Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Officer – SDC at Save the Children

JOB TITLE: Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Officer – SDC

JOB DETAILS:
Program Design and Implementation:

• Implement CVA and peace programs that support durable solutions, including livelihoods restoration, housing, and social reintegration, peace, access to justice and other specialized protection services.
• Conduct feasibility assessments, market analysis, and risk assessments for cash-based interventions.
• Lead beneficiary selection processes in collaboration with the project stakeholders, protection, livelihoods, and community engagement teams.
• Oversee registration, verification, and cash/voucher distribution in line with organizational policies and donor guidelines and referral to other specialized services.

Stakeholder Coordination and Partnerships:

• Collaborate with government agencies, financial service providers, and humanitarian actors to ensure program success.
• Represent the organization at inter-agency coordination meetings related to CVA, Durable Solutions, Protection, and Livelihoods clusters.
• Working closely with partners to support the planning, coordination, and implementation of community-driven peacebuilding activities.
• Build and maintain partnerships with local and international NGOs for integrated service delivery.

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting:

• Monitor CVA and peace project implementation through field visits and data collection tools.
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting on project achievements, challenges, and lessons learned.
• Lead post-distribution monitoring (PDM) and feedback collection processes.
• Contribute to market/price monitoring to inform program adaptation
• Ensure data on protection risk is gathered and analysed for evidence-based programming. 

Compliance and Risk Management:

• Ensure compliance with donor requirements, internal SCI’ policies, and international standards (e.g., Sphere Standards, CaLP guidelines).
• Mitigate risks related to cash distribution, including fraud prevention and beneficiary safety.
• Maintain data privacy and protection for all program participants.

Capacity Building and Training:

• Facilitate training partners staff and community members on CVA and peace program   implementation, and monitoring.
• Facilitate cash utilization and pre-cash disbursement session to project participants. 
• Assist in establishing robust accountability mechanisms, ensuring the voices of project participants are considered in project adaptation/design and implementation.
• Conduct periodic community feedback and stakeholder meetings to gather input, feedback, and insights on the program, enhancing community engagement, and promoting transparency and accountability.
• Capacity sharing with government institutions and partners such as the legal institutions to promote child rights. 

Safeguarding:

• Ensure risk assessments are done before targeting and delivery of cash.
• Support the delivery option analysis with sufficient context information to select safest option.
• Support in ensuring Accountability information sharing activities includes safeguarding
• Support in ensuring all project partners staff and volunteers are trained on safeguarding.

General:

• Comply with SCI policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
• Undertake any other tasks within the CVA, Peace and market-based programming function as the line manager requires, adapting to project needs and challenges. 

Qualifications

• Minimum of B.Sc or equivalent qualification in, Bachelor’s Degree in Development Studies, Agronomy, Economics, Business Administration, Accountancy, Social Sciences, or any related field.  

Experience and Skills:
Essential:

• At least 3-5 years of experience in cash and voucher programming, peace and justice, livelihoods, or durable solutions in humanitarian contexts.
• Proven experience in program implementation, monitoring, and reporting.
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to effectively use Microsoft Office package.
• Good personal organizational skills, including time management, being flexible and the ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of a team.
• Ability to develop and administer market / price collection tools.
• Experience in report writing and documentation.
• Fluency in English and Local Language, spoken and written.
• Experience in knowledge and use of basic CVA tool for quality CVA delivery.

Desirable:

• Good Knowledge of the local area (Yobe) and local language (Hausa).

Behaviours (Values in Practice):
Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, take responsibility for their personal development and encourage their team to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future-orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity.

HOW TO APPLY
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