Cash and Innovation Advisor
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CARE Uganda is hiring a Cash and Innovation Advisor based in Fort Portal to lead cash transfer programming, learning, evidence generation and adaptive management within the ReSET consortium. The role focuses on refugee self-reliance, cash-plus approaches, policy influence and knowledge sharing. Applications close 3 Sep.
- Technical leadership on cash transfer and cash-plus programming
- Leads ReSET learning agenda and evidence generation
- Duty station is Fort Portal, Uganda
- Deadline: 3 Sep
- Requires Master's degree and at least 8 years' experience
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CARE International in Uganda (CARE)
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21 hours ago
Closes 3 Sep
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Job Title:
Cash and Innovation Advisor
Organisation:
CARE Uganda
Duty Station:
Fort Portal, Uganda
About Organisation:
CARE is a global leader within a worldwide movement dedicated to ending poverty. We are known everywhere for our unshakeable commitment to defending the dignity of people. CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty, and achieve social justice. We seek a world of hope, tolerance, and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and all people live with dignity and security. We put women and girls at the center of our work because we know that we cannot overcome poverty until all people have equal rights and opportunities.
Job
Summary
The Cash & Innovation Advisor will provide technical leadership on cash transfer programming, cash-plus approaches, learning, evidence generation and adaptive management. The role will ensure ReSET contributes to national and global learning on refugee self-reliance by generating robust evidence on what works, for whom, under what conditions and at what cost. The advisor will help shape programme adaptation, policy influence and future investment decisions through evidence-based learning and knowledge sharing.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities
- Cash and Cash-Plus Programming
- Provide technical leadership on lump-sum cash and cash-plus interventions.
- Advise on transfer design, sequencing and complementary support packages.
- Ensure interventions align with global good practice and national cash coordination priorities.
- Support quality assurance of cash delivery approaches across the consortium.
- Learning Agenda
- Lead implementation of the ReSET learning agenda.
- Develop and manage key learning questions around:
- Graduation models
- Cash-plus approaches
- Lump-sum cash
- Self-reliance
- Resilience
- Cost-effectiveness
- Facilitate reflection and learning processes across the consortium.
- Evidence Generation
- Support operational research, assessments and technical studies.
- Lead analysis of programme performance and outcome data.
- Work with MEL teams to generate actionable evidence.
- Monitor and synthesise emerging evidence from Uganda and internationally.
- Adaptive Management
- Support programme adaptation based on evidence and learning.
- Facilitate after-action reviews and learning workshops.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement across consortium partners.
- Policy, Coordination and Influence
- Represent ReSET within relevant technical forums and learning platforms.
- Engage with the Uganda Cash Working Group and other cash coordination mechanisms.
- Develop policy briefs, learning papers and technical products.
- Identify opportunities to influence sector practice and policy through programme learning.
- Knowledge Management
- Lead production of case studies and technical learning products.
- Capture, document and disseminate lessons learned.
- Support knowledge sharing within CARE, the consortium and wider sector.
- Qualifications, Skills and
Experience
- Essential
- Master’s degree in Economics, International Development, Humanitarian Studies, Research, Monitoring & Evaluation or related field.
- At least 8 years’
- in cash programming, learning, research or evidence generation.
- Strong
- with cash transfer and cash-plus programming.
- designing or managing learning agendas and operational research.
- Strong understanding of adaptive management approaches.
- Demonstrated
- translating evidence into programme and policy recommendations.
- Excellent analytical, writing and communication skills.
- working with Uganda’s Cash Working Group.
- with similar resilience programmes in Uganda.
- conducting value-for-money or cost-effectiveness analysis.
- in refugee and displacement contexts.
- supporting FCDO-funded programmes.
- How to Apply:
- All suitably qualified and Interested applicants should apply online at the link below.
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Education
- postgraduate degree
- Work Hours: 8