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Requisition ID: req56031

Job Title: Cash Transfer Program Officer

Sector: Economic Recovery & Livelihood

Employment Category: Regular

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: No

Location: Shire, Ethiopia

Work Arrangement:

Job Description

The IRC has a focus on narrowing the gender gap in humanitarian aid and ensuring that we contribute to gender equality, diversity, and inclusion in both our programs and operations by working to establish a context where our clients (including those from minority groups) enjoy the same rights and opportunities as well as an equal access to services. The IRC also has a strong commitment to creating an equitable and inclusive culture, where safeguarding is upheld in our workplace and programs. We are determined to protect our clients and staff from safeguarding violations through prevention and, where misconduct is alleged, to address it without fear or favor.

Job Overview:

The IRC is hiring a Cash Transfer Program Officer to support households affected by crisis and drought in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. This role involves planning, implementing, and following up of cash transfer programs to aid communities in need.

Major Responsibilities Include:

  • Support the implementation of cash transfer program activities by closely collaborating with the field coordinator and team, along with the help of the ERD coordinator in Addis.
  • Lead the process of identifying beneficiary communities/targeting based on robust and participatory criteria, assist other CTP staffs, if any and implement cash transfer project at grass root level following IRC SOP for cash.
  • Maintain master beneficiaries list/database.
  • Establish and supervise cash delivery mechanisms for IRC in designated project areas.
  • Work closely with financial service delivery (FSP) and Mobile Network Operators.
  • Ensure that narratives and financial reporting are delivered in accordance with IRC and donor contractual requirements, within the agreed timescale and budget.
  • Additional tasks as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programs
  • Frequent field visits to targeted woredas is required

Project Implementation

  • Lead community-based targeting and verification of the beneficiaries program participants.
  • Maintain and adapt a Master database for all beneficiaries of the programs in the project location.
  • Prepare Purchase Requests for program supplies/activities and liaison with field SC and finance team to undertake field procurement as designated and authorized.
  • Maintain individual databases for individual transfer programs including Issues verification and payment lists.
  • Maintain records of payments and follow-up for all beneficiary lists but also for individual beneficiaries.
  • Plan, implement, monitor cash for work activities.
  • Develop cash distribution plans, supervise, and evaluate the on-spot cash distribution process.
  • Set up and strengthen beneficiaries compliant feedback mechanisms with relevant internal partners.
  • Provide cash transfer sensitization sessions for targeted households and other partners.

External Coordination

  • Participate in zonal cash coordination and other humanitarian coordination platforms at the field level.
  • Work with Safety and Security colleagues to develop and implement effective safety and security procedures for specific cash transfer programming activities.
  • Provide timely technical support to the IRC’s implementing partners; maintain respectful and constructive relations with partner staff.
  • Align with IRC’s Global policies, including Whistleblowing, Fraud, and Safety.
  • Guide the team with regard to data collection and analysis.
  • Represent the IRC on Cash coordination meetings at different levels like region, zone, and woreda.
  • Identify and work closely with Financial Service Providers (FSP).

Internal Coordination

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  • Maintain adequate
  •  communication and coordination within the team and with other Assistance departments when planning data collection activities.
  • Contribute to the set-up and conduct of needs assessments focusing on data collection for cash transfer programs in the project location.
  • Update their direct superior on data collection activities in relation to planned and ongoing cash activities of other humanitarian actors in Ethiopia.
  • Ensure and put in place the necessary complaint management and response mechanisms in collaboration with MEAL staff.

Project Monitoring and Reporting

  • Assist in the collection of data, conduct assessments, and provide input for concept note/proposal development for the cash transfer project.
  • Supervise progress against the grant work plan; promptly identifying any current or potential delays.
  • Ensure all monitoring activities are fully documented, including detailed and timely data collection as required.

Capacity Building and Coaching

  • Raise awareness among communities, government partners, and local collaborators about cash responses as an effective modality.
  • Train community facilitators, supervised staff, and others on Cash Transfer Programming (CTP).
  • Mentor FSP to meet humanitarian principles during the Cash Response program.

Coordination and Representation

  • Represent the IRC in various coordination meetings
  • Work in concert with the cash working group to effect changes & directions

Safeguarding Responsibilities: –

  • Promote and actively participate in initiatives and efforts to build team engagement, inclusion and cohesion in IRC [team/office]
  • Foster ongoing learning, honest dialogue and reflection to strengthen safeguarding and to promote IRC values and adherence to IRC policies.

