Cash and Voucher Program Specialist (RISE Project)

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Ensure that Commodity Management is kept to WV and donor’s standard

• Coordinate and communicate with local partners, agencies, NGOs and government institutions to perform accurate food security analyses and to ensure efficient delivery of food/cash assistance.
• Ensure and/or perform accurate, timely recording of data within the specific technical area of work (e.g. assistance programmes, food security and vulnerability assessments) and consistency of information presented to stakeholders.
• Work with programme teams and AP teams, WVM’s technical team to ensure that when and how food and cash programmes are being designed.
• Ensure of needs assessment and market assessment in targeted areas are conducted, analyzed and provide information to management team for decision.
• Support the capacity building of WV staff, partner staff, and national government within the specific technical area.
• Oversee and/or review the work of other support staff providing practical advice and guidance, to contribute to delivering objectives to agreed standards and deadlines.
• To provide effective specialized support and technical analyses to policy and programme activities that effectively meet food assistance needs.
• Proactively engage partners  in program development efforts, including supporting partner communications during proposal development processes and ensuring that the WVM’s partnership processes for proposal development are adhered to.
• Participate in negotiate with food and cash aid donors and support offices to ensure the contract terms are satisfactory to World Vision’s needs and ensuring that WV will be able to comply with requirements of all contracts.
• Maintain a comprehensive commodity tracking system and stand operation procedure of cash so as to ensure that all donor food and cash is secured.
• Coordinate partner narrative and finance reporting processes, including review and feedback.
• Coordinate and liaise with Senior Operation Manager and WV sector managers/ coordinators in order to develop an integrated program that includes food/cash as a strategic resource. Make representations with donors for funding of these proposals.

Encouragement, development and implementation of the program and personnel capacity building among project staff and volunteers

• Facilitate the collaborative development and delivery of the partner project support plan, ensuring that it appropriately addresses issues identified in the due diligence process, and coordinate with relevant program and support departments for the timely, quality implementation of the plan.
• Each food/cash program staff and program related agencies including volunteers, CBOs, village/camp level committee and partners are clearly understood and aware on program design and approach according to level of involvement through program orientation.
• Contribute in the process of continuous learning and actively share learning with other teams within the organization  
• Ensure each team has access to WV’s food/cash training materials including the commodity manual, food monitors manual, pest and rodent control manual, warehouse chart, cash manual and SOP.
• Develop partner, staff and volunteer capacity building strategy; conduct commodity management training, and Cash and Voucher Programme training as well as training on donor regulation with the help of WVM’s technical team.
• Ensure each team has access to WV’s food/cash training materials including the commodity manual, food monitors manual, pest and rodent control manual, warehouse chart, cash manual and SOP.
• Understand partner and staff capacity strengthening priorities ensuring WVM identifies opportunities and plans for support. Coordinate organizational development support to staff and partners.
• Process any complaints from the field and provide feedback on the steps taken to troubleshoot the problem in the back end and provide technical guidance.
• Work closely with the NO Response team members and other functions within WVM to promote mutual learning, support and accountability

Ensure that all the necessary quality and timely reports are prepared and sent to appropriate bodies

• Ensure the transaction of distribution report from all locations are captured in the database and produce the reports in a logical and systematic fashion which ensure quality and integrity of the data.
• Monitor the data as it is entered into databased and note any discrepancies and check these with the staff in field office and partner.
• Analyse report from all locations with project staff and note potential concerns. Highlight these concerns to the supervisor for further recommendation.
• Submit all reports to supervisor and donor in a timely manner.
• Make sure that all staff is conversant with WV requirements and donors standards in commodity handling and cash programme management.
• Contribute to collating lessons learned in relation to project staff.

Maintain effective networking and partnership with donors and stakeholder perform others activities

• Regularly attend food security sector and cash working group meeting or others meeting as required.
• Regularly attend implementing partner meeting at the WFP office. Represent to local authorities and government and partners’ representatives in professional manner as required.
• Participate in department meeting other staff forums such as operation forum
• Perform other tasks as may be occasionally required for quality of food and cash programming.
• Liaise with counterparts to ensure that all World Vision food/cash received is properly distributed and accounted for, providing guidance, advice and support whenever needed.

Ensure that ADP’s and partner’s good relationship and networking is maintained with community, government line offices, HO, donors, SO, and visitors

• Identify and recommend other needs in the area such as health care, additional food needs (school feeding,
• targeted feeding, etc), development activities, Provide detailed report to head office.
• Assist the ADP manager in all areas of commodity management matters which shall include a periodical
• review of the food security situation and food availability in the area.
• Attend and participate in daily / weekly chapel and devotional meetings.
• Perform any other duties that may be assigned by Management.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND EXPERIENCE

• University bachelor's degree in any discipline is essential
• At least 5 years’ experience in a related field preferably in commodity management and logistics is essential.
• Candidates with a good accounting background can also be considered.
• Ability to perform field assignments and willingness to travel for long periods of time in difficult terrain, harsh and demanding environment and circumstances.
• Candidates should also be willing to live and work in very difficult areas.
• Computer literacy would be an added qualification.
• Ability to communicate and build relationships with local partners, government, UN and other bodies and to work in co-operation with other members of the team.
• Amature Christian who shows a desire to serve humanity and to strengthen his/her relationship with the Lord.
• Proposal Writing Skills
• Good command over oral and written English and who can speak local language.
• Candidates should also be willing to live and work in difficult areas with limited amenities.

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only