Requisition ID: req41667

Job Title: Global Surge Team Roster: Cash Technical Advisor

Sector: Economic Recovery & Livelihood

Employment Category: Occasional - Global Surge Team

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: Yes

Location: IRC Global

Job Description

• Aligned with organizational strategies, which includes supporting staff with contextualizing outcomes and theories of change, and selecting interventions based on the best available evidence, the local context analysis and the country program’s Strategic Action Plan.
• Responsive to clients’ needs and preferences, as well as incorporating a strong component of promoting equality, inclusion, and local partnership.
• Support assessments on basic needs, food security, livelihoods, labor markets, CVA feasibility, including financial services providers availability.
• Provide inputs on the design of theories of change, monitoring plans and log frames, including indicator selection.
• Aligned with IRC’s cash ambitions, including the use of digital payments, strong operational support systems, and alignment of CVA programs with social protection systems.

• Review technical quality of ERD project proposals and other sectors proposals with CVA and/or livelihoods components.
• Input into go / no go decisions on proposals and on budgets required for project delivery.
• When necessary, write technical narratives of proposals and provide support on monitoring and evaluation aspects of ERD projects.
• Engage with donors, participate to donors’ meetings, and do outreach in support of country programs.
• Ensure sound analysis of context, capacity, and opportunities to input into country Strategy Action Plans (SAPs).

• Share cross-context learning globally and across the region, including on IRC organizational outcomes, theories of change, evidence base for interventions and standard indicators.
• Develop, review, and share program-specific tools, resources (internal and external); and work with Technical Unit specialists, coordinators, and other colleagues to contextualize and adapt global and country-specific materials or to assist with periodic review.
• Keep up to date with contextual analyses, crisis data, and other sector and country trends related to CVA within the assigned country portfolio.

• Work closely with other cash team members on relevant strategic projects centered around improving the IRC’s ability to scale and implement high quality CVA programming.
• Cultivate relationships with the supply chain and finance departments in country program portfolio, to inform operational aspects of CVA such as contracting new financial service providers and troubleshooting procurement or payment issues.
• Support the rollout of IRC’s Global Payment Toolbox and pre-positioned data management platforms.
• Participate in ongoing training courses and share knowledge and skills within the unit.

• A minimum of 7 years implementing and/or managing cash-based humanitarian programming in diverse crisis or post-crisis field settings, preferably adopting markets-based approaches.
• Experience providing technical support and guidance to a diverse team towards strategic goals, including an ability to oversee staff in cross-cultural settings and flexibly at a distance.
• Experience in design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of CVA programming to meet basic needs, food security, NFIs, and/or shelter program activities as well as technical tools and materials development.
• Experience in women and/or youth-focused livelihoods programming, climate resiliency, and other ERD programming models considered a plus.
• Experience aligning CVA with social protections systems highly preferred.

• Demonstrated assessment, data collection and analysis skills, including needs assessments, market assessments and incorporation of gender, age, and disability analysis into assessments.
• Knowledge of guidelines and compliance regulations of institutional donors with experience developing proposals and reports for a range of public and private donors.
• Demonstrated ability to work across departments, functions (including supply chain, finance, and data management), and sectors to build strong working relationships with colleagues and external partners.
• Strong program/technical, project design, proposal development and budget management skills, planning, reporting, monitoring, and evaluation skills.
• Demonstrated dedication to a Do No Harm approach, gender equality, diversity, and inclusion.
• Excellent social skills involving listening to, interacting with, and communicating clearly with people from diverse nationalities and backgrounds, and senior level internal and external partners, with a high degree of integrity.