The role of Advisor, Cash, Livelihoods, and Child Poverty is to provide critical technical guidance and support to Save the Children’s Country Offices (COs). The core objective is to ensure the strategic planning, high-quality implementation, and rigorous monitoring of sector programmes focusing on Cash & Voucher Assistance (CVA), livelihoods, and child poverty reduction, while ensuring strict alignment with donor requirements and organizational standards for programmatic excellence. The role requires significant international travel (up to 40%) to support priority countries.
Principal Accountabilities
- Act as first line of support to COs on the planning, implementation, and monitoring of sector programmes, ensuring alignment with donor requirements and organisational standards for programmatic excellence.
- Provide proactive technical support to country teams, empowering them to deliver high-quality, inclusive sector interventions that meet the diverse needs of affected populations.
- Collaborate with country teams on the development of proposals and strategies, supporting the integration of global sector priorities in relevant programme designs and implementations.
- Lead Cash Child Poverty and Livelihoods Situational assessments and Response analysis processes to design appropriate Cash Child Poverty and Livelihoods programming.
- Promote and monitor integrated programming in a way that increases overall impact of Cash Child Poverty and Livelihoods programming at the community level, including leading and/or supporting the development of Cash plus approaches for Nutrition, Child Protection and Educational outcomes.
- 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.
- Travel and deploy as needed (up to 40%) to support priority countries, offering hands-on guidance and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation in sector interventions.
- Act as a liaison between country offices and the global team, facilitating the sharing of best practices, lessons learned, and resources to enhance the overall impact and sustainability of programmes.
- Ensure compliance with Save the Children’s policies on anti-harassment, diversity, equity, and inclusion, fostering a work environment that values respect, inclusiveness, and dignity for all staff and program participants.
Experience and Skills
Essential Technical Proficiency:
- Significant years of experience of working internationally in Cash & Voucher Assistance in emergency and development settings, for a broad range of institutional donors and sectors.
- Previous experience on management of operational aspects of cash and voucher interventions.
- Extensive experience providing proactive and technical support to country response teams, empowering them to deliver high-quality programs and inclusive services.
- Demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional development and staying updated with the latest trends and best practices in relevant sectors.
- Experience in the application of methodologies to calculate cash/voucher amounts for sectoral outcomes (e.g. cost of the diet, HEA) as well as for multi-purpose cash transfers; experience in conducting feasibility and risk analysis for CVA.
- Familiar with Sphere Standards (Handbook released in 2018).
Capacity Building and Mentoring:
- Considerable experience in capacity building and mentoring on technical approaches.
Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills
- Strong ability to analyse complex data, review programme performance metrics and translate findings into actionable improvements.
Technical and Interpersonal Skills:
- Extensive experience in program design and proposal writing, including proven experience in writing successful donor proposals.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation, and coaching.
Support in High-Pressure Environments:
- Experience in humanitarian programmes, including direct experience working in response settings.
- Proficient experience in understanding and working within the humanitarian architecture.
- Ability to travel and work independently, occasionally in challenging environments and with short notice (up to 40%).
Diversity and Inclusion:
- Commitment and experience in fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment, adhering to policies on anti-harassment, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Team Collaboration:
- Ability to act as a liaison between country offices and the global team, facilitating best practices, lessons learned, and resources sharing.
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- A post-graduate degree in International Development, Economics, Social Policy, or a related field. A university degree combined with professional experience could be considered as a substitute for a post-graduate degree.
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