Background/IRC Summary: The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to affected people. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home. IRC has been working in Pakistan for approximately 40 years, managing and delivering large, complex programs to meet the needs in health, education, safeguarding, environmental health, and livelihoods for displaced, poor, and disaster-affected communities. IRC works in partnership with local government and non-governmental organizations and is currently working across the country.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is responding to the ongoing flooding across Pakistan, which has already killed over 1,300 people and destroyed more than a million homes. IRC emergency response teams have been deployed to provide immediate assistance across Pakistan where more than 33 million people have been affected by the flooding.

Through its flood response, IRC has reached around 46,299 people affected by the floods in the country by establishing medical camps, Women & Child Safe Spaces, and distributing food, non-food items, Cash grants, and hygiene kits. These relief efforts are sponsored by eminent global donors such as European Union Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid (ECHO), German Federal Foreign Office, The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Irish Aid, Malal Fund, as well as IRC’s internal funds

Job Overview/Summary:

International Rescue Committee (IRC) is implementing Flood Emergency Response Projects in partnership with other local organizations. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking a dynamic and self-motivated individual for the position of Cash Program Manager for flood response. In response to the flood 2022 in Pakistan, the IRC is implementing an Economic Recovery and Development (ERD) program focused on flood-affected people and their families to meet their basic needs and better manage the impact of shocks. The Cash Program Manager will be responsible for the implementation of the unconditional and conditional (CFW) cash program components of the ERD Program, under the overall leadership of the Senior Response Coordinator. The Cash Program Manager will represent IRC at the field level within Cash Program-related coordination fora, to ensure the smooth implementation of quality programming.

RESPONSIBILITIES:                 

  • Program Planning & Implementation
  • Responsible for the planning and implementation of the unconditional and conditional (CFW) cash projects
  • Prepare and maintain/update detailed work-plan(s), spending plan, budget vs actual that support and achieve the following project component according to timeline and completion date:
  • the unconditional-cash project
  • the cash-for-work project
  • Provide direction and monitor
  • Cash program staff
  • Local implementing partner
  • in their implementation of the work plan and quality of technical activities, share relevant information and direction to improve quality and achieve timelines
  • Lead field implementation of the household’s assessment surveys for all ERD beneficiaries, ensuring that the most vulnerable households are selected, and work closely with the M&E Manager for the set-up of beneficiary databases
  • Ensure distribution for all cash assistance beneficiaries (unconditional cash grants, cash for work, vocational training), including by making sure that proper documentation is prepared according to CROPS/SOPs
  • Ensure that beneficiaries receive timely and quality post-cash distribution services (visits, following up on complaints, questions, referrals, etc.
  • Specific duties for Cash for Work
  • Consult with local authorities, communities, and NGOs to identify in a participatory manner the most appropriate and needed cash-for-work schemes
  • Draft the cash-for-work Standard Operating Procedures
  • Ensure that beneficiary targets are met, within project deadlines

Program Monitoring & Reporting

  • Undertake weekly field monitoring visits to assess progress and identify technical quality issues and/or other implementation issues, provide solutions and implement modifications as required
  • Support the M&E Manager in the development of the M&E framework and tools related to the Cash Program component
  • Coordinate with the M&E Manager for the organization of the M&E team field visits, by timely sharing information on ongoing activities and plans
  • Provide inputs for SitReps and regular reports for IRC donors on grant activities, progress, indicators, and achievements as specified in grant agreements and reporting schedules.

Partner Management

  • Serve as the main focal person in the field for the IRC’s implementing staff and partners; maintain respectful and constructive relations, and ensure regular meetings and ongoing coordination
  • Regularly monitor performance of the Partner to achieve the set project’s objectives; provide technical support and guidance; share relevant information and direction to improve quality and achieve timelines
  • Assist the Skills Development/ERD Coordinator in reviewing partner narrative reports and provide advice and guidance to improve accuracy and quality as required.

Coordination & Representation

  • Under the guidance of the Skills Development/ERD Coordinator, represent the IRC in cash working group, develop and update the 3w and 5w matrixes and share information with national and international NGOs, as well as UN agencies, as appropriate
  • Work closely and coordinate with IRC logistics, finance, and grant staff to ensure timely and compliant program activities and expenditures, including active participation in grant opening/closing and review meetings

Other

  • Consistently and proactively monitor/assess the safety and security of the Cash Program team; promptly reporting concerns or incidents to IRC management and liaising with Local implementing partners, community leaders, and other external parties as required to maintain/enhance the security environment for the ERD program
  • Other duties as assigned by the Senior Response Coordinator

Professional Standards

All IRC staff are required to adhere to THE IRC Way Standards for Professional Conduct and the IRC country employment policies.

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to: Senior Response Coordinator Position directly supervises:  None

Indirect Reporting: Skills Development/ERD Coordinator

Other Internal and/or external contacts: describe the nature of departments or groups the position influences or requires support from to accomplish objectives.

Job Requirement:

  • Master of Arts or Science in Social Science, Economics, development studies, Agriculture, Food Security, Public Health, or related field
  • 4-5 years of experience leading teams in a humanitarian context, preferably during an emergency.
  • 5 years of technical experience implementing cash transfer, cash for work, or cash voucher programs.
  • Additional technical experience in micro-enterprise development, agricultural labor market strengthening, and value-chain or market analysis is highly preferred.  
  • Experience facilitating technical training and workshops related to emergency response, food security, and Cash Program.
  • Proven abilities in managing teams, monitoring staff performance, and providing technical support and coaching to field teams.
  • Prior experience in developing program implementation work plans, data collection and analysis, and program reporting
  • Strong ability to organize work, meet deadlines, maintain composure, prioritize work under pressure, coordinate multiple tasks, and maintain attention to detail
  • Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills, creativity, and flexibility
  • INGO experience preferred
  • Personal qualities: Works well in and promotes teamwork, comfortable in a multi-cultural environment, flexible, and able to handle pressure well.

The IRC Core Values and Commitments.

The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons.

IRC is committed to ensuring that IRC staff is suitable to work with children and have the knowledge s/he needs to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child Safeguarding Policy.

Level of interaction with children: Less contact with children

IRC ensures that its staff must actively practice the roles and responsibilities related to client responsiveness, and accountability to people in affected communities and must have competencies to solicits and listens to feedback and other’s perspectives, responds to feedback with maturity and sensitivity and takes appropriate decisions and makes changes to behavior or actions in response to feedback.

IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our organizational mission. As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs. Our organizational policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this commitment.

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کم از کم تعلیم:
ماسٹرز
ڈگری کا عنوان:
Master of Arts or Science in Social Science, Economics, development studies, Agriculture, Food Security, Public Health, or related field
کیریئر کی سطح:
تجربہ کار پیشہ ور
کم از کم تجربہ:
5 سال
اس سے پہلے درخواست دیجیۓ:
ستمبر ۲٦, ۲۰۲۲
تاریخِ اِشاعت:
ستمبر ۲۰, ۲۰۲۲

International Rescue Committee

غیر سرکاری تنظیم / سماجی خدمات · 301-600 ملازمین - اسلام آباد

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a leading global relief and development organization, established in 1933, and currently working in 42 countries worldwide. IRC has been working in Pakistan for over 30 years, and manages & delivers large, complex programs to meet needs in health, education, protection and livelihoods for displaced, poor & conflict-affected communities. IRC works in partnership with local Government and non-Governmental organizations and currently works in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces.

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