Cash Delivery Network Partnership Coordinator

Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Organization: World Vision International

Deadline: April 16, 2026

Job Description

Employee Contract Type: Local – Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Key Areas of Responsibility:

1. Stakeholder Coordination and Collaboration:

Facilitate collaboration with key stakeholders, including Cash Working Group members, Cluster Leads, donors, Ethiopia Cash Consortia’s lead agencies, NGO members, Civil Society groups, CCD Global Facilitators, other CCD Collaboration Managers, and representatives from regional and global CVA technical forums. Ensure effective coordination, communication, and alignment across these groups to drive collective impact and strengthen the CCD’s operations in Ethiopia and beyond

2. Strategic Leadership and Coordination:

Facilitate the operationalization and effective functioning of the CCD at the country level, serving as the chair and convener. Lead collaborative efforts with members to ensure the formulation of clear strategies, well-defined priorities, and transparent decision-making processes. Convene CCD agencies regularly, ensuring that meetings have clear objectives, structured agendas, and actionable outputs.

3. Operational Oversight and Technical Leadership:

Spearhead the establishment of CCD technical working groups and workstreams as necessary, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and a clearly defined scope. Lead the development, monitoring, and updating of a comprehensive work plan for the CCD, prioritizing actions for the initial year and ensuring that all activities are aligned with overarching goals.

4. Stakeholder Engagement and Advocacy:

Advocate for and socialize the CCD platform’s principles and organizational structure across Ethiopia, engaging with members, donors, government authorities, UN agencies, financial service providers, relevant clusters, and other key stakeholders to ensure broad support and alignment with national and regional priorities.

5. Collaboration and Synergy with Cash Working Group:

Foster close collaboration with the Cash Working Group, ensuring synergy and complementarity between the CCD and other humanitarian cash initiatives, promoting shared goals and coordinated responses to crises.

6. Program and Proposal Development:

Lead the development of technical and programmatic components for funding submissions and proposals for the CCD Platform, ensuring alignment with inter-agency partnerships and compliance with minimum technical quality standards. Advocate for the feasibility of proposed initiatives and provide strategic oversight to ensure high-quality program design and implementation.

7. Staffing, Supervision, and Capacity Building:

Support the recruitment of dedicated CCD staff, in accordance with available funding, and provide supervision, mentoring, and capacity-building opportunities to enhance team performance in line with the CCD Governance Framework.

8. Mapping Resources and Strengthening Operational Readiness:

Take a proactive approach to mapping the geographic presence, available resources, systems, capacities, and innovations of CCD members in Ethiopia. Work towards ensuring that members are pre-positioned in relevant contexts for rapid response during crisis situations, enhancing the operational readiness of the platform.

9. Knowledge Management and Learning:

Lead efforts to systematically capture, analyze, and synthesize knowledge generated by the Ethiopia CCD Platform, including insights from operational responses, workstreams, and stakeholder engagement. Document key challenges and lessons learned, ensuring that these are effectively shared with global CCD focal points and other country-level leads to continuously improve the CCD in Ethiopia.

10. Capacity Assessment and Technical Support:

Coordinate the identification of staff capacity and technical assistance needs within CCD organizations, ensuring that capacity-building interventions are effectively designed and implemented to support quality project delivery.

11. Financial and Resource Management:

Oversee the coordination and monitoring of financial and material resources allocated to the CCD Platform’s collective activities. Through strategic planning and vigilant oversight, ensure that resources are used efficiently and in alignment with program goals.

Requirement:

Education:

University degree in international development, International Relations or Social Protection or related field of study preferred. Additional fields of study relevant to the role may be considered. Employment experience may substitute for some education.

Experience:

Minimum of 7 years of relevant field-based experience working on cash and voucher programming in complex and fragile settings, preferably with an international NGO.
Minimum of 5 years’ experience coordinating or managing light to moderately complex inter-agency projects required.

Communication Skills:

Excellent written and spoken English.
Must be willing and able to travel up to 50 % in-country.

IT Skills:

Proficiency in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and familiarity with data analysis software.

Preferred Qualifications and Experience:

Experience in leading collaborations and/or consortiums with strong negotiation and facilitation skills.
Proven experience in designing, implementing, and managing humanitarian CVA, with solid knowledge of cash programming, humanitarian operations and ideally modernizing approaches to cash distributions (digitizing the ‘cash system’, Financial Service Provider engagement, beneficiary data management systems etc.).
Inquisitive and innovative mind and be flexible and adaptable, responding to situations that arise over the course of the deployment.
Experience in engaging with partner organizations.
Experience in contributing to the development of technical proposals.

MEAL skills and experience preferred.

Experience of using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information management systems.

World Vision is a child-focused organization that is committed to safeguarding all children as well as adult beneficiaries, and has zero tolerance for incidents of violence or abuse against children or adults, including sexual exploitation or abuse, committed either by employees or others affiliated with our work. Therefore, World Vision does not hire staff whose background is not suitable for working with children or vulnerable adults, even if their role does not interact directly with them.

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Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only.