Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.

The Role:

Oxfam Syria is looking for CASH WORKING GROUP PROGRAMMATIC- CO-CHAIR

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (Technical, Leadership, People and Resource management)
• Enable Cash Coordination and Facilitate Technical Discussion
• Lead on developing a CWG TOR supported by the non-programmatic co-chair to develop. The TOR would
be the strategic vision and direction for the CWG, ensuring that its role is aligned with broader humanitarian
objectives, organizational mandates, and contextual dynamics.
• Lead on, develop and ensure that a work plan for the CWG is in place that reflects key priorities identified by
CWG members.
• Lead on the establishment of the transfer value based on the analysis of relevant data gathered supported
with the non-programmatic co-chair.
• Lead on facilitation of all technical and operational discussions between members. This includes fostering
collaboration and partnerships among CWG members, as well as with other stakeholders involved in
humanitarian.
• Drive and Co-facilitate meetings and enable technical discussions in an inclusive manner. This involves
facilitating regular meetings, setting agendas, and ensuring active participation from member organizations.
• Represent the CWG to the ISC to head of sectors and other high-level management from UN Agencies and
other stakeholders in the country.
• Support sub-national CWGs or technical Task Teams, develop TORs, establish membership, and endorse
outputs This will include capacity building to sub-national sectors members.
• Facilitate technical and operational discussions between members. This includes fostering collaboration
and partnerships among CWG members, as well as with other stakeholders involved in humanitarian
response.
• Engage diverse international, local, and national actors along with non-programmatic co-chair and ensure
discussions can be held in local languages by offering translation services to international actors (and vice
versa).
• Co-chair support multiple/ diverse approaches, respecting CWG members’ mandates and capacities
together with the non-programmatic co-chair.
• Promote and advocate for coherent, comprehensive, and/ or harmonized approaches like common
mechanisms, joint, collaborative, or complementary approaches along with the non-programmatic co-chair.
• Facilitate the development of standard and easy-to-use tools and guidance together with the nonprogrammatic
co-chair.
• Liaise and lead discussions with sector working groups to ensure complementarity and avoid overlaps
between sector cash assistance and multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA) along with the nonprogrammatic
co-chair.
• Engage and build relations with stakeholders including donors, international financial institutions (IFIs),
government, humanitarian, and development actors to enable coherence and contextualization of cash
response, links between humanitarian and development action, and nexus approaches.
• Engage and coordinate with social protection coordination structure that allows and enables alignment
(e.g., Social Protection Working Groups (SPWGs) to ensure cash assistance complements, supports, or
strengthens, rather than duplicates, government support, when applicable, along with the nonprogrammatic
co-chair
Cash Working Group Co – Chair Job Profile
• Provide technical inputs and contribute actively to humanitarian or refugee response cycle planning
frameworks, when applicable along with the non-programmatic co-chair.
• Ensure Reporting, Knowledge and Information Management
• Co-chair map and provide regular analysis on the delivery of cash assistance across the response along with
the non-programmatic co-chair.
• Promote and roll out coverage of cash assistance through information sharing and gap analysis. This may
involve sharing best practices, developing tools and guidelines, and offering support in the design,
monitoring, and evaluation of cash-based interventions.
• Enable a community of practice to document evidence-based practices and lessons learned.
• Compile evidence to inform interventions and contribute to regional/ global learning.
• Lead on capacity building to sub-national sectors members whilst ensuring that support for sub-national on
programmatic CVA issues is in place and well-coordinated.. This may involve sharing best practices,
developing tools and guidelines, and offering support in the design, monitoring, and evaluation of cashbased
interventions
• Establish connections with global and regional fora e.g. gCAG, CALP network, SPIAC-B in close coordination
with the non-programmatic cochair

What we are looking for: 

We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam's mission to end poverty and is personally aligned to our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability and inclusion in all you do.

An ideal candidate for the role will also be / have:

 ESSENTIAL
• Self-Awareness
• Strategic Thinking and Judgment
• Relationship building

In addition:
• Higher Education in a relevant field (Economics or Development Studies, etc.)
• 3-4 years of experience of coordinating either CWGs or other humanitarian and development working
groups, clusters, and sectors in the country or in other contexts with emergency response.
• Demonstrated technical understanding of operational cash issues, challenges, and concerns and
trouble shooting.
• 5-7 years of experience and/ or understanding of sectoral and multi-sectoral use of cash.
Cash Working Group Co – Chair Job Profile
• Awareness of government, local or development social assistance, programs, systems and/ or policies,
and social protection working groups.
• Ability to remain impartial, uphold humanitarian principles, maintain integrity, and avoid pursuing
organizational or personal agendas when coordinating/ facilitating discussions.
• Strong interpersonal, communication (verbal/ written), and presentation skills.
• Ability to work and plan at both operational and strategic levels.
• Experience in liaising with technical and senior humanitarian, development actors, private sectors (i.e.
Financial Service Providers), governmental actors and donors.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate discussions, negotiate compromise, and reach agreements.
• Ability to respectfully engage, broker, and/ or facilitate conflict resolution between multiple actors
with different approaches, mandates, experiences, backgrounds, nationalities, cultures, sectors,
interests, and seniority levels with diverging views and opinions.
• Understanding of humanitarian response architecture, including coordination mechanisms,
humanitarian reform, and action, and funding mechanisms (e.g., Humanitarian Programme Cycle -
HPC, Central Emergency Response Fund and Flash Appeals, Pooled funds).
• Ability to work under pressure and adapt to an evolving and complex humanitarian context.
• Working knowledge of English.

Desirable
• Certified CALP Trainer will be an asset.
• Arabic skills will be an asset.
• In-depth knowledge of the Syria context and the humanitarian response in the country.

We offer:

We offer a competitive salary and a range of additional benefits to staff including flexible working options, generous pension scheme, annual leave, additional leave allowances, company sick pay, life assurance and a range of other benefits. 

From the day you join Oxfam we invite you to stretch and learn in your role. Our wide range of Learning & Development opportunities includes in-house courses, e-learning modules, on-the job learning opportunities, coaching and mentoring, and much more. 

You can read more about all Oxfam has to offer here.

How to apply:

As part of your online application, please upload your up to date CV and Cover Letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.  

Our values and commitment to safeguarding

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.  In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

About us

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.

Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries. 

A thriving diverse Oxfam:

It’s people power that brings about change. To play our part as a global organisation working to overcome poverty and inequality, we need equality, diversity and inclusion across our community of staff, partners and volunteers. Together, we’re committed to becoming a more diverse workforce, better able to tackle the global challenges that face our world today.

To do that:

• We need to dismantle the unequal power structures that exist everywhere, this including Oxfam and the wider development and charity sectors.
• We need an inclusive Oxfam where everyone can bring who they are to our work and feels celebrated for the differences they bring.
• We want and need everyone, and that means we need you.