The International Rescue Committee, one of the world’s largest humanitarian international NGOs, provides relief, rehabilitation and development support to vulnerable people and communities over 30 countries. We began work in Ethiopia in 2000 in response to severe drought in Ethiopia’s Somali region and are currently providing assistance to Ethiopians and refugees in six regions in Ethiopia, implementing emergency and development programs in health, water and sanitation, economic recovery, and development (ERD), women’s protection and empowerment, education, child protection, and multi-sectoral emergency response.

Summary

The Senior Cash Transfer Programming Officer position is responsible for carrying out all aspects of program delivery with respect to multipurpose cash transfer in the project area. Multipurpose Cash transfer is to provide the much-needed cash for food and crucial basic needs for the affected households. The Senior Officer spends most of his/her time in the field/affected communities, identifying priority needs and target communities those affected by the conflict(mainly IDPs), conducting IDPs verification assessment, conducting market assessment in the areas of needy community, conducting post distribution monitoring, establishing relationships with community, local implementing partners, local government and leaders, supervising field-level operations, such as the delivery of materials/inputs, registration of complaints, and payment to beneficiaries. He will technically report to ES/NFI-Cash Manager in Adama and field Manager field level is the immediate supervisor of the position.

The Key Responsibilities Include

• Provide support to the implementation of operational elements of cash transfer programme activities.
• working closely with the ES/NFI-Cash Manager and team, and with the assistance of Field Coordinator based in Adama.
• Leads 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/ data base – Be responsible for establishing and supervising cash delivery mechanisms for IRC in designated project area.
• S/he will be working closely with financial service delivery (FSP).
• Ensure that narratives and financial reporting is delivered in accordance with IRC as well as donor contractual requirements, and within the agreed timescale and budget.
• Lead community-based targeting and verification of the beneficiary’s program participants.
• Maintains and adapts as required a Master database for all beneficiaries of the programs in 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.
• Maintains records of payments and follow-up for all beneficiary lists but also for individual beneficiaries.
• Develop cash distribution plan, 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.
• Manage field level staff such as cash transfer Officer and assistant
• Participate in zonal NFI and cash coordination and other humanitarian coordination platform at field level
• Work with Safety and Security colleagues to develop and implement effective safety and security procedures for specific cash transfer programming activities, ensuring that these are updated and revised at regular intervals and that new programmes are built around security considerations.
• Work with and provide timely technical support to the IRC’s implementing partners; maintain respectful and constructive relations with partner staff.
• Maintains adequate communication and coordination within team (protection and other team members) and with other Assistance departments(WASH, NFI, nutrition), as well as the Protection team when required, when planning data collection activities.
• Assist in the collection of data, conduct of assessments (needs, market, risks and security) and provide input for concept note/ proposal development for cash transfer project in collaboration with the local community structures and community members
• Supervise progress against grant work plan; promptly identifying any current or potential delays
• Assist his/her supervisors to ensure all monitoring activities are fully documented, including detailed and timely data collection as required under the grant and for IRC M&E purposes.
• Aware the communities, government partners and local stakeholders to consider cash response as one modality at appropriate situation. – Capacitate the community facilitators, staffs under his/her supervisee, and others (if any) on cash Transfer Programming (CTP).
• Support and mentor the FSP to meet the humanitarian principles during Cash Response program/facilitating the payment to the beneficiaries.

Requirements

Qualifications

• First degree in social science (economics, agriculture economics or postgraduate degree preferred – Minimum 3 years for 1st degree and 2 years for post graduate Degree in Agri-economics, Economics, Marketing, Rural Development, Banking, Project Management or Natural Science with similar with meaningful experience of the position demand.
• Proven abilities on cash-based program (specific abilities or skills required) – INGO experience is a plus

Personal Qualities

• Works well in and promotes collaboration, comfortable in a multi-cultural environment, flexible and able to work under pressure well.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills. – Fluency in English, Amharic required, and also other local languages preferred