Cash Transfer Monitor

Position: Cash Transfer Monitor

Responsible To: Sr. Officer CCT

Directly Managing: Cash Transfer Assistants

Location: Thatta

Start Date: ASAP

Context and Background

Merlin is the UK’s leading international health charity, sending medical experts to the frontline of global emergencies and staying on to build lasting health systems. We entered Pakistan in 2005 after an earthquake in Jammu Kashmir left 75,000 dead and hundreds of thousands homeless. Since then we have expanded to provide a wide range of primary health care, malaria control, family planning, post abortion care and nutrition services to over 2.2 million people. We currently support 110 health facilities and ten hospitals, and have scaled up in times of emergency including the devastating floods of 2010 and 2011.

In Sindh, the province was worst affected by the floods of 2010 and hit again by severe rains in 2011, Merlin is providing health, nutrition and RH services in district Thatta, Badin, Dadu and Tharparkar. This includes treatment centres for communicable diseases like diarrhea, feeding programmes for severely and moderately malnourished children and vaccinations to protect children under the age of 5 from diseases such as polio.

In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, we are working in the Swat Valley, Peshawar, Buner and Nowshera districts – areas which are still confronting political instability, widespread militancy and displacement in wake of the conflict in neighbouring Afghanistan. Merlin has provided emergency healthcare to internally displaced people (IDPs) in Jalozai camp since 2009, which were scaled up at the start of 2012 following an influx of IDPs from Khyber Agency. As people return to the Swat valley, we are working with government of Pakistan to strengthen the country’s health system, including training lady health workers to provide family planning advice in an effort to stem maternal mortality

Main Purpose of position

Under the supervision of the Senior Officer CCT & PC, the Cash transfer monitors will be responsible to monitor and support the Conditional cash transfer process/activities at community, facility and UC levels in the CCT component of EU Food Security & Thematic Program.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the CCT Component staff in the implementation of the activities related to the transfer of cash to the beneficiaries in 21 coastal area union councils of district Thatta.
• Support and monitor the field teams during the identification process and assessments of the cash grant and other beneficiaries of the project.
• Monitor the Cash Transfer Assistants while registering the beneficiaries, preparing the payments sheets of the beneficiaries for payments through the banks.
• Support the CCT staff for record keeping and manage documentation of all the beneficiaries, transactions and other related documents.
• Support and educate the community for proper utilization of cash grants.
• Keep close coordination with the focal persons from Health Department, LHW Program, Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI), Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) and NADRA.
• Ensure the transparency throughout the process of conditional cash transfer payments.
• Regular meetings with Cash Transfer Assistants, Nutrition Assistants, LHWs, CRPs, and community notables to discuss field progress and challenges.
• Support the CCT senior officer during field visits in monitoring the activities.
• Ensure validity, reliability, timeliness and quality of all information while submitting to the banks for final payments.
• Producing monitoring reports on regular basis or as per request of line manager.
• Perform other related duties and tasks as appropriately assigned by line manager.

Job Specification:

• Masters degree preferably in Business Administration, Economics, Statistics, Social Sciences or equivalent with combination of qualifications and practical experience in relevant field.
• Minimum 2 years of field related experience with an NGO preferably livelihood projects.
• Ability & flexibility to understand the cultural and political environment and to work well with other stakeholders.
• Willingness and strong commitment to travel in the remote field, adapt hardship and work in a team.
• Good communicator in English, Urdu and Sindhi.
• Good report writing and documentation skills.
• Excellent computer skills; skilled in MS Office including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

Desirable

• Previous experience within a humanitarian aid organization.
• Experience of working in emergencies and humanitarian programmes.
• Have the confidence, initiative, patience and integrity to work independently.
• Knowledge of local area and Sindhi language.
• Should be flexible in working days and timings