Overview
The Emergency Cash Assistance Officer will support the transition to government-led humanitarian cash assistance through the Humanitarian and Resilience Account for the 2026-2027 winter cash response.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design, coordination, and phased implementation of the transition to humanitarian cash assistance.
- Liaise with MoSPFU, government entities, donors, UN agencies, and humanitarian partners.
- Strengthen the integration of humanitarian cash assistance within shock-responsive social protection systems.
- Support coordination with government counterparts, UN agencies, NGOs, and other partners.
- Facilitate collaboration between humanitarian and government actors.
- Maintain effective working relationships with technical focal points.
- Provide data-driven inputs for planning, targeting, and monitoring.
- Contribute to monitoring and evaluation efforts.
- Provide technical and operational support for alignment between humanitarian cash programming and national social protection systems.
- Assist in the development and refinement of operational tools, guidelines, and SOPs.
- Support in developing and finding solutions for operational elements such as de-duplication, data sharing, verification, and capacity support.
- Support the use of evidence to inform policy dialogue and advocacy.
- Document good practices and lessons learned.
Required Experience
- At least 3 or more years of experience in cash transfers, social protection, public administration, law, local governance or related fields is required.
- Requires excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work inclusively and collaboratively with a range of partners, including government, donors, UN agencies, and other humanitarian actors.
- Experience working with regulatory legal acts, drafting proposed regulatory legal acts, and knowledge of the government legislative approval procedure are required.
- Experience working with the UN is considered an asset.
- Experience in collaborating with the Ministry of Social Policy, Family and Unity is considered an asset.
- Experience in coordination with national or local government authorities is considered an asset.
- Experience in coordination with international donors is considered an asset.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Social Policy, Law, Public Policy, Economics, International Relations or Development, Public Administration, Public Finance, or other type of social sciences
