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Advisor, Cash and Voucher Assistance (P3)

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Save the Children

For over 100 years, Save the Children has been fighting for the rights of children. The right to a healthy start in life. To have access to education. To be in a safe environment, protected from harm. We work in some of the world’s hardest-to-reach places – over 100 countries, including the U.S. No matter what your role is, when you join Save the Children, you’re creating positive, irreversible change for children, and the future we all share.

The Role

As the Advisor, Cash and Voucher Assistance you’ll be integral to our work in helping vulnerable children achieve a brighter future. You will contribute at the systems level to Save the Children’s capacity to deliver cash-based assistance in domestic and international emergency responses. Reporting to the Senior Cash Technical Advisor, you will be a core part of our Emergency Cash Team, providing technical leadership and operational support for the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of cash and voucher assistance programs across domestic emergency responses. In this role, you will serve as a subject matter expert on humanitarian cash programming and market-based approaches for both national and international programs, and will be responsible for strengthening organizational preparedness, response capacity, and program quality.

You will support the development of policies, tools, and systems that enable the organization to deliver timely, accountable, and scalable cash assistance to crisis-affected households. You will also support cash assistance coordination, advocacy, and influencing while driving strategic partnerships for both implementation and new business development as well as support the design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems to demonstrate impact, while sharing learning across our programs, teams and partners.

During emergency responses, you will transition from a strategic role into a hands-on leadership function, leading the technical design and execution of CVA interventions and supporting multi-sector programming.

During an emergency response you are expected to rapidly deploy to disasters operations and work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

NOTE – this is a part-time fixed term role at 75% LOE for 12 months with the possibility of extension based on funding.

Location

Hybrid – Washington DC, Fairfield, CT or Lexington, KY office

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

*not inclusive of all role responsibilities. May be subject to change

Role Dimensions: The role is expected to advise and implement cash programming, reporting to the senior CVA advisor. The role will work closely with the other pillars of the US Emergency Response Team and will engage with the international cash and food security teams in a technical advisory capacity when required.

Context : Humanitarian

Scope: Emergency Programs

Primary Technical area: Cash & Market

Primary Sub technical area: Market-based programming for child outcomes / Shock-responsive social protection

Technical Design (30%)

  • Support the development and lead the implementation of cash and voucher assistance programming across U.S. emergency responses. Finalize and continue to update the SCUS Cash Playbook and related content.
  • Ensure programs are developed and delivered in line with the cash strategy as well as exceeding organizational standards and global humanitarian cash best practices.
  • Design, consult, and provide technical guidance on:
    • Multipurpose cash assistance (MPCA)
    • Restricted cash and voucher programs
    • Cash-plus approaches
    • Digital cash delivery mechanisms
  • Design and oversee market assessments, feasibility analyses, transfer value calculations, and response analysis in coordination with the cash team in consultation with local partners.
  • Support the identification and evaluation of strategic and operational risks across sectors relating to CVA and implement strategies to minimize and/or mitigate risk.
  • Ensure that thematic program components are technically sound, implementation methods are consistent with national and global strategies, acknowledged good practice (e.g. Save the Children Common Approaches); and are likely to achieve scale.

Emergency Cash Response Leadership (25%)

  • During a domestic emergency –
    • Implementing Save’s cash-based emergency responses, including program management, budget and financial responsibility, and working closely across Save the Children’s technical departments, coordination with other actors, relationships with service providers, and others.
    • Work strategically across the organizational response to integrate cash into other sectors.
    • Support rapid start-up of cash and voucher interventions as well as other US Emergency Team pillar programming, including EiE and MH/PSS interventions.
    • Coordinate with operations, finance, procurement, legal, compliance, and safeguarding teams to ensure effective implementation.

