Cash Assistant
Facilitate food assistance and coordinate distribution activities.
Overview
Facilitate food assistance and coordinate distribution activities.
You have:
- At least two years of experience working with NGOs in Cash, Food and Voucher Programing in an emergency context.
- A Bachelor degree in accounting, management, marketing, agriculture and/or social science.
- Fluency in English, Dari and/or Pashto, both written and spoken.
- Being in good health and physical conditions.
- Knowledge and ability in cash and voucher programming.
With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Employee Contract Type:
Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)Job Description:
- Facilitate vulnerability assessment with MEAL unit to identify the vulnerable households for food assistance.
- Actively participate in beneficiary selection, beneficiary verification and beneficiary registration with MEAL unit
- Contribute in supporting of WVA HIRO in receiving and inputting the beneficiary data into the LMMS, issuing beneficiary ration cards, generating BDLs and reports.
- Contribute in developing food assistance plans, take the necessary approvals from various units including project manager, security manager and zone manager, and submit to cash, food and GIK unit for further process.
- Contribute in conducting of gender-sensitive market assessment of target areas for food distributions to identify existing markets and women’s market access.
- Contribute in conducting of HHs needs assessment to review DIALS.
- Implement all Food distribution-related activities under Food security and livelihoods and Nutrition sectors guidelines.
- Coordinate closely with the project manager to ensure timely implementation of the project activities and get readiness for timely distribution of food for the target communities.
- Ensure that all food distribution process and activities are in line with WVA endorsed SOPs and procedures.
- Ensure that proper community development practices and “Do No Harm” practices are incorporated and upheld throughout the implementation of the project.
- Provide regular updates to FSL technical and liaison officer, Cash and GIK unit on all project activities including beneficiary selection, verification and food distribution.
- Travel regularly to all project sites to ensure proper implementation and quality of project activities and prepare food distribution plan based completion percentage of the work.
- Contribute in coordination meeting with community elders and line departments on food distribution activities.
- Maintain excellent working relations with project stakeholder, partners and other contractors.
- Raise and submit PRFs for selection of food distribution contractor and contribute in selection of contractor based on request of project manager.
- Ensure project activities are in compliance with government rules and regulations.
- Submission of monthly food requests for project operations
Ensure proper filling in a way that can be audited.
Other tasks assigned by the project coordinator.
Reporting planning, Monitoring and Evaluation and supervision
- Submission of monthly food requests for project operations
- Responsible to provide daily reconciliation report and monthly distribution report to project manager, FSL and Cash Food and GIK units.
- Ensure food distributed to the selected beneficiary based identification cards (LMMS or Paper cards) according to project criteria.
- Prevent and report for any fraud, corruption of allocated distributions to project beneficiaries.
- Provide supervision to CBFs and any guidance need for the performance.
Other
- Adhere to WV Child and Adult Safeguarding policy and standards.
Adhere to WV accountability standards.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND EXPERIENCE
Required Education, training, license, registration, and/or
Certification
- At least two years of experience working with NGOs in Cash, Food and Voucher Programing in an emergency context.
Required Professional Experience
- A Bachelor degree in accounting, management, marketing, agriculture and /or social science.
Required Language(s)
Fluency in English, Dari and/or Pashto, both written and spoken
Required travel and/or work environment accommodations
This position is based in Herat with travel to districts
Position’s physical requirements
Being in good health and physical conditions.
Preferred Knowledge
and Qualifications
Knowledge and ability and cash and voucher programing.
Ability to work in a team environment.
- Ability to travel to all districts of targeted Province (where applicable).
- Strong monitoring skills.
- Communication skills and knowledge of local communities.
- Familiarity with context of targeted province (where applicable)
- Good report writing skills.
- Ability to engage with different stakeholders and partners in the project site.
- Interpersonal, management and conflict resolution skills.
- Ability to manage the cash distribution challenges
Applicant Types Accepted:
Potential interview questions
| Can you describe your experience with cash and food programming in NGOs? | This helps assess your relevant experience and understanding of the sector. | Share specific examples of your past roles and responsibilities related to cash and food programming. |
| How do you ensure beneficiary selection is fair and transparent? | This question evaluates your understanding of ethical practices in beneficiary processes. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| What strategies do you use to engage with local communities effectively? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| How do you handle conflicts or challenges in food distribution? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| Can you explain the importance of monitoring and evaluation in your role? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |