Overview
Support the implementation of cash and voucher assistance interventions under the Education For All in South Sudan (EFASS) Project, contributing to improved access to education for vulnerable children and households.
Key Responsibilities
- Support planning, registration, verification, distribution, monitoring, accountability, and documentation of education-linked conditional cash transfers.
- Ensure cash transfer activities align with programme design, SCI policies, donor requirements, and humanitarian standards.
- Provide day-to-day support to community mobilisers and school structures.
- Identify and report implementation challenges and risks.
- Support beneficiary targeting, registration, and verification processes, including disability-sensitive approaches.
- Assist in ensuring timely, transparent, safe, dignified, and accountable cash distributions.
- Monitor adherence to programme eligibility and soft conditionality requirements.
- Support post-distribution monitoring (PDM) activities.
- Collect and clean monitoring data using digital tools.
- Support systems for tracking learner enrolment, attendance, and retention.
- Maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders.
- Prepare timely field activity reports, distribution reports, and monitoring updates.
- Ensure all documentation is complete, accurate, confidential, and properly filed.
- Ensure all activities adhere to safeguarding, child protection, and do-no-harm standards.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 3 years’ progressive experience in humanitarian or development programming, with at least 2 years of direct experience supporting Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA), Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs), social protection, education incentives, livelihoods, or community-based programmes.
- Experience supporting beneficiary targeting, registration, verification, cash distribution, post-distribution monitoring, accountability mechanisms, and data collection.
- Experience working with government institutions, schools, community structures, NGOs, UN agencies, financial service providers, and local authorities.
- Experience using digital data collection tools such as Kobo Collect, CommCare, ODK, or similar platforms.
- Good skills in field planning, coordination, documentation, monitoring, reporting, and stakeholder engagement.
- Ability to support beneficiary databases and cash transfer documentation while maintaining accuracy, confidentiality, compliance, and accountability.
- Good communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders, including children, caregivers, teachers, community leaders, local authorities, and partner organisations.
- Willingness to travel frequently to field locations and work in challenging environments.
- Desirable: Training or certification in Cash and Voucher Assistance, CaLP/CALP Network, Social Protection, Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, Financial Inclusion, or related areas.
- Desirable: Experience implementing education-linked cash transfers, school grants, social safety nets, or child-focused social protection programmes.
- Desirable: Experience working with disability-inclusive programming and gender-sensitive or gender-transformative approaches.
- Desirable: Previous experience with FCDO, ECW, UNICEF, WFP, World Bank, SCI, IRC, or other large donor-funded programmes.
- Desirable: Knowledge of South Sudan’s education system, community structures, and humanitarian coordination mechanisms.
- Desirable: Knowledge of safeguarding, accountability to affected populations, data protection, and protection mainstreaming.
Qualifications
- Diploma preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in Development Studies, Economics, Education, Social Sciences, Community Development, Business Administration or a related field.
- Master's degree in Development Studies, Economics, Education, Social Protection, Public Administration, or related discipline is an added advantage.
