UN Women: Cash and Voucher Specialist, Home-Based, National Consultant, Retainer – 2 Positions

Deliverables

1. Lead, oversee, and/or support the formulation, implementation, and quality assurance of UN Women’s CVA in Afghanistan, ensuring alignment with gender-responsive standards.
2. Provide technical assistance and capacity strengthening to personnel and partners on CVA, including designing and delivering trainings.
3. Lead, oversee, and/or support the design and/or management of information systems for beneficiary registration, deduplication, verification, etc., ensuring robust data management and protection, and adherence to UN Women’s data management policy and procedures.
4. Support the Programme Manager to review existing procedures (SOPs) and guidance notes on CVA, and their roll out.
5. Actively engage with the Inter-Agency Cash Working Group (CWG) and relevant clusters to ensure UN Women’s gender-focused priorities are integrated into humanitarian response.
6. Develop and implement comprehensive monitoring frameworks and conduct regular field-level verification missions to ensure the accountability and safety of cash distributions.

Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel

This is a home-based retainer consultancy. The consultant will be engaged under a retainer contract, which facilitates direct engagement of the consultant depending on need and availability within the contract period for a pre-agreed fee, for a maximum of 200 working days. While on retainer contract, there is no guarantee of work, and the selected consultant retains the right to decline assignments based on their availability. As part of the official duty of this consultancy, the consultant may be expected to travel to various regions of Afghanistan, which will be processed by UN Women, following the duty travel policy.

Competencies

• Core Values: Integrity; Professionalism; Respect for Diversity.
• Core Competencies: Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues; Accountability; Creative Problem Solving; Effective Communication; Inclusive Collaboration; Stakeholder Engagement; Leading by Example.
• Functional Competencies: Proven ability to identify risks and operational bottlenecks early, developing creative and practical solutions to ensure program continuity while working effectively under tight deadlines in high-pressure, complex environments; Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally; Awareness and ability to integrate gender analysis throughout CVA. Demonstrated technical knowledge of CVA in humanitarian settings.

Required Qualifications

• Education and Certification: Master’s degree or equivalent in Gender Studies, International Relations, International Development, or other social science fields is required; A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. A project/programme management certification would be desirable.
• Experience: Required: At least 5 years of progressively responsible work experience at the national or international level in the design, planning, implementation, and monitoring/evaluation of cash-based interventions, preferably in humanitarian contexts; Proven experience designing and managing information systems, and technical proficiency using tools, such as KoBo Toolbox, ODK, or other mobile data collection and statistical software; Proven ability to work under tight deadlines, navigate multiple tasks simultaneously, and work effectively both independently and as part of multicultural teams; Desirable: Experience in designing and delivering CVA technical trainings to personnel and partners; Experience liaising with multilateral/bilateral entities, UN agencies, and donors; Experience working within the UN System and/or previous experience in the Afghanistan context.
• Languages: Fluency in English, Dari and Pashto is required.