Cash Grant Officer

Background/IRC Summary: The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is responding to the ongoing flooding across Pakistan, which has already caused 1,300 people to lose their life and destroyed more than a million homes. IRC emergency response teams have been deployed to provide immediate assistance across Pakistan where more than 33 million people have been affected by the flooding. Through its flood response, IRC has reached around 46,299 people affected by the floods in the country by establishing medical camps, Women & Child Safe Spaces, and distributing food, non-food items, Cash grants, and hygiene kits. These relief efforts are sponsored by eminent global donors such as European Union Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid (ECHO), German Federal Foreign Office (GFFO), The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Irish Aid, Malala Fund, Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC) as well as IRC’s internal funds.

Job Overview/Summary: Major Responsibilities:

• Oversee and directly manage livelihood/Cash Transfer component of the Project in the provision of technical support, development of narrative and financial reporting in line with donor requirements.
• Support the Project Team to ensure that the work plan is implemented to the highest quality standards.
• Support the project team and partners to ensure efficient and effective project implementation, timely completion of high-quality work plans, accurate reports, and other mandated deliverables are achieved.
• Working closely with other team members and Consortium partners, the Officer takes the lead in community engagement aspects of the project, as well as beneficiary identification and selection processes.
• Contribute and actively participate in internal and sector coordination meetings.
• Oversee cash transfers and support monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning activities (MEAL) including post-distribution monitoring.
• Conduct assessment of needs and capacities of community for cash based interventions
• Follow procedures and guidelines in implementation of cash based interventions, and support in developing learning for improved cash strategies
• Responsible for day to day activity implementation (with cash based interventions being a core activity) through efficient and effective ways
• Monitor and document livelihood and cash activities, ensuring all processes, results and lessons learnt are documented and shared within the sector and with Management.
• Conduct regular field visits to review and report on progress of Livelihoods/Cash interventions. Participate in FSL and cash coordination meetings, liaising with Consortium partners, local counterparts in other NGOs to ensure coordination and collaboration among all local humanitarian actors .

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to: Emergency Response Manager Position directly supervises: None.

The IRC Core Values and Commitments.

The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons.

IRC is committed to ensuring that IRC staff is suitable to work with children and have the knowledge s/he needs to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child Safeguarding Policy.

Level of interaction with children: Less contact with children

IRC ensures that its staff must actively practice the roles and responsibilities related to client responsiveness, accountability to people in affected communities and must have competencies to solicits and listens to feedback and other’s perspectives, responds to feedback with maturity and sensitivity and takes appropriate decisions and makes changes to behavior or actions in response to feedback.

IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our organizational mission. As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs. Our organizational policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this commitment.

Women candidates, ethnic minorities and differently abled persons are highly encouraged to apply.