Deadline: 18 November, 2020
Location: Maiduguri, Nigeria
Save the Children is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Cash Transfer Officer.
The organisation works to ensure children around the world get health care, food and shelter as well as learning and child protection services.
Responsibilities
- Assist in sensitisation of local government structures, communities and traditional authorities on the targeting criteria and identification and registration of the beneficiaries
- Help oversee delivery of regular cash transfers and ensure the resolution of any problems
- Assist in training of any Save the Children or partner staff on cash transfer programming
- Actively participate in relevant field assessments to identify the beneficiaries’ needs and viable business opportunities, ensuring assessment findings are documented and that all assessments include a specific analysis of children’s needs
- Organise the training of the cash beneficiaries on the identified needs
- Conduct the implementation and monitoring of all activities, at field level, as laid out in the plan of action
- Assist in the registration of target families, ensuring that the data is collected and is recorded appropriately
- Coordinate activities with local authorities, international community members, other implementing actors and partners at the local level
- Compile and submit regular project reports and updates
- Conduct vulnerability mapping with community representatives in order to identify the most vulnerable out-of-school, crisis-affected girls aged six to 14
- Develop strategies to address the economic barriers impeding the girls’ access to education in collaboration with the community representatives and the families of the girls
- Implement cash transfer programmes, conditional on the enrolment of girls in school, to allow families to cover their basic needs
- Facilitate the provision of livelihoods kits for agricultural or income generating activities in order to enable the ability to start up businesses that will strengthen the households economically and enable them retain their children in school beyond the lifespan of the project
- Strengthen the state-level household economic strengthening systems where gaps in capacity exist
Requirements
- B.Sc/HND in Social Policy, Social Sciences, International Development, Economics, or a related discipline
- Three years of post NYSC relevant experience
- Demonstrated success in community resilience programmes and technically sound in-cash transfers, capacity-building and other cash transfer components
- Excellent communication skills, calm, with a good sense of working in intercultural environment
- Excellent Microsoft Office applications skills
- Highly diplomatic and emotionally intelligent with strong oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrates a strong commitment and passion for the realisation of women’s and girls’ rights and gender equality
- Knowledge of women’s rights and gender equality and willingness to strengthen own capacity in this area
- Able to effectively advocate change and influence others
- Knowledge of and adherence to Save the children Code of Conduct, and understanding of other international development guidelines
To apply and for more information, click here.
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