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Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Technical Specialist

Sudan

Job Description

TITLE: Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Technical Specialist

TEAM/PROGRAMME: Sudan - PDQ

LOCATION: Gazira – With Frequent travel to field locations

GRADE: TBC

CONTRACT LENGTH: 1 year, with possibility of extension.

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3 - the role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or four days in one month or more) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country /field office programs.

ROLE PURPOSE:

An experienced Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Technical and Operations Advisor to provide in-country expertise to support the design and implementation of CVA programmes so they are appropriate, timely, accountable to beneficiaries, donor-compliant, and cost-effective, across the region. The CVA Technical Specialist will use their in-depth contextual understanding, technical and operational expertise, and relationship-building skills to link Save the Children’s global and country-level technical work while supporting response preparedness, quality program design and implementation, and advocacy. The role will contribute to building capacity and fostering networks across country office staff. The role supports and contributes to strategic partnerships for new business development. It provides input into the design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems to demonstrate impact while sharing learning across the country office and ensuring the quality of our programmes. The position will work closely with the Cash and Markets Humanitarian Technical Working Group to ensure global, and country office experts are collaborating and sharing learning and best practices and working towards a comprehensive and unified strategic approach to CVA for child outcomes.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Head of the technical team.

Staff reporting to this post: None.

Budget Responsibilities: None

Role Dimensions: The role includes providing sound technical advices to a wide range of stakeholders in the CO and externally. It also includes taking a proactive role in business development, innovating, advocacy, and coordination. A large part of the role is to foster relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including Save the Children members, the Country Office Programme Development & Quality team, advocacy colleagues, Regional Advisors, operation counterpart, technical counterparts in otherorganisations, donors, academia, NGO networks etc. The role is also expected to engage with internal technical working groups, in particular with the Cash & Market Humanitarian Technical WG, and communities of practice.

Context: Humanitarian

Primary Technical area: Cash & Market

Primary Sub technical area: Market-based programming for child outcomes

Secondary Technical area: Shock-responsive social protection

Secondary Technical area: Community engagement

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :

Technical Leadership:

•  Develop and monitor the implementation of the Country office CVA strategy and action plan in consultation with TAs in Child Poverty and other thematic areas (for a range of “Cash Plus” opportunities to support child outcomes across our breakthroughs), Capacity build, mentor and build networks across Country Office (CO); identify top talents, capacity gaps and facilitate opportunities for learning.
•  Provide creative and innovative solutions to the complex challenges and dynamic context in Sudan currently – this will link to localisation and group cash (e.g. as a support to volunteer networks, community informal safety nets, as an anticipatory action measure if provided to DRR committees etc.), to the cash+ approaches, to the use of technologies, to data/identification problematics, and to market support.
•  Support CO preparedness for cash programming, and compliance with CTP Operations Manual and SCI Policies and Procedures. Ensure that all country programmes have completed cash transfer feasibility and risk assessments (and support in the completion of these assessments).
•  Support the Cash Community work as an active member of the Cash Working Group and support collaboration between NGOs on technical areas and operational areas (esp. data/identification/registration).
•  With other members of the cash community and with the support of the social protection and CVA specialists in Save the Children, identify options to create basis for social protection system to start when the situation allows it.
•  Facilitate cross-country learning between CVA experts in the region, and participate in cross-country learning with other regions; identify creative ways to share learning, best practices and collectively address challenges, feeding back to the Cash & Market HTWG;
•  Working closely with the C&M HTWG and SCI Humanitarian Preparedness teams, support the identification and implementation of preparedness activities in prioritised areas (e.g. standard operating procedures, framework agreements, feasibility & risk analysis), regularly tracking their preparedness rating and proactively engaging field staff. When needed, support the design and review of country Emergency Preparedness Plans and Contingency plans.

