• Required No. of Employee's : 1
• Salary : 0.00
• Duration of Employment : Permanent

• Prefered Sex : Male/Female
• Sector of Vacancy : International Rescue Committee

Qualification/Work Experience :

• Master’s/post-graduate degree in development, humanitarian affairs, economics, international relations or relevant field or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Job Description:

• The International Rescue Committee (IRC), responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people survive, recover and gain control of their future. The IRC is working to improve the safety, health, education, economic well-being, and power of people in crisis affected places. The Economic Recovery and Development Technical Unit (ERD TU) is responsible for supporting the development, implementation, and monitoring of client-centered programs such as, but not limited to, cash and voucher assistance (CVA), rural & agricultural livelihoods, and enterprise development and employment promotion. The TU’s technical assistance to this wide variety of programs ensures quality and use of evidence-based practices; promotes innovation, diversity, equity, and inclusion; and drives data-based management and decision making. Job Overview/Summary: The Cash Technical Advisor (TA) will provide technical support in the design and development of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) activities as well as other ERD programs in West Africa to ensure the most appropriate, effective, and safe delivery of assistance for affected populations. They will also train colleagues on several CVA program approaches. Moreover, the position holder will lead or support selected global and country-led initiatives to extend scale and quality in line with IRC’s strategic CVA goals. The selected candidate should also have familiarity with the operational aspects of CVA, including supply chain and finance; as well as with supporting social protection systems. Specific Responsibilities: The Cash TA will spend at least 80% of their time delivering technical assistance in-person and remotely to country colleagues focused on CVA and ERD programming, CVA across all sectors as well as general economic program design, implementation and learning support. The TA’s country portfolio will primarily focus on IRC programs across West Africa, with potential support for other regions. This is a primarily programs-focused position with the central responsibility concentrated on program quality. It is expected that the TA will travel approximately 40% of the total time to country programs to support program quality and capacity strengthening in person. This may also mean deployments in emergency response and may be on short notice. The remaining approximate 20% is spent on internal strategic work to improve scale and quality of cash programming globally, at the discretion of their supervisors. The Technical Advisors’ specific responsibilities are as follows: Ensure program quality: Contribute to the design, development, and implementation of high-quality ERD programs and CVA activities within other sectors (such as health, education, protection, and governance): Support assessments on basic needs, food security, livelihoods, rapid market and labor markets, CVA feasibility, including financial services provider, and protection and gender-sensitive assessments. Ensure programs are in line with the IRC’s key theories of change for ERD and CVA, adapted to the context, selecting interventions based on the best available evidence and the country program’s Strategic Action Plan. Ensure programs are responsive to clients’ needs and preferences, as well as incorporating strong components of promoting equality, inclusion, local partnership and Do No Harm. Provide inputs on the design of theories of change, monitoring plans and log frames, including indicator selection. Promote IRC’s cash ambitions, including the use of digital payments, strong operational support systems, and alignment of CVA programs with social protection systems. Represent IRC in the Regional Cash Working Group and channel information between the working group and IRC’s country teams as well as the Regional Leaderships Ensure sound analysis of context, capacity, and opportunities to input into country Strategy Action Plans (SAPs). Engaging in business development leading to high quality concept notes and proposals: Review technical quality of ERD project proposals and other sectors’ proposals with CVA and/or livelihoods components. Input into go / no go decisions on proposals and on budgets required for project delivery. During staffing gaps, write technical narratives of proposals and provide support on monitoring and evaluation aspects of ERD projects. When requested, engage with donors and do outreach in support of country programs. Direct support to IRC country teams: Provide trainings based on needs, capacities and preferences of target group about subjects like basic and advanced cash programming, needs and markets analysis, protection mainstreaming, gender analysis etc., in person and remotely. Regularly exchange with country level program staff about ERD and other cash programming while providing expert advice and mentorship. Offer practical and timely advice to improve ERD and cash program quality and scale, overcoming obstacles, staying within IRC’s best practices and policies etc. Support country teams to contextualize and adapt global resources. Regional Cash focal point: Keep up to date with contextual analyses and crisis data in West Africa, such as the IPC Food Insecurity data and other sector and country trends related to CVA and food insecurity. Share cross-context knowledge and learning across the IRC West Africa country teams and facilitate exchange between the teams. Support or lead cash strategic projects to improve IRC global cash programming implementation, including operations: Work closely with other cash team members on relevant strategic projects centered around improving the IRC’s ability to scale and implement high quality CVA programming. Cultivate relationships with the Supply Chain and Finance Teams in IRC West Africa country teams to Set up IRC’s cash Standard Operating Procedures; Support the contracting of new financial service providers; Support electronic and paper voucher systems; Improve other operational aspects of CVA. Participate in ongoing training courses and share knowledge and skills with other Technical Unit colleagues. Key Working Relationships: Position Reports to: Senior Technical Advisor – Cash & Markets Position directly supervises: N/A Other Internal and/or external contacts: Internal: Close, regular relationships with country teams and regional colleagues; as well as with colleagues in the ERD Technical Unit. Regular communication with Technical Advisors from other Technical Units, such as education, protection, health, governance, research, evaluation and learning and gender equality technical unit teams. Interaction with IRC internal departments, including business development, procurement, and finance, external relations, and advocacy departments. External: Serve as IRC program representative in outside regional and global meetings, e.g. Cash focal point for West Africa, and forums with donors, online forums, other non-governmental organizations, inter-agency groups and foundations.

EMPLOYER : NRC

EMPLOYER'S LOCATION : Cameroon