Field Coordinator – Woldiya FO

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Fraud, Bribery, and Corruption policy and code of conduct. The key responsibilities include understanding and complying with the SCI policies and procedures, not committing any act of fraud, bribery, or corruption, understanding risks in their area/role, and implementing mitigation measures, report any suspected fraud, bribery, or corruption immediately, declare conflicts of interest in accordance with internal procedures and complete mandatory training related to ethics and anti-fraud measures

WFP in collaboration with government stakeholders identified beneficiaries for humanitarian cash assistance for IDPs across various locations in Oromia and Amhara regions. Save the Children International has secured funding from WFP to assist the implementation of cash assistance program for IDPs (humanitarian beneficiaries) as part of shock responsive emergency response is prioritized.

The overall objective of the project is to support the response to critical humanitarian needs in through Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA). The project is part of the broader efforts to enhance social protection, and program will exploit complementarities with other social support networks.

The initial humanitarian cash assistance program is expected to cover 13-15 woredas in East and West Wellega, North Shewa, Buno Badele and North Shewa and Bale zones and Jimma Town in Oromia Region and Kobo town in North Wello zone in Amhara regions. The initial cash assistance program duration could be 3-4 months. The program could be expanded to more geographic locations subject to the humanitarian situations and availability of funds.

The cash assistance program pursues coordinated response in collaboration with WFP, realizing actual design and implementation of digital beneficiary registration (biographic including photos) and budgeting, enumerator recruitment and training, management of enumerators, work with WFP contracted financial service providers (FSPs), crown management and control, ensure delivery of cash to target beneficiaries, establish and managed beneficiary complaints and feedback mechanism, monitoring and reporting,

The field coordinator for cash assistance will lead a team of program officers, MEAL CFM and monitoring officers, team leaders, enumerators and reports to program manager.

The Field Coordinator oversees and ensures the effective implementation of biographic digital registration and cash assistance activities across assigned woredas. The role provides technical, operational, and coordination leadership to field teams, ensuring compliance with WFP standards, timely delivery of activities, beneficiary protection, and alignment with project plans and timelines.

This position requires strong leadership, problem solving skills, and the ability to manage multiple teams while coordinating closely with WFP, local authorities, and financial service providers (FSPs).

• Report to: Program Manager – cash assistance

Collaboration: program operations team, and area managers, field office managersin South Area Office and North Westarea office

• Work in close collaboration with the program manager , team based both in Addis and in project locations to participate, and incorporate into the program design and implement shock responsive cash assistance deliverables including cash feasibility assessment including staff safety and access, safeguarding risks and mitigation measures, etc and operationalize the program
• Develop detailed registration plans per kebele/FDP, including scheduling and logistics.
• Prepare and manage field-level budget for registration activities.
• Organize site setup for registration including seating, shade, crowd control, and workflow arrangement.
• Participate in recruitment of competent enumerators and field staff.
• Lead woreda-level training for enumerators jointly with WFP staff, covering digital tools, biographic data collection, and procedures.
• Assign tasks to field teams based on capacity and ensure availability of needed equipment.
• Provide daily supervision, performance monitoring, and coaching to enumerators, verifiers, and crowd controllers.
• Oversee household digital registration: socio demographic profiling, biometric/photos, QR code issuance, and verification.
• Ensure daily targets are met or exceeded as per the registration plan.
• Coordinate village mobilization and sensitization through assigned CP staff.
• Supervise complaints collection and ensure timely resolution or escalation.
• Ensure data quality, completeness, and proper documentation.
• Submit daily progress reports and flag issues to the Program Manager and WFP.
• Oversee the implementation of monitoring and evaluation and learning systems in cash assistance Program, in line with Save the Children Program polices, standards and strategies
• Ensure the cash assistance response is consistent with the country strategic plan and in line with the donor, government and cash working group strategy and guidelines.
• Provide ongoing support and advice to team members and CFM team in collaboration with the WFP technical staff in cash assistance program
• Ensure high quality reporting (both internal and external) with accurate, reliable information and that reports are prepared and submitted in a timely manner according to the reporting timelines.
• Ensure that all expenditure of the project is in line with activity and financial forecast and that all expenditure complies to Donor