Programme Quality in Design & Implementation:

•  Work closely with new business development colleagues to identify and pursue funding opportunities; engage with technical partners, donors and colleagues across Save the Children
•  Lead the technical scoping, planning, design, and proposal writing during new programme development. Ensure that we design and deliver high-quality, holistic, gender-transformative, and gender-equality-focused programmes, building on global best practices. Ensure that broader intersecting social justice, disability, and resilience considerations are reflected in our programme design and implementation.
•  Work with the community engagement and child participation specialist as well as with Child Rights Governance colleagues to ensure that a rights-based approach is reflected in our program design and implementation (in line with our child rights programming approach), with a strong focus on child participation
•  Identify how a Social Protection system can benefit from humanitarian cash (registration/identification system; technical inputs in a social protection system) – lead/partake collaboration and partnership with government ministries and discuss funding opportunities with development banks/donors (e.g. KfW, World Bank, AU, EC, etc.) and local partners .
•  Provide oversight and guidance to the programme implementation teams to ensure that thematic programme components are technically sound, implementation methods are consistent with national and global strategies, acknowledged good practice (e.g. Save the Children Common Approaches); and are likely to achieve scale, as well as equitable and sustainable results.
•  Promote and monitor integrated programming to increase the overall impact of Cash & Market-based programs at the community level.
•  Identify whether CVA programming can benefit from cross-borders elements in ways compliant with SCI practice and policies.
•  Work with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) teams to carry out gender and power analysis and conduct quality monitoring against international standards through participatory methodologies that promote gender equality and social justice (including child-friendly and gender-sensitive/transformative methodologies).
•  Contribute towards creating an organizational learning culture that promotes the use of disaggregated data, evidence, and analysis (including gender and power analysis) and understands its link to quality and accountable programming; Contribute to strengthening the use of equality-focused programme principles and good practice across themes and sectors.
•  Undertake field visits to project sites; work with implementation teams to understand impacts and operational challenges, and continuously identify opportunities for learning and improvement.
•  Contribute to organizational learning on Cash & Market-based Programming when applied to and integrated with WaSH, Nutrition, Health, Education, Child Protection, and FSL interventions, ensuring that learning from our programs is shared across the Country Office, our partners, and the national/subnational Cash Working Group, as well as with colleagues in the wider regional and global Cash & Market community in Save the Children.
•  Participate in the development of emergency preparedness plans in CVA, in the Save the Children humanitarian plan, and market-specific assessments (including gender analysis and disability situation analysis, using SC assessment processes and tools), as well as in the design and delivery of emergency response and recovery strategies. Ensure synergies across thematic and functional teams, data, and programme design.
•  Monitor trends to ensure early action, and lead technical design and implementation and technical coordination of humanitarian responses.

External Engagement:

•  In alignment with Country Office strategy and leadership, engage in strategic positioning with donors, partners, and government in-country, and ensure that Save the Children is a partner of choice in Cash & Market-based Programming.
•  Ensure that Save the Children is influencing and learning from others through national technical coordination and networking bodies such as clusters and the national and sub-national Cash Working Groups.
•  Strengthen civic engagement in national dialogues and policy processes by working closely with advocacy and child rights governance colleagues. Ensure that the diverse voices of children, girls, and boys are equitably heard and represented across thematic advocacy work.
•  Represent the program to National and Local government representatives, donors, partner agencies, etc. as required.
•  Ensure the quality, clarity, and consistency of technical components of internal and external reports (e.g. programme reports, sit-reps, internal updates), working closely with awards, programme implementation, and communications colleagues as needed.
•  Leverage and liaise with technical colleagues from across Save the Children, including technical working groups and centres of excellence, ensuring that learning from the Country Office is shared with others and global lessons brought back

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

•  Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
•  Holds colleagues and partners engaged in CVA programming in the region accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver following the context, providing the necessary professional development to improve performance, and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

•  Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and for CVA programming in the country take responsibility for their professional development and encourages Technical Experts in the region to do the same
•  Widely shares their vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
•  Future-orientated thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

•  Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, technical advisors and working groups, Members and external partners and supporters
•  Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
•  Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

•  develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
•  willing to take disciplined risks and pioneer elements

Integrity:

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•  honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

The post holder must commit to working in an international agency that respects racial diversity and fights racism in all forms; and models positive behaviours and respect to all colleagues, partners and communities.

