Position Summary
Successful candidate will join the CaLP team in the Horn of Africa region. S/he will focus on delivering existing commitments, maintaining effective engagement with a wide range of actors and the wider community, exploring opportunities for further engagement within the scope of the agreed strategy and plans as well as developing new funding applications.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Lead the planning and management of training courses in the region.
- Manage relationships with certified trainers and Training Partner Organizations.
- Occasionally facilitate or co-facilitate courses (subject to relevant skills and experience).
- Actively promote the use of capacity building resources.
- Contribute to further development of overall capacity building plans by providing feedback on changing training needs and interests.
- Convene Cash Transfer Programming (CTP) actors to collaborate and share knowledge, including planning and delivery of webinars and learning events.
- Promote the use of CTP standards and guidance, exploring the option of dedicated learning events on new standards.
- Prepare relevant synthesis reports akin to others generated by the East Africa team.
- Plan and manage the development of case studies or other learning products.
- Explore ways of strengthening dissemination activities to enhance the uptake of resources.
- Lead and support the delivery of existing commitments related to gender and CTP.
- Support the strengthening of coordination capacity at national and regional level.
- Liaise with Cash Working Group leads in multiple countries on a regular basis.
- Arrange meetings of CWG leads.
- Engage with government bodies, clusters and other humanitarian systems to promote and enhance the coordinated use of cash.
- Contribute to regional perspectives & global policy debates & at the same time disseminating information on global policy debates.
- In collaboration with relevant staff, support the development and implementation of a regional communications plans to aid the dissemination of CTP evidence and the work more broadly.
- Support the Administration & Communications Officer to ensure East Africa information bulletins are regularly produced.
- Contribute to the updating of the website.
- Lead an ‘audit’ of member engagement in the region.
- Develop and implement plans to support enhanced engagement with all members.
- Develop and manage ‘member only’ or ‘member priority’ events.
- Represent the organization with members, non-member, donors and other external stakeholders as relevant.
- Explore opportunities to promote the work of the organization in appropriate national and regional fora.
- Manage grants and budgets as agreed with the Regional Representative.
- Ensure internal monitoring and reporting systems are continuously updated.
- Develop new funding applications to support the organization’s work in the region.
- Produce high quality and timely donor reports related to any regional grants and contribute to global reports as relevant.
- Work with all staff (locally and remotely) to ensure effective delivery of agreed plans.
- Contribute to the work of the whole team within agreed priorities, capacities and plans.
- Ensure that the organization complies with the procedures & processes of its host agencies and donors.
- Explore and respond to new opportunities that emerge for the organization to advance its mission, in line with capacities, annual plan and strategy.
Required Qualifications
- Over four (4) years’ humanitarian experience in the areas for cash programming and food security.
- Programme and grant management experience.
- Understanding of Cash Transfer Programming in humanitarian contexts.
- Knowledge of the international humanitarian system and understanding of some of the key debates related to cash transfers programming.
- Strong communication/donor relation experience.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships.
- Written and verbal communication skills in French is desired.
- Skills and experience of facilitating training and/or events.
- Experience of working in a network environment.
- Fluency in English, both written and verbal
- Understanding of gender programming. Strong coordination experience.
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