Overview
The Cash Coordinator provides technical oversight, leadership, and coordination for the Nigeria Cash and RRM Consortium's Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) activities. The role ensures good Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) practices, supports food security through MPCA, and promotes financial inclusion and linkages with social protection systems in Nigeria.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the Consortium Cash Technical Working Group.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to partners.
- Ensure coordination with other sectors within the consortium.
- Lead development, harmonization, trainings, and roll out of SOPs, tools and guidelines.
- Lead on the development of selection criteria and identification process.
- Ensure compliance with Consortium and DRC quality standards.
- Coordinate with sector colleagues at DRC RO and HQ levels.
- Coordinate with external stakeholders for referral.
- Complete regular field visits to partners.
- Promote learning, innovation and evidence generation related to MPCA and CVA approaches.
- Lead design of project proposals (with associated budgets, recommendations, and indicators).
- Lead on developing assessments, including market system assessments.
- Conduct and update on a regular basis a risk assessment and analysis.
- Support the identification, evaluation and selection and FSP.
- Contribute to map donor priorities.
- Provide technical leadership and review of all proposals and reports.
- Contribute to project review meetings.
- Lead periodic MPCA component programmatic and technical review.
- Provide technical advice on sector-related budget development.
- Oversight of overall programme implementation progress and quality.
- Work with CMU MEAL and IM to develop harmonized tools and databases.
- Ensure that information and analysis from programme monitoring are taken into consideration.
- Work closely with MEAL in design, implementation, and evaluation of sector-level programming.
- Coordinate with MEAL and IM to ensure accountability mechanisms are established.
- Capture best practices and lessons learned.
- Ensure strong information management and use of databases.
- Provide and support technical supervision or mentoring.
- Coordinate closely with the Cash Working Group.
- Participation in relevant MPCA/CVA and food security coordination fora.
- Act as the main technical-level point with donors.
- Support donor visits to the field.
- Proactively engage in coordination with partners and other organizations.
- Report issues and challenges to the donor.
- Support the technical governance of the consortium.
- Ensure adherence to DRC’s Age, Gender, and Diversity policy.
- Ensure compliance with zero-tolerance to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse policy.
- Ensure compliance with DRC guidelines and policies on HR, admin, finance, and supply.
- Perform other relevant tasks as requested.
- Support to Identify and mitigate fraud, diversion and operational risks related to cash programming.
Required Experience
Proven experience of at least 7 years in CVA (including MPCA), Livelihoods, Economic Recovery, Food Security, in a complex humanitarian context; Minimum 5 years managing or designing livelihoods and CVA programming (including with consortia); Strong communication and analytical skills; Strategic thinker; Sound understanding of humanitarian architecture and experience with representation in a cluster or working group; Cultural sensitivity and adaptability; Experience coordinating with diverse teams and providing technical guidance and training; Able to manage high workload and deadlines; Able to manage stress and be flexible; Previous experience in Nigeria, particularly coordinating with Financial Service Providers to ensure efficient, secure and accountable cash delivery mechanisms, will be an advantage.
Qualifications
Master’s degree in development, humanitarian affairs, social sciences, or a related field is desired. If Bachelor’s in the relevant field, an additional 5 years of humanitarian work experience is required.
