Cash Assistant

Cash Assistant-Beirut

LOCATION: Beirut

CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed Term – 10 months renewable based on performance and funding

JOB FAMILY: Programmes

ONE OXFAM GRADE : E1    ZONE: 1

DEPARTMENT: Humanitarian

GLOBAL PROGRAMMES                                                                         

TEAM: Lebanon Programmes

SALARY:  

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 is a global movement of people who won’t live with the injustice of poverty. Together we save and rebuild lives in disasters. We help people build better lives for themselves. We speak out on the big issues that keep people poor, like inequality, discrimination against women and climate change. And we won’t stop until every person on the planet can live without poverty.

Oxfam GB is a member of the international confederation Oxfam.

TEAM PURPOSE: Oxfam in Lebanon is increasingly working at local, national and international levels to “ensure that women and men are protected and empowered to enjoy their basic rights and access services enabling them to live in dignity, within a more equitable society.” To achieve this vision, Oxfam in Lebanon implements activities under three main programmatic pillars: A Humanitarian Pillar, a Human Rights and Economic Justice Pillar, and the Beirut Response Pillar. The purpose of the Humanitarian Pillar is to ensure that marginalised women and men, including refugees from Syria and Lebanese, are able to have safe access to water, sanitation and hygiene promotion (WASH), attain their rights to life, security, protection and assistance, and that they are enabled to support their own basic needs, develop their livelihoods, all in a manner that respects and maintains their dignity.

JOB PURPOSE: The Cash Assistant position will work with the partner to support the team in the identification and assessment of households eligible for cash assistance, ensuring proper follow-up with beneficiaries, coordinating with Liban Post on the provision of the cash assistance, and ensuring that accountability mechanisms are mainstreamed throughout Oxfam and partners’ cash assistance.

JOB REPORTS TO

Project Manager

ROLES REPORTING TO THIS JOB

NA

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY

NA

GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE

Beirut and Mount Lebanon

IMPACT

NA

KEY STAKEHOLDERS

Project Manager, Humanitarian Coordinator; Emergency Food Security and Livelihoods Coordinator; Protection Advisor, Citizenship, Governance and Economic Justice Coordinator, Cash Advisor, Senior Operations and Compliance Finance officer, Finance Team, Protection assistant, MEAL officer, MEAL assistant, partners, Liban Post
 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (Technical, Leadership, People and Resource management)

Programme:

• Liaise with Oxfam’s finance department, Liban Post or other service provider to ensure effective and timely delivery of cash to beneficiaries
• Work in close consultation with the cash and protection team to ensure appropriate follow up with households, especially in sensitive cases, as well as referrals
• Support capacity building activities with the local partner
• Coordinate and liaise with identified partners and stakeholders on cash and protection interventions
• Conduct vulnerability assessments and panels with partners
• Follow up on the target and suggest ways to increase our target
• Follow up on TCA referrals from external NGOs
• Coordinate with MEAL department by regularly sending a new list of accepted beneficiaries and non-withdrawals
• Interface with communities as needed through home visits and spot-checks
• Ensure that cash documentation is accurately completed, compiled, and returned to the Finance Department in a timely manner every two weeks

Monitoring:

• Conduct regular onsite monitoring visits, track project progress and flag issues
• Track project activities and support the partners, ensuring streamlined paperwork and decision making
• Support the organization of bi-annual reflection meetings with all project partners
• Support post-distribution monitoring, baseline and endline activities (including data collection)
• Conduct monitoring visits at Liban Post or other service provider to ensure their safety and satisfaction
• Contribute information to a log of all 'lessons learnt" and success stories during the project

Reporting and Data Management

• Report regularly to the Project Manager, and technically coordinate with the cash advisor, Protection assistant and Protection 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  
• Record and take action on phone calls received on the project helpline through Oxfam’s “Your Word Counts” feedback system
• Enter data into Activity Info and the UNHCR RAIS system
• 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

• Self-Awareness
• Humility
• Mutual accountability

In addition:

• At least 1 year of experience in working with communities in humanitarian or development contexts, in particular with displaced or refugee populations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Arabic and English
• Ability to influence and negotiate, both internally and externally, complemented by strong interpersonal skills
• Previous experience in working in partnership with national organisations
• Good computer skills in MS Office programs, particularly Excel
• Diplomacy, tact and negotiating skills.
• Willingness to work in insecure environments and a high level of adaptability and initiative

Desirable

• A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline such as Development Studies or equivalent;
• Previous knowledge and/or experience of emergency cash assistance or other cash-based humanitarian interventions. Protection professionals with relevant cash experience are strongly preferred;
• Experience working in Beirut and Mount Lebanon
• Experience entering data and maintaining databases
• Administrative experience

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.