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Employee Contract Type:
Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)
Job Description:
Job-purpose
The Cash and Markets Officer Position is based in (Herat) province with regular travels to selected districts. The Officer ensures timely implementation and reporting of Market assessments and Cash assistances, participate in the beneficiary selection, verification, and registration with the MEAL unit, ensure the development of cash assistance plans including risk plan, coordinates with the financial service provider (FSP) via the Supply Chain unit. Ensure that all cash distribution processes and activities are in line with WVA-endorsed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), procedures, and Donor agreements, provide regular updates to FSL Field Program Coordinator/Manager, on all project activities including beneficiary selection, verification, and cash distribution, assessments to reflect them to the FSAC Report hub. The incumbent will be responsible for providing supervision to (four) Community Based Facilitators/CBFs. H/She performs under the leadership of (FSL Sector Lead) and guidance of Zonal Manager.
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 FSL Field Program Coordinator/Manager, 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 Field Program Coordinator/Manager, FSL 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 FSL Field Program Coordinator/Manager.
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 FSL Field Program Coordinator/Manager 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.
- Adhere to WV Child and Adult Safeguarding policy and standards
- Adhere to WV accountability standards
- To be aware and prepared to implement WV Afghanistan Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs plan under the context of (Herat) urban and rural interventions
- Required Education, training, license, registration, and/orCertification Applicant Types Accepted: Local Applicants Only
- A bachelor's degree in accounting, management, marketing, agriculture and /or social science.
- Required Professional Experience
- At least two years of experience working with NGOs in Cash, Food and Voucher Programming in an emergency context.
- Required Language(s)
- Fluent in Dari & Pashtu
- English written and reading
- Required travel and/or work environment accommodations
- The position is based in (Herat) province with regular travel to districts
- Position’s physical requirements
- Being in good health and physical conditions, and able to travel
- Preferred Experience, Knowledge and/or other Qualifications
- Knowledge and ability and cash and voucher programming.
- 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
