Senior Officer, Cash and Voucher

This role is a national position that can be outposted to: Ankara, Bishkek, Warsaw, Sarajevo, and Tbilisi.

The Regional CVA Officer is responsible for supporting the IFRC’s work on CVA in the region in line with relevant policy documents and frameworks, including the IFRC Global CVA Strategy. The role has a strong focus on providing technical support and quality assurance of cash and vouchers assistance and preparedness initiatives undertaken by:

• the National Societies in response to Ukraine Crisis
• the wider set of National Societies in the IFRC Europe region

Special attention will be provided to quality assurance, coordination and mainstreaming RCRC Movement cash and market approaches, guidance, tools across operations in these NSs.

Reporting to the Manager, Operations Coordination, the Regional CVA Senior Officer provides a technical support role for CVA preparedness and response to ensure the optimal coordination, and direct or indirect management of resources required for the effective and efficient implementation of CVA throughout the region. The incumbent also ensures broader coherence across IFRC's related portfolio of activities including close collaboration with colleagues across other departments.

Furthermore, the incumbent will ensure effective representation at various levels and will liaise with key stakeholders, both Red Cross/Red Crescent (RCRC) and non-RCRC partners including UN/INGOs, and where required, Government and financial institutions to ensure representation of IFRC and/or RCRCM at relevant forums.

Required experience:

• 5 years’ experience in providing CVA support in a disaster or crisis response and recovery context
• Experience in successfully implementing and coordinating humanitarian emergency response operations that include CVA in at least one context, preferably within the RC/RC Movement.
• Experience building a network and/or team
• Experience facilitating training on CVA-related skills
• Experience living and working in challenging and multicultural environments
• Proven capacity building experience with National Society or equivalent, delivering trainings and providing on the job training and coaching (preferable CVA and market trainings)
• Experience in project planning, monitoring and reporting
• Experience in proposal writing
• Experience of managing donor relations and providing adequate narrative and financial reporting
• Demonstrated experience in different aspects of CVA implementation (i.e.: assessments and market analysis, CVA feasibility, design, implementation and M&E) and in developing CVA programmes that are inclusive and gender sensitive
• Experience in the Europe and Central Asia Region

Required knowledge:

• Self-supporting in digital and software (including Excel, internet, email)
• Skills in developing and training staff
• Skills in negotiation and building relations
• Technical/professional knowledge within the areas of CVA in humanitarian and/or development contexts, with an emphasis on the ability to design, implement and monitor cash responses, in a variety of contexts and in an inclusive manner
• Solid and tested team coordination and/or support skills
• Fluent spoken and written English