The Opportunity – National Cash Working Group Co-Coordinator/ Maternity Cover

Post location:  Country Office Role, duty station can be based in either Gaza, Ramallah, Amman or any other SCI office location.

Contract Duration: 6 Months

ROLE PURPOSE: 

The National Cash Co-Coordinator (NCC) provides technical leadership and coordination to the National Cash Working Group (NCWG), working closely with the OCHA representative in co-chairing and managing of the NCWG.  

Additionally, the NCC chairs the West Bank CWG (WB CWG), providing full technical and operational coordination of the group, and under the lead of the Gaza Cash Coordinator (GCC), the NCC provides technical support to the Gaza CWG.  

As co-chair (along with the OCHA Representative), the NCC represents the NCWG in the National ICCG (NICCG), and interacts with donors, authorities, and other relevant stakeholders on CVA-related issues and ongoing emergency responses in the oPt.  

In the spirit of effective technical coordination, the NCC is impartial, unbiased, objective and neutral to promote programmatic and operational priorities that are commonly identified and jointly agreed by CWG members and ensure those are integrated in the wider humanitarian response.  

In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

SCOPE OF ROLE: 

Reports to: 

• The NCC reports to the NICCG chair (OCHA) for its activities within the NCWG, and to the WB ICCG chair (OCHA) for its activities within the WB CWG.  
• The NCC is primarily responsible to its constituents i.e. CWG members/ operational cash actors in OPT.  
• The NCC is accountable to the OPT CWG in all its parts (National,  West Bank).  
• In terms of HR performance evaluation, the NCC will report to SCI PDQ Director.  

Staff reporting to this post: Information Management Officer (OCHA Staff) 

Budget Responsibilities: N/A

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY: 

For the National Cash Working Group:

•   Technically oversees the whole CVA coordination structure in oPt, providing guidance on all CVA related issues, and ensuring appropriate consideration of CVA across the humanitarian response structure.  
• Co-chairs the National Cash Working Group.  
• Represents the NCWG at ICCG level, reporting the discussions and the recommendations of the NCWG.  
• Promotes CVA in oPt in support of the humanitarian system and leads the contribution of the CWG into humanitarian planning processes (HNO, HRP, Flash Appeal).  
• Leads development and implementation of CVA strategies at national level.  
• Facilitates technical and operational discussions between members and support sub-national CWGs or technical Task Teams develop TORs, establishes membership and endorses outputs.  
• Develops a strategic action plan for the NCWG in consultation with the members at the national level to advance the CVA in oPt.  
• Technically leads the creation and nurturing of collaboration channels with relevant authorities regarding CVA.  
• Actively contributes to the efforts to link humanitarian CVA and Social Protection schemes. 
• Supports the humanitarian community in harmonization of methods and tools from a strategic angle.  
• Works closely with GCWG coordinator and identifies potential areas of joint action on cash and market assessment and social protection/safety net linkages to inform policy, advocacy and decision-making. 
• Initiates, leads and draft guidance on sectoral cash with relevant clusters/sectors ensuring implementing agencies participation.  
• Initiates, leads, and documents the overall rotation process for both its position and the NCWG members’.  
• Ensure representation and impartial inclusion of CWG members to social protection coordination structures that allow and enable alignment (e.g. SPCVA) and collaboration with line ministries (e.g. MoSD)  
• Decide on funding allocations for cash assistance. CWG co-chairs may be invited to participate as technical experts alongside others in reviews but avoid conflicts of interest 
• Establish and maintain connections with CALP MENA CoP, Collaborative Cash Delivery Network (CCD), Social Protection (https://socialprotection.org/) and relevant global and regional cash networks.  

