Country CASH Coordinator

Danish Refugee Council, one of the world’s leading humanitarian NGOs working in 40 countries worldwide, is currently looking for a highly qualified Country Cash Coordinator to be based in Kyiv.

DRC has been operating in Ukraine for more than 10 years with emergency and durable solution interventions for assisting IDPs, returnees, host communities, and conflict-affected populations. With the outbreak of the conflict in February 2022, DRC has shifted its programming to emergency response to meet the urgent needs of conflict-affected population in the country. Current DRC programming is focusing on protection activities, such as protection monitoring, information dissemination, individual protection assistance, mine victim assistance, and legal aid. DRC is also planning to add to the ongoing emergency protection response activities, such as GBV prevention and response, psychosocial assistance (PSS), and community-based protection. In addition to protection programming, DRC is currently implementing Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MPCA), NFI and Food distributions, Shelter & WASH interventions, Economic Recovery, Humanitarian Demining and Explosive Ordnance Risk Education. The organization has 6 offices in the country.

About the job

DRC is managing its operations in Ukraine through its country office in Kyiv, and it has established or establishing operation offices in Chernivtsi, L´viv, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Dnipro, and Poltava. The Country Cash Coordinator will be in charge of coordinating DRC’s cash programming country wide.

The position will include the technical management of 50 national staff.

Main responsibilities

• Design, coordination, technical leadership, and supervision of cash activities in the country.
• Design, revise, and develop MPCA standard operational procedures.
• Coordinate, plan and monitor all cash related activities.
• Ensure the highest quality of the sectoral interventions involving cash, and the coherence between all cash projects, ongoing and proposed, according to the overall DRC emergency strategy.
• Take leadership of the project programs in terms of high quality and timely deliveries, narrative reporting and financial overviews, close cooperation with donors, Government counterparts and coordination mechanism at national level.
• Lead capacity building programs for cash staff in cooperation with area/base managers.
• Formalize and develop program related operational tools and training modules.
• Provide inputs for monthly, quarterly, and annual donor reports.
• Provide overall budget supervision, financial management and expenses supervision for the program activities, including compliance with minimum DRC and donor requirements.

Program development and strategy

• Represent DRC via active participation in the Cash Working Group at national level and in engaging the Collaborative Cash Delivery (CCD) Network’s Support Hub in-country.
• Oversee knowledge sharing across teams ensuring that monitoring and evaluation results are understood and used to improve cash programs.
• Drive the development and growth of the cash programs within the DRC program objectives and feed into country-wide overall strategy development.
• Ensure close cooperation with donors, government counterparts and coordination mechanisms on-site and in synergy with other DRC´s programming.
• Provide technical guidance, support, and training for all cash staff.
• Develop and/or review all cash indicators.
• Ensure that SOPs for all cash activities align with DRC country strategy and sector best practices.
• Conduct regular field missions to all field offices to provide technical and operational guidance, support, and supervision of the implementation of cash activities in the field.
• Conduct monthly technical meetings with senior cash field staff to ensure coherence with SOPs and cash strategy.

Accountability and reporting

• Develop and monitor relevant accountability initiatives within the cash program as well as strengthen the effort to document the impact of activities.
• Ensure compliance with internal and external reporting requirements.

People Management.

• Technically supervise all cash managers and Team Leaders.

• Lead the recruitment of all field Cash senior staff, including coaching and capacity development.

• Conduct, develop, and monitor relevant accountability initiatives within the cash program as well as strengthen the effort to document the impact of activities.

• Ensure compliance with internal and external reporting requirements.

• Lead meetings with Cash managers and Team Leaders to share best practices between the field offices to ensure the highest quality of the response.

Coordination:

• Ensure the coordination with relevant actors at national level.
• Ensure internal coordination with relevant units in relation to cash programming.

As Coordinator the post-holder is responsible for the following:

• Accountable for achieving DRC’s strategic goals and objectives within the sector of responsibility.
• Technical aspect of cash programming including capacity building of the staff.

Roles reporting to this position Reports to

Technically – all cash staff in country. Head of Programmes

Required experience and competencies.

• Minimum 4-6 years of proven international experience in NGO projects, ideally in cash programmes.

• Proven experience in implementing Cash programming in complex emergency contexts.

• At least 3 years’ experience with people management.

• Experience in carrying out humanitarian interventions through and in coordination with implementing partner organizations is an asset.

• Proficiency in English is compulsory.

• Fluency in Ukrainian or Russian is an asset.

• Excellent writing and editing skills for external audiences (including governments and donors).

• Previous experience with DRC is an important asset.

• Experience in producing high-quality technical material (training material, program tools, proposals, strategic documents, etc.).

• Experience in working with Monitoring, Evaluation and learning in Cash programs.

Desirable

• Calm and diplomatic in nature.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and to meet deadlines.
• Effective team-player – problem solver.
• Previous experience with DRC in emergency context.

All DRC roles require the post-holder to master DRC’s core competencies:

• Striving for excellence: Focusing on reaching results while ensuring efficient processes.
• Collaborating: Involving relevant parties and encouraging feedback.
• Taking the lead: Taking ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.
• Communicating: Listening and speaking effectively and honestly.
• Demonstrating integrity: Acting in line with DRC’s vision and values.

Required education.

• Master’s degree in social sciences, finance, or any other relevant field.
• Or Bachelor’s degree in relevant fields with at least 8 years’ working experience in similar positions related to cash implementation modalities.

We offer.

Contract length: 10-months renewable depending on performance and funding.

Level: F1

Designation of Duty Stations: Kyiv – Non-Family duty station – Unaccompanied

Start date: 01/10/2022

Salary and conditions will be in accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for Expatriates; please refer to www.drc.ngo under Vacancies.