QUALIFICATIONS

•  University degree in economics, international development, public administration, agriculture and food security, or equivalent experience.
•  Certified CaLP trainer (preferable)

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

•  At least 3 years’ experience of working in Cash & Voucher Assistance in emergency and development settings, for a broad range of institutional donors
•  Exposure to working in complex and dynamic contexts (preferably Sudan)
•  Experience with various cash and voucher modalities, including digital, mobile, card, paper vouchers, and cash-in envelopes
•  Understanding of identification mechanisms used by states, UN and NGOs
•  Understanding of social protection schemes and social protection history in Sudan - or strong willingness to learn about them
•  Management experience in operational aspects of cash and voucher interventions
•  Understanding of internal controls systems to support cash and vouchers delivery in the areas of financial management, logistics, security and program delivery
•  Demonstrable understanding of M&E, beneficiary accountability, and learning
•  Understanding of the application of methodologies to calculate cash/voucher amounts for sectoral outcomes (e.g. cost of the diet) as well as for multi-purpose cash transfers; experience in conducting feasibility and risk analysis for cash & voucher assistance
•  Familiar with Sphere Standards (Handbook released in 2018)
•  Track record in successful business development/fundraising, especially with ECHO, DfID, and USAID
•  Demonstrated program design, monitoring, and evaluation skills, including designing pathways to sustainable impact at scale.
•  Experience in strategy development and planning
•  Experience in context, capacity and policy analysis, and influencing and advocacy at the regional/international level to hold duty bearers to account to realize children’s rights.
•  Skilled at networking, representation, and partnership development to promote learning, strengthen civil society, and mobilise resources.
•  Able to generate and use data and evidence to innovate, deliver, learn and share what works and doesn’t work for children.
•  Experience promoting quality and impact through at least one cross-cutting area: gender equality and inclusion, adaptive and safer programming; child rights; disability; migration, and displacement.
•  Experience in supporting humanitarian preparedness, response, and recovery
•  Significant experience in training, capacity building, and mentoring
•  Fluent in English and high English writing skills.

Technical competencies:

•  Leads operational feasibility and other assessments to inform cash & voucher assistance go/no-

go decisions

•  Champions preparedness and capacity building for cash & market-based programming across

sectors

•  Trains and advises others on Standard Operating Procedures and best practices related to the

set-up and implementation of cash & voucher assistance

•  Works with thematic experts on the design of sector-specific (e.g. WaSH, Nutrition, Health,

Education, Child Protection, and FSL) and cross-sectoral programmes using cash & voucher

assistance and a market lens, including MEAL frameworks to measure the impact on the desired child

outcomes

•  Promotes location and use of early warning information to plan for and trigger early CVA and

market-based action; Aligns humanitarian CVA programmes design with existing social protection programmes

•  Champions the use of market-based programming approach also to inform the choice of

response options and programme design

Generic Competencies

•  Being the Voice of Children: Promotes evidence-based policy and public engagement that includes the voices of children and their communities
•  Advancing Equality & Inclusion: Displays a commitment to ensuring everything we do considers the most deprived and marginalised children
•  Building & Strengthening Partnerships: Promotes working with diverse partners as critical to

delivery

•  Child Rights: Promotes the rights of children in own work and in work with colleagues and peers

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive. The role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within the reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties following the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Safeguarding our Staff:

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

Job Info

•  Job Identification 3858
•  Job Category Finance
•  Posting Date 01/23/2024, 06:28 AM
•  Apply Before 02/06/2024, 06:27 AM
•  Job Schedule Full time
•  Locations FO - Red Sea