BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:

This position will provide support to policy and programme activities that effectively meet food and cash assistance needs including through sustainable food systems, market access and social protection.

KEY ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Work closely with programme, supply chain, and Area Office staff to assist them with carrying out assessments, data analysis and concrete understanding of financial inclusion, financial literacy and agricultural market linkages within scope of the AO operations.
2. Work with WFP-contracted Cooperating Partners and Financial Service Providers (FSPs) to ensure efficient and accountable cash distributions and transfers at field level.
3. Ensure evidence-based and market-oriented scale-up of cash-based transfers across the settlements under the AO (West Nile).
4. Expand the agent banking model with the objective of promoting financial inclusion for the people we serve .
5. Verify and clean beneficiary data and ensure that the appropriate entitlements are disbursed and reach the rightful beneficiaries.
6. Assist in reviewing of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), to identify and document impacts on underlying processes, systems, people and the organizational structure;
7. In coordination with the Head of Programme, provide regular feedback to the CBT Coordinator at Country Office level regarding the progress of the distributions, including achievements and constraints as well as suggested improvement actions.
8. Provide hands-on guidance in the engagement with bank agents, CBT PoCs, smallholder famers and local retailers as part of the on-going expansion of cash transfers.
9. In collaboration with AMEL unit, Support in monitoring and evaluation of CBT across the target settlements under the AO
10. Any other duties as may be required

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: