JOB PURPOSE: To drive high quality humanitarian responses through Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and market-based programming (MBP) alongside other GHT advisors. To contribute to research and development that informs the humanitarian community internally and externally and proactively sharing learning and best practices in cash and markets. To identify opportunities for and provide technical support in cash and markets across sectors, including capacity building of Oxfam and partners.To lead the use of CVA and MBP across the confederation.
To, along with other advisors, leads and managers, promote safe programming in all humanitarian responses. Be accountable for ensuring community participation shapes programme decisions, actively seek a partnership approach and worked following feminist principles including strong awareness of power dynamics.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (Technical, Leadership, People and Resource management)
The Cash and Markets Advisor as part of the GHT Food and Economic Security (FES) unit will contribute to the development and evolution of the cash and voucher assistance (CVA) and market-based programming (MBP) agenda through promoting the approaches, leading technical development as required, providing technical support to and leadership of the use of MBP approaches across the GHT and confederation, including capacity building, and contribute to learning and influencing the humanitarian sector as a whole.
The advisor will provide technical leadership for Oxfam’s work on CVA and MBP. This will require (i) internal and external technical leadership of cash and markets, (ii) in collaboration with the program support team, provide country advisory support: project development, developing tools, capacity building and documenting lessons, (iii) external engagement and representation: strengthening Oxfam’s reputation and presence in cash and markets in the humanitarian space, and (iv) collaboration with colleagues to influence changes in the humanitarian system.
Key colleagues that this position will engage with include colleagues across the GHT, advisors within the FES team (emergency food security and vulnerable livelihoods, social protection, anticipatory action), and the wider Oxfam confederation including country teams and regions. The post will engage across Oxfam affiliates and Oxfam teams including policy, research, and development programming.
Management
people, budgets, assets, projects and decision making
- Development management of HSPs and others, such as consultants, as needed to contribute to the work of cash and markets.
- Support or lead recruitments as required.
- As necessary provide back-up support to the FES Advisor in the Program Support Team (PST) including working with country teams to strengthen programs, support planning and preparedness, and on proposal development as needed.
- Support scale up to Cat 2 and Cat 1 emergencies and ready to spend at least 6 weeks at a time in country as required for emergency response and strategic advisory support.
Analysis and Problem Solving
information, complexity, creativity and forward planning
- Monitor and analyse internal and external trends in the cash and markets sectors, with a particular focus on market-based programming, feminist approaches, community centric approaches, localization, and ensuring the quality of internal data collection and analysis.
- Monitor and evaluate Oxfam’s own cash programmes, feeding learning into policy development, guidance, tools and learning materials.
- Contribute to learning and ensure it is applied across the region and between regions.
- Raising awareness within regional and country line managements of the strategic and technical requirements for good design and implementation of cash and voucher assistance (CVA).
Impact
contacts, communication, advice, and consequences
- Provide technical support and leadership on the use of MBP approaches across the GHT and confederation.
- Provide practical advice and support to key programme staff to translate Oxfam’s strategies into effective humanitarian programming, influencing and strategy development, adapted to specific contexts and issues and supporting an enabling organisational environment.
- Advise programme staff and managers on improving humanitarian programme quality to implement cash and voucher assistance (CVA) in the different sectors covered by the responses, as well as promoting multipurpose cash, throughout the programme cycle (assessment, planning, implementation monitoring and evaluation), including market analysis.
EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & COMPETENCIES
Essential
- Knowledge and demonstrated commitment to Oxfam’s values, mission and work.
- Knowledge and understanding of global justice, social change, women’s rights and gender equality and commitment to delivering humanitarian work through feminist principles.
- Advanced education in finance, humanitarian, development, economics, sociology or other related field. Extensive relevant experience may substitute for education but not vice versa.
- Significant practical experience in multiple humanitarian emergencies in designing, setting up, and implementing CVA and MBP, including experience in carrying out market and multi-sectoral assessments.
- Extensive experience in providing advisory support to both senior managers and programme staff, and proven ability to facilitate learning, knowledge management, and high-quality programming.
- Experience and knowledge of the international humanitarian sector, including knowledge of humanitarian standards and guidelines related to CVA and MBP, and solid professional networks.
- Experience capacity building across different cultures and with people of varying educational backgrounds.
Desirable
- Knowledge of French, Spanish or Arabic
- Knowledge of emergency food security and livelihoods, social protection, anticipatory action, WASH, and/or protection programmes/structures
For complete details, please see the Job Profile in the application link.
