Cash and Voucher Assistance Coordinator Aswan

Child Safeguarding:

Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting the country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The role is expected to ensure quality and timely implementation and monitoring of the cash & voucher assistance as part of the project in Aswan through capacity-building and mentoring of the team responsible of CVA implementation. The role holder is responsible for the appropriate implementation of CVA operations in line with sectorial minimum standards internal policies and program guidelines as well as donor requirements.

Projects Scope:

The project is funded from the Swiss Development Corporation (SDC) and will be based in Aswan. The project duration is one year from January 2026 to December 2026. The project will be targeting Sudanese community in Aswan based in Aswan field office and the team will be working and based across 3 friendly spaces in areas with high Sudanese concentration as Karkar and Nasr Elnuba working on multisectors:

- Child Protection: case management for children exposed to protection risks besides providing emergency cash and cash for protection. It will also include mentorship program for children especially the unaccompanied and separated children. Additionally there will be capacity building for community leaders and teachers on CP and safeguarding. Furthermore there will be awareness raising for children on their rights besides awareness for their parents as well.

- MHPSS: providing groups and individual mental health and psychosocial support to the children in groups and also individually according the care plan of each child. There will be also positive parenting groups conducted for the parents. Moreover there will be community events held to enhance their wellbeing and integration.

- Education: it will include renovation for community learning centers of Sudanese community beside training to the teachers on the main technical and socio-emotional mechanisms. The project will provide education grants as well for the children enrolled in these centers. There will be also programs provided to the children who dropped out to enable them to return back to school and other program for children who have weak literacy skills.

- Livelihood: the component will have two tracks; wage employment and self employment. The 1^st track will include capacity building for the beneficiaries followed by matching to employment opportunity. Beneficiaries will be supported by cash assistance and apprenticeship for 3 months. The 2^nd track will be self employment starting with capacity building for the beneficiaries then provision of seed fund to start their business. Beneficiaries will have at least 3 month of coaching and monitoring. Vocational training will be also provided based on need.

- Cash Assistance: the project will provide multipurpose cash assistance for vulnerable families besides winterization assistance one-off for transportation education grants and cash for protection as well. There will be also awareness raising on money management for those receiving the cash assistance.

- Health: will include emergency nutrition screening and rapid nutritional support provided to newly arrived crisis-affected children and women. Additionally there will be support to the public health system by training provision to staff and providing medical supplies. There will be also trainings for mental health and GBV-related service providers in Aswan. The project will support the establishment of health service points within the community to provide health care services as check up and also providing cash for health.

Gender will be mainstreamed across all sectors with focus on gender equality in awareness sessions girls empowerment and health and protection support for GBV cases

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: (Direct Line): Senior Operations Officer

Staff directly reporting to this post: 6 volunteers

FIELD TRAVEL: The CVA coordinator is expected to spend at least 90% of his/ her time at the projects field sites

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS

Accountability:

Holds self-accountable for making decisions managing resources efficiently achieving and modeling Save the Children values.

Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

Sets ambitious and challenging goals for oneself (and their team) takes responsibility for own personal development and encourages others to do the same.

Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children engages and motivates others.

Forward strategic thinker.

Collaboration:

Builds and maintains effective relationships with team colleagues members and external partners and supporters

Values diversity as a source of competitive strength

Approachable and active listener

Creativity:

Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions

Integrity:

Honest encourages openness and transparency

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Educational Background:

Bachelor degree in social sciences development studies or any relevant area

Essential:

Minimum 2-3 years of previous relevant experience in child protection cash programming for refugees or migrants in particular;

Professional experience in partner collaboration and capacity-building

Excellent drafting interpersonal interviewing and communication skills;

Leadership experience at a similar job;

Proficiency in Arabic written and spoken is a must and English language is preferable;

Demonstrated ability to work with highly vulnerable groups;

Awareness of the security context and political situation in Egypt for refugees;

Able to work effectively within a team and/or individually;

This is a field job; the candidate must be willing to work in the field effectively

Well organized with strong time-management skills

Ability to work under pressure and to handle heavy and competitive works effectively Shares Save the Childrens vision and values

Desirable:

Previous experience working with NGOs.

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process which includes rigorous background checks reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Safeguarding our Staff:

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.