Technical Advisor I, Cash & Markets

About the role

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is hiring a Technical Advisor I for its Cash and Markets team in Nairobi, Westlands. The role supports the development and implementation of agency-wide strategies, standards, tools and best practices in Cash and Market Based Programming, engaging partners, donors and governments, and integrates gender, protection mainstreaming and disaster risk reduction.

Key responsibilities

• Provide programmatic and operational technical solutions to Country Program teams, remotely and on-site, on strategic planning, standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools and M&E.
• Contribute to, and sometimes lead, the technical design of proposals, and support the preparation, design, submission and approval of project concepts and full proposals; act as technical writer when needed.
• Advise project teams on integrating donor strategies and priorities into CRS' approach.
• Support capacity strengthening for staff and partners through training strategies, curricula, trainings, workshops and coaching.
• Collect and analyse program data, share lessons learned and best practices, and maintain relationships with donors, peers and research institutions.
• Support country programs and partners in strengthening cash readiness, including identifying cash delivery mechanisms and Financial Service Providers, developing SOPs and tools, and piloting cash programs.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in humanitarian assistance, social policy, economics or a related field.
• Minimum of five to eight years of relevant work experience with progressive responsibilities, ideally in an international NGO, including at least two years of emergency response and field-based experience in cash and market-based programming in protracted and rapid-onset crises.
• Experienced trainer in CVA programming, with knowledge of technical principles and multiple CVA delivery mechanisms.
• Demonstrated experience designing CVA programs, especially for US Government funding, and implementing Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance or sectoral cash and voucher programs (food security, livelihoods, shelter or WASH).
• Experience in proposal development for government and/or private donors; experience with e-voucher platforms highly desirable.

Required skills

• Strong relationship management, strategic, analytical and problem-solving skills, and good technical writing.
• Presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring and coaching skills.
• Knowledge of market assessments and response analysis, and of capacity strengthening and partnership principles.