Cash Officer

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 33,000+ 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:

Timely Delivery of Assistance:

• Participate in Cash Voucher Assistance feasibility and Delivery Mechanisms Assessments
• Participate in Markets Assessment and monthly price monitoring
• Participate in review. update and development of CVA standard operating Procedures (SoPs) and ensure New Project staff are inducted and oriented on the use of SoP
• Participate in Cash Voucher Assistance baselines surveys and vulnerability assessment with MEAL unit to identify the vulnerable households for cash assistance.
• Lead in Cash programme beneficiary selection, beneficiary verification and beneficiary registration with MEAL unit
• Support WVA HIRO in receiving and inputting the beneficiary data into the LMMS, issuing beneficiary ration cards, generating BDLs and reports.
• Participate in design and print food ration cards for cash assistance for selected beneficiaries based on WV policy.
• Prepare cash assistance plans, take the necessary approvals from various units including project coordinator, security manager and zone manager, and submit to Supply Chain unit for further process with the financial service provider (FSP).
• Participate in conduct gender-sensitive market assessment of target areas for cash distributions to identify existing markets and women’s market access.
• Implement all cash distribution-related activities under Food security and livelihoods and Nutrition sectors.
• Coordinate closely with the project manager to ensure timely implementation of the project activities and get readiness for timely distribution of cash for the target communities.
• Ensure that all cash 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 Coordinator, Sector Lead and Cash and GIK unit on all project activities including beneficiary selection, verification and cash distribution.
• Travel regularly to all project sites to ensure proper implementation and quality of project activities and prepare cash distribution plan based completion percentage of the work.
• Conducting coordination meeting with community elders and line departments on cash distribution activities.
• Conduct regular meeting with local whole seller and retailers.
• Conduct market linkage between Community and local Provincial and zonal market.
• Maintain excellent working relations with project stakeholder, partners and other contractors.
• Ensure project activities and hiring of the labours are in compliance with government rules and regulations.
• Raise and submit PRFs for selection of cash distribution contractor and contribute in selection if contractor.
• Represent the WV in cash and voucher working groups meetings in the provincial level.
• Ensure project activities follow government rules and regulations.
• Submission of monthly cash 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 cash requests for project operations
• Responsible to provide daily reconciliation report and monthly distribution report to project coordinator FSL and Cash Food and GIK units.
• Ensure cash distributed to the selected beneficiary based identification cards (LMMS or Paper cards) according to project criteria.
• Prevent 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.
• Required Professional Experience
• At least two years of experience working with NGOs in Cash, Food and Voucher Programing in an emergency context.

• Required Education,

  training, license,

  registration, and

  certification

• A Bachelor degree in accounting, management, marketing, agriculture and /or social science

• 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 Badghis Province (where applicable).
• Strong monitoring skills.
• Communication skills and knowledge of local communities.
• Familiarity with context of Badghis 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

• Travel and/or

  Work Environment

  Requirement

  These positions are based in Badghis province with regular travels to targeted districts

  Physical

  Requirements

  Being in good health and physical conditions.

  Language

  Requirements

  Fluent in Dari or Pashtu

  English written and reading

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only