National Cash Working Group Coordinator

Job Description

***Due to the urgency to fill this role, applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Kindly note that the position might be filled before the vacancy announcement is closed; therefore, early applications are encouraged.***

The Opportunity – National Cash Working Group Coordinator

Post location: oPt Country Office- Ramallah

Contract Duration and Level of Effort: 1 year.

ROLE PURPOSE:

the National Cash Coordinator (NCC) provides technical leadership and coordination to the National Cash Working Group (NCWG), working closely with the OCHA representative in chairing and managing of the NCWG.

Additionally, the NCC chairs the West Bank CWG (WB CWG), in support to OCHA, providing full technical and operational coordination of the group, and under the lead of the Gaza Cash Coordinator (GCC), the NCC provides technical support to the Gaza CWG.

As co-chair (along with the OCHA Representative), the NCC represents the NCWG in the National ICCG (NICCG), and interacts with donors, authorities, and other relevant stakeholders on CVA-related issues.

In the spirit of effective technical coordination, the NCC is impartial, unbiased, objective and neutral to promote programmatic and operational priorities that are commonly identified and jointly agreed by CWG members and ensure those are integrated in the wider humanitarian response.

In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to:

• The NCC reports to the NICCG chair (OCHA) for its activities within the NCWG, and to the WB ICCG chair (OCHA) for its activities within the WB CWG.
• The NCC is primarily responsible to its constituents i.e. CWG members/ operational cash actors in OPT.
• The NCC is accountable to the OPT CWG in all its parts (National, Gaza Strip, West Bank).
• In terms of HR performance evaluation, the NCC will report to PDQ Director.

Staff reporting to this post: potentially an Information Management staff

Budget Responsibilities: NA.

Role Dimensions: oPt CO is a high complexity country, multi-member interest, with an annual budget of around $40+m, and 100+ staff. Currently the program is experiencing a growth in funding and complexity due to the war in Gaza.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

1. For the National Cash Working Group:

• Technically oversees the whole CVA coordination structure in oPt, providing guidance on all CVA related issues, and ensuring appropriate consideration of CVA across the humanitarian response structure.
• Co-chairs the National Cash Working Group.
• Represents the NCWG at ICCG level, reporting the discussions and the recommendations of the NCWG.
• Promotes CVA in oPt in support of the humanitarian system and leads the contribution of the CWG into humanitarian planning processes (HNO, HRP).
• Leads development and implementation of CVA strategies at national level.
• Facilitates technical and operational discussions between members and support sub-national CWGs or technical Task Teams develop TORs, establishes membership and endorses outputs.
• Develops a strategic action plan for the NCWG in consultation with the members at the national level to advance the CVA in oPt.
• Technically leads the creation and nurturing of collaboration channels with relevant authorities regarding CVA.
• Actively contributes to the efforts to link humanitarian CVA and Social Protection schemes.
• Supports the humanitarian community in harmonization of methods and tools from a strategic angle.
• Works closely with GCWG Co-coordinator and identifies potential areas of joint action on cash and market assessment and social protection/safety net linkages to inform policy, advocacy and decision-making.
• Initiates, leads and draft guidance on sectoral cash with relevant clusters/sectors ensuring implementing agencies participation.
• Initiates, leads, and documents the overall rotation process for both its position and the NCWG members’.
• Ensure representation and impartial inclusion of CWG members to social protection coordination structures that allow and enable alignment (e.g. SPCVA) and collaboration with line ministries (e.g. MoSD)
• Decide on funding allocations for cash assistance. CWG co-chairs may be invited to participate as technical experts alongside others in reviews but avoid conflicts of interest
• Establish and maintain connections with CALP MENA CoP, Collaborative Cash Delivery Network (CCD), Social Protection (https://socialprotection.org/) and relevant global and regional cash networks.
• Manages potential Cash Cap to the NCC, WB CWG or Gaza CWG.

1. For the WB Cash Working Group:

• Co-chairs and technically leads the West Bank CWG.
• Liaises with partners, Clusters, authorities, donors and other coordination fora to ensure proper mainstreaming of CVA in planning cycles (HPC, Flash Appeals), particularly leading on the development and inclusion of MPCA sections.
• Liaises with clusters/ sector working groups to ensure complementarity and avoids overlaps between sector cash assistance and multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA).
• Initiates and coordinates technical activities as per agreed action plans, encouraging partners to lead and contribute to the works.
• Liaises with authorities, mainly MoSD and PCBS, Palestinian Monetary Authorirty, to coordinate data sharing and mutual support for relevant activities.
• Ensures reporting and information management services are provided to CWG members.
• Requests reporting of activities from operational cash actors with practical easy-to-use tools.
• Supports capacity and knowledge needs of members, clusters, local and national actors.

1. For the Gaza Cash Working Group:

• Co-chairs and technically leads the Gaza Cash Working Group (depending on modality agreed with CWG members for Gaza CWG)
• Develops advocacy notes in collaboration with members for cash programming and coordination (i.e. entry of commercial goods).
• Liaises with partners, Clusters, authorities, donors and other coordination fora to ensure proper mainstreaming of CVA in planning cycles (HPC, Flash Appeals), particularly leading on the development and inclusion of MPCA sections.
• Liaises with clusters/ sector working groups to ensure complementarity and avoids overlaps between sector cash assistance and multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA).
• Initiates and coordinates technical activities as per agreed action plans, encouraging partners to lead and contribute to the works.
• Initiate CVA IM Task force
• Ensures reporting and information management services are provided to CWG members.
• Requests reporting of activities from operational cash actors with practical easy-to-use tools.
• Supports capacity and knowledge needs of members, clusters, local and national actors.

In order to be successful, you will bring/have:

QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s degree in generalist, Economics, Statistics, or Social Science.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• 5 + years’ experience in sectoral and multi-sectoral use of cash at senior/management level.
• 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.
• In-depth knowledge of 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.
• 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.
• Excellent communication skills, strong at influencing.
• Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy.
• The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.
• Self-motivated.
• Ability to work with and manage multi-cultural teams.
• Ability to work in changing environment.

Desirable

• Fluent in Arabic.
• Experience in the Palestinian context.
• Pre-existing network in the Palestinian context with external stakeholders.

We offer a competitive package in the context of the sector. This role is offered on the basis of national and international terms and conditions. Application will be reviewed and selected on a rolling basis.

Save the Children promotes a diverse and inclusive work environment, women and people with different abilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

The Organisation

Save the Children works in development and humanitarian contexts with children and partners to help families, communities, and governments identify and use innovations to ensure all children survive, learn and are protected.

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

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