relevant field (business, management, finance, administration, engineering), and have
Personal experience living and working cross-culturally for a minimum of 2 years (preferably in Cambodia)
Spiritual considerations
It is expected that the Operations Manager of Living Well will be a committed Christian who actively lives out their faith and embodies the principles of self-care, reflection, and compassion as promoted by Living Well.
It is also hoped that the Operations Manager of Living Well will prioritise prayer for the Living Well team and clients, as a clear expression of Living Well’s dependence on God.
Reporting relationships
Reports to: Director, Living Well
Supervisor of: Finance Officer and Administration Assistant.
Additional Information
Flexible working hours are available and will be agreed and determined by responsibilities of the role and availability of the incumbent.
Your employment with Living Well is subject to a satisfactory, current police/background check.
You will need to agree to and uphold Living Well’s Statement of Faith, Statement of Approach, Safeguarding Policy and financial and administrative procedures.
Upon appointment, a probationary period of 3 months will apply.
Living Allowance, Benefits and Allowances
A living allowance/stipend and benefits are negotiable based on the individual candidate’s need and the financial capacity of Living Well.
How do you apply?
For any questions about this vacancy or to apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter outlining your suitability to recruitment.livingwell@livingwellcambodia.org
Applications close on 30 January 2026.
CLINICAL COUNSELLOR POSITION DESCRIPTION:
Position Purpose
To provide quality clinical counselling services to expatriates living and working in Cambodia
Location: Phnom Penh
Tenure: Preferably not less than a two year commitment
Hours: Full time or Part Time
Reports to: Living Well Director
Direct reports: None
Key internal relationships: Director, Administrative Assistant, Financial Officer, Living Well volunteers and counselling staff
Key external relationships: Other counselling services within Cambodia, Living Well members and wider ex-pat community.
Key Areas of Responsibility
Professional Clinical Counselling
Provide clinical counselling for individual, couple, family and/or group counselling sessions.
Build a relationship of trust and respect with clients.
Assess each client, identify mental well-being concerns and emotional distress.
Ensure a professional ethical framework is adhered to (such as BACP).
Identify clients needs and offer an appropriate therapeutic approach.
Explore with the client the effectiveness of the approach.
Work alongside the client to achieve their goals.
Maintain confidential records monitoring the client’s process.
Meet regularly with other colleagues for peer support and review.
Meet regularly (at least monthly for one and a half hours) with an external supervisor.
Assist with preparation and involvement with Living Well groups and training seminars as required and appropriate.
Financial Administration
Communicate clearly with clients regarding appointments.
Maintain accurate client records, document therapeutic approaches provided and progress.
Ensure appropriate security of client notes. Inform clients of the data protection policy.
Follow and liaise with the financial officer regarding payments for service provision.
Follow Living Well client management systems.
Participate in Living Well team meetings.
Safety and Risk Management
Maintain professional standards of practice, within the parameters noted in the Living Well Safeguarding Policy and professional practice.
Essential Experience, Qualifications & Skills
Hold a recognised professional clinical counselling qualification.
Have two or more years post qualifying clinical practice.
Have evidence of experience providing effective therapeutic approaches with individuals, couples, families and/or group settings.
Have exemplary interpersonal and communication skills in the language(s) you would see clients in, and adequate written and verbal communication skills in English
Desirable Qualifications
Have the ability to provide clinical supervision
Be able to speak Khmer, Korean, Chinese or another language common among locals or expats in Cambodia
Have experience living and working in Cambodia.
Personal Attributes
Commitment to continued professional development.
Good time management skills.
Ability to empathize and be non-judgmental.
Keen interest in learning and skills improvement, combined with humility to recognize that many answers are unknown
Ability to harness resources: both internal and external for the development of Living Well.
Good self-awareness.
Spiritual Considerations
Aim to live out the principles of self-care, reflection and active Christian faith as promoted by Living Well.
Prioritise prayer for Living Well staff and clients as recognition of Living Well’s dependence on God’s power.
How do you apply?
To apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter outlining your suitability to recruitment.livingwell@livingwellcambodia.org