Cash Technical Advisor, WACAR

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you're a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future. As part of our internal mobility process, current incumbents in the existing regional roles will be given priority consideration for this position. Should the role open more broadly, all qualified internal and external candidates will be considered, therefore all are welcome to apply. The IRC’s Technical Excellence (TE) provides technical assistance to IRC’s country program staff and share evidence and learnings. TE is comprised of five technical units: Economic Recovery & Development; Education; Health; and Violence Prevention and Response. There are also three supporting units: Measurement, Grant Operations and Analytics, and Program Quality Support. The ERD TU is a dynamic team of more than 30 professionals responsible for supporting the development, implementation, and monitoring of client-centered economic wellbeing (EWB) programs. These include, but are not limited to, cash & markets, agriculture and food systems and economic inclusion across emergency, recovery and development contexts. The TU’s technical assistance to this wide variety of programs ensures quality and use of evidence-based practices; promotes innovation, diversity, equity, and inclusion; and drives data-based management and decision making, to achieve positive change in people’s lives. The West and Central Africa Region (WACAR) supports effective, efficient, and high-quality programming by strengthening capacity around client outcomes, program quality, strategic positioning, and business development. It addresses overlapping humanitarian and development challenges—conflict, weak governance, and environmental degradation—through integrated, impactful approaches. WACAR prioritizes cross-learning, innovation, and harmonized technical strategies, especially in high-need areas. It ensures continuity of care and coordinated service delivery for clients on the move, while advancing strategic donor engagement through cohesive fundraising and regional collaboration. The region responds swiftly to country program needs, filling critical gaps and navigating access constraints, emergencies, and security shifts. It amplifies client and frontline voices to inform global advocacy and fosters strong team cohesion to enhance program delivery. WACAR focuses on cost-efficient and adaptive approaches to the evolving humanitarian and donor landscape, with a clear focus on resourcing country programs. WACAR comprises Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon and CAR, Chad, Coôe d’Ivoire, DRC, Mali, Niger, Nigeria. Position Overview As Cash & Markets, Technical Advisor (Cash TA) for West and Central Africa Region (WACAR), you are responsible for ensuring high quality technical assistance to country programs within the region. You will collaborate with relevant stakeholders to achieve high quality, high impact interventions that are informed by evidence, data, and best practice, contextually appropriate, driven by client and partner voices, and are safe, inclusive, learning, and promote equal outcomes for clients. Program Design & Business Development You will support country programs to design winning submissions and generally position IRC for continued success in Cash & Markets: • Substantially contribute to the development of proposal theories of change and log frames to design economic programs and projects as well as cash programming models within other sectors (health, education, protection) • Support the in-country technical lead in analyzing relevant information including available M&E and client responsiveness data, to prepare and to inform design meetings/conversations • Advise on program modalities and strategic partnership development – including with the private sector - based on evidence, scale considerations, and how we can best support, complement, and reinforce local systems • Advise on and/or provide hands-on support on assessments, including application and contextualization of technical standards on cash programming within economic programs, cash program model development across sectors • Participate in project design meetings for all relevant proposals (remotely or in person) • Review and validate design meeting decisions around technical design quality, including alignment of narratives, log-frames, and budgets, to IRC standards and outcomes • Promote and support design collaboration with partners and clients • Steer alignment and contextualization of Economic Well Being (EWB) Outcome Strategic Priorities and Country Programs Strategy Action Plans • Promote and support gender equality and diversity inclusion throughout project design • Input into go / no go decisions on proposals and on budgets required for project delivery • When necessary, write technical narratives of proposals and provide support on monitoring and evaluation aspects of ERD projects • Engage with donors, participate in donors’ meetings and do outreach in support of country programs • Support countries and TU in pursuing emergency and long-term business development opportunities Implementation Support You will support country program staff and other key stakeholders in implementing technical interventions: • Support country programs and other stakeholders with the recruitment and training of technical coordinators • Assess program quality against IRC IMPACT standards and inform improvements, providing follow up support to country programs as needed • Collaborate with country program colleagues to monitor and analyze key indicators to inform periodic review, program adaptation, and course-correction as needed • Provide technical capacity strengthening through ongoing mentoring, coaching, and trainings with country program focal points Knowledge & Learning You will support continuous sectoral learning and IRC technical leadership: • Document learnings from program activities and sharing takeaways and used for new positioning • Share cross-contextual learnings with country program staff across the region • Collaborate with the Quality in Emergency team counterparts during emergency classifications to support country programs to assess, design and implement high quality programming in acute emergency situations • Collaborate with other technical advisors within the region to promote integrated programming leadership • Refresh the sectoral evidence-base in collaboration with global and regional staff to influence approaches • Contribute to the delivery of ERD strategic priorities • Maintain currency with sectoral best practices through continual learning and development • Support research efforts, both qualitative and quantitative, to drive IRC’s evidence generation agenda, in collaboration with research specialists in the Technical Unit and in the Airbel Impact Lab The Cash & Markets TA will undertake other special projects and tasks as needed within the realm of their expertise and within the TU’s function. Professional Profile Success in this position requires an individual with expertise in designing and delivering technical assistance to Cash & Markets programs, and with a deep understanding of the cultural, societal, and political contexts in West and Central Africa. Education: Master’s/post-graduate degree in development, humanitarian affairs, economics, business administration or relevant field or equivalent combination of education and experience is required. Participate in ongoing training courses and share knowledge and skill sets within the unit. Work Experience: • Minimum of 6-8 years of proven experience in international emergency and development field posts, and or related private sector entities. • Demonstrated experience in implementing and/or managing cash-based humanitarian programming in crisis or post-crisis field settings, including staff and budget management preferably with a focus on markets and experience in women and/or youth-focused programming. • Experience in design and monitoring of cash transfer programming to meet basic needs, food security, NFI, and/or shelter program activities as well as technical tools and materials development, monitoring and evaluation, and research • Experience in strategy development and working across sectors or disciplines is highly desired. • Demonstrated success in large business development for economic programs and familiarity with key donors and their funding streams. Demonstrated Skills and Competencies: • Excellent verbal and written communications skills, in English and French • Demonstrated expertise in program design, monitoring and evaluation, with the ability to turn concepts and strategy into measurable action. Strong verbal and written communication skills. Demonstrated commitment to renewing and maintaining currency with best practices. • Strong organizational and time-management skills; proven ability to prioritize and deliver projects on time and independently. • Demonstrated ability to navigate a dynamic, cross-functional, global team structure in a large multi-national organization. • Demonstrated ability to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels. • Strong analytic problem-solving skills. • Highly proficient in Microsoft Office suite. • Ability to manage and work through change in a proactive and positive manner. • Knowledge of main institutional donors and a proven track record in developing funding proposals and reports for a range of institutional and other donors. • Excellent interpersonal skills involving listening to, interacting with, and communicating clearly with people from diverse nationalities and backgrounds • Demonstrated dedication to an anti-racist and Do No Harm approach, gender equality and inclusion. Language Skills: Excellent spoken and written English and French. Key Working Relationships : This position reports to the West and Central Africa, Regional ERD Lead. This position may potentially supervise occasional consultants and/or interns. Regular communication with other ERD staff, regional and country program teams, awards management and grants management staff, and other internal stakeholders. Working Environment : Standard office working environment. This role may have some international travel up to 40% of the time. Standard of Professional Conduct: The IRC and the IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – our Code of Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Accountability, and Equality.

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