Position Overview
As Cash
& Markets, Technical Advisor (Cash TA) for West and Central Africa Region
(WACAR), you are
responsible for ensuring high quality technical assistance to country programs
within the region. You will collaborate with relevant stakeholders to achieve
high quality, high impact interventions that are informed by evidence, data,
and best practice, contextually appropriate, driven by client and partner
voices, and are safe, inclusive, learning, and promote equal outcomes for
clients.
Program
Design & Business Development
- You will support country programs to design
winning submissions and generally position IRC for continued success in
Cash & Markets:
- Substantially contribute to the development of
proposal theories of change and log frames to design economic programs and
projects as well as cash programming models within other sectors (health,
education, protection)
- Support the in-country technical lead in
analyzing relevant information including available M&E and client
responsiveness data, to prepare and to inform design
meetings/conversations
- Advise on program modalities and strategic
partnership development – including with the private sector – based on
evidence, scale considerations, and how we can best support, complement,
and reinforce local systems
- Advise on and/or provide hands-on support on
assessments, including application and contextualization of technical
standards on cash programming within economic programs, cash program model
development across sectors
- Participate in project design meetings for all
relevant proposals (remotely or in person)
- Review and validate design meeting decisions
around technical design quality, including alignment of narratives,
log-frames, and budgets, to IRC standards and outcomes
- Promote and support design collaboration with
partners and clients
- Steer alignment and contextualization of
Economic Well Being (EWB) Outcome Strategic Priorities and Country
Programs Strategy Action Plans
- Pomote and support gender equality and diversity
inclusion throughout project design
- Input into go / no go decisions on proposals and
on budgets required for project delivery
- When necessary, write technical narratives of
proposals and provide support on monitoring and evaluation aspects of ERD
projects
- Engage with donors, participate in donors’
meetings and do outreach in support of country programs
- Support countries and TU in pursuing emergency
and long-term business development opportunities
Implementation
Support
- You will support country program staff and other
key stakeholders in implementing technical interventions:
- Support country programs and other stakeholders
with the recruitment and training of technical coordinators
- Assess program quality against IRC IMPACT
standards and inform improvements, providing follow up support to country
programs as needed
- Collaborate with country program colleagues to
monitor and analyze key indicators to inform periodic review, program
adaptation, and course-correction as needed
- Provide technical capacity strengthening through
ongoing mentoring, coaching, and trainings with country program focal
points
Knowledge
& Learning
You will
support continuous sectoral learning and IRC technical leadership:
- Document learnings from program activities and
sharing takeaways and used for new positioning
- Share cross-contextual learnings with country
program staff across the region
- Collaborate with the Quality in Emergency team
counterparts during emergency classifications to support country programs
to assess, design and implement high quality programming in acute
emergency situations
- Collaborate with other technical advisors within
the region to promote integrated programming leadership
- Refresh the sectoral evidence-base in
collaboration with global and regional staff to influence approaches
- Contribute to the delivery of ERD strategic
priorities
- Maintain currency with sectoral best practices
through continual learning and development
- Support research efforts, both qualitative and
quantitative, to drive IRC’s evidence generation agenda, in collaboration
with research specialists in the Technical Unit and in the Airbel Impact
Lab
Work
Experience:
- Minimum of 6-8 years of proven experience in
international emergency and development field posts, and or related
private sector entities.
- Demonstrated experience in implementing and/or
managing cash-based humanitarian programming in crisis or post-crisis
field settings, including staff and budget management preferably with a
focus on markets and experience in women and/or youth-focused programming.
- Experience in design and monitoring of cash
transfer programming to meet basic needs, food security, NFI, and/or
shelter program activities as well as technical tools and materials
development, monitoring and evaluation, and research
- Experience in strategy development and working
across sectors or disciplines is highly desired.
- Demonstrated success in large business
development for economic programs and familiarity with key donors and
their funding streams.
Demonstrated
Skills and Competencies:
- Excellent verbal and written communications
skills, in English and French
- Demonstrated expertise in program design,
monitoring and evaluation, with the ability to turn concepts and strategy
into measurable action. Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Demonstrated commitment to renewing and maintaining currency with best
practices.
- Strong organizational and time-management
skills; proven ability to prioritize and deliver projects on time and
independently.
- Demonstrated ability to navigate a dynamic,
cross-functional, global team structure in a large multi-national
organization.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with
internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
- Strong analytic problem-solving skills.
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Office suite.
- Ability to manage and work through change in a
proactive and positive manner.
- Knowledge of main institutional donors and a
proven track record in developing funding proposals and reports for a
range of institutional and other donors.
- Excellent interpersonal skills involving
listening to, interacting with, and communicating clearly with people from
diverse nationalities and backgrounds
How to Apply
