Senior Manager - Collaborative Cash Delivery Platform
Save the Children International

 


 


 Vacancy No: 11151
 Section/Unit: Humanitarian Team
 Grade Level: Grade 2
 Supervisor: Humanitarian Director
 No. of Post: 1
 Duty Station: Country Office
 Duration: 1 year
 Closing Date: 11 Jan 2025
 
 Background:

The Collaborative Cash Delivery (CCD) Network, comprising 14 INGOs, enhances the efficiency, scale, and sustainability of humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA) through collaboration and innovation. Established in 2016, it aligns with commitments from the World Humanitarian Summit and Grand Bargain. The Senior CCD Collaboration Manager in Sudan will lead efforts to establish a robust framework for CCD operations, foster collaboration among six member agencies (CRS, IRC, WV, ACF, RI, and SCI), and scale up cash programming. Responsibilities include enhancing CVA efficiency and transparency, piloting innovative approaches (e.g., data interoperability for de-duplication), supporting locally led responses, and strengthening joint capacity-building efforts. The role also involves engaging donors and stakeholders, promoting advocacy, and driving collaborative action to improve humanitarian cash responses in Sudan while leveraging global CCD learning.
 
 Duties and responsibilities:

SCOPE OF THE ROLE: 

The Senior CCD Collaboration Manager role in Sudan involves providing CVA expertise and leadership to establish a technical and strategic framework for CCD operations in Sudan. This includes facilitating collaboration among six member agencies (CRS, IRC, WV, ACF, RI, and SCI), promoting joint activities, and ensuring adherence to the Sudan CCD Platform Governance Framework. Drawing on lessons from contexts like South Sudan, Colombia, and Ukraine, the manager will lead efforts to scale cash programming, improve efficiency and transparency, and support locally led responses.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Coordinating NGO/civil society collaborations to enhance cash programming effectiveness.
  • Developing innovative approaches like data interoperability governance for improved de-duplication and referrals.
  • Promoting joint capacity-building initiatives and harmonized CVA assessments.
  • Engaging with donors, stakeholders, and strategic fora for advocacy and resource mobilization.
  • Supporting strategy evolution, program design, and development.

The role requires convening stakeholders, fostering innovation, and driving collaborative action to strengthen humanitarian CVA in Sudan.

Reports to: 6 agency Collaborative Cash Delivery Platform Steering Committee in Country, with an administrative reporting line on workplan to focal point within hosting agency (Save the Children), and a dotted line to global ccd coordinator

Staff reporting to this post:  None 

Key Working Relationships:

  • Internal:   Sudan CVA TA and CCD focal points and CCD members 
  • External:  Cash Working Group, Cluster Leads, Donors, Sudan Cash consortia’s lead agencies, NGO members, Civil society groups, CCD Global Facilitators, other CCD Collaboration Managers, and CVA technical forum representatives at the Global and Regional levels.

Budget Responsibilities:  None

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

General

  • Facilitate the functioning and operationalization of the Steering Committee of the CCD at the country level and serve as chair and convener of the Steering Committee by working with the members to ensure clear strategies, priorities and transparent decision making.
  • Convene CCD agencies regularly and as needed communicating clear meeting objectives, agenda, and outputs. 
  • Support the setup of CDD technical working groups/streams as required and ensure clear objectives and scope. Lead the development, and maintenance, of an up-to-date work plan for the CCD, including priority actions for the first year.
  • Continue to socialize the CCD platform principles and structure in Sudan including with members, donors, government authorities, UN agencies, financial service providers, relevant clusters, and other stakeholders.
  • Work in close collaboration with the Cash Working group to ensure synergies and complementarity of purpose.
  • Support the development of technical and programmatic components of funding submissions/ proposals for the CCD Platform, including inter-agency partnerships and ensure feasibility and adherence to minimum technical quality standards. 
  • As needed and funding permitted, support the recruitment of other CCD dedicated staff, and supervise and capacity build where applicable, in line with the agreed Governance Framework.
  • Build upon opportunities to map the geographic presence, available resources, systems and capacities and innovations of CCD members in Sudan, with the view to having members pre-positioned in various contexts to respond rapidly in crisis situations.
  • Manage the knowledge created by the Sudan CCD Platform: analyze and synthesize information from the various operational responses, workstreams and other stakeholders including key challenges, and systematically capture/document learning. 
  • Liaise with global CCD focal points and other country-level CCD leads to share learning and experience and utilize this in shaping the CCD in Sudan.
  • Coordinate the identification of staff capacity and technical assistance needs of CCD organizations and capacity strengthening and required interventions to support quality project implementation. 
  • Coordinate and monitor any financial and material resources for the CCD Platform collective activities. Through planning and oversight ensure efficient use of resources. 
 
 Minimum Qualification, Skills and Experience Required:

Essentials:

  • Education: Master’s degree in international development, International Relations or Social Protection or related field of study preferred. Additional fields of study relevant to the role may be considered. Employment experience may substitute for some education. 
  • Experience: Minimum of 7 years of relevant field-based experience working on cash and voucher programming in complex and fragile settings, preferably with an international NGO. 
  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience coordinating or managing light to moderately complex inter-agency projects required.
  • Communication Skills: Excellent written and spoken English. Good written and spoken Arabic is an advantage.
  • Must be willing and able to travel up to 50 % in-country.
  • IT Skills: Proficiency in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and familiarity with data analysis software.

Preferred Qualifications and Experience

  • Experience leading collaborations and/or consortiums with strong negotiation and facilitation skills.
  • Proven experience in designing, implementing, and managing humanitarian CVA, with solid knowledge of cash programming, humanitarian operations and ideally modernizing approaches to cash distributions (digitizing the ‘cash system’, Financial Service Provider engagement, beneficiary data management systems etc.).
  • Proven experience working in Sudan or East Africa 
  • Inquisitive and innovative mind and be flexible and adaptable, responding to situations that arise over the course of the deployment.
  • Experience engaging with partner organizations.
  • Experience contributing to the development of technical proposals.
  • MEAL skills and experience preferred.
  • Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information management systems.

Technical Skills:

  • Strong critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills with the ability to make sound judgments.
  • Ability to connect and translate between technical and strategic levels 
  • Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills and the ability to build credibility and work effectively with culturally diverse groups as well as various staffing levels within member organizations. 
  • Able to work independently, with a lot of drive, energy, persistence, and dynamism. 
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to write reports.
  • Proactive, results-oriented, and service-oriented.
  • Proven ability to work effectively with a wide range of stakeholders, including government authorities, NGOs, and community leaders.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make sound decisions in complex situations.

Personal Attributes:

  • Highly organized and able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
  • Strong commitment to Save the Children's mission and values, particularly child safeguarding.

Why Join Us?

  • Be part of a cutting-edge platform transforming humanitarian assistance.
  • Work with top global agencies in a dynamic and innovative role.
  • Drive meaningful change and improve the lives of vulnerable populations.


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