If you would like to learn about how your group can visit Cambodia for 12 days
and become family-based care advocates,
please check out our Rok Kern project and contact our Rok Kern Team.
Volunteer Opportunities
Children in Families is primarily staffed by Cambodian workers, and places a very high value on local staff working with local people.
Children in Families does accept foreign volunteers to support the work of local staff through technical advisory roles, or through administrative and other support positions.
Except in very rare cases, foreign volunteers do not work directly with clients, whether children or families. The only exceptions to this might be in cases where a volunteer’s specialist knowledge must be delivered to a client in person: for example, where a medical specialist meets directly with a client to treat a health need. Instead, foreign volunteers support CIF’s Cambodian staff to work with their clients.
CIF places a high value on contextualisation and communication in Khmer, the local language. Though short term volunteer placements are of course in English, CIF encourages all foreign volunteers to learn at least some Khmer.
There are several options in Phnom Penh for learning language, and volunteers can use some of their work hours for this purpose.
Past Examples have included
Physical Therapy Technical Advisor
Providing training and support to CIF’s ABLE support staff, so that they can better work with children with disabilities and chronic illnesses.
Professional Videographers and Photographers
Working with our communications team to develop high quality media content for use in CIF communications.
Account Auditing and Support
Spending time with our accounts staff to train them and help identify areas for improvement in CIF’s financial structure.
Child-Engagement Specialist
Working within CIF’s existing structure to help identify ways in which workers can more intentionally engage children in our processes.
Social Work Technical Advisor
Providing training and support to CIF’s social workers, to help improve case management quality, and provide supervision and resource development.
Current vacancies
There are currently no job opportunities at Children in Families.