Cash and Voucher Working Group - Kabul, Afghanistan - International Rescue Committee

Description

Requisition ID: req46399

Job Title: Cash and Voucher Working Group (CVWG) Co-chair Technical Coordinator ( Afghan Nationals Only )

Sector: Program Administration

Employment Category: Regular

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: No

Location: Kabul, Afghanistan

Work Arrangement: In-person

Job Description

• Develop a CWG TOR and a work plan that reflects key priorities identified by CWG members.
• Prepare, circulate agendas, send invites, and organize regular meetings in a timely manner.
• Facilitate meetings and enable technical discussions in an inclusive manner, take notes, circulate minutes with action points, and ensure action points from meetings are followed.
• Maintain a mailing list of interested and operational cash actors in a transparent manner.
• Facilitate technical and operational discussions between members and support sub-national CWGs or technical Task Teams to develop TORs, establish membership, and endorse outputs.
• Engage diverse international, local, and national actors and ensure discussions can be held in local languages by offering translation services to international actors (and vice versa).
• Support multiple/ diverse approaches, respecting CWG members mandates and capacities.
• Promote and advocate for coherent, comprehensive, and/ or harmonized approaches like common mechanisms, joint, collaborative, or complementary approaches.
• Facilitate the development of standard and easy-to-use tools and guidance.
• Liaise with clusters/ sector working groups to ensure complementarity and avoid overlaps between sector cash assistance and multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA).
• Engage stakeholders including donors, international financial institutions (IFIs), government, humanitarian and development actors to enable coherence and contextualization of cash response, links between humanitarian and development action and nexus approaches.
• Engage with any kind of social protection coordination structure that allows and enables alignment (e.g. Social Protection Working Groups (SPWGs) to ensure cash assistance complements, supports or strengthens, rather than duplicates, government support.
• Provide inputs to humanitarian or refugee response cycle planning frameworks.
• Ensure reporting and information management services are provided to CWG members.
• Request reporting of activities from operational cash actors with practical easy-to-use tools.
• Map and provide regular analysis on the delivery of cash assistance across the response.
• Promote coverage of cash assistance through information sharing and gap analysis.
• Enable a community of practice to document evidence-based practices and lessons learned.
• Compile evidence to inform interventions and contribute to regional/ global learning.
• Support capacity and knowledge needs of members, clusters, local and national actors.
• Establish connections with global and regional fora e.g. gCAG, CALP network, SPIAC-B.
• CWG co-chairs can support multi-sectoral assessments; however, those should be conducted by agencies, sectors/clusters.
• Represent CWG members to the Government on issues members are mandated to speak on.
• Represent IRCs approach to CVA in CWG
• Co-chairs report to IRC Afghanistan Deputy Director of Programs (DDP) and with technical support from Technical Advisor – Cash (Asia).
• Co-chairs are primarily responsible to their constituents i.e. CWG members/ operational cash actors in-country. Operational cash actors should express what services they require.
• Co-chairs ensure links with and information exchange between cluster and sector working group co-chairs, who should be CWG members responsible for sectoral cash.

Qualifications

• Masters in social sciences or equivalent field,
• 7+ years of experience in CVA programming, CVA coordination, etc.
• Experience of coordinating either CWGs or other humanitarian and development working groups, clusters, and sectors in the country or in other contexts with emergency response.
• Demonstrated technical understanding of operational cash issues, challenges and concerns.
• Years of experience and/ or understanding of sectoral and multi-sectoral use of cash.
• In-depth knowledge of the country context and particular humanitarian response.
• Awareness of government, local or development social assistance, programmes, systems and/ or policies and social protection working groups.
• Ability to remain impartial, uphold humanitarian principles, maintain integrity and avoid pursuing organizational or personal agendas when coordinating/ facilitating discussions.
• Strong interpersonal, communication (verbal/ written) and presentation skills.
• Ability to work and plan at both operational and strategic level.
• Experience of liaising technical and senior humanitarian, development actors and donors.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate discussions, negotiate compromise and reach agreements.
• Ability to respectfully engage, broker and/ or facilitate conflict resolution between multiple actors with different approaches, mandates, experiences, backgrounds, nationalities, cultures, sectors, interests and seniority levels with diverging views and opinions.
• Working knowledge of English and ideally the language spoken in country.
• Understanding of humanitarian response architecture, including coordination mechanisms, humanitarian reform and action, and funding mechanisms (e.g. Humanitarian Programme Cycle – HPC, Central Emergency Response Fund and Flash Appeals, Pooled funds).
• Ability to work under pressure and adapt to an evolving and complex humanitarian context.

Compliance with Policies

• Compliance with the IRC WAY (our standards for professional conduct) is a responsibility shared by all involved in delivering on the IRCs mission. We must abide by the IRC Way and Safeguarding Policies all the time.
• The IRC has zero tolerance approach to the IRC Code of Conduct including safeguarding violations being committed by its staff, consultants, contractors, volunteers, interns, suppliers, vendors, sub-grantees/partners, implementing partners or any other associate.
  

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