HI recruits 01 Global Cash & Market Recovery Specialist

HI recruits 01 Global Cash & Market Recovery Specialist

Place: FRANCE (Lyon or Paris)

Type of contract: CDI

Desire starting date: mid-september 2019

Closing date for applications: 30/08/2019

“Outraged by the injustice faced by people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, we aspire to a world of solidarity and inclusion, enriched by our differences, where everyone can live in dignity”

Handicap International is changing his name and becomes « Humanity & Inclusion ». HI, Humanity & Inclusion is an independent and impartial aid and development organisation with no religious or political affiliations operating in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. We work alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable people to help meet their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights.

Since the organisation was first founded in 1982, we have set up development programmes in 62 countries and responded to many emergencies. Today we have a budget of around 150 million euros, with 3500 employees worldwide.

HI is engaged in an employment policy in favour of disabled workers.

For further information about the association: www.hi.org.

CONTEXT:

As Cash & Market Recovery Specialist, you are a part of the Social & Inclusion Division which is composed of 20 persons, around 6 sectors: Livelihood including Cash & Market Recovery, Inclusive Governance, Inclusive Education, Social development, and Technical Assistance for Inclusion. The Livelihood Unit encompasses initiatives in emergency, recovery and development settings with around 84 projects in more than 35 countries that range from wage to self-employment, graduation projects, economic recovery and resilience.

Under the responsibility of the Livelihod Team Manager, in support of the operational teams (headquarters and field), with a strong functional link with the other Specialists and the Livelihood Specialists, you are in charge of developing and framing the approach and tools related to the implementation of « Cash & Market Recovery » activities in humanitarian responses, as well as providing technical support for the proper implementation of field projects.

For HI, the Cash and Economic Recovery includes activities related to the   cash transfer program, market analysis, graduation model implementation, safety nets activities in emergencies.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Task 1 – You develop, frame and disseminate professional approaches, know-how, positioning and intervention sectors in terms of Cash and Economic recovery activities in humanitarian contexts
• Task 2 – You provide technical and methodological support to Cash and Economic recovery projects.(focus for the moment on DRC, Yemen, Middles East crisis , sahel issues in west Africa, Myanmar, Bangladesh Moz and Venezuela)
• Task 3 – You provide local technical support and strategies to the HQ and field teams, in particular by ensuring the inter-field and global technical coherence of the intervention, through field missions, exploratory missions, regular distance exchanges, training facilitation, technical coaching, etc.
• Task 4 – In coordination with the technical specialists carrying out HI’s other sectors of intervention in a humanitarian context (Physical and functional rehabilitation, Mental Health, Psychosocial & Protection, Inclusion, Shelter, etc.), you promote holistic and inclusive responses to the essential needs of populations affected by a crisis with particular attention to vulnerable people and people with disabilities;
• Task 5 – Together with the Livelihood Specialists working on socio-economic inclusion in a development context, you develop continuum and Nexus approaches to ensure the best coherence and continuity of service for beneficiaries in terms of livelihoods;
• Task 6 – In support of the Livelihood Team Manager and in links with the Livelihood Policy Officer, you ensure internal and external representation in your fields of expertise. You are involved in various external technical networks and, if necessary, ensure the link with other actors in the humanitarian response.

• You have an advance education degree (technical, university, engineering or business school) in the field of livelihoods (food security, economics, agronomy or equivalent) or equivalent experience;
• You have at least 5 years’ experience in humanitarian and post-crisis intervention, technical support, coordination or project management positions on the theme of Livelihoods;
• You have a good understanding of the issues related to vulnerability and disability, as well as the criteria and methodologies for targeting particularly vulnerable beneficiaries;
• You are familiar with intercultural participatory approaches;
• You have good synthesis, analysis and writing skills;
• You are fluent in French and English both orally and in writing;

• Type of contract : CDI
• Localization : Lyon or Paris (possibly Brussels)
• Additional benefits: luncheon vouchers and health insurance
• Working hours: 39 hours a week with 22.5 days of RTT (work time reduction) to be taken each year
• 5 weeks of annual leave