About This Role
This role anchors the technical execution of cash-based interventions for a European NGO working in Ethiopia’s most disaster-prone regions. As Emergency Cash Specialist, you will not simply disburse funds — you will design and oversee the entire cash assistance architecture, ensuring it reaches vulnerable populations in Oromia, Amhara, Afar, and Gambella efficiently and with integrity. The position suits a senior professional who can bridge field realities with donor standards, balancing rapid emergency response with long-term resilience goals.
What the Requirements Say About This Role
The sought profile is not merely a cash transfer practitioner but a strategic technical lead who can translate complex humanitarian principles into actionable program designs. Expect the employer to value deep familiarity with cash and voucher assistance (CVA) modalities, market analysis, and beneficiary targeting in fragile contexts. The seniority level signals that you should bring proven experience managing teams, coordinating with clusters, and ensuring compliance with donor policies — not just implementing, but shaping the cash strategy.
How to Approach This Application
Your application should demonstrate your ability to lead the full project cycle of cash programming, from needs assessment to post-distribution monitoring. Highlight specific examples where you designed multi-purpose cash interventions or coordinated with government and humanitarian actors in Ethiopia. Emphasize your understanding of financial service providers, risk mitigation in cash transfers, and experience with USAID, ECHO, or UN funding streams — this signals you can navigate the compliance and reporting demands DCA will expect.
Who This Role Suits
This role is best suited for a seasoned humanitarian professional with at least five years in cash-based programming, ideally within the Horn of Africa context. Given the niche technical focus and seniority, it is moderately competitive — but your demonstrated ability to lead cash teams in complex emergencies will set you apart.
Vacancy Announcement
Emergency Cash Specialist – Addis Ababa
Dan Church Aid (DCA) is a Denmark-based international NGO registered under certificate # 1083 by the Authority for Civil Society Organizations and working to improve the wellbeing of particularly the rural and pre-urban people in Ethiopia. DCA’s Programme mainly focus on save live, building resilience and fighting inequality targeting highly disaster-prone areas in Oromia, Amhara, Afar, and Gambella regions.
DCA Ethiopia Office is looking for a competent Emergency Cash Specialist
Position Objective
The Emergency Cash Specialist will serve as the technical lead for all Cash programming within DCA Ethiopia. This role is responsible for ensuring the high-quality design, program implementation, and monitoring of multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA) and sector-specific cash interventions. The Cash Specialist will provide strategic guidance to DCA staff and partners, represent DCA mainly in the Ethiopian Rapid Response Mechanism (ETRRM) and Ethiopia Cash Working Group (ECWG), and ensure alignment with the DCA and donor guidelines and standards.
Purpose
- Contribute to the development and update of DCA Ethiopia’s humanitarian strategy document focusing on MPCA strategy, ensuring it aligns with the Global DCA Humanitarian Strategy and the Ethiopia Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) and donor requirements
- Lead need and market assessments, financial service provider (FSP) mappings, and digital landscape analyses to prepare a proposal and determine the appropriateness of cash and voucher assistance in DCA operational areas
Develop and refine humanitarian program SOPs for MPCA, covering beneficiary targeting, registration, delivery mechanisms, and encashment processes to use for DCA internally and partners.
Engagement
- Actively participate in humanitarian needs assessment, market analysis and development of strategies and response mechanism related to cash transfer and voucher programming across DCA operations
- Review and provide technical input on humanitarian program proposal development and donor report preparation in collaboration with mainly DCA field offices, MEAL and Business Development and Innovation units.
- Organize and facilitate mentoring and on job training to DCA staff and local partner capacity building initiatives related to cash transfer and voucher programming competencies
- Participate and represent DCA in Cash Working Groups and cash related coordination forums and technical discussions and closely work with other consortium, FSPs and local implementing partners and government bodies
Delivery
- Lead the documentation of DCA humanitarian program success and lesson learnings for scaling up future program interventions to share good practices with relevant stakeholders and donors.
Promote the use of innovative technologies in emergency cash interventions (e.g., e-vouchers, mobile money, Redrose/biometric registration) to improve program efficiency and accountability.
Job Requirement
- Master’s degree in Disaster Risk Reduction, Food Security, Economics, International Development, Social Sciences, Agriculture or a related field.
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in humanitarian programming, with at least 4 years specifically focused on MPCA.
- Proven experience working in complex emergencies in Ethiopia both in refugee and hosting community’s context (e.g., drought, conflict-induced displacement, and other natural disaster impacts).
- Deep knowledge of Sphere Standards, CALP principles, and the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS).
Technical Skills
Proficiency in market analysis tools (e.g., RAM, MAG, EMMA).
Experience with digital data collection platforms (KoboCollect, CommCare).
Strong understanding of "Do No Harm" and protection mainstreaming in cash programming.
Excellent diplomatic and negotiation skills for consortium and government relations.
Fluency in English (written and spoken).
How To Apply
Interested and qualified applicants should apply for the post via the link below.
DCA is an equal opportunity employer, and all interested candidates are encouraged to apply regardless of age, race, gender, marital status and religious, political or ethnic affiliation. Please don’t mention your
religious or ethnic affiliation in your application.
Please Submit only an application letter and CV.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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