Resource Transfer Manager (RTM), USAID/Madagascar Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA)

Summary

Save the Children seeks a Resource Transfer Manager (RTM) Lead for an ongoing five-year USAID-funded Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) in Madagascar. The goal of the Activity is to improve food and nutrition security and resilience among poor and chronically food insecure households and communities in a sustainable manner. The RTM will work with the RFSA staff and leadership to ensure smooth and timely execution of resource transfer and cash management activities. This position must be based in either Farafangana or Vangaindrano district for the five-year period of performance.

Hiring is contingent upon receipt of positive background and reference checks as well as USAID approval of the candidate.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

• Provide technical leadership in the development and implementation of the Activity’s cash transfer strategy.
• Lead coordination with the Cash Working Group and government of Madagascar (GOM) to ensure shock responsive cash management programming.
• Collaborate with the Commodities Manager (CM) to conduct market assessments to understand how infusions of cash may affect market prices and food availability.
• Write and produce quality periodic reports on progress of cash transfer activities, ensuring regular data collection and verification processes are in place.
• Develop post-distribution monitoring mechanisms and tools and ensure their integration into the program’s MEAL system, contributing to the establishment of the accountability and feedback mechanisms for cash transfer activities.
• Ensure the documentation of lessons learned and case studies in the implementation of cash activities and contribute to learning with other programs linked to MEAL national coordination.
• Participate in the development of emergency preparedness plans and crisis modifier design, implementing cash and market-specific assessments, including gender analysis and disability situation analysis.
• Support the development of program implementation plans as well as recruitment of new staff, provide necessary trainings, develop and adapt tools with MEAL colleagues, and identify opportunities for internal and external collaboration.
• Proactively identify challenges to successful implementation and raise these issues with relevant management staff.
• Build collaborative relationships within Save the Children and externally that facilitate and improve the quality of program implementation.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree/Bac+3 in international development, business administration, economics or another related field. Master’s degree preferred.
• At least five years of cash transfer experience working in similar international humanitarian and development contexts.
• Demonstrated experience selecting contextually appropriate cash transfer modalities, including digital, mobile, card, and paper modalities, and updating in response to changing market conditions.
• Demonstrated experience in the introduction of internal controls systems to support cash and vouchers delivery in the areas of financial management, logistics, security, and program delivery.
• Cash transfer management experience, including experience identifying delivery mechanisms, frequency, and duration, as well as post-distribution monitoring of cash transfer.
• Knowledge and experience with local ways of moving money and the most secure ways of moving money in rural Madagascar.
• Experience working within national and regional cash coordination mechanisms and ability to network and engage with necessary stakeholders to manage cash transfers in accordance with Malagasy government policy and BHA Do No Harm (DNH) principles.
• Familiarity with the CaLP Programme Quality Toolbox and the Sphere Standards (handbook released in 2018).
• Demonstrated program design and monitoring and evaluation skills, including experience designing pathways to sustainable impact at scale.
• Implementation experience in similar low-resource environments. Experience working in Madagascar is required.
• Strong management and interpersonal skills.
• Professional working proficiency in English and French. Malagasy language skills preferred.
• Mentoring and facilitation skills.

Qualified Malagasy candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

About Save the Children

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