JOB SUMMARY

CARE International is a global confederation that is working in 104 countries around the world to save lives, end poverty and fight social injustice. CARE has been operating in Sudan since 1979, implementing humanitarian and development programs focused on women's and girls' empowerment, gender justice, humanitarian action and resilience building. CARE has over 150 staff in 12 offices: a headquarter in Khartoum with field offices in East Darfur, South Darfur, Kassala, Gedaref and South Kordofan. CARE has strong experience in Sudan and has established long-standing relationships with local authorities and communities.

The Cash Programme Specialist is one of the key technical positions in CARE Sudan’s Program, the role holder will be reporting to CARE’s Humanitarian Programme Coordinator and indirectly working under supervision of the Sudan Deputy Country Director for programme, and CARE Regional CASH Advisor. S/he will provide expertise to support the set-up of a cash programme system, design and implementation of the entire CARE Sudan cash and markets-based program approaches and promoting strategic leadership on markets-based programming; in addition to providing a guidance, building capacity, and supporting the implementation and ensure the quality of all cash interventions across the CARE Sudan programs including Health, Nutrition, WASH, FSL, and protection and GBV.

In coordination with the CASH Advisor and all Programs Managers, The Cash Specialist will be responsible for leading CARE's strategy development, and technical design and overseeing the implementation of upcoming potential social protection consortium project on pipeline.

The Cash Specialist will work closely with the national CASH Advisor, CARE's program management team, program quality, risks management, compliance team, and CARE's Global Technical Team.

The role is heavily focused on the technical capacity of developing cash system, managing, designing, and implementing all modalities of CVA, and the right candidate should have very strong experience in this sector, and strong interpersonal and coordination skills, and must overall be an excellent organizer. The duty station will be CARE’s office in Khartoum with some travels to CARE's operational field offices including South Darfur, Gedaref and Kassala state. The duration of this exercise is 6 months.

RESPONSIBILITIES

1. CASH Programme set-up

• Overall guidance notes for cash programming in Sudan developed including SOPs for multi-purpose cash, cash for work, and value voucher assistance.
• Development of tools for every step of cash assistance, including market assessment, vendor selection, safety and security management, beneficiary registration, beneficiary verification, distribution, redemption, and reconciliation.
• Develop a gender sensitive assessment tool to ensure the CASH programming is properly mapping gender needs to inform the Cash projects.
• Harmonize the CASH approach and tools with the CASH cluster and other CASH leading agencies in the operational areas.

2. Program Design and Implementation

• Support program team on design and conduct market assessments in relation to CVA and market-based approaches across all sectors
• Provide all required guidance to the design, of any new opportunity; contribute to proposal writing and make sure all CVA approaches are aligned with donors' requirements
• Ensure that all sectoral program components such as Health, Nutrition, WASH, and FSL of CVA programming, are technically robust and implementation is aligned with CARE SoPs and policies.
• Technical leadership and representation of CARE in the Save the Children led Cash and Resilience Consortium
• Lead provision of input on behalf of CARE for proposal development with the Cash and Resilience Consortium
• Support proposal writing efforts by providing technical input for cash-components
• Oversee any cash-projects or cash-components within larger projects during the period of deployment
• Ensure cash activities are gender sensitive and mitigate GBV risks

3. Learning and capacity building

• Track key development in the regulatory environment as well as donor policies/funding trends to adapt CVA programming accordingly to ensure relevancy.
• Build evidence based on “good CVA practices” for Sudan Response, via consortium partners and otherwise.
• Work and support other CARE’s country offices to share the learning, knowledge, and build comprehensive reviews among different contexts
• Identify priority areas for research that inform evidenced-based program design and long-term strategy, with special focus on gender and protection.
• Lead on design and coordination of operational research activities in coordination with Program Quality and Programs Teams
• Lead on advocacy efforts supported by evidence to move from short term (emergency) approach into long term focusing on resilience
• Recruitment and induction of national staff responsible for cash programming.
• Capacity building of CARE staff, including program, procurement, finance and MEAL teams.

4. Strategic Influence and Representation

• Identify, build, initiate and manage collaborative partnerships with donors, local authorities, UN agencies, and other stakeholders.
• Ensure CARE’s representation and active participation in the Sudan Cash Working Group (CWG), including the Strategic Advisory Group (SAG), and all other coordination mechanisms whenever needed.
• Participate in cash coordination efforts, strengthening CARE’s program approach and influencing the response via these mechanisms.
• Engage in CARE’s global CVA groups as CARE CVA Focal Point and contribute, to training, knowledge management, and SoPs
• Develop strategic partnerships, in collaboration with Program and operation, to bring viable external resources and innovations into the program.
• Represent CARE at donor meetings for general partnership development, proposal development, and presentation and status presentation of existing grants.

Additional Responsibilities

• Clear, and friendly to use system and tools
• Practical SOPs strongly operational in the context
• Well trained staff members able to handle implementation of CASH programmes
• Sound proposal and concept notes and proposals attract donor attention and result in funding
• Timely and strong inception of projects including planning, kick-off, and implementation.
• Review the report preparation flow and propose improvements for quality and delivery times
• Official BHA agreement reviewed with implementing staff
• Training in formats and regulations of BHA in narrative reports, Monitoring and evaluation etc.
• Training in formats and regulations of BHA in financial reports
• Training on humanitarian principles, core values, the Code of Conduct and SPHERE
• ITT and M&E review (based on BHA guidelines)
• Review of BHA report templates

Qualifications:

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, such as economics, business, international development, humanitarian studies, or another related field.
• Certified in Project Management (e.g. PMD Pro) or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Experainced in Cash and voucher assistance and market-based approaches (CALP, MERS, sectoral such as WASH, Health, Nutrition).
• Experianced in protection, GBV and Gender.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in designing and implementing cash assistance in humanitarian settings..
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience of working with NGOs in fragile and humanitarian settings.
• Extensive work experience in CASH system design, information management, data management, and digital payment system.
• Extensive experience in CVA programming, preferably working with digital tools and platforms.
• Experience working with national and international team.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Advanced certification in Cash and Vouchers Programming is a plus.