Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Adviser, U-CAN

Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Adviser, U-CAN SUBJECT TO FUNDING

Role location is Home-Based or MEEE Regional Office

The Opportunity

Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity to join our team to move forward an innovative project, which has the possibility to shift how SC responds to humanitarian crises around the world, starting with the current humanitarian situation in the Ukraine and neighbouring countries.

Save the Children (SC) aims to establish an integrated modular approach to respond to the current Ukraine crisis through the establishment of a Universal Cash Assistance Network and Child Protection (UCAN), integrated with additional key features that are Child-Sensitive, Holistic, Modular, Accessible, Decentralized, and Borderless. In line with SC’s Strategic Statement for the Ukraine conflict and 2022 Global Humanitarian Response Plan, the focus of the services and support will be to conflict-affected children and their families, including unaccompanied and separated children (UASC), children who have lived in institutional care, children with disabilities (CWD) and Roma children.

UCAN will be designed as a hub that enables crisis-affected individuals to either self-identify or be identified by SC through a range of access points (incl. a web portal, application, hotline, etc.), be rapidly verified, and receive immediate universal access to the full-range of services that SC provides, including referrals and two-way communication channels, to provide dignity and self-determination when families are facing life’s biggest challenges.

In line with this project, Save the Children is looking for a Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Adviser for UCAN, who will provide technical oversight and operational management of all CVA activities under UCAN. The CVA Advisor, UCAN will work closely with the Project Director and other team members to design and implement the CVA work plan and all other project deliverables, to bring the vision to life. The CVA Adviser will be expected to lead on the design of an integrated CVA offering with other sectoral technical advisers. Also, the CVA Adviser will be expected to lead on operationalizing the cash component in UCAN including leadership on the procurement and contracting of financial service providers, linking with response technical advisers and program managers, and establishing operational standards for the project. Lastly, the CVA adviser will be responsible for providing backstop support to the Ukraine and regional responses (including Poland and Romania).