Overview
The Cash & Market Specialist provides overall technical support for cash-based assistance programs, including market assessments, monitoring, and liaison with internal and external stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensures cash-based interventions adhere to SOPs, providing technical support and troubleshooting to field teams.
- Leads and manages market assessments, price monitoring, and post-distribution monitoring for cash activities.
- Maintains close working relationships for beneficiary data analysis, duplication checks, and accurate documentation of cash transfers.
- Contributes to and reviews post-distribution monitoring, situation reports, project proposals, and beneficiary data.
- Assesses Financial Service Providers (FSPs) with relevant departments using ICRC's standard tools.
- Troubleshoots internal cash transfer process flows in line with SOPs and CTP modalities.
- Undertakes short-term assignments to provide guidance on assessments, feasibility studies, and cash transfer design/monitoring.
- Liaises with PROT colleagues for referrals and develops collaborations with Cash Working Groups (CWG) and FSPs.
- Regularly updates data on cash-based activities, centralizes payment requests, and prepares monthly cash forecasts and inputs for CDP.
- Provides training and on-the-job support to colleagues, offers input for EcoSec strategic and operational plans, and acts as a focal point for institutional reports on cash and market components.
Required Experience
Ideally 6 years overall professional experience, including 2–3 years’ experience in cash-transfer programming, market analysis or similar.
Qualifications
University degree (preferably Masters in economics, although Bachelors accepted) or equivalent experience in another field (e.g. agricultural economics or business administration).
