and the Collaborative Cash Deliver Platform
Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when they are diverse, and every team member feels that they belong. We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be stronger and have long term impact. The Collaborative Cash Delivery (CCD) Network was founded in the wake of the Grand Bargain 2016 annual meeting, and is a global network of international non-governmental organisations who operate in every global humanitarian crisis that provides cash and voucher assistance (CVA) programming. Mercy Corps is one of the 14 global members of CCD. The CCD seeks to identify systemic issues with humanitarian CVA responses and resolve them. It brings together the voices, capacity and expertise of the NGO community, both local and international, in order to drive programme quality and ensure humanitarian CVA responses and key decision makers are accountable to the people they are serving. The Program & Team Following the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the humanitarian community has implemented the largest cash assistance programme in history. The CCD deployed a Shared Services Hub (SSH) model to the Ukraine response comprising a Collaboration Facilitator, a Localization Adviser, a Data Governance Adviser, a Social Protection Adviser and a Cash Trainer of Trainers. In mid-2022, the CCD opened a community of practice in Ukraine for CCD members and other interested NGOs. This community of practice currently comprises 57 participants from 27 (ACF, ACTED, CARE Caritas, Christian Aid, Concern, CRS, DCA, Dobra Fabryka, DRC, ERC, HelpAge International, HI, HIAS, IRC, Mercy Corps, NRC, Oxfam, PIN, Plan International, Premiere Urgence, R2P, Save the Children, Solidarites International, TGH, Welthungerhile, World Vision) agencies and is used to discuss issues related to the humanitarian cash response and to advocate accordingly. In addition to offering a space to discuss, debate and advocate on cash technical and operational issues, the CCD was able to fill gaps left by the CWG on specific cash issues such as the lack of linkages with the social protection system, the lack of guidance on cash for protection, the underrepresentation and involvement of local NGOs in coordination structures and the lack of harmonised data sharing agreements and deduplication SoPs. The CCD has also partnered with Ground Truth Solutions to ensure that aid applicants and recipients drive improvements to cash-based humanitarian programming in real time by listening to their voices, feedback and experience. The CCD in Ukraine has now evolved from a largely technical CVA forum, to a formalized network with the involvement and leadership of country directors, to offer an even stronger platform to debate, challenge and advocate on technical and operational issues, with a much needed injection of technical expertise, as well as to counterbalance UN voices. 18 agencies have signed the CCD Ukraine MOU and Mercy Corps is seeking a Collaboration Manager to build on the successes of CCD Ukraine to date, and to lead its continued work in Ukraine. The Position You will serve as the Ukraine CCD Collaboration Manager and facilitate discussions between the various members, drive forward collaborative activities, establish a more robust framework for CCD structure and operations in Ukraine, and promote CCD across strategic, operational and technical functions, as well as for fundraising and awareness-raising efforts. You will be accountable for any workstreams that are put in place and reporting to the various stakeholders (CCD members in Ukraine, CCD Ukraine Steering Committee and Global CCD Coordinators). You will ensure the adherence to any of the Ukraine CCD Platform Governance Framework and Memorandum of Understanding. Based on CCD’s experience from other countries, there is strong evidence that a facilitated collaboration can have greater impact than the sum of parts. The role of the Collaboration Manager is integral in facilitating information sharing on member interventions and strategic and technical priorities, building key relationships across agency focal points, building trust among actors and using that trust to foster greater transparency and common positions. Building on the learning and approaches tested in the other contexts, especially in the Ukraine crisis response, the Collaboration Manager (CM) will provide leadership of CCD’s Ukraine Network. This will involve using CVA technical and coordination expertise to facilitate NGO/civil society collaborations to achieve improvements in the efficiency, accountability, transparency, technical soundness, and effectiveness of the humanitarian cash response in Ukraine. The role holder will use information gathering and sharing, convening, brokering, workshopping ideas, and technical and strategic expertise to proactively address problems and identify opportunities that require joint member action as is feasible. It will support evolving strategy by supporting program design and development, mapping resource requirements, KPIs etc. The CM will have the following broad accountabilities although their workplan will be based on immediate priorities and operational feasibility. Essential Roles and Responsibilities