Cash Technical Advisor, Latin America

**Requisition ID**: req42393

**Job Title**:Cash Technical Advisor, Latin America

**Sector**:Economic Recovery & Livelihood

**Employment Category**: Regular

**Employment Type**: Full-Time

**Open to Expatriates**: No

**_ Fluency in both English & Spanish required._**

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**Background/IRC Summary**:
The International Rescue Committee (IRC), responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people survive, recover and gain control of their future. The IRC is working to improve the safety, health, education, economic well-being, and power of people in crisis affected places.

The Economic Recovery and Development Technical Unit (ERD TU) is responsible for supporting the development, implementation, and monitoring of client-centered programs such as, but not limited to, cash and voucher assistance (CVA), rural & agricultural livelihoods, and enterprise development and employment promotion. The TU’s technical assistance to this wide variety of programs ensures quality and use of evidence-based practices; promotes innovation, diversity, equity, and inclusion; and drives data-based management and decision making.

**Job Overview/Summary**:
**Specific Responsibilities**:
The Cash TA will spend at least 80% of their time delivering technical assistance in-person and remotely to country colleagues focused on CVA and ERD programming, CVA across all sectors as well as general economic program design, implementation and learning support. The TA’s country portfolio will primarily focus on IRC programs across Latin America, with potential support for other regions. This is a primarily programs-focused position with the central responsibility concentrated on program quality. It is expected that the TA will travel approximately 40% of the total time to country programs to support program quality and capacity strengthening in person. This may also mean deployments in emergency response and may be on short notice. The remaining approximate 20% is spent on internal strategic work to improve scale and quality of cash programming globally, at the discretion of their supervisors. The Technical Advisors’ specific responsibilities are as follows:
**A.**
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**Ensure program quality**:
Contribute to the design, development, and implementation of high-quality ERD programs and CVA activities within other sectors (such as health, education, protection, and governance):

- Support assessments on basic needs, food security, livelihoods, rapid market and labor markets, CVA feasibility, including financial services provider, and protection and gender-sensitive assessments.
- Ensure programs are in line with the IRC’s key theories of change for ERD and CVA, adapted to the context, selecting interventions based on the best available evidence and the country program’s Strategic Action Plan.
- Ensure programs are responsive to clients’ needs and preferences, as well as incorporating strong components of promoting equality, inclusion, local partnership and Do No Harm.
- Provide inputs on the design of theories of change, monitoring plans and log frames, including indicator selection.
- Promote IRC’s cash ambitions, including the use of digital payments, strong operational support systems, and alignment of CVA programs with social protection systems.
- Represent IRC in the Latin America Regional Cash Working Group and channel information between the working group and IRC’s country teams as well as the Regional Leaderships
- Ensure sound analysis of context, capacity, and opportunities to input into country Strategy Action Plans (SAPs).

**B.**
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**Engaging in business development to contribute to high quality concept notes and proposals**:

- Review technical quality of ERD project proposals and other sectors’ proposals with CVA and/or livelihoods components.
- Input into go / no go decisions on proposals and on budgets required for project delivery.
- During staffing gaps, write technical narratives of proposals and provide support on monitoring and evaluation aspects of ERD projects.
- When requested, engage with donors and do outreach in support of country programs.

**C.**
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**Direct support to IRC country teams**:

- Regularly exchange with country level program staff about ERD and other cash programming while providing expert advice and mentorship.
- Offer practical and timely advice to improve ERD and cash program quality and scale, overcoming obstacles, staying within IRC’s best practices and policies etc.
- Support country teams to contextualize and adapt global resources.

**D.**
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**Regional Cash focal point**:

- Keep up to date with contextual analyses and crisis data in Latin America, such as the IPC Food Insecurity data and other sector and country trends related to CVA and food insecurity.
- Share cross-context knowledge and learning across the IRC Latin America country teams and facilitate exchange between the teams.

**E.**
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**Support or lead cash strategic projects to improve IRC