Overview
Oversees the implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and improvement of UNICEF, MSAM, and Dutch Embassy cash transfers programmes in Benin. Provides support to the government of Benin in social protection interventions and the implementation of GUPS reform.
Key Responsibilities
- Conducts operational analysis of cash transfer programmes.
- Liaises with organizational stakeholders.
- Disseminates and supervises adherence to UNICEF’s guidance, SOPs, and tools.
- Ensures programme documentation and report submission.
- Produces knowledge management products.
- Delivers capacity building on cash transfers.
- Supports the implementation of the Cash Plus Care/Faaba exit strategy.
- Supervises the development, deployment, and training of SIG Cash Plus Care/Faaba.
- Supports the development of social protection policies, legislation, and programmes.
- Promotes shock-responsive and integrated social protection initiatives.
- Undertakes monitoring and research on social protection impact.
- Assesses how vulnerabilities are tied to poverty and the contribution of social protection to reducing exclusion.
- Works towards gender-responsive-transformative, disability-inclusive, and migrant-inclusive systems.
- Develops approaches for accountability to affected populations and community engagement.
- Monitors technological trends and modalities for cash transfer programmes.
- Supports the line ministry in the implementation of the National Comprehensive Social Protection Strategy.
Required Experience
- A minimum of five years of professional work experience in the design, implementation and management of social assistance programmes, including cash transfer experience.
- Experience in cash transfer programme design and management and policy advocacy.
- Experience working in emergency contexts.
Qualifications
An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: Public Policy, Social Sciences, International Relations, Political Science, Economics, Public Health, or another relevant field.
