Cash Coordinator Jobs – War Child Alliance

Job Title: Cash Coordinator

Organisation: War Child Alliance

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About Organisation:

The War Child Alliance is an international non-governmental organization committed to providing psychosocial support, child protection, youth empowerment programming and quality education to the children affected by armed conflict. We implement evidence-based interventions to empower key stakeholders—including governments, educators, caregivers, and communities—to foster children’s wellbeing, education, and self-determination. War Child has a presence in 19 countries: Jordan, Lebanon, the occupied Palestinian territory, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Colombia, Burundi, DR Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Ukraine, Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States of America.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

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.
• 2 Cash for protection technical leadership
• 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.
• 3 Cash assistance delivery
• 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
• The Coordinator will work closely with finance teams and partners while maintaining appropriate segregation of duties and internal controls.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

Relevant qualifications

Salary: 5,683,580 – 7,778,714 Sh per month

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and Interested applicants should apply online at the link below.

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Level of Education: bachelor degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60