Cash Based Programming Delegate

Do you have overseas, humanitarian CASH based experience and are bi-lingual French/English? Are you looking for your next exciting opportunity within the Sahel region?  The British Red Cross (BRC) is recruiting a Cash-based Programming (CBP) Delegate to join our team in Dakar. 

The British Red Cross has had a regional office in Dakar since June 2015, partnering with both the Senegalese and Guinea Red Cross. BRC is increasing its support to the Sahel Region through implementing two regional capacity building programs, one on Livelihoods and another one on cash transfer based assistance.  The successful candidate will be the lead on the technical support to the Cash Transfer Preparedness (CTP) Mentoring program.

The CBP delegate will be required to embed cash based support into three Sahelian Red Cross Society's existing disaster preparedness and programming systems (mainly related but not limited to livelihoods and food security), as well as providing ongoing support and peer to peer exchanges with the Senegalese Red Cross. The delegate will be responsible for proving technical support/back stopping as necessary to other Movement components active in cash transfer programming in the region as well as coordinating within the Movement (IFRC, ICRC and PNSs) but also with other key stakeholders such as ECHO, CaLP, WFP etc. The delegate will be a technical specialist responsible for coordinating and developing bespoke training and coaching while ensuring coordination and participation with technical leaders in the field.  This is an exciting opportunity to be a core part of ensuring that Sahelian Red Cross/Red Crescent National Societies can scale up their cash transfer based assistance capacities to meet relief needs of affected people and/or deliver long term support to vulnerable people, respecting their choice and promoting their dignity.

You will have the opportunity to work with different stakeholders and a range of tools already tested within the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement. The CBP delegate will receive the technical support from the BRC, IFRC Cash Unit based in Geneva in addition to exchanges with Asia Pacific IFRC office. Once recruited the CBP delegate will be deployed for one month within the Asia Pacific International Federation of Red Cross/Red Crescent (IFRC) regional office to experience and exchange learning with the IFRC Cash preparedness and livelihoods delegate based in Bangkok, who is coordinating a similar CTP mentoring program, followed by a briefing in Geneva and London. 

The successful candidate will have:

• very strong technical skills in cash based programming, response and recovery
• excellent partnership-work capabilities, covering capacity-building, mentoring and diplomatic communication
• practical programme cycle management skills
• excellent team working skills
• fluent in both French and English

We are a volunteer-led humanitarian organisation that helps people in crisis, whoever and wherever they are. We enable vulnerable people at home and overseas to prepare for and respond to emergencies in their own communities. And when the crisis is over, we help people recover and move on with their lives.

Role Category/Type

International Development

Role Description

Refusing to ignore people in crisis

Specific Location

Dakar, Senegal, but will cover the Sahel Region

Contract Length

Fixed Term from August 2016 to November 2018, accompanied position

Salary Package

£29,758 plus daily living allowance - Per diem equating to £14,760 per annum (pro rata) - Private health insurance - Transport - Accommodation - 36 days annual leave inclusive of public holidays - Accompanied position