For the WB Cash Working Group: 

• Chairs and technically leads the West Bank CWG.  
• Liaises with partners, Clusters, authorities, donors and other coordination fora to ensure proper mainstreaming of CVA in planning cycles (HPC, Flash Appeals), particularly leading on the development and inclusion of MPCA sections.  
• Liaises with clusters/ sector working groups to ensure complementarity and avoids overlaps between sector cash assistance and multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA).  
• Initiates and coordinates technical activities as per agreed action plans, encouraging partners to lead and contribute to the works.  
• Liaises with authorities, mainly MoSD and PCBS, Palestinian Monetary Authority, to coordinate information sharing and mutual support for relevant activities.  
• Ensures reporting and information management services are provided to CWG members.  
• Requests reporting of activities from operational cash actors with practical easy-to-use tools.  
• Supports capacity and knowledge needs of members, clusters, local and national actors.

For the Gaza Cash Working Group:   

• Support developing advocacy notes in collaboration with members for cash programming and coordination (i.e entry of commercial goods) with GCWG Coordinator.  
• Support liaising with partners, Clusters, authorities, donors and other coordination fora to ensure proper mainstreaming of CVA in planning cycles (HPC, Flash Appeals), particularly leading on the development and inclusion of MPCA sections with GCWG Coordinator.  
• Support initiating and coordinates technical activities as per agreed action plans, encouraging partners to lead and contribute to the works, with GCWG Coordinator
• Support initiating CVA IM Task force  with GCWG Coordinator
• Support ensuring reporting and information management services are provided to CWG members with GCWG Coordinator.  
• Supports capacity and knowledge needs of members, clusters, local and national actors with GCWG Coordinator  

In order to be successful you will bring/have: 

QUALIFICATIONS

• Masters in generalist, Economics, Statistics, or Social Science.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• 5 + years’ experience on sectoral and multi-sectoral use of CVA at senior/management level 
• Experience of coordinating either CWGs, cluster or other humanitarian and development working groups at national, Regional or Global levels.   
• Demonstrated technical understanding of Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) and Cash plus approaches, operational CVA issues, challenges and concerns, particularly in context as OpT. 
• Demonstrated technical understanding of CVA feasibility and risk analysis, including market assessment and monitoring initiatives, financial service provider and delivery mechanisms assessment. 
• Previous experience in the development of CVA related guidance, tip-sheet, SoPs or other relevant tools 
• Good understanding of OpT context and its humanitarian response. 
• Awareness of government social assistance programmes, systems and/ or policies and social protection working groups. 
• Ability to remain impartial, uphold humanitarian principles, maintain integrity and avoid pursuing organizational or personal agendas when coordinating/ facilitating discussions.  
• Strong interpersonal, communication (verbal/ written) and presentation skills. 
• Ability to work and plan at both operational and strategic level. 
• Experience of liaising technical and senior humanitarian, development actors and donors. 
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate discussions, negotiate compromise and reach agreements. 
• Ability to respectfully engage, broker and/ or facilitate conflict resolution between multiple actors with different approaches, mandates, experiences, backgrounds, nationalities, cultures, sectors, interests and seniority levels with diverging views and opinions. 
• Understanding of humanitarian response architecture, including cluster and coordination mechanisms, humanitarian reform and action, and funding mechanisms (e.g. Humanitarian Programme Cycle - HPC, Central Emergency Response Fund and Flash Appeals, Pooled funds). 
• Ability to work under pressure and adapt to an evolving and complex humanitarian context.  
• Excellent communication skills, strong at influencing  
• Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy.  
• The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.  
• Self-motivated.
• Ability to work with multi-cultural teams. 
• Ability to work in changing environment.  
• Proficiency in English (written and verbal).

Desirable

• Fluent in Arabic. 
• Experience in the Palestinian context. 
• Pre-existing network in the Palestinian context with external stakeholders.  
• Experience in setting and/or implementing CVA deduplication system and procedures.

We offer a competitive package in the context of the sector.  This role is offered on the basis of national/international light terms and conditions.

Save the Children promotes a diverse and inclusive work environment, women and people with different abilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

The Organisation

Save the Children works in development and humanitarian contexts with children and partners to help families, communities, and governments identify and use innovations to ensure all children survive, learn and are protected.

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.  
 

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday 
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated 

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.  We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued. 

Application Information:

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