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Cash Coordinator
KampalaOn-siteFull-time
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Coordinates and provides technical leadership for Cash for Protection programmes, overseeing planning, beneficiary targeting, cash delivery, and coordination with finance and partners to ensure safe, consistent, and protection-sensitive cash assistance.
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2. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
2.1 Cash for Protection Programme Coordination
The Coordinator will:
- Lead the planning and coordination of Cash for Protection activities across the consortium.
- Develop and maintain a Cash for Protection implementation plan.
- Ensure consistency in Cash for Protection approaches, tools and procedures
- Track progress against Cash for Protection targets and agreed milestones.
- Ensure that Cash for Protection is appropriately integrated into the broader protection response.
- Participate in relevant programme coordination and technical meetings.
The Coordinator will provide technical guidance on the design and delivery of Cash for Protection interventions, including:
- Ensure that cash assistance is based on clearly identified and documented protection risks.
- Support development and application of appropriate eligibility and vulnerability criteria.
- Ensure that referrals for Cash for Protection are assessed using agreed protection and cash vulnerability criteria.
- Promote transparent, objective and consistent beneficiary selection processes.
- Ensure that targeting does not expose individuals or households to additional protection risks.
- Ensure that inclusion and accessibility considerations are incorporated into targeting.
- Establishing clear referral pathways between case management and Cash for Protection.
- Supporting case workers to identify cases where cash may contribute to addressing an identified protection risk.
- Ensuring that cash decisions are documented within appropriate case management processes.
The Coordinator will oversee the safe and effective delivery of cash assistance, including:
- Coordination with Finance and relevant financial service providers.
- Verification of approved beneficiaries before payment.
- Ensuring appropriate payment mechanisms are used.
- Monitoring payment processes.
- Identifying and resolving payment-related challenges.
- Supporting mechanisms to minimise duplication and fraud.
- Ensuring beneficiaries receive clear information regarding payment amounts, timing and procedures.
- Ensuring appropriate documentation of payments.
- Monitoring access barriers affecting persons with disabilities, older persons and other vulnerable groups.
- Supporting contingency arrangements where payment mechanisms fail.
- Support in conducting Post distribution Monitoring
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Please include a CV of not more than 2 pages and a motivation letter of 1 page
Skills
Beneficiary TargetingCase Management IntegrationCash For ProtectionConsortium CoordinationEligibility CriteriaFinancial Service Provider CoordinationFraud PreventionImplementation PlanningInternal ControlsPayment MechanismsPost Distribution MonitoringProtection Risk AnalysisReferral PathwaysSegregation Of DutiesVulnerability Assessment
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