Capacity building and systems strengthening (15%)

  • Promote a Systems Strengthening approach that supports working in collaboration and partnership with national and local partners.
  • Develop preparedness plans, response tools, and implementation packages that can be rapidly activated during emergencies.
  • Facilitate staff training initiatives related to CVA, market analysis, transfer mechanisms, and accountability.
  • Build staff capacity through coaching, mentoring, simulations, workshops, and after-action reviews.

Partnerships, Coordination, and Representation (10%)

  • Manage relationships with financial service providers, financial technology partners, community organizations, and other implementing partners.
  • Support Save’s leadership in the US Cash Coordination Coalition, and deliver on Save’s commitment to continue to be a national leader in cash assistance.
  • Contribute to collective learning and promote adoption of humanitarian cash best practices.
  • Build strategic partnerships that enhance response reach, quality, and innovation.

Strategic Relationships and New Business Development (10%)

  • Work closely with Marketing and Growth colleagues to identify and pursue funding opportunities.
  • Build strategic partnerships to develop a robust pipeline of potential interested parties.
  • Promote Save’s cash programming to national and local government representatives, donors, partner agencies, etc. as required.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (10%)

  • Collaborate with Monitoring, Evaluation, Research & Learning (MERL) teams to establish systems to ensure that cash-based assistance is reaching those who need it most, and to improve monitoring and evaluation systems that are focused on child-friendly and transformative methods.
  • Support data collection, post-distribution monitoring, outcome measurement, and learning initiatives.
  • Use evidence and beneficiary feedback to improve program quality.
  • Produce technical reports, case studies, lessons learned, and program recommendations. Support research projects.
  • Ensure accountability mechanisms are integrated throughout the project cycle.

Required qualifications for the role

  • Minimum of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 5 years of relevant experience in cash and voucher humanitarian programming and disaster response.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and implementing CVA programs – experience with strategic decision making on types of cash programs and a wide range of CVA modality experiences are required.
  • Proven experience designing and conducting market assessments and response analysis.
  • Demonstrated experience managing partnerships and coordinating with multiple stakeholders.
  • Proven project management and budget management experience.
  • Demonstrated experience with fundraising from institutional and non-institutional donors.
  • Ability to work effectively in fast-paced emergency environments.
  • Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
  • Professional proficiency in spoken and written English

Preferred qualifications for the role

  • Master’s degree in disaster resilience, international development, public administration, food security, or in a related humanitarian/development field.
  • Experience with response and recovery programming.
  • Experience managing digital cash delivery solutions and financial service provider partnerships.
  • Management experience of operational aspects of cash and voucher intervention
  • Experience of supporting humanitarian preparedness, response and recovery
  • Skilled at networking, representation and partnership development in order promote learning, strengthen civil society and mobilize resources.

Compensation

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

  • Geo 1 - NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target Salary for this position is $91,800 - $102,600 base salary
  • Geo 2 - Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $83,725 - $93,575 base salary
  • Geo 3 - Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $74,800 - $83,600 base salary

The salary ranges listed above are for US based candidates. For candidates located outside of the US, salary ranges will be based on the salary scales of the local employer of record. Actual base salary may vary based on, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location (more information on job structure is available here).

About Us

We offer a range of outstanding benefits to support this opportunity:

  • Flexible schedules and time off: Flexible schedules, generous PTO, 11 paid holidays plus 2 floating holidays, and hybrid working opportunities
  • Health: Competitive health care, dental and vision coverage for you and your family
  • Family: A variety of paid leaves: caregiver, parental/adoption, critical child illness and fertility benefits
  • Employee Rewards Program: Annual merit increases and/or additional incentives for eligible employees
  • Retirement: A retirement savings plan with employer contributions (after one year)
  • Wellness: 15 safety and wellness days annually (if hired on or after July 1, safety and wellness days prorated to 8 days), mental health benefits and support through Calm and company-hosted events
  • Employee Assistance Program: free and confidential assessments, short-term counseling, referrals, and follow-up services
  • Learning & Growth: Access to internal and external learning & development opportunities and mentorships

Click here to learn more about how Save the Children US will invest in you.

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse.

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.

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