Overview
The Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Officer will provide technical advice to improve the quality and accountability of cash interventions, support the procurement of Financial Services Providers, and strengthen CVA capacities for National Societies in the region.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the implementation and revision of CVA activities in response plans and budgets.
- Provide direct support to IFRC teams and National Societies (NS) setting up cash and voucher assistance interventions.
- Ensure completion of cash planning, preparation, and rollout of activities in NS with a cash component.
- Ensure market assessment, financial service provider mapping, tendering, and contracting are conducted in due time.
- Monitor progress of cash interventions of NS and collect required reporting documentations.
- Support the procurement process of Financial Service Providers carried out by NS.
- Support cash preparedness efforts in relevant NS and IFRC Country Cluster Delegation.
- Ensure beneficiary communications, feedback mechanisms, and accountability structures are set up.
- Assist NSs in developing process and post-distribution monitoring systems.
- Liaise with Finance and Logistic to ensure standard procedures linked to CVA are applied.
- Set-up and support coordination on CVA between Movement colleagues and at national levels.
- Give support to produce or report into monthly reports of cash and voucher delivered assistance.
- Ensure that CVA key messages and relevant information are effectively disseminated.
- Support annual processes of counting cash.
- Engage in coordination with other stakeholders in the supported countries.
- Support the DCPRR Coordinator on other tasks related to preparedness/prevention and response activities.
Required Experience
- At least 5 years of experience in humanitarian assistance
- At least 3 years of experience implementing or coordinating cash and voucher responses within a humanitarian context
- Demonstrated experience in assessments which including market and cash feasibility considerations
- Proven capacity strengthening experience with National Societies or national or local partners, delivering trainings and providing on the job training and coaching
- Understanding of data protection and data responsibility in humanitarian action
- Experience in financial service provider procurement
- Experience with integrated data management tools such as Red Rose
- Experience living and working in challenging and multicultural environments
Qualifications
- University degree or professional qualification in Humanitarian Assistance or another relevant area
- Practical Emergency Cash Transfer Training (PECT) or other relevant high-level cash training
- Cash Level 2 Training
- Market Assessment Training
- Technical training in disaster preparedness, response and recovery
- ODK or KoBo Training
