Overview
The Social Policy Officer will strengthen the financial inclusion and economic resilience components of social protection programmes, focusing on promoting safe, inclusive, and gender-responsive access to financial services and linking beneficiaries to livelihood opportunities.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the design and implementation of financial inclusion and livelihood components within social protection and cash transfer programmes.
- Contribute to the integration of financial literacy, savings, and responsible financial behaviours.
- Support the assessment, selection, and monitoring of financial service providers.
- Promote safe and inclusive access to accounts, digital IDs, and payment mechanisms.
- Support the identification and facilitation of appropriate livelihood pathways and economic linkages for beneficiaries.
- Coordinate with partners and line ministries to strengthen linkages between cash assistance and longer-term economic resilience interventions.
- Integrate financial inclusion and livelihood activities with GBV risk mitigation, PSEA, child safeguarding, and social and environmental standards.
- Support the strengthening of grievance redress mechanisms.
- Contribute to monitoring frameworks, PDMs, and analytical work related to financial inclusion and livelihood outcomes.
- Support donor reporting, lessons learned documentation, and knowledge products.
- Support coordination with government counterparts, implementing partners, and financial service providers.
- Contribute to capacity-building efforts for partners, community structures, and field teams.
Required Experience
- At least 2 years of relevant work experience in Social Policy, social protection, financial inclusion, livelihoods, cash transfer, digital payments, monitoring and evaluation, risk management, gender mainstreaming, stakeholder engagement, capacity building.
- Experience working with government institutions, NGOs, or international organizations is required.
- Experience in humanitarian contexts, experience with digital payments, experience with financial service providers, familiarity with digital financial services, familiarity with financial literacy approaches, familiarity with inclusive payment systems, gbv risk mitigation, experience with mobile money.
- Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.
Qualifications
Bachelor or equivalent (First Level University Degree) in Social Science, Economics, Development Studies, Public Relations/Communication, Social Services, social policy, economics, development studies, public policy, finance, social protection and any other related fields.
