Overview
The role involves enabling cash coordination, facilitating technical discussions, and leading the development of a Cash Working Group (CWG) TOR and work plan. The purpose is to ensure the CWG's role aligns with humanitarian objectives and contextual dynamics.
Key Responsibilities
- Enable Cash Coordination and Facilitate Technical Discussion
- Lead on developing a CWG TOR
- Lead on, develop and ensure that a work plan for the CWG is in place
- Lead on the establishment of the transfer value
- Lead on facilitation of all technical and operational discussions between members
- Drive and Co-facilitate meetings and enable technical discussions
- Represent the CWG to the ISC to head of sectors and other high-level management
- Support sub-national CWGs or technical Task Teams
- Facilitate technical and operational discussions between members
- Engage diverse international, local, and national actors
- Co-chair support multiple/ diverse approaches
- Promote and advocate for coherent, comprehensive, and/or harmonized approaches
- Facilitate the development of standard and easy-to-use tools and guidance
- Liaise and lead discussions with sector working groups
- Engage and build relations with stakeholders
- Engage and coordinate with social protection coordination structure
- Provide technical inputs and contribute actively to humanitarian or refugee response cycle planning frameworks
- Co-chair map and provide regular analysis on the delivery of cash assistance
- Promote and roll out coverage of cash assistance
- Enable a community of practice to document evidence-based practices and lessons learned
- Compile evidence to inform interventions and contribute to regional/ global learning
- Lead on capacity building to sub-national sectors members
- Establish connections with global and regional fora
Required Experience
- 3-4 years of experience of coordinating either CWGs or other humanitarian and development working groups, clusters, and sectors in the country or in other contexts with emergency response.
- Demonstrated technical understanding of operational cash issues, challenges, and concerns and trouble shooting.
- 5-7 years of experience and/or understanding of sectoral and multi-sectoral use of cash.
- Awareness of government, local or development social assistance, programs, systems and/or policies, and social protection working groups.
- Experience in liaising with technical and senior humanitarian, development actors, private sectors (i.e. Financial Service Providers), governmental actors and donors.
- Understanding of humanitarian response architecture, including coordination mechanisms, humanitarian reform, and action, and funding mechanisms (e.g., Humanitarian Programme Cycle - HPC, Central Emergency Response Fund and Flash Appeals, Pooled funds).
Qualifications
• Higher Education in a relevant field (Economics or Development Studies, etc.)
