Overview
The CVA Officer will provide leadership, guidance, and technical expertise for cash preparedness and cash-based response interventions for the Jamaica Country Office and the wider Port of Spain Country Cluster Delegation. This position will contribute to achieving IFRC set specific targets for cash.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic and technical cash preparedness support to the Jamaica Red Cross (JRCS) to embed CVA in preparedness and contingency planning.
- Map and enhance current CVA related capacities.
- Support development of JRCS CVA SOPs.
- Support assessment and establishment of FSP agreements.
- Ensuring JRCS can implement IFRC global CVA mechanisms.
- Facilitate CVA capacity building through awareness sessions, face-to-face training, simulations, and learning by doing.
- Strengthen JRCS communications and advocacy capacity for CVA.
- Support JRCS CVA focal points to actively participate in, or lead, in country cash coordination forums.
- Support JRCS in fulfilling its auxiliary role to government, including linkages to social protection systems.
- Continue implementation of the CVA programme across all applicable sectors within the Hurricane Melissa response and recovery.
- Support the design of CVA components within key sectors, including livelihoods and shelter.
- Provide remote and in person technical support on cash feasibility, programme design, implementation, and monitoring of interventions.
- Promote and support the adaptation of CVA tools to the local context.
- Supervise CVA team members to ensure programme activities meet objectives, standards, and timelines.
- Manage programme risks proactively.
- Ensure JRCS is actively engaged in programme decision making and receives regular updates.
- Represent IFRC in internal and external CVA meetings and contribute to technical, coordination, and advocacy initiatives.
- Coordinate regularly with IM, PMER, Finance, and other technical units.
- Ensure strong planning, monitoring, evaluation, accountability, learning, and reporting systems are in place.
- Ensure all programme reporting is of high quality, timely, and aligned with IFRC standards.
- Document JRCS CVA implementation processes, capturing good practices, challenges, and lessons learned.
- Document the cash preparedness process, and draft case studies.
- Provide cash preparedness strategical and technical support to the National Societies (NS) across the region.
- Facilitate capacity building for the selected NSs in CVA.
- Be the focal person for Cash in Emergencies in the Dutch & English-Speaking Caribbean.
- Represent the IFRC in internal and external CVA meetings and contribute to technical, coordination, and advocacy initiatives.
- Contribute to building stronger partnerships, coordinate activities, support better positioning of IFRC and Movement partners, identify areas of collaboration with external key stakeholders.
Required Experience
- A minimum of five (5) years of successful CVA implementation (i.e.: assessments and market analysis, CVA feasibility, design, implementation, and M&E) and in developing CVA programs that are inclusive and gender-sensitive in at least one context and preferably within the RC/RC Movement.
- Demonstrated experience in programming in emergency, recovery and development contexts using cash as response tool.
- Demonstrated experience in assessment which includes needs, market, and cash feasibility considerations.
- Experience of successful institutional fundraising and managing donor relations and adequate narrative and financial reporting.
- Proven capacity building experience with NS or equivalent, delivering trainings and providing on the job training and coaching.
- Knowledge and experience of working with HNS and PNS.
- Experience coordinating and advocating to external stakeholders including government, NGOs, UN and Donor organizations.
- Experience living and working in challenging and multicultural environments.
- At least seven years’ experience in disaster management or response in humanitarian operations (Preferred).
- Experience with alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms and working with the private sector (Preferred).
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Disaster Management/ Disaster response or equivalent experience and knowledge (Required).
