CV Pool – Cash Assistants (Beirut + Field Trips)

CASH ASSISTANT

Lebanon Emergency Response

LOCATION: Beirut, with frequent travel to areas all over Lebanon upon need

CONTRACT TYPE: TBD

JOB FAMILY: Programmes

ONE OXFAM GRADE: E1        ZONE:

DEPARTMENT: Programme                                                                 

TEAM: Lebanon Programmes

SALARY: As per scale

HOURS: 40 (FTE)

FLEXIBLE WORKING

We believe flexible working is key to building the Oxfam of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you.  

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organization.

DEPARTMENT PURPOSE: Oxfam prioritizes cash assistance in all its types as one of the most pressing needs in Lebanon, ensuring that marginalized women and men of all nationalities and statuses have safe access to food and basic assistance through cash assistance, as well as the ability to support their own basic needs and develop their livelihoods, while respecting and maintaining their dignity.

JOB PURPOSE: In order to ensure that Internally Displaced People (IDPs), especially migrants and LGBTQIA+ individuals in Beirut and Mount Lebanon (BML), and other IDPs across Lebanon, have access to their basic needs including food and non-food items, the Cash Assistant will work closely with the Lebanon Response Team along with Oxfam’s partners and relevant stakeholders focusing on Cash Programming including Multi-purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA), Cash for Food (CfF), Cash for Shelter (CfS) and Group Cash Transfers (GCT). They will be mainly responsible for assisting in the identification of households eligible for MPCA and other cash assistances, ensuring proper follow-up with IDPs eligible for cash assistance, coordinating with partners and service providers (BoB Finance), and maintaining accurate documentation of cash assistance. While upholding Oxfam's standards and donor criteria, the Officer will collaborate closely with the Oxfam team, partners, and beneficiaries to achieve a seamless and effective project implementation.

JOB REPORTS TO

Cash Officer

ROLES REPORTING TO THIS JOB

None

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY

N/A

GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE

Beirut with field visits to implementation areas

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Project Implementation:

• Work closely with the Cash Officer and the Lebanon Response Team on day-to-day activities and data requests.
• With the support of enumerators, conduct vulnerability assessments and panels with partner.
• Liaise with Oxfam’s finance department, and BoB Finance to ensure effective and timely delivery of cash to IDP families.
• Coordinate with the MEAL department by regularly sending a new list of accepted beneficiaries and non-withdrawals.
• Ensure that cash documentation is accurately completed, compiled, and returned to the Finance Department in a timely manner.
• Assist the Beirut Field Manager with the GCT activity to informal migrant groups as needed.
• Support the Cash Officer and Media team in collecting success stories from supported IDP families/idividuals.

Monitoring:

• Conduct regular onsite monitoring visits, track project progress and flag issues.
• Support post-distribution monitoring, baseline and endline activities (including data collection).
• Contribute to 'lessons learned" and success stories during the project.

Reporting and Data Management:

• Report regularly to the Cash Officer, and technically coordinate with the Food and Economic Security Advisor on the progress of implementation and challenges encountered against targets set, highlighting constraints, and propose solutions.
• Ensure data entry and safe management of beneficiary information following data protection protocols.
• Enter data into Activity Info system whenever needed.
• Participate in and maintain a timely and appropriate flow of information up and down the management line (including programmatic information, security issues, etc.) and horizontally with partners.

Most importantly, every individual in Oxfam needs to be able to:

• Live our values of INCLUSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, EMPOWERMENT, COURAGE, SOLIDARITY and EQUALITY (read more about these here)
• Ensure you commit to our ORGANIZATIONAL ATTRIBUTES (including adhering to the Code of Conduct):

1. Be committed to our feminist principles, and to applying them in your day-to-day behaviour and your work. Be ready to keep learning, with accountability to those who experience oppression as a result of their identities, such as their gender, race/ethnicity, disability, class, or LGBTQIA identity."

2. Be committed to undertaking Oxfam’s safeguarding training and adhering to relevant policies, to ensure all people who come into Oxfam are as safe as possible.

ESSENTIAL

• Humility
• Relationship building
• Mutual accountability

In addition:

• At least 1 to 2 years of experience in working with communities in humanitarian or development contexts, in particular with refugee and migrant populations.
• Previous experience in working in partnership with national organizations.
• Fair experience in food security, livelihoods and/or social cohesion and advocacy programming.
• Entry-level knowledge of MEAL frameworks and plans.
• Good knowledge of NGO operations and administration, including Procurement, FLEET and Security.
• A bachelor’s degree in international relations, business administration, management, human rights, social sciences, or related field.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Arabic and English.
• Good computer skills in MS Office programs, particularly Excel.
• Experience entering data and maintaining databases.
• Willingness to work in insecure environments and a high level of adaptability and initiative.

Desirable

• Previous knowledge and/or experience of Multi-purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) or other cash-based humanitarian interventions.
• Contextual knowledge of the humanitarian and development issues in Lebanon.
• Previous involvement in community engagement initiatives.

SAFER RECRUITMENT: Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us. Offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks.