Long Term Agreement for National Individual Consultant: Field Coordination of Humanitarian Cash Transfer (HCT) in Response to Emergencies, Viet Nam.

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Background:

Worldwide, cash transfers in humanitarian settings are increasingly seen as an efficient, cost-effective and timely means of strengthening resilience of affected communities facing a shock. Through cash support, the affected communities coping mechanisms will be supported towards eliminating the need to resort to negative coping strategies with often have long-term negative impact on the well-being of families and children.

UNICEF’s Core Commitments for Children (CCC), the core UNICEF policy and framework for humanitarian action, upholds the use of unconditional and unrestricted humanitarian cash transfers (HCTs) to ensure that children and their families will have access to financial assistance to help them meet their basic needs in a dignified manner and according to their own priorities. Where markets are functional, the provision of humanitarian cash transfers has been demonstrated to be an effective mechanism to promote well-being of families, stimulate the local economy and speed up recovery and reconstruction efforts.

The review of UNICEF supported HCT programmes in response to previous Typhoons in 2024 and 2025 have shown the critical role of HCT field coordinator to enhance UNICEF’s capacity to respond effectively and timely to key commitments in delivering cash support to affected communities. With the increasing demand for cash support in response to emergencies, UNICEF Viet Nam would like to recruit a long term HCT field coordinator to work closely with national and local government partners as well as related stakeholders and suppliers to roll out the UNICEF supported humanitarian cash transfers in affected provinces of Viet Nam.

Purpose of the assignment:

The national consultant will support the UNICEF Country Office in Vietnam in the planning, implementation, and monitoring of humanitarian cash transfer (HCT) programs in response to emergencies in affected Provinces of Vietnam. This role involves coordinating with various stakeholders, including central and local government, local communities, NGOs, and governmental agencies, cash working group, service providers and UNICEF programme sections to ensure effective delivery of UNICEF supported humanitarian cash assistance that meets the needs of affected populations in a timely and effective manner, to be in line with UNICEF’s Core Commitments for Children (CCC) in Emergency.

Objective:

The national consultant will support the UNICEF Country Office in Vietnam in the planning, implementation, and monitoring of humanitarian cash transfer (HCT) programs in response to emergencies in affected provinces of Viet Nam. This role involves coordinating with various stakeholders, including central and local government, local communities, NGOs, and governmental agencies, cash working group, service providers and UNICEF programme sections to ensure effective delivery of UNICEF supported humanitarian cash assistance that meets the needs of affected populations in a timely and effective manner, to be in line with UNICEF’s Core Commitments for Children (CCC) in Emergency.

Responsibilities of the Consultant(s):

Task 1: Provide technical support to UNICEF in coordination and planning for the rolling out of HCT programmes in selected provinces

• Keep updated on HCT response to emergencies being implemented by government, UN agencies, INGOs and local NGOs

• Coordinate with Government partners, CWG members and service providers at national and subnational levels in facilitating the planning and implementation of UNICEF supported HCTs.

• Provide instruction and guidance of UNICEF to local authorities and partners on selection of communes, delivery of programme details to affected community, facilitate targeting and data collection.

• Conduct field trips to facilitate pre-distribution communication and data validation to ensure correct household selection and clean data collected as well as strengthening UNICEF accountability to affected populations (AAP).

• Work with UNICEF internal staff including Technology for Development and Cash working team to ensure the readiness of cash programme implementation.

Task 2: Cash distributed to eligible households in selected provinces:

• Coordinate with UNICEF, financial service provider, local government, and related stakeholders to ensure timely distribution of HCT in accordance with UNICEF SOP on HCT.

• Support the coordination for the baseline survey, payment verification and post-distribution monitoring to be conducted by the 3rd party service provider contracted by UNICEF.

• Undertake field visits to facilitate the distribution of cash support at sites, monitor programme implementation and provide technical assistance to targeted provinces as requested and collect and report disaggregated data on beneficiaries.

• Liaise with relevant local authorities and community leaders to ensure community participation and awareness on HCT support programme by UNICEF.

• Provide technical support in collecting and handling grievance and complaint at the field in accordance with UNICEF SOP and procedures.

• Provide support in planning for donor visit or field mission monitoring conducted by UNICEF.

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete TOR here SPG TOR for individual LTA.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Education: University degree in international affairs, international development, social sciences, public policy, or having DRM/DRR profile and good knowledge of cash transfers and/or social protection.

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required

a) A minimum of 5 year working experience in disaster risk reduction and/or disaster risk management, cash-based programming in emergencies, humanitarian cash transfers (HCT) programme implementation, adaptive social protection, shock-responsive social protection.

b) Familiarity with the concept and practices of social protection in emergencies.

c) Field experience relating to social development programs at provincial levels, especially in ethnic minority communities is an asset.

d) Experience in multi-stakeholder co-ordination and facilitation.

e) Good computer skills (MS Word, Powerpoint, Excel);

f) Fluency in written and spoken Vietnamese and English is required.

Evaluation Criteria:

Technical Evaluation Criteria (80 points):

+ Cover Letter explaining the motivation for applying and explaining how the qualifications and skill set of the candidate are suitable for this position, 10 points.

+ University degree in international affairs, international development, social sciences, public policy, or having DRM/DRR profile and good knowledge of cash transfers and/or social protection, 15 points.

+ A minimum of 5 year working experience in disaster risk reduction and/or disaster risk management, cash-based programming in emergencies, humanitarian cash transfers (HCT) programme implementation, adaptive social protection, shock-responsive social protection.

Familiarity with the concept and practices of social protection in emergencies.

Field experience relating to social development programs at provincial levels, especially in ethnic minority communities is an asset.

Experience in multi-stakeholder co-ordination and facilitation.

30 points.

+ Work Samples include two previously written reports/proposal as per the required assignment, 15 points.

+ Fluency in written and spoken Vietnamese and English is required, 10 points.

Financial evaluation (20 points):

- The maximum number of points shall be allotted to the lowest Financial Proposal that is opened /evaluated and compared among those technical qualified candidates who have attained a minimum 45 points score in the technical evaluation. Other Financial Proposals will receive points in inverse proportion to the lowest price.

- The Contract shall be awarded to candidate obtaining the highest combined technical and financial scores, subject to the satisfactory result of the verification interview if needed.

Submission of applications:

1. A cover letter explaining the motivation for applying and explaining how the qualifications and skillset of the candidate are relevant for this consultancy.

2. Updated Curriculum Vitae (CV).

3. Two Work Samples – This includes two previously written reports proposal. It is critical to submit work samples as you will observe from the advertisement that marks have been assigned to these criteria for arriving at the most suitable candidate.

4. A financial proposal indicating professional fee, travel and other costs as per the template indicated in the TOR. Please do not forget to specify your name in the file while saving.

BSAFE Course: BSAFE (English) will be a mandatory course requirement for traveler to be added to the list of certificates to be submitted.

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(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity

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