Job Detail

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Cash & Markets Technical Advisor will use their in-depth contextual understanding, technical expertise, and relationship building skills to define and deliver our strategic ambition for Cash & Market-based Programming in Afghanistan. The role will lead strategy development and the technical design and implementation of high-quality programmes that deliver change for children in both emergency and development programming. The role supports national advocacy and influencing, while driving strategic partnerships for new business development.  It supports the design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems to demonstrate impact, while sharing learning across our programmes, teams and partners.  The role will work closely with operations colleagues (including supply chain) and with partners in Afghanistan CO, building their capacity and building ownership and agency of local organisations.  This role includes a focus on external representation on priority issues including market-based assistance, as well as shock-responsive social protection to ensure alignment and complementarity of SCI interventions in the current economic context. Given the current humanitarian emergency and cash liquidity challenges, the role holder may be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

1. Technical Leadership:

1. Provide technical leadership for Cash & Market-based Programming for the Country Office, and set the strategic approach in relation to the wider country strategy
2. Build capacity of national staff and partners in key technical approaches related to Cash & Market-based Programming across all child outcomes.

2. Ensuring Programme Quality (Design & Implementation):

1. Work closely with new business development colleagues to identify and pursue funding opportunities; engage with technical partners, donors and colleagues across Save the Children
2. Lead the technical scoping, planning, and design and proposal writing during new programme development, and ensure that we design and deliver high quality Cash & Market-based programmes for children, building on global best practice. Ensure that gender, disability and resilience considerations are reflected in our programme design and implementation.
3. Provide oversight and guidance to the programme implementation teams to ensure that thematic programme components are technically sound, implementation methods are consistent with national and global strategies, acknowledged good practice (e.g. Save the Children Common Approaches); and are likely to achieve scale, as well as equitable and sustainable results.
4. Work closely with the Supply Chain and Finance colleagues to identify feasible Financial Service Providers given the economic crisis; lead and ensure CVA specific risk assessments are conducted and kept up to date
5. Promote and monitor integrated programming in a way that increases overall impact of Cash & Market-based programmes at the community level.
6. Work with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) teams as well as with the relevant thematic Technical Advisors (i.e. WASH, Nutrition, Health, Education, Child Protection, and FSL) to conduct quality monitoring against international standards on MEAL for programmes integrating CVA, through participatory methodologies (including child-friendly and disability inclusive methodologies);
7. Contribute towards the creation of an organisational learning culture that promotes the use of data, evidence and analysis and understands its link to quality and accountable programming;
8. Undertake regular field visits to project sites; work with implementation teams to understand impacts, operational challenges, and continuously identify opportunities for learning and improvement.
9. Contribute to organisational learning on Cash & Market-based Programming when applied to and integrated with other sectors (Cash + approaches), ensuring that learning from our programmes is shared across the Country Office, our partners, and the national/subnational Cash Working Group, as well as with colleagues in the wider regional and global Cash & Market community in Save the Children.
10. Participate in the development of emergency preparedness plans, in CVA and market-specific assessments (including gender analysis and disability situation analysis, using SC assessment processes and tools), as well as in the design and delivery of emergency response and recovery strategies. Ensure synergies across thematic and functional teams, data and programme design.  
11. Monitor trends in order to ensure early action; and lead technical design and implementation and technical coordination of humanitarian responses

Networking & External Engagement:

1. In alignment with Country Office strategy and leadership, engage in strategic positioning with donors, partners and government in-country, and ensure that Save the Children is a partner of choice in Cash & Market-based Programming.
2. Ensure that Save the Children is influencing and learning from others through national technical coordination and networking bodies such as clusters and the national and sub-national Cash Working Groups.

3. Represent the program with external stakeholders including donors, partner agencies, etc. as required.
4. Ensure the quality, clarity and consistency of technical components of internal and external reports (e.g. programme reports, sit-reps, internal updates), working closely with awards, programme implementation and communications colleagues as needed.
5. Leverage and liaise with technical colleagues from across Save the Children, including technical working groups and centres of excellence, ensuring that learning from the Country Office is shared with others and global lessons brought back.