Qualifications

Educational Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree and postgraduate degree in social science (economics, agriculture economics, Marketing, Rural Development, Banking, Project Management) or similar with relevant experience of the position demand.

Preferred experience & skills

  • 2 years for bachelor’s degree and 1 year of experience for postgraduates and 5 years of experience for diploma holders.
  • Shown abilities on cash-based programs.
  • INGO experience is a plus.
  • Promotes teamwork, comfortable in a multi-cultural environment, flexible, and able to perform well under pressure.
  • Relevant work experience in the field of cash transfer, particularly working with women, youth and unaccompanied & Separated children.
  • Experience and/or knowledge in the design and implementation of CVA programming is an asset.
  • Excellent
  •  communication skills and able to work in a diverse cultural environment.
  • Adherence to IRC Code of Conduct understands other international development guidelines.
  • Works well in and promotes collaboration in a multi-cultural environment, flexible, and able to work under pressure well.
  • Good communication and social skills.

Language Skills:

  • Strong oral and written communications skills in English, Amharic and ability to speak local language is advantageous.

IRC is an equal employment opportunity employer. IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.

Professional Standards : The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons

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The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.

Since October 2012, the IRC has been responding to humanitarian needs of Nigerians. The IRC initially intervened in response to floods that affected over 7 million people across the country, destroying harvest and damaging homes. The IRC is currently implementing programs in Health, Protection, WASH, Nutrition, Food Security, and Women’s Protection and Empowerment (WPE) in Adamawa and Borno States in North-Eastern Nigeria.

The IRC is dedicated to making women and adolescent girls healthier from the earliest phase of acute crises (a target group most vulnerable during crisis) and implements evidence-based reproductive health interventions in line with the SPHERE-standard Minimum Initial Service Package for Reproductive Health in Crises (MISP). The goal is to ensure that the IRC’s health responses in emergencies include the core package of Reproductive Health (RH) services in its interventions.

The IRC’s Reproductive Health (RH) program is currently implementing (MISP) for RH in 4 health care centers in MMC and Jere LGAs and 1 IDP camp clinic. In addition the program is starting up an emergency mobile programming outside of these areas of Maiduguri in coordination with the WPE team. The focus of this program is to provide quality comprehensive RH and WPE services to conflict-affected women and girls in a timely manner. In addition to the mobile program, the WPE and RH joint mobile teams will be in charge of rapid assessments and rapid response. The mobile teams will be focused in the newly opened LGAs and emergency areas previously inaccessible due to conflict and insecurity. These teams will provide life-saving services to populations outside of Maiduguri, who have not had access to services in approximately 3 years.

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0 USD Shire, Ethiopia CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week International Rescue Committee

Requisition ID: req56031

Job Title: Cash Transfer Program Officer

Sector: Economic Recovery & Livelihood

Employment Category: Regular

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: No

Location: Shire, Ethiopia

Work Arrangement:

Job Description

The IRC has a focus on narrowing the gender gap in humanitarian aid and ensuring that we contribute to gender equality, diversity, and inclusion in both our programs and operations by working to establish a context where our clients (including those from minority groups) enjoy the same rights and opportunities as well as an equal access to services. The IRC also has a strong commitment to creating an equitable and inclusive culture, where safeguarding is upheld in our workplace and programs. We are determined to protect our clients and staff from safeguarding violations through prevention and, where misconduct is alleged, to address it without fear or favor.

Job Overview:

The IRC is hiring a Cash Transfer Program Officer to support households affected by crisis and drought in Ethiopia's Tigray region. This role involves planning, implementing, and following up of cash transfer programs to aid communities in need.

