Global Cash Advisor

About Us
GOAL has responded to the world’s major humanitarian crises since its founding in 1977, working with vulnerable communities in 14 countries across the globe. While GOAL continues to be an agile first responder to humanitarian crises, it is also committed to working with vulnerable communities to help them survive crises and support them on the road to recovery.

Role Overview

The Global Cash Advisor provides technical and strategic leadership on Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) across GOAL's Country Offices. GOAL's CVA strategy focuses on three core commitments: scaling up CVA, systematising quality, and developing organisational capacity in CVA connected with health programming.

Sitting within GOAL's Global Programme Technical Team, the successful candidate will ensure the technical quality of the CVA programme design and implementation. You will identify, test and scale responsible digital innovations that strengthen CVA quality, accountability, efficiency, risk management and learning across country programmes.

**This role requires the ability and willingness to travel (up to 20%) **

Responsibilities

Technical Advice, Surge & Programme Support

• Provide technical support and mentoring to country programme teams on CVA across the programme cycle.
• Support the Emergency Response team to integrate CVA into preparedness planning and emergency responses.
• Work with Technical Advisors across sectors to identify and opportunities for CVA to improve programme processes and outcomes.
• Collaborate with HQ Supply Chain and country teams to strengthen tools/guidance for engaging and managing financial service providers and vendors.
• Participate in recruitment/technical assessment of relevant roles.

Digital Innovation, AI & CVA Readiness

• Identify how digital technology can accelerate GOAL’s CVA readiness, scale, quality, accountability and risk management.
• Identify, assess and prioritise practical digital/AI use-cases and solutions relevant to CVA.
• Support programme leads and country teams to design pilots.
• Provide support to enable adoption of tools/workflows during pilots.
• Ensure learning from pilots is captured and translated into practical improvements.

Strategy, Quality Systems & Portfolio Oversight

• Drive awareness and adoption of GOAL’s CVA strategy across the organisation and with relevant external stakeholders.
• Support country offices to develop and maintain CVA SOPs, CVA risk matrices, and appropriate approaches to multi-year FSP agreements.
• Maintain/oversee systems to track GOAL’s CVA portfolio and progress against strategy.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Evidence & Learning

• Lead/coordinate organisational learning and knowledge management for CVA.
• Document and share CVA evidence and learning products to strengthen programme quality.

Resource Mobilisation & Project Quality Assurance

• Support opportunity scoping with CVA modality/feasibility inputs for new funding opportunities.
• Provide technical review of CVA components in concepts and proposals.
• Support country teams and fundraising/business development colleagues to position GOAL’s CVA capacity to donors.

 External Representation, Partnerships & Advocacy

• Represent GOAL at global and regional cash fora, including as focal point for CaLP membership.
• Build and maintain collaborative partnerships with donors, local authorities, UN agencies, peer agencies and other stakeholders relevant to CVA.
• Monitor and contribute to emerging CVA policy trends.
• Support the Global Citizenship team to incorporate CVA into their work.

Essential Requirements

• Proven experience with CVA programming in various overseas country programmes.
• Demonstrated experience with needs and market assessments, and response analysis frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability developing research and learning products related to CVA.
• Knowledge of designing policies, tools, templates, SOPs and guidelines to support programme operations.
• Proven record in strategic planning and project management in the humanitarian sector.
• Understanding of gender, age, and disability sensitive CVA approaches and best practices.
• Experience working with international agencies/donors.
• Ability and willingness to travel (20%) to challenging environments.

Desirable

• Fluency in French, Spanish, and/or Arabic
• Experience developing training materials and delivering capacity building to diverse stakeholders.
• Experience delivering humanitarian responses in partnership with local/national organisations.
• Experience with digital data collection software (CommCare, SurveyCTO, Kobo, etc.)
• Knowledge of AI applications and emerging technologies for cash-based programming.

*GOAL offers staff flexible working with our hybrid model, we require our HQ employees to work 2 days per week from our office in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin. If you are based in the UK, the role will be fully remote. **

We strongly encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single requirement listed.  At GOAL we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please just contact our Recruitment Team at recruitment.hq@goal.ie 

GOAL commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:
GOAL is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building an inclusive environment for all employees. We foster an inclusive culture where all voices are heard and valued, we are particularly eager to receive applications from women (and other underrepresented groups). We know that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. 

All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling GOAL’s commitment to equal employment opportunity and equal treatment. GOAL does not discriminate against any employee or volunteer; or any applicant for employment or volunteering on the basis of age, gender identity, ancestry, political opinion, civil status, medical condition, ethnic background, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.

Accountability within GOAL
A commitment to GOAL values and GOAL’s integrity framework is critical to working with GOAL. Any candidate offered a job with GOAL will be expected to adhere to the following key areas of accountability: 1) Comply with GOAL’s policies and procedures with respect to safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, confidentiality, do no harm principles and unacceptable behaviour protocols; 2) Report any concerns about the welfare of a child or vulnerable adult or any wrongdoings within our programming area; 3) Report any concerns about inappropriate behaviour of a GOAL staff or partner.

Safeguarding
Children and vulnerable adults who come into contact with GOAL as a result of our activities must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that GOAL shows this on-going commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.

General Terms and Conditions
This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. GOAL reserves the right to change this document