Major Responsibilities Include:

  • Support the implementation of cash transfer program activities by closely collaborating with the field coordinator and team, along with the help of the ERD coordinator in Addis.
  • Lead the process of identifying beneficiary communities/targeting based on robust and participatory criteria, assist other CTP staffs, if any and implement cash transfer project at grass root level following IRC SOP for cash.
  • Maintain master beneficiaries list/database.
  • Establish and supervise cash delivery mechanisms for IRC in designated project areas.
  • Work closely with financial service delivery (FSP) and Mobile Network Operators.
  • Ensure that narratives and financial reporting are delivered in accordance with IRC and donor contractual requirements, within the agreed timescale and budget.
  • Additional tasks as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programs
  • Frequent field visits to targeted woredas is required

Project Implementation

  • Lead community-based targeting and verification of the beneficiaries program participants.
  • Maintain and adapt a Master database for all beneficiaries of the programs in the project location.
  • Prepare Purchase Requests for program supplies/activities and liaison with field SC and finance team to undertake field procurement as designated and authorized.
  • Maintain individual databases for individual transfer programs including Issues verification and payment lists.
  • Maintain records of payments and follow-up for all beneficiary lists but also for individual beneficiaries.
  • Plan, implement, monitor cash for work activities.
  • Develop cash distribution plans, supervise, and evaluate the on-spot cash distribution process.
  • Set up and strengthen beneficiaries compliant feedback mechanisms with relevant internal partners.
  • Provide cash transfer sensitization sessions for targeted households and other partners.

External Coordination

  • Participate in zonal cash coordination and other humanitarian coordination platforms at the field level.
  • Work with Safety and Security colleagues to develop and implement effective safety and security procedures for specific cash transfer programming activities.
  • Provide timely technical support to the IRC's implementing partners; maintain respectful and constructive relations with partner staff.
  • Align with IRC's Global policies, including Whistleblowing, Fraud, and Safety.
  • Guide the team with regard to data collection and analysis.
  • Represent the IRC on Cash coordination meetings at different levels like region, zone, and woreda.
  • Identify and work closely with Financial Service Providers (FSP).

Internal Coordination

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  • Maintain adequate
  •  communication and coordination within the team and with other Assistance departments when planning data collection activities.
  • Contribute to the set-up and conduct of needs assessments focusing on data collection for cash transfer programs in the project location.
  • Update their direct superior on data collection activities in relation to planned and ongoing cash activities of other humanitarian actors in Ethiopia.
  • Ensure and put in place the necessary complaint management and response mechanisms in collaboration with MEAL staff.

Project Monitoring and Reporting

  • Assist in the collection of data, conduct assessments, and provide input for concept note/proposal development for the cash transfer project.
  • Supervise progress against the grant work plan; promptly identifying any current or potential delays.
  • Ensure all monitoring activities are fully documented, including detailed and timely data collection as required.

Capacity Building and Coaching

  • Raise awareness among communities, government partners, and local collaborators about cash responses as an effective modality.
  • Train community facilitators, supervised staff, and others on Cash Transfer Programming (CTP).
  • Mentor FSP to meet humanitarian principles during the Cash Response program.

Coordination and Representation

  • Represent the IRC in various coordination meetings
  • Work in concert with the cash working group to effect changes & directions

Safeguarding Responsibilities: -

  • Promote and actively participate in initiatives and efforts to build team engagement, inclusion and cohesion in IRC [team/office]
  • Foster ongoing learning, honest dialogue and reflection to strengthen safeguarding and to promote IRC values and adherence to IRC policies.

Qualifications

Educational Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree and postgraduate degree in social science (economics, agriculture economics, Marketing, Rural Development, Banking, Project Management) or similar with relevant experience of the position demand.

Preferred experience & skills

  • 2 years for bachelor's degree and 1 year of experience for postgraduates and 5 years of experience for diploma holders.
  • Shown abilities on cash-based programs.
  • INGO experience is a plus.
  • Promotes teamwork, comfortable in a multi-cultural environment, flexible, and able to perform well under pressure.
  • Relevant work experience in the field of cash transfer, particularly working with women, youth and unaccompanied & Separated children.
  • Experience and/or knowledge in the design and implementation of CVA programming is an asset.
  • Excellent
  •  communication skills and able to work in a diverse cultural environment.
  • Adherence to IRC Code of Conduct understands other international development guidelines.
  • Works well in and promotes collaboration in a multi-cultural environment, flexible, and able to work under pressure well.
  • Good communication and social skills.

Language Skills:

  • Strong oral and written communications skills in English, Amharic and ability to speak local language is advantageous.

IRC is an equal employment opportunity employer. IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.

Professional Standards : The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons

2024